He was pretty much spot on, they came close once in August and then crossed over in October:

Interesting that Twitter isn’t on that chart even though it had been a thing for about six years at that point and had already eclipsed everything on Randall’s list in 2010

Well, of course. They never objected to Taiwan’s existence, just to the fact that it doesn’t belong to them. Slightly different situation than all that Gulf of America nonsense.

It may still be missing stuff from before the first person from your home instance joined the community which can make younger communities feel empty.

Will they start firing back at 5:45am?

HEMA, though I haven’t found much time to practice lately so it’s becoming more of a sword collecting hobby.

You just want to make sure the meal you get from me via the other thread includes bacon, don’t you?

With a bit of luck I can reach one of my swords. If not, bash in the first one’s head with a skateboard or stab them with a pocket knife, then move a step and grab a sword. Maybe some armor if I can manage to get to the other room.

Edit: I tried it and could indeed reach a viking sword from where I’m sitting.

Granted. For the rest of your life, every well or similar water source will have its water turned into feces as soon as you come within 100m of it.

How did you figure out this was on the list?

Granted. Your selection has now been reduced to a list of a thousand very specific wishes. Any wish not on the list will be deducted from your remaining wishes without further effect.

I can offer a selection of board games and music of assorted genres on vinyl. If you’re lucky, I can conjure some food.

Looks interesting but having to use it from their website feels… not great. I’d rather have something that I can still use on a train or when my router dies. Or when they decide to shut it down.

They claim that everything runs locally and doesn’t phone home. Then why do they charge 500 to 2000 bucks per month for a version that you can host on your own machine?

There seems to be an unofficial offline version but that hasn’t been maintained for years.

Have you seen how some Linux users treat people who don’t use exactly what they think is the hottest shit? Even towards people who use as much FOSS as they can but still need some proprietary stuff for certain use cases because FOSS alternatives are not quite there yet. It’s annoying as hell and comes up in every single discussion that vaguely fits the topic. I would say the comparison to Mormons is not that far off.

I’m all for moving as many people away from closed systems as possible. But tribalism and victim blaming achieves the exact opposite. Why would anyone move to something where the community makes them feel unwelcome from the start?

If we want people to use Linux, we have to be patient and help them overcome their pain points, not go “haha you dumb”.

Instead of being condescending, you might help people solve the problems that keep them from switching. Or just stay quiet. Whatever you prefer. This elitist attitude is one of the reasons why some people won’t even try Linux because they fear they will be ridiculed as soon as they need to ask for help.

Use whatever makes you happy and matches your needs. Ignore the haters.

I use arch btw. And Ubuntu. And Windows. And an iPhone. Does it matter?

I wouldn’t call it Stockholm syndrome. The problem is that even a single application that’s critical to your workflow can keep you from switching, even if everything else is much better.

I’ve switched to Linux on my laptop about 6 months ago and the overall experience is pretty good. A few annoyances that I can’t seem to fix but overall pleasant. But there are still some things that keep me from doing the same on my main workstation:

• I just can’t get used to RawTherapee or darktable for developing photos. Everything takes me three times as long to get the results I want and at hundreds of photos per shoot, that adds up really quickly. I’m sure I could learn those tools and get as comfortable with them as I am with Adobe CameraRaw but that would cost me weeks or even months of productivity and I just can’t afford that right now.
• Similar problem with general graphics stuff. I’m sure that Gimp and Inkscape are amazing tools if you’re used to them but coming from tools like Photoshop and Illustrator, they’re so different that the switch feels like hitting a brick wall at running speed. Krita is nice but it seems to focus heavily on painting which is my least common graphics use case. I really hope that Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer will get ported to Linux at some point even if that means the open source purists will probably kill me.
• A lot of my existing software projects are written in C#. Most of them are cross-platform and run on Linux servers anyway, so that’s not the problem. But neither VSCode nor Rider are quite as comfortable as VS2022. No, I won’t just port everything to Rust.
• Steam on Linux has made amazing steps but getting some games to work is still pretty fiddly and reminds me of gaming on DOS in the 90s when you had to dig through half a dozen config files before you could play your new game.

All those problems can be solved with enough patience but to be honest, I’m in my late 30s and free time is getting rare so I’d rather spend it on something that brings me joy or on learning something entirely new instead of relearning an existing skill.

And no, this not a criticism against Linux or its community. I’m just trying to give an insight into how small problems can make the switch incredibly hard, even for someone who has a degree in computer science, has worked with Linux machines for about 20 years now and would love nothing more than to leave Windows behind.

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Remind me…

• Which country checks tourists’ social media for anti-Trump posts on entry?
• Which country regularly arrests (and in many cases deports) both their own citizens and foreigners without consulting a court?
• Which country spies on its own citizens to figure out if they may have had an abortion?

But sure, even thinking about doing something about a right-wing party that has been classified as extremist by multiple courts and explicitly lists several human rights violations as their goals… that’s a step too far…

Immerhin hält Appa tapfer die Stellung

Depends on how they behave. If they get right up in my face and immediately tell me their whole life story how they’re sick and hungry and have twenty children to feed, I’m usually skeptical. On the other hand, if someone is polite and especially if they ask for food instead of money, I’m more inclined to help.

Overall, I’m happy to help those who really need it but I’ve had too many bad experiences with people who were in it out of greed more than necessity. Prime example, some time last year I was on my way home from a vacation and had to wait at the train station for a couple of minutes when a guy came up to me and asked me for money because he was hungry. I told him I had no cash with me but I could get him a sandwich from a nearby vending machine where I can pay with my credit card. On the way to the vending machine, he asked me if something from the bakery at the other end of the station would also be okay. That was already a bit weird but okay. I left my partner and my luggage at the platform and took him to the bakery. On the way there, he pointed out that there was an ATM where I could get cash for him which I refused, then at the bakery he asked me for two of the most expensive snack they had plus something to drink, a total of over 20€. Quite the difference between that and the 4€ sandwich I had initially agreed to. The whole situation was so uncomfortable, I can’t even remember what I got him in the end. And from the way he acted, I wouldn’t be surprised if he just threw away the food once I was out of sight and asked the next person for money.

It’s sad. There are so many people who ask for what they need and are genuinely happy when they get help and then there are greedy assholes like that guy. And because I usually can’t tell the difference at a glance, I’m often overly careful and don’t help even though I feel I should.