What’s a better alternative that uses apt and KDE and has relatively up-to-date packages (other than Debian testing)?

Emissions from AI datacenters offend because of just how unnecessary they are.

These days, even if you pay more you still risk getting something that isn’t “decent” a lot of the time anyway, and I’m not willing to pay a lot more for something like Mitutoyo that actually has brand reputation.

Ads

Driving in cities

Closed-source software

Edit: I missed a word in the title. I don’t think these things “secretly;” I express them very vocally at every opportunity.

I got old-school calipers with a vernier scale because I was sick and tired of replacing the coin cell batteries in the digital ones.

I knew there were other examples but I couldn’t remember them before and it was nagging at me, but reading your comment now jogged my memory for some reason. Other examples of Free Software as ‘weapons’ to be protected under the 2^nd:

• Routing around censorship using tools like TOR and Meshtastic
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
• 3D printer firmware (for guns, etc.)
• Drone firmware

It’s just a Unicode character, so you can get it just like any other (including emoji):

• use a phone/tablet virtual keyboard that lets you pick it directly, or a utility like “character map”
• type it using the Unicode code point (U+221E in this case) and whatever modifier key sequence is necessary for your OS
• search the web for “[symbol name] Unicode” and copy/paste

Usually the 3^rd way is easiest, for arbitrary unusual characters like this one.

5¢

Wait, are you saying you want there to be a vegan pride month, or are you just upset that the LGBT cakes have egg in the batter and buttercream frosting?

Here’s a ∞ character, kid. Get yourself a better username.

They made an EV version!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger_EV

No, I think he really does mean Second Amendment. Remember how encryption used to be prohibited from export because it was classified as a munition?

We need Free Software for self-defense against government invasion of our privacy.

Basically, taking any steps to defend yourself in general:

• being armed
• wearing a mask to obscure your face
• wearing nondescript clothing
• wearing PPE to defend against pepper balls etc.
• having GrapheneOS on your phone
• using an encrypted messaging app
• etc.

If George had written Anakin like that, and if he had followed through with Darth Jar Jar, it would’ve been absolutely brilliant.

It’s mainly that I just don’t bother marking things read, so that’s like two and a half years of replies.

I regretted not cropping that as soon as I posted it because I knew someone would comment on it, but I couldn’t figure out how to crop after-the-fact on my phone and re-upload. The screenshot utility can do it, but the image viewer can’t.

There’s more you can do than that! It’s not as if we live in some sort of laissez-faire hellhole where corporations can do whatever they want; we could lobby the government to regulate it.

(I’m invoking Poe’s Law so hard even I don’t know if I’m sincere!)

I was just expanding on the point that this guy has plenty of reason to strike back, and is almost certainly going to.

Sure, there’s every reason for him to want to strike back.

However, I disagree that that means he’s likely to do it. It’s kinda like Zelensky: he’d be entirely justified in telling both Putin and Trump to go fuck themselves, but he won’t do the latter because the US’ half-assed support is still better than Trump fully switching sides.

I expect Iran’s leader to suck it up and do what’s best for Iran in a realpolitik sense, not engage in suicidal total war just because Trump’s America deserves it.

I’m not sure my point got across. I wasn’t trying to blame anybody; I was just trying to make a distinction between a logical argument and an emotional one.

And also, at least in the case of reading an article you understand that it’s a human with a point of view, rather than a tool that’s assumed to be neutral.