Hacker News works fine. Can’t vouch for the others, since I don’t touch corporate “AI” if I can help it.

There are a whole lot of “templating” libraries which do what you’re asking for. I have used Hiccup for Clojure and Giraffe for F# successfully, and you can probably find others for languages you already know.

QubesOS. When you need security and don’t need to play games, this is objectively the best distro.

NixOS for me. It’s a package manager (a very nice, declarative one) that you can use on any Linux (or Mac), and there’s also an entire distro based on it.

Thank you for this! Gonna download it ASAP.

We don’t have downvotes on my instance, and it’s an amazing difference. I recommend it!

I generally just upvote everything I like, no real thought process involved.

As someone who routinely watches YT through Invidious and NewPipe, I haven’t changed my habits.

The Electoral College.

I’m not into feet specifically, but when I ask for “Veronica Mars in a string bikini” I don’t want to get “Veronica Mars with unattached toes.” It’s distracting AF.

Doesn’t happen with real models, or even human-made hentai.

I’ve been using Linux since 2015, and I run OS updates ASAP. Usually about once every 1 or 2 weeks, if we are only counting system updates. So that’s about 298 updates total, right?

Given your math (298 × 0.3) , you predict that I would have encountered driver issues after an update 89 times.

I have encountered driver issues 0 times.

(This is across 4 computers and 5 distros.)

The tech isn’t there yet. There are so often distracting flaws around the hands/feet. The AI doesn’t really know what a human is, its just endlessly re-combining existing material.

Wait, you thought I was arguing against the idea of OS updates in general? Read better.

I was arguing against the idea that the user has to be forced out of the system while they run updates. This is because I use an OS where the updates run in a window and I can keep working.

(To everyone else: check out this guy’s comment history. He basically came here to do PR for Windows.)

Windows has so much pushy behavior - trying to trick you into using Edge, turning on OneDrive and syncing files in the background (eating bandwidth in the process), locking you out of the machine while OS updates run.

When I switched to Linux Mint in 2015, the most surprising result was how much smoother and frictionless everything became.

I genuinely believe that the “average” user outlined above would be served well by Mint. Why would I not tell people to use it?

My lifehack: block every community with “memes” in its name. You’ll see far fewer memes in general, and be less aggravated when one does show up!

Thank you for letting us know this is out! Bought instantly.

Daily Linux user for 7 years here. It’s pretty easy to load Windows onto a virtual machine, within Linux, for those stubborn programs that won’t launch with Wine or Proton.

As for Sync, I’d advise that there are other programs which serve the same purpose. Dropbox supports Linux, and OneDrive has an unofficial Linux client. SyncThing might also serve your purpose - it’s not in “the cloud” but instead syncs from all the linked machines to each other when they’re online. Warpinator is useful for quick file transfers on the same WiFi network.

I love Signal, and I have persuaded people to use it a lot. That said, it is definitely not the gold standard for privacy. It’s a good-enough compromise between actual unbreakable encryption and trivial for anyone to use. It’s always been valuable for that reason, and still is.

Don’t worry about Molly - it uses a variation of the same code that Signal does, so they don’t need “help” to get critical fixes that Signal receives. Use it if you like it!

The actual gold standard for privacy would be logging in through TOR and sending GPG-encrypted messages that way. And there’s an app which does this, too - it’s called Briar. (No phone number needed, either!) It’s not as seamless to set up as Signal is, though.

No mod capability, or at least not that I’m aware of. But it does run on Android! https://f-droid.org/packages/me.thanel.dank/

SNW is pure, good Star Trek. Don’t miss it.

I’d also rate Lower Decks and Prodigy pretty well - both have rough starts but hit a good stride in their first seasons.

I use Dawn. It still works!