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You're adamant enough in your ethics to boycott all banks, but still use Amazon? How do you reconcile that?

I don't often agree with boomer takes, but I agree with this one.

Having never heard of TROMjaro, I looked it up, read that it's designed "for my brain", whatever that means, and when I looked at the About page for elucidation I quickly ended up on a site with a library of cult-flavored booklets about "trade" being evil. I gather that the actual point of the distro is to make Manjaro more fully free by removing packages that collect data, but Parabola already does this and is certified by the FSF fully free.

Ideology aside, is there something about TROMjaro that makes it a better user experience than other distros?

Manjaro was one of many I tried after becoming increasingly unhappy with Mint. It's also the one I stuck with, and it's run just fine for me for years. I accept that the reports of it being flawed have merit, but I care the most about my own experience, which has been excellent. If you want to test it, by all means, test it! Find out how it works for you personally.

But also try EndeavourOS and other Arch derivatives. One of those might be more to your taste.

I like the EFF, but I don't agree with the report this generates. There are two counters to fingerprinting: have the same fingerprint as everyone else (Mullvad Browser is based on this idea) and to have a unique fingerprint that changes regularly (The CanvasBlocker extension supports this approach).

Since most of the time I'm in Firefox with CanvasBlocker, I want to see unique fingerprints, but also that they keep changing.

I'm having a similar experience on kbin. I'm seeing and sometimes participating in threads I'd never have seen on Reddit.

They probably have some internal application where they literally do fill-in-the-blanks on the description and timestamps and the rest is a template.

I think Tux is embarrassing, to be honest. I've never seen an iteration of him that looks dignified.

You're right. So far we only know about transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in sheep, goats, mink, elk, deer, cattle, cats, antelope, camels, and humans, they can incubate for decades, and we can only reliably detect prions post-mortem. It'll never turn up in any other animal, nope!

Yeah, prion diseases are delicious.

Ich bin Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil.

The highest temperature ever recorded at El Paso, since 1879, was 114°F (46°C), less than the highest temperature reported in Iran of 122°F (50°C). 122°F would be a new all-time high in Texas, which the news would certainly mention.

And Texas's notoriously shitty ERCOT power grid has to endure those temperatures and keep working to even have air conditioning available. Two days ago it hit a new record for megawatts delivered. Then yesterday it broke that record, setting the 7th record high this summer. I'm glad the grid is still functioning, but I wonder how long it can stay that way before resorting to load shedding or experiencing an outage.