German here, so provably not applicable as it was 17 years ago (jeez) and a climate when they were just getting rid of it (only to reintroduce it again this year)

I avoided “Wehrdienst” by rolling in hungover with sunglasses and a Hawaiian shirt, botching their written test and telling them how much I enjoy going to leftist demonstrations and how I can’t wait to hold a weapon in my hand.

I think they don’t enjoy the idea of arming and training leftists.

On MacOS: Opt+Shift+-

En dash is the same without the shift

I’ve been using them for a long time, as they are also used in German typography like em dashes in English typography – only surrounded by spaces. They are easy to type on a Linux or MacOS keyboards layout (E.g. Opt+-)

I refuse to stop using en dashes. I’ve been using them because they are good typography, and the fact that clankers got clued in to that doesn’t make it wrong.

OK. It’s just also a common euphemism for “pedophile” in the same places where people use “unalive” instead of “kill”

It’s a common self-censor kids use on censored sites/apps like YouTube or TikTok.

Just life “unalive”.

You can say pedophiles on the internet.

What is this self-censoring bullshit? We’re not on dear leader’s tiktok

ACAB.

If I had a personal sauna, I’d invite everyone. But I’m not from puritan central (USA) so that might be a foreign concept to some readers.

That’s what their actions felt like for decades yet somehow they’ve always kept chugging along.

Democrats wouldn’t have destroyed all these institutions, some of which area vital for a big number of humans to survive.

You know. Small difference.

Radioactive waste storage.

I do think that goal power plants need to be turned off before nuclear ones, but neither is sustainable.

I chose the Lemmy devs’ instance thinking it would get bug fixes fastest. Had I known that this leads to constant discrimination, I wouldn’t have, jeez.

Hahaha yeah! And not to forget lemmygrad.

Also I dared suggest that Mozilla isn’t the devil and Firefox is still kinda the only browser preventing a full chromium monopoly on awfulsystems. Banned.

I really like rolling release. So much better to deal with updates one-by-one than in a giant batch every half year or so.

As said: installing the LTS kernel also works, I think.

And you wouldn’t use Arch for servers, you want something stable (as in “rarely changing”) there.

I agree that it’s be useful, and I think you can just install e.g. the LTS kernel next to the regular one.

But even without , the arch way isn’t insane either: when something kernel-related breaks, boot with a live system on USB and fix it.

Case in point: I dimensioned the EFI partition too small, so at some point, me using the zen kernel (which comes with a backup kernel image) messed things up and I couldn’t boot a half-written kernel.

then I

1. created and booted a live USB stick,
2. Mounted my / and /boot partitions manually into /mnt/root/ and /mnt/root/boot
3. Bind-mounted the live system’s /dev and /proc into /mnt/root/{dev,proc}
4. chrooted into /mnt/root (resulting in an environment using /dev and /proc from the live system and the rest from my system),
5. Used regular package manager commands to uninstall the zen kernel and install the regular one, and finally
6. rebooted into the now working system.

It’s not crazy, it doesn’t take long, you just need to know how the system works. Upside is that nothing ever breaks permanently, everything is fixable (except hardware failure)

The reason there’s no version in the filename is simply that Arch just doesn’t keep old kernels around.

The vmlinuz-linux just gets replaced whenever you update the linux package and the old one is deleted immediately.

Free Willy as a whale:

Yeah, unlike ballsacks. If any sex-related human part has to be a metaphor for weakness, it should be that one.