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Macs are the perfect dumb terminal. They look great, have a smooth ui, and require little fiddling. However, I always need to ssh onto a “real machine” to get actual work done.

I eat Children because they are delicious, not because I think they are dumb. I know they are very smart, but this fact doesn’t makes them less delicious to me. Also, the fact that…

I don’t think that increasing police presence and surveillance is the answer to stopping petty crime, it just punishes people who need help and or creates a corrupt police dept, ex…

You could just use ctrl-{ and not have to leave home row

I am American and I generally am referring to Americans when I talk about boomers

I never said anything about boomers enriching themselves at the expense of future generations. I think blaming younger generations for not taking responsibility for what was handed…

> what are you asking for? I want cooperation. Younger people, myself included, want policy changes that will attempt to mitigate some of the damage done by the previous generation…

For me personally, it does. However, I am not a typical member of gen z due to my high salary. Most of my friends, who all make much less than me, are more worried about immediate …

I don’t think it is fair to compare climate change to those previous issues and conflicts you mentioned. The fact that our society is dependent on destroying the environment and al…

I am surprised that there isn’t more pessimism surrounding climate change. This is the biggest factor for me personally. However, I work at FAANG so wages and other more immediate …

This is sort of true. You can get copyright waivers for personal projects by filling out a form. They say most projects are approved but in my experience, it seems like they deny a…

My 97 year old grandpa has a MacBook Pro and a few years back he was constantly on the phone with my mom trying to fix issues. We installed a Remote Desktop server so my mom could …

What’s your point? Are you saying that it doesn’t matter that sovergty was taken violently from the Hawaiians because their ancestors conquered the original inhabitants hundreds of…

I worked with a grad student in college who was building models in NetLogo for modeling drug overdoses. It was pretty janky and slow. They had to run the model millions of times so…

My point isn’t that blocking won’t work, it’s that any software solution provided probably won’t work for most people because it’s too easy to quit with no accountability and then …

I am skeptical that this can scale well. Not every small town can have an expensive college or university. And besides, the towns that do get/have these institutions become gentrif…

The idea that you can “fix” or “solve” software addiction with more software is silly to me. First, This requires users to setup this software. Then, there is nothing stopping them…

You are conflating leftism with authorarisam