Needs even more jpeg

From “EV conversion kits” to “offline conversion kits”.

As a tip from someone who also used to host game servers on Linux mint (and now Ubuntu server), you will save yourself so many headaches if you use an open-source container program like Pterodactyl Panel. Even if a game isn’t officially supported (like 7 days to die), someone’s already made a community script for the game that can be imported in 4 or so clicks.

Trust me, it’s a hell of a lot better than the manual option on Windows or Linux for games XD

5 eyes originally, 14 eyes effectively through bilateral agreements.

Relevant Wikipedia section of the 5 eyes article

They’re probably operating out of a country where they are legally untouchable for copyright infringement. Or for that matter, just not in a 14 eyes country.

Fortunately, sounds like he is - a lot of the mediation issues from prior disputes are now prevented, at least from what I hear from my programmer friends.

I personally haven’t contributed to the kernel, but from my experience dealing with adjacent FOSS developers, things tend to be less flame war and more of a brief yap from two sides.

My comment was referring to the fact that it is difficult if not impossible for governments to restrict a civilian’s access to effective lethal weapons. Legally, a government does maintain a monopoly on violence, and they can attempt to continue restricting the civilian’s access, but the continued development of technology is eroding the barrier of entry for effective weapons.

I understand it’s not a department or office lol, what I’m saying is any average joe now has the ability to download a single file off the internet and assemble a functional, reliable firearm with no prior experience. Or manufacture effective fragmentation IEDs. Or 3D print a lethal drone that can be controlled with a phone or a portable game console. With those developments, no population can be fully or effectively disarmed - so governments must accept that the population can be armed regardless of their wishes, and can disrupt the monopoly at any time.

“Sir, the 17 pounder won’t fit!”

“Put it in sideways.”

“The radio won’t fit!”

“Cut a hole in the back and have it stick out the back.”

“The engine’s no good!”

“Grab 5 car engines and stick them in together.”

Portmanteau of “True” and “Escape”.

Because online spaces allow us to Truly Escape reality :)

“This was a Triumph.”

“I’m making a note here, huge success.”

Social Darwinism mindset becomes endemic? That’s not exactly a bright future…

It’s not showing on my client either, hopefully they edit their comment.

I’ve switched to FreeCAD from Fusion 360 myself, after the 1.0 release everything became much more user friendly (they even have an “Inventor” layout if you want to keep the same UI style).

Granted, I’m early in my engineering career, so I probably can stomach more jank, but for my 3D printing fun and class projects, it seems fine.

There is a “photoshop UI” GIMP plugin that you could use if you prefer the layout/have muscle memory, but admittedly that’s not a perfect solution. It is cheaper tho.

As a cis dude, I would probably buy that lol. It would just be too convenient.

It’s a half-measure, kind of like using a VPN. The problem with using your preferred browser is that it’s not designed to prevent any identifying leaks, so you could be fingerprinted at basically any time and your efforts will have been for nothing. Also, if you’re using an insecure OS (like the version of android that comes preinstalled with your phone), that’ll prevent its effectiveness full stop.

For situations like those, you aren’t really using Orbot (or any VPN-esque solution) for genuine privacy. Those tools are useful for Utility (circumventing region blocks, ISP filters, IP blocks, so on), and Plausible Deniability (Piracy, usually through torrenting). If what you seek falls into those two categories, good for you, but true privacy has to be achieved through something like Tails or a secure OS with Tor Browser, sorry.

TOR Wikipedia page - explains the key concepts and gives a link to the website so you can download the Tor Browser.

Tails (Amnesiac OS) Wikipedia page - If you want the real Fort Knox solution to browsing something or sending something without anyone finding out. It’s more of a process than downloading Tor Browser, but probably the most secure option possible for browsing the web. (The OS runs everything through the TOR network, is only retained in RAM, and wipes the RAM clean during shutdown)

That’s difficult to answer, because both groups use the social shield of religious identity (or more accurately conflating their views with religion to their followers) as a method to both deflect criticism from within their bases and to appeal as a legitimate representative to all who practice the faith (even if their appeal is hypocritical and baseless).

I agree with you that those abuses don’t undermine the concepts and values placed forward by the root faith (as mentioned in my prior comment, religion can serve beneficial/personal value components within a society), but a leader’s ability to wield religion within the halls of governance taints the religion’s “purity” among the populace as a whole. As the lies are perpetuated through generations, some concepts preached by these bad influences can become accepted or even indoctrinated as true values.

So again, tricky question to answer. In my personal opinion, the only way to disarm this particular scenario is to maintain a secular form of governance and keep religion only as a personal or communal liberty away from any decision made at a government level (appeal to empirical evidence or logical conclusions instead), but there are holes in that idea as well. Dang.

While I respect your devotion to your faith as a means of promoting goodwill, I vehemently disagree that faith should serve as any integral component for a just society. Theocracies allow for plenty of corruption, manipulation of history and academia, sanctioned death, and abuse of their populations simply under other names and with varying methods.

Religion can be an accepted component of one’s society. It should never serve as the bedrock of a society, lest it be seized and contorted by the next aspirational oligarchs seeking to write themselves in as “more equal than the others”.

Also that monopoly has been somewhat eliminated with the increasing development of technology that allows for killing without consequences. Drones, rigged explosives, remote detonation, incendiary devices, autonomous firearms, so on. (Developments of improvised firearms, explosives, and incendiary devices with common materials has also contributed to this, along with DIY drone construction).

At this point the correcting factor is if a state is able to control the collective perception or will of a population to a point where pacification is possible (China or UK’s surveillance states, for instance). But that is not a viable long term solution due to it simply bottling the frustrations of the populace rather than extinguishing them.

After all, in JFK’s famous words, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable”. With ideas able to be spread anywhere, no ideal can be stamped out for good, on any segment of the ideological spectrum.

Sucks for those who wish for a cooperative world, I suppose.