It wasn’t my answer, but I’ll play the part.

I agree with you in cases where individual change is hard, costly and has barely any influence on the big picture (like your “individual CO2 footprint”). But in this case the individual solution is to quit using a terrible browser and install a free extension in the new one, and it has all the impact it needs because it makes the problem go away. I can’t take anybody seriously who will willingly put themselves through youtube ads when they are this easily avoided.

The problem stays the same, why should the answer change?

for right-wingers, there’s nothing rational about their political decisions.

I agree. But what we’re seeing is voter migration from e.g. the social democrats to the fascists. Those can’t all be “hardened” right wingers (yet) who are lost to democracy. Otherwise, why would they ever have voted social democrat before? There’s a lot of people who are disappointed with politics and feel that no government ever did anything for them. But they turn to the people who openly tell them that they’ll fuck them over even worse.

And now that they’re disappointed with him, polls move further to the right, so they still don’t get the problem.

It’s a very stupid way to reduce CO2 and they knew this when they started it.

That’s the cost of around 20 GW in wind turbines btw.

They are on lemmy too.

This only works up to a point. Many loving parents will say their kids need to make their own experiences, but they will still keep them from sticking their hand into a power outlet. I wouldn’t say the kid’s choices have no meaning because of this.

Also, if this is true, God also gave us our murderous instincts that make us use our “free will” in this way.

The post title says

Germany consecrates …

which isn’t accurate, because that would mean the government or the country as a whole had a hand in it. The actual article title is correctly referencing the “German catholic church” (maybe edited after the fact).

I prefer to take the risk of a compromised vendor over all the things google will 100% do with my payment data.

My bank uses an app as 2FA for online credit card payments. Without this app I couldn’t use my cc for online shopping.

Erm … no. Microslop is not responsble for viruses on your PC.

How do you know that your OS installation doesn’t include malware?

How do I know that when I do online banking through a browser on a Linux or Winslop PC? Yet somehow I can just log in on those with my credentials and be done with it. (And please dom’t give them ideas.)

Does one exist?

The reason is rich people.

The problem is that people like you believe that nuclear power has some kind of singular position among all the things made by man in that it can turn economics of scale on it’s head.

So far there is not a single one of these magical machines in operation, and 36 months from now there either still won’t be one (like with most nuclear power projects of the last decades) or it will be far more expensive per kWh than the classic models (which already produce the most expensive power and only make sense if you want to perpetuate the know how for a nuclear weapons program or slow down the development of renewables + storage which actually are an economically viable path to net 0).

Let’s talk again in 5 years.

He also did not show the troubleshooting afterwards or even testing another distro which can be done very quickly, and declared that Linux still isn’t a good out of the box experience after just one test.

Because he had people waiting for him in a game lobby (that’s the thing I’d actually give him shit for, trying out a new OS at a LAN) and decided to fall back to a known working OS to be able to get on with his day. And that’s exactly what many average users would do in a similar situation (not necessarily sitting at a LAN but maybe urgently needing to get on with productive task x y or z instead of troubleshooting).

He also did not declare “that Linux still isn’t a good out of the box experience after just one test.”, this is a multi part series and he already said he tried different distros afterwards.

I really hope he realises how not for his use case it is

Installing a deck verified game with a gold protondb rating and playing it?

What’s the difference between watching him struggle with popos or having my mother do the same?

I can’t watch your mom on youtube? Average windows users will want to know if they can make the switch with their average windows user knowledge and approach, that’s valuable information to them.

If he used all these special resources he has, that would be akin to those “I built this super awesome table from scrap wood I found behind my local supermarket” videos that fail to mention they also used the 100.000 bucks worth of tools in their professional woodworking shop. And people would then rightfully complain about that.