Linux is such a tiny slice of the market compared to Windows, it doesn’t make financial sense for dev studios to spend any of their budget in it, because they just won’t sell enough copies to make it worth their while.

For those who want to get into web dev instead, JavaScript/TypeScript are one of the best beginner-friendly languages. Python is good too. Happy hacking!

Yes. Molotov, the URSS Commissar for Foreign Affairs, did try to engage France and Britain to form a defensive tripartite pact, which the Western powers ignored.

The Soviets didn’t exactly throw themselves at the German’s arms at first. Stalin was very wary of the Nazis, in fact.

But Hitler practically begged Stalin to buddy up with the Nazis, dangling Poland, Finland, etc. as the proverbial carrot in front of them. The Nazi’s insistence paid off.

It could very much be true, according to this meta-analysis study that showed up at the top of my results after spending 2 seconds looking this up

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7442038/

I had heard about the causal link between marijuana use and onset of schizophrenia in people predisposed to suffer this illness (i.e. cannabis may be a trigger but these people could’ve developed the illness anyway later in life).

I didn’t know it could cause psychosis too but there you go. How much truth or risk there is in all this, I can’t say, but I personally am not willing to risk it.

Yes. Encrypting your entire hard drive has basically been a tickbox in the Fedora installer for a long time now. No reason why I wouldn’t do it. It’s, easy, doesn’t give me any problems and improves my devices security with defence-in-depth. No brainer.

Feels good not to care anymore about the unrelenting enshittification of Reddit, Twitter and Google since I switched away from them.

Not that there’s anything wrong with people wanting to learn mandarin but I wonder whether this uptick in engagement with the Chinese world will just be a blip and soon people will get bored of it and look for more “Western” platforms again.

Like, when the enshittification of reddit and Twitter took root, you would also see very big numbers of users flocking to alternative platforms like Lemmy (like yours truly!) or Mastodon but in the end, after the initial novelty wore off, how many of those people actually ended up sticking around or moved on to something else after a short while?

My point is that it is still way too early to judge whether RedNote will become the next TikTok in the US, or whether this could be the start of a mass grassroots movement for American and Chinese people to get closer.

Don’t know if it’s because I looked up the claim on that tweet outside of the US or because I used DDG instead of Google but I searched “la fire evacuation map”, deliberately clicked on the first result (a Fox subsidiary site, mind you) and was able to get to this non-paywalled gov site through the first few paragraphs? https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/palisades-fire

Could be dishonest opportunistic propaganda from this guy, could be I somehow managed to avoid the paywall shite, don’t know.

With mine it’s a coin toss between the box and the plastic wrap inside.

Fair enough, though my point still stands: you can get diseases from consuming other human beings. Some of them pretty nasty.

And the “regurgitated meth” thing was just my dumb way of saying if the person you’re eating consumed drugs or medication, some of that or their byproducts may pass on to your system when you eat them.

Sure, that makes sense, but not everybody leaves a will behind or lets anybody know about their wishes when they die, out of ignorance, sudden death, there are a lot of reasons why you may die and haven’t told anyone what to do. Happens a lot with organ donors, for example.

In lieu of the deceased’s will, the relatives need to make a decision. And, IMHO, this whole cannibalism thing is a lot harder to wrap your head around than having your loved one’s organs harvested to save somebody else’s life, for example.

idk man I think the mental gymnastics go the other way around here. You have to make a shit load of assumptions to consume human flesh safely and ethically:

• the person being eaten consents to their body being eaten
• the person has no family or each and every one of their relatives consents and is totally ok with their loved one’s body ending up in a casserole
• the person has no diseases that can be transmitted by consuming some or all parts of their body: prion disease (brain), AIDS, hepatitis and loads other blood-transmitted illnesses, to name a few obvious ones
• there are no drugs or medications in the person’s body that could be absorbed into your system (regurgitated meth, yummy!)
• you have the means to effectively and safely process or cook the body yourself or we set up an entire new industry around mass human body consumption which sounds like the plot of a Stephen King novel tbh

As some have pointed out here, if eating human meat is your only available choice in an extreme life-or-death survival situation, it would have to do, but unless you also have the means to carve up and cook the body, you’re actually going to consume more energy digesting the raw flesh than what you’re getting in return. Humans make for rather poor food overall, that’s a fact. I would back this up with some evidence but I don’t feel like being put on a list for looking up the nutritional contents of human bodies lol

Yes, even for some minor things. I once got a UTI and didn’t get it checked out for a week (I was mega dumb back then). What pushed me eventually to get a doctor to see me was when I started pissing blood. Not loads, but even a single drop was enough to spook me. Got some antibiotics and all was back to normal in a couple days.

checked out immediately eventually

ftfy

The BBC reported this 2 hours after this was posted: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwl0v4w5j3o

This warms and chills my heart at the same time.

Nothing uplifting about killing people.

What’s a morally grey cathedral goblin?

So the PS Vita then?