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Cake day: March 28th, 2023
  • The answer is almost certainly because of how much brain we’re trying to fit in our heads.

    Evolution has already given us hugely weakened jaw muscles, shrinking jaws, painful birth, years of helpless infancy and chronic sinus problems, all in the singular pursuit of MORE ROOM FOR BRAIN. think-about-it

    To be honest I’d say all of those are higher up on the priority list than ‘thicker mouth skin for when I eat a thing too hot too quickly once every couple years’.

  • The USA is 9 million square kilometres. Europe is 10 million.

    The USA is way more crazy unstable than the EU and Russia combined. Twice as many civilians in the USA die every year from gun homicides than the actual fucking Russo-Ukrainian war. And I’m guessing USA gun homicides stat is already significantly short because of all the police shootings they don’t count.

    Posts like this are why Americans are seen as loudly ignorant supremacist nerds.

  • I’ve been using Fedora for over 10 years. I used to have Nvidia issues, but those are all solved now.

    Using it seems to be fine, but I would advise being wary and not giving Fedora/Red Hat any code or financial support. They do a lot of work for the US DoW, helping enable war crimes like murdering hundreds of school girls.

  • Linux permissions are obvious, straightforward, and very easy to change - They rule.

    SELinux permissions are impossible to see, seemingly pointlessly more complex, and I don’t know how to check them or change them i.e. They drool.

    As a power user who is constantly changing system stuff, installing weird stuff, running weird servers, disabling SELinux is like, step 2 of installing Linux for me (and honestly, even if you’re not a power user, I can assure you at least ONE issue you’ve faced was actually caused by SELinux under the hood). I have wasted whole days working out just that SELinux is causing my fucking issue, and then days more on how to fix the permissions, and then days more doing those again when those permissions RESET as it is wont to do and days more trying to make my needed changes permanent. And let’s not even get started on how to transplant an SELinux permissions structure from one disk to another. So instead of a week’s worth of frustrating work every year, I can spend one minute disabling SELinux.

    Its implementation feels contradictory to the most basic principles of understandable and workable systems. It’s like the NSA wanted to make software that was the diametric opposite of the Zen of Python. It’s ugly, it’s implicit, it’s complicated, nested, dense, unreadable, full of special cases, and silent errors, it constantly guesses in the face of ambiguity (which is why I have to constantly correct it).

    Basically, I have wasted too much of my life faffing with an opaque and ludicrously complex permissions layer that seems to be there solely as a ‘just in case’ my already existing permissions aren’t good enough.