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  • ysjet@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksWe are peers
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    25 days ago

    I can guarantee you, they do not feel any sort of respect for you, they just immediately think you are a liar and now they have to waste time convincing you to do the restart, because 99% of the time, they’re talking to a liar that didn’t restart.

    Just restart the computer for them, don’t make them waste time, metrics, and social battery trying to convince you to follow the process you both know you need to go through together.









  • That’s kind of a bold claim, as it always seemed to me that the ‘smart people aren’t having kids while dumb people are’ wasn’t about eugenics, but about cultural norms- dumb parents aren’t going to encourage critical thinking, going to school, valuing intelligence, or any number of things to their kids. Moreover, dumb parents aren’t going to want, or be able, to provide their kids the sort of resources needed for that kid to shine even if the kid DID want to go against the local grain and focus on those things, because dumber people generally tend to make less money.

    More to the point, lack of intelligence is, generally, more based in environment and means, not personal ability- people usually aren’t dumb because they’re inherently dumb, it’s because they lack teaching and resources, or are in an environment that discourages intelligence. The most common indicator of this is the local economy- a brutal catch 22 of being poor meaning there’s worse resources for people, who cannot get ahead and thus end up poor themselves.

    There’s an old joke in the US that you can easily divide people up by their earning potential with a single simple number- their zip code. The same thing applies to test scores.


  • ysjet@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlSwitch from Ubuntu to something immutable?
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    2 months ago

    I’d you want immutability and things that just works, snaps are the exact opposite of what he needs. I’m gearing up to swap away from Ubuntu for the same reasons as him, and the snap ecosystem is utterly fucked and accelerating my timetable daily.

    I’ve never seen something so damn broken, and it gets more so every update. It’s gotten to the point of where snap store will just straight up log me out of my session out of the blue when it finds an update so it can install it, losing all of my work.