halfempty

joined 1 year ago
[–] halfempty@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sarah Palin and her allies have been wanting a civil war all along. There won't be one, but her kind of language will give license for extremist militia groups to do acts of terrorist violence.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Fascists always use "protecting children" as the rationale for implementing mechanisms of social control. Their willingness to allow school shootings shows that they really don't care about protecting children at all.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Do these numbers include kbin?

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 131 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Ubuntu is massively overrated. It's a bloated distro owned by a greedy corporation.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago (17 children)

That's alot of effort to go from one horrible programming language to another horrible programming language.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, Putin rigging an airplane crash is a bit more creative than the usual "jumped out of a hotel window" scenario...

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Well, Putin rigging an airplane crash is a bit more creative than the usual "jumped out of a hotel window" scenario ...

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

DuckDuckGo is not a wrapper for Bing, but is in fact a distinct and independent search engine. DDG does grab some results from bing. but it also grabs from other sources and it's own crawler.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

In today's skewed political spectrum, "Left" is what would be considered moderate in a reasonable perspective.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I use Debian XFCE, and it is perfect for me.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (30 children)

I never intend to use a flatpak or snap, and avoid them like the plague. The whole concept is incredibly ugly to me, and wasteful of computer resources.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

As others have said, most people don't install operating systems. They just buy a system, likely a laptop and run whatever OS is on it. Hardly any laptops come with Linux preinstalled unless you look pretty hard, or are searching specifically for one.

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