This isn’t really about safety, it’s about gun manufacturer profits.

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie should be required reading for everyone. It’s full of things that are so obvious in hindsight but go against our natural instincts so we blunder through attempts to persuade not realizing that we might be increasing resistance rather than decreasing it.

Like the whole, “you might be right but you’re still an asshole” thing. Being correct just isn’t enough. In some cases you get crucified and then after some time has passed, the point you were trying to convince others of becomes the popular accepted fact. And they might even still hate you after coming around on the point you were trying to make.

That book won’t turn you into a persuasive guru, but it will help avoid many of the pitfalls that make debates turn ugly or individuals stubborn.

Or, on the flip side, you can use the inverse of the lessons to become a more effective troll and learn how to act like you’re arguing one thing while really trying to rile people up or convince them of the opposite. I say this not so much to suggest it but because knowing about this can make you less susceptible to it (and it’s already a part of the Russian troll farm MO).

And I dare say that this is somehow related to why tensions are so high in the region.

So you’re saying that that number keeps going up as I get closer and closer to the actual weekend when I install it as my daily driver?

I didn’t expect to click on a VLC appreciation thread agreeing that it’s awesome only to end up maybe switching to MPV based on the comments, but such is life I guess.

I will remember it just like I will remember winamp, as one of the greats of its time.

And winamp for audio.

Woah, really? I had just noticed that the play button is replaced by an update button when there’s one pending and was a bit frustrated because my gap between playing paradox game sessions is long enough that it usually says my last save might not work.

How is it for figuring out which version you need to go back to? Like would it be enough to use a file timestamp to match it to the version you would have used at that time?

Some of those Hades hours were from me. Just have two achievements left but one of them will require skilling up a bit.

Even today some parts need to be written in assembly, like context switches.

Olauncher is highly rated and collects/shares 0 data (at least according to the data safety section on its Google Play page, though I have no idea how reliable that is).

I installed it yesterday. I’m not hating it but not sure if I like it. It’s very minimal. Like you don’t even see the notification bar from the home screen and are limited to putting 8 apps on there (after you adjust the setting from 4). Everything else is on an alphabetical list, which has forced me to remember the names of apps instead of just remembering the icon and position I gave it in Nova. But it might just be something I need to get used to, so I’ll give it some more time.

If it look at the data safety section for Niagara launcher on Google Play store, it is also collecting and sharing data with 3rd parties. The cross section is a bit smaller than Nova’s but it was still enough for me to nope out of there.

And when that stops working, I’ll just stop watching any YouTube videos.

While it wouldn’t surprise me if some devs do assume that, I think you’re mistaking apathy for malice in the general case. If there isn’t a way to do something through a GUI that can be done through a terminal, it only implies that no one has decided that creating a GUI to do that was worth the effort.

It’s not (necessarily) that devs want to block users from changing things, it’s more of a case that no one has cared enough to put the time and effort in to enabling that GUI access. They either use the terminal or don’t configure it ideally themselves because that configuration hasn’t been important enough to take their attention.

Though I added that necessarily in brackets there because the Linux community is historically known for RTFM-style gatekeeping even for users who are trying to learn how to use the terminal, so I don’t doubt that there are some terminal purists who would attempt to block attempts to add GUI configuration to depots they have influence over.

But just keep in mind it takes time and effort to make things. And, personally, as a dev (not a Linux dev but a software dev that uses Linux), I hate making GUIs. In my experience, unless you’re willing to spend a long time positioning, sizing, and centering, they look like crap. Maybe there’s a better framework for it these days, but I’d rather be writing algorithms and solving interesting problems than doing graphical design.

Approaching this from a different angle: if your mother still thinks the printer they have was a good purchase, will they appreciate you giving them a different one and insisting it’s better? Sure, an HP printer is a big waste, but an even bigger waste is giving them a better printer only for them to continue using the HP. IMO you should make sure they are on board before getting them another one, even if their current one is a cancer on society.