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Yeah, I see a ton of this under random.
Here’s my front page at this very moment: https://i.imgur.com/4IsJ68f.png

I don’t think I’ve ever made a “clean upgrade” on Linux. I’ve done the opposite though, that is, bring an old install over to a new computer.

Same here. I switched to DDG last year, but had to go back within two weeks; it was just too annoying.
Google search results have indeed gotten pretty bad, but I’ve yet to see anyone surpass them.

I literally haven’t had ANY of those problems running Windows 10 or 11 FWIW, not have any of my friends or relatives.

I’m not anti-Linux or anything though, have used it for 26 years now, but only briefly on the desktop.

Ubuntu is just getting worse and worse. I was pretty happy running Ubuntu server for years after moving from Gentoo; I jag lost interest in spending time taking care for that server and wanted something easy.

I went to Debian half a year ago and it’s been great. Should’ve done it earlier.

Mostly for finding information that for whatever reason can be difficult to find using search engines. For example, I’ve used ChatGPT to ask spoiler-free questions about plot points in books I’m reading, which has worked rather well. It hasn’t spoiled me yet, but rather tells me that giving more information would be a spoiler.

Last time I tried to look something up on Google, carefully, I got a massive spoiler for the end of the entire book series.

I also use it for code-related questions at times, but very rarely, and mostly when using a language I’m not used to. Such as when I wrote an expect script for the first (and perhaps only) time recently.

“climate change and other left wing topics”… I know that’s basically how it works in some countries, but it’s insane to consider certain scientific facts left wing, and we really shouldn’t support such statements.

ZFS is really nice. I started experimenting with it when it was being introduced to FreeBSD, around 2007-2008, but only truly started using it last year, for two NASes (on Linux).

It’s complex for a filesystem, but considering all it can do, that’s not surprising.

You can make sudo password-less for a single command (including using specific arguments) though, so even if using sudo were the only solution, it wouldn’t be that bad. For example, I have a sudoers entry that allows my user to decrypt my ZFS pool by executing a root-owned script (with permissions 700), but everything else requires a password.

It’s always possible to re-encode video; it’s usually called transcoding. However, you lose a bit of quality every time you encode, so you might not gain much in the end. You can offset a bit of the quality loss by encoding at a higher bitrate/quality factor/etc than you otherwise would, but that of course takes up extra space.

I’m all for open source services, but realistically, what potential issues are there with using GitHub?
Every contributor has a copy of the Git repo, so isn’t the worst case basically losing access to issues and similar data? And even that is very unlikely.

This again? It’s utter bullcrap I’m afraid.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5M5MF6KE-jY

No, it’s not. I have never brushed my teeth too hard and have always used very soft toothbrushes, but I used to brush for 6-7 minutes, and my gums have suffered for it. Way too much of my teeth are now exposed, which is both ugly and causes sensitivity.
In the long run, if one keeps this up, teeth will start falling out.

Don’t overbrush.

The strange thing is that I've never seen any kind of AdBlock notice/warning on YouTube, ever. I'm also using uBlock Origin.

Mine is doing it too, and I never voluntarily watch any right-wing-related content (not even anti-right-wing). It’s usually anti-trans rhetoric it tries to push on me.

I used it probably a month ago, too.

Here’s some reading about black holes singularities and whether they’re real or not:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/are-singularities-real/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_singularity#Interpretation

We know that GR predicts some things extremely well, and QM some things extremely well, but they fundamentally disagree. Both CANNOT be entirely correct, and black holes is the most notable case where one or both break down. (See the “black hole information paradox”.)

Almost nobody actually believes the singularity is real, it’s just what the math tells us – it’s where the math of GR breaks down, and a better theory of gravity would be needed to resolve it.

I’ve never heard a black hole described as a manifold, but then again I’m not sure exactly what a manifold is.

I’m also no authority, but I strongly disagree that “it follows” that the stuff must be coming out.
We know that stuff enters black holes, and we know that they gain mass when it does. We think they shrink in mass over extreme periods of time, but other than that, I’m fairly sure we’ve never seen a black hole lose mass.

So if the mass comes out in a white hole, why does the black hole retain its mass?
I haven’t read the book but I can’t imagine he says, without strongly stating that it’s very speculative, that such a thing could happen.

I wonder why they chose to only remove it from cutscenes in the first hotfix.