Thorned_Rose

My longest running Arch install was 6yo. I cleaned it up every so often (old configs, left over packages, old caches, etc) but beyond that it really didn't need a reinstall. It never got slow over time (unlike Windows). At worst, I would sometimes delete confif files if there were major changes just so I could start fresh with a particular package/app.

In fact, it would have gone longer but I built a new PC. On that PC my Arch install was 4yo before I took the plunge to try CachyOS.

This isn't mildly interesting or even mildly sad, it's a lot sad 🌳😭

Oh please gods yes. Advertising is violence and even though most of my life is now ad free, I still can't avoid the advertising scourge being shoved into my eyeballs every time I leave my house. It would be a blessed weight lifted from my already tired brain to never see a single ad again.

And yet I was saying just today there's no way I'd go to the movies to see it anyway... Because Microsoft. Yet another example of how they'd never get money anyway but no doubt there'll be another article claiming they lost billions from the leak or some bs

You do realise that most medical research these days is for-profit? The only thing opening these databases to medical research will do is increase the profit lining the pockets of the already mega wealthy (and corrupt) industrial medical complex.

Damn, some months ago I came across a void for adoption that had very unusual white flecks on its body. Now I'm even more sad I didn't adopt him 😿

Too bad, its April 2nd for me lol

You joke but a (NZer) family member on an overseas holiday got into an argument with a local over the existence of NZ. Family member, being a tourist, was asked where they were from and said New Zealand. Nothing strange there. Local said that NZ was a state in Australia. Confidently incorrect. When my family member tried to correct them, they argued they were right and the person who was from the actual country was utterly wrong 🤦‍♀️

Came here to say the same thing. Using the term "bricking" in the title had me very confused. It would be catastrophic if this was actually bricking computers.

If you want to get really technical, each Signal account actually has a 'secret' account number that the phone number is linked to. The phone number requirement is actually a means to reduce spam and scam accounts.

I stopped using it when I learned they censor search results. My beliefs aligned with theirs but I don't want a search that's censored. I'm adult enough that I can decide for myself what links I will or won't click on.