The person you are replying to is assuredly aware of the topic. What was stated is paraphrasing a direct response to the paradox, which has been posted here several times, and many more on Reddit before that.

Found a fan of Big Game Hunters, have we?

This you? https://youtu.be/bBl3QN2murQ?si=Fp3uRsCy7HXpZEvz&t=32

That you have excellent taste, and support small business owners

I didn’t before but now I am glad I did

requiring me to jiggle memory sticks or tighten CPU cooler screws

How much vibration is the computer subjected to? Do you live in a limestone quarry?

I already suggested this in another comment, but you can easily apply a thought experiment here. Magically replace all white people with black people with the same upbringing: does crime go up, down, or basically stay the same? Magically replace all pitbulls with chihuahuas with the same upbringing: do maulings go up, down, or basically stay the same?

Couldn’t tell the cops if the mugger was white or black? Pretty understandable. Couldn’t tell the cops if the dog that bit you was a chihuahua or a pitbull? Really?

Any “big dog with a blocky head” should be banned from breeding or sale, and nobody who agrees with that statement cares about DNA. It is a matter of public safety and it doesn’t matter that humans are the real problem, because humans are notoriously hard to control. The pitbulls and similar breeds we have today deserve all the love and comfort we can give them now, but they shouldn’t be bred into the future because there is no legitimate reason to own one except for its potential for violence and flatulence-scapegoating.

Quick thought experiment - magically replace every pitbull in the world with a chihuahua instead. Do the number of maulings go up or down?

You might be surprised how little bandwidth you need. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/rdp-bandwidth

Where’s the homework folder?

Epic has donated a sizable amount to fund Godot Engine, and other FOSS projects. UE4 and UE5 can both be built from source to run on Linux natively. They are not smothering FOSS or Linux.

Nope, unfortunately now the car has been magnetized, and that would swap the polarity, making it move in the opposite direction, which is reverse again.

Simple. The magnet weighs less than the car, so the magnet is going to be moving to the left. If the force is going to the left, that means the car can only go in reverse.

The university was set up in the same manner as one that holds accreditation and takes smaller fees than actual tuition would cost, so that immigrants can claim they are students for a fraudulent student visa. ICE claims that these students were obviously interested in this arrangement, and not a legitimate education, because the university didn’t even have classes that students could sign up for and the students stayed enrolled. However, it is clearly entrapment as the university had been validated by the government publicly, and some students who were tricked into enrolling had later tried to transfer out to a real university, but were still arrested regardless.

I think of a “mobile device” as a phone, tablet, and smartwatch, but those latter two categories are dwarfed by the market for phones, so I think they can be ignored. Laptops are dominated by Windows and macOS (BSD/Unix descendant, not Linux), so that can also be ignored. A few sites of questionable reputation put the global market share of iOS at around 30%, but let’s suppose it’s only 20%. In order for 99% of all mobile devices to be Linux-based, then only 1% of the total could be an iOS device, and roughly another 4% of the total is every other (presumably) Linux-based phone. That leaves 95% of the “mobile device” market for non-phone devices, which seems unrealistic, even accounting for industrial and commercial devices.

What’s the biggest code base you have ever reviewed? What’s the most recent TLS vulnerability you have encountered, as opposed to the last vulnerability in other parts of your OS? Code being swapped by the server, maybe, but are you saying you do a code review every time you update a package or dependency of some other project? This is only less secure in some inconceivably convoluted chain of events that no practical person could enact. No sane person does what you’re saying. Everyone has to trust someone else with code blindly at some point.

Let me get this straight, you think running something in a browser with its sandboxed design, is somehow less secure than downloading executables off of GitHub?

Just speculating, but maybe they want to keep their options open for selling one or the other off later. That way, they re-diversify with two series that are different enough to take risks, and get emergency cash if they fail.

I am gonna admit that the only reason I watched the trailer was because of the name. I ended up coming out of it excited by the game for it’s art direction and proposed game play. I have also played the hell out of DMZ and now am looking for the next best iteration of the formula. I stopped playing single player games a loooooong time ago.

For point #1 - good riddance. That kind of porn is super creepy regardless of whether or not it is true CSAM.

For point #2 - I might just be getting old, but I don’t have time to wade through a “bearable” feed when I can get all the best posts through someone else’s hard work. I am glad to have mods that reflect my approximate values and defederate where reasonable.

I will appreciate when people like you repost/link the rare piece of good content that I miss out on though. I welcome views counter to my own, if well thought out or sanely provocative, but sometimes you gotta filter out trolls and creeps.

I can say that I feel comfortable recommending my instance to people I meet IRL, and that counts for a lot with me.