fratermus

I’m honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux.

I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.

So for now I’ve swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium’s RAM usage stays sane.

for the first time someone has contributed to the code. This may seem trivial, but it is important to me

I’d definitely feel good about that!

I don’t know what the rumors were in the 70s, but in the late 80s it was AIDS.

and satanic panic

I just don’t make a habit of visiting any particular website to read it. That’s what the threadiverse is for.

Alternatively: that’s what RSS is for.

I’m a noob and I prefer… Debian?

The beauty of linux is you get to run whatever you prefer. Have fun and be productive in the way you like. :-)

In the past I’ve mainly used XFCE or openbox because of my old hardware. A couple years ago I picked a Debian+MATE image to install on a fresh box and have been using it by default since then.

None of that “touchscreen UI uber alles” BS.

There is no claim or language that indicates it’s anything else.

Agreed, the SSA itself is not making claims that mislead the public.

Police however are prompted up by things like “protect and serve”

I agree that’s a problem.

a lot of other language/guidance/media to be portrayed as protectors, when that’s not necessarily the case.

I don’t want to beat the dead horse, but IMO the public language/guidance/media discourse regarding the SSA is as misleading as “to protect and to serve”.

If I were pushed I might say that the security part of social security is an implied guarantee that it will provide security of some kind. It does bolster financial security for many at the moment, but there is no guarantee it will do in the future.

Yet they demand our obedience and cooperation.

And people willingly bootlick these brave heroes who “f34r for muh life!!!” and start blasting when an acorn falls. Or when they step in front of a moving vehicle.

Police are not required to help you under any circumstances.

When I want to see heads explode I mention

• Warren v District of Columbia (the basis for the situation you mention); and
• that Social Security doesn’t work the way people think
  • there is no personal account that holds your contributions
  • you have no right to get any of your contributions back in your old age – the benefit is defined by Congress and they could make it whatever they want (including nothing)

In both cases one are required by law to pay but the recipient is not required to perform. As they say, “it’s good to the the king”.

without kegels there’d be no squeezing

If the ads for a feed are in a predictable position (like first two minutes, last minute, whatever) one can use sox or similar to trim the file at that point to effectively remove the ads.

But like some of the other commenters here, when the podcast is available by patreon I use that feed and avoid the whole problem.

I own and use a Microsoft Zune HD

Seems like a good enough reason to me!

I updated both my desktop and a headless server without issue.