Manjaro is great.

So, if someone wants to be treated like a king, you treat them as such?

In Germany, people don’t drink warm beer, if, like anywhere else, they can avoid it.

I’d go by ‘mechanical devices’, there were hardly any machines in our understanding back then.

In 1700 steam engines weren’t far in the future, but not invented yet.

Takes out their smartphone and starts the beer drinking app.

I use paperwm on Wayland gnome. If you like a scroll wm, is extremely easy to find out by installing the extension. It’s one click away. It might not be for everybody and has a few glitches, but fits my workflow better than other paradigms.

It tried out niri and found it identical to paperwm in most aspects. However, I like gnome and its features, so I missed those in niri. On the other hand niri didn’t bring me anything new. It is also difficult to install and configure and requires manual recompiling. I’ll certainly revisit it in a more advanced stage, should it reach such, but for now I’m perfectly fine with paperwm.

I am a paperwm user and I look forward to give this a try!

There is the Norse Beowulf myth, that is somewhat related to the Nibelungs. It might be better known to English speakers.

Landownership is wrong all together.

If you think about it, it is completely absurd, why anyone assumes the right to ‘own’ a piece of land. Or even more land than the other guy. Someone must have been the person to first come up with the idea of ownership, but it is and was never based on anything other than an idea, and we should question it.

After all inheritance of landownership is a major cornerstone of our unjust and exploitative society.

I use language tool for that in libre. Works great!

This meme is based on an impossible assumption, maybe that’s the joke. But I ain’t certain.

There were all kinds of opinions in that discussion and only a tiny minority or only the op held this point of view (which was called for being unpopular). I hope my assumptions aren’t off.

It is very easy to steer a population regarding decisions that are way over their head and might even be contrary to their naive interests (ie. collect a tax on concrete to subsidize CO2 neutral building). Direct democracy is every fascist’s dream.

For a good part lemmy is seizing the means of production.

Zoho is a good alternative.

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I think, I can install keys in my AMI bios. So, basically, I’d create some keys, sign the kernel with it, reboot, install them keys in UEFI, enable secure boot, and, fingers crossed, I’d boot?

Stable just means no major version jumps in software that might break your current setup. That’s important for operating servers, not desktops.

I use debian Sid (unstable) at work and never had problems. Most of the time I get updates prior to other distributions I am using.

At home I use arch (derivates, manjaro), with great success.

I would abstain from Ubuntu. There, I had problems, it is very opinionated and not in s good way.

In a general sense I would always chose a distribution that isn’t too locked in to a certain desktop environment and provides updates, quickly.