"If America’s population does decline, it will strain our entitlements system, damage the economy, reduce innovation and entrepreneurship, and cause serious labor shortages. "

Funny how the cost to raise children, which then consume even more resources as adults are never mentioned.

It’s always, “Who is going to pay for MY retirement.” Not, “Who will pay to raise your children.”

The VFW probably used AI but how could you tell? They have the right number of fingers. I don’t see anything immediately out of place. I want to improve my ability to spot AI.

I’ve never heard of an immediate physical condition referred to as “illness”. No one says a broken arm is an “illness.”

Wow! I heard about wifi for tracking “in the lab” or as a hack you could do yourself but I had no idea it was already commercialized.

He was touring a Ukrainian weapon factory, healthy as an ox the day before it was blown up by Russians.

What “illness” kills in 8 hours when you have the best medical care in the world second only to Trump’s? If it was a heart attack, they would have said “heart attack”.

No, you don’t have to install a different distro.

Ubuntu ships with Gnome. That you can change it is actually the point I was making.

I replied to this:

respect for the user, consistency, customisability,"

With the statement that consistency is often at odds with customizability.

Your claim was this:

It’s almost like any app on any operating system is going to have a different gui!

Windows apps do not have as much inconsistency as apps on Linux because of the lack of customizablity. A Windows developer has to go out of their way to avoid the standard Windows libraries to make their app look unique. Linux apps are all different because there is no way to make them consistent. Even if you try to make your app consistent in say Gnome, someone is going to be running KDE.

Consistency is almost always at odd with customizability.

Guess what, Linux also doesn’t “come with” multiple DE’s, it just gives you the ability to install and use a different one.

Oh come on. Your restatement means the same thing. Install a different distro and you can have a different DE.

And yes Windows doesn’t give you the choice. I said that in my initial statement that customization is often in conflict with consistency.

Having choice is always better.

Yes but you can’t then also claim that all Linux distros are consistent.

Sudden RDX poisoning.

I have argued that vlans do very little for home users.

Vlans with firewall rules mean that every room in your house has a rule that you have to go out the locked front door before going back into another room. But if an external threat can bypass the front lock, having a rule that everyone inside has to use the front lock does nothing. Either the front lock works in which case everything is safe or it doesn’t work in which case the rule to use the front door lock every time you go from inside room to inside room does nothing.

Nintendo is laughing at Layden.

Oh sure, but you don’t know until you let them try.

Fortunately most are rejecting looking like a creep.

optical computer

Optical computers were debunked a decade ago in an ieee article. Visible spectrum photons are 100 million times larger than electrons which means the transitors need to be gigantic. Even gamma rays are 1000 times bigger than electrons.

My phone isn’t implanted in my skull. At least not yet.

Windows doesn’t come with multiple Window Managers that you choose from like Kde vs Gnome. Windows programs have access to the same standard Windows toolkit for menus and dialogs. A program has to go out of its way to not use the standard libraries. That is usually only seen in programs that are using ported Linux gui libraries under Windows. Whereas in Linux, there are multiple GUI toolkits and multiple Window Managers meaning there is is absolutely no standard for any apps.

Maybe you should look at PugJesus’s posts before calling it low effort slop:

https://lemmy.world/u/PugJesus@piefed.social?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts

Map of China 400BC

Napoleonic forces in Russia

Meme about Year of Five Emporers

Conservatives really are doing everything to repeat the Nixon years.

Nixon tried it. Turns out people didn’t like it once they had it and it was switched back.

respect for the user, consistency, customisability,

Customizability, absolutely. But Linux has a distinct lack of respect for users (from a GUI perspective) and consistency. Customizability is frequently in direct conflict with consistency. Different distros have different GUI’s. The apps in the distros use different toolkits for their development which yields wildly inconsistent GUI’s inside the programs.

Saving a file to a folder of your choice

What program are you seeing that?

I use Linux and Windows and don’t see that. I just checked with saving a file in the Windows version of Orca (3d slicer), Save brings up the standard Windows dialog that has all the folders on the left panel and the contents of the currently selected folder on the right panel. It’s virtually identical to the Save dialog box of Orca under Ubuntu right down to dividing local directories on top of the left panel and network share on the bottom left.

That’s the default Save in Windows. A program has to go out of its way to avoid the standard Windows Save dialog box which is the same problem Linux programs can have.

What’s worse is the reverse and it happens more often: Posting a job and then hiring from outside rather than promoting from within.

Because no manager wants to lose their low paid competent worker. So instead they hire the outside person for the senior position.

Can you imagine the downvotes and likely bans if someone did the equivalent in a Linux thread?