There are also plenty of other good reasons to not support the company behind Brave. Unfortunately, however, I don’t think that’s going to change the mind of anyone who uses it.

set -u is your friend. Unless you’re running that command interactively, in which case it just exits the shell without giving any warning at all. Oh, the joys of shells written to be compatible with scripts created 20 years ago…

Root on fat32

I don’t think that’s even actually possible with modern distros. Symlinks are used everywhere and FAT has no concept of setuid.

For shareholders and investors, the worst thing that can happen to them right now is the stock going down and having to take a loss on it. It’s bounded by however much money they put into it.

If investing in 10 shitty companies knowing that 1 would fail manages to be more profitable than investing in 20 companies that don’t degrade the moral fabric of society, there’s a perverse incentive to keep investing in companies creating Groks. Making shareholders financially liable for the debts of their investments would introduce an unpredictable risk that could help change the equation.

If you can’t afford the time or money to defend yourself from a SLAPP lawsuit, the legality doesn’t matter much anymore. It is unfortunately in most peoples best financial interests to not personally test the legality of unenforceable BS.

Nuance like acknowledging that while two things can be bad, one of them can still be worse than the other?

Not to presume, but you seem capable of self reflection and understanding how others may perceive your interactions. Neurodivergent or not, at that point, it’s a choice to interact with others in a manner that leaves all parties more displeased than when they started.

Is that a genuine question that you want to know the answer for, or is it a setup for calling the person you replied to a hypocrit when they say “yes”?

Let me fix that for you,

Citizen 1: I can get behind that.

Capitalists: You shouldn’t, that’s communism! Think of all the money you have to waste when you get rich!

It’s more like telling someone who’s suicidal that “it’s your own fault you’re unhappy” and then telling them “it wouldn’t kill you to smile for once”.

I can’t wait to see how The Satanic Temple turns this one back around on the people pushing it.

It’s just another case of him having a hate boner for Valve. Years ago, he asked Valve to do something via email and Valve ghosted him while doing the exact opposite.

His behavior and attitute towards Valve, in my opinion, is consistent with somebody who has hurt feelings and a grudge. There are actually legitimate things to criticize Valve over, but him having a go at the things that benefit consumers instead of devs just makes him look like a giant anti-consume douche.

or buy it used

I’m not sure how you plan on doing that with the “physical edition” being a digital download code in a box. And, that’s probably the point—to drive more sales by eliminating the used game market.

No one is buying this to not use it for gaming under a subsidized price because there are much better options for that purpose.

If it cost a few hundred dollars less per unit than comparable small form factor PCs, then small businesses probably would. When you only need something that works and don’t care about support contracts or having a standardized hardware fleet, anything cheap will do the job.

The gateway to hate is contempt, and the gateway to contempt is grievance, and grievance comes from externalizing blame for things not going the way you want and not having the character to deal with that properly.

Very well said.

The incel mentality is, at its core, a victim mentality.

It stems from a victim mentality, envy, and ego.

When they’re chronically online and immersed in social media and entertainment media, they’re surrounded by portrayals of happy couples, love, and romance. Eventually, it skews their perception into thinking that they’re the only ones who are missing out. They start to feel like life is unfair to them, with love and sex being out of their reach.

That grows into envy and hatred towards men who have experienced it, and especially those who have above-average success with their romantic lives. They compare themselves to those men, convincing themselves that the reason other people are more successful is because of superficial traits like conventional attractiveness or money.

While all that happens, they refuse to consider that their lack of success could be due to their own behaviors or negative attitudes. It’s always something else that is stopping them from experiencing love; their ego is protecting themselves from hurt, avoiding the necessary but painful introspection that would snap them out of it.

It culminates in the belief that both women and other men are the reason for their nonexistent love life. They become openly mysognistic, but they also think poorly about attractive men—they just don’t show it outside of incel communities because they’re afraid to get their ass beat.

And all of that was before this red pill shit. The red pill movement exacerbated it by catching them at various stages throughout their incelification process, affirming their beliefs, and then hooking them in further so shitbags like Andrew Tate can profit off of them.

Manufactured pretext. It would not surprise me if the 51st State rhetoric comes back soon.

Yeah! Jump out of the frying pan and into the deep fryer!

Out of all the distros, NixOS would actually be the easiest to convert to Arch or some other distro. Other than /etc, it doesn’t use the standard FHS paths so you’re free to use some other package manager to install whatever you want under /bin, /lib, /usr, et cetera.

If you only care about running containers, containerd and nerdctl should be sufficient.