PaintedSnail

Without a central server, hostname resolution is handled with mDNS. It is designed to do exactly what you’re asking: allow you to resolve hostnames to IP addresses without a DNS server. A node simply broadcasts (multicasts) a request for who has a name, and whichever node has it responds with their IP.

WHOSE property matters. Jesus busted up the property of the people causing the problem. Too often I see this as justification for burning cars in the street.

Technology Connections explains rice cookers: https://youtu.be/RSTNhvDGbYI

TLDW: they turn off when their temperature goes above 100C

Yes, a better candidate would be ideal, and that should absolutely be pushed for in the primaries. What is your plan to help that?

But everyone’s idea of an ideal candidate is different. If the Democrats don’t field a candidate you like in the general, what will you do? Will you withhold your vote, and in so doing help the party that is actively damaging the country win? What is your plan?

We can sit here all day and complain about this side or that side and how the Democrats are failing, but in the end that means NOTHING without a plan to DO something about it.

What is it your are going to DO?

That was a lot of valid complaining about the Democrats, but not one word that can be converted into an actionable plan.

That depend entirely on what that “something else” is. So far, all I’ve heard is either “don’t vote unless the candidate is ‘left enough’,” a vague and counter-productive inaction; or various calls to “tear down the system” with no indication of a plan how or what to replace it with.

I’m not saying the Democrats are faultless, but empowering the people that are proactively causing harm doesn’t help.

Then you will need to be aware that by not voting for the more left candidate, we will have a far right government for a couple of cycles at least. This will cost lives and further entrench them into power. It is why we have what we have right now. It will also drive left leaning candidates further right because they are going to cater to the people who actually vote. A far left candidate winning is still possible eventually, but it would require a major turnout at the primaries and a lot more damage is going to be done to a lot of innocent people in the mean time. Is this a cost you are willing to pay?

No part of my statement said there were only two choices. It was in regard to all choices.

But in the context of this thread, the general election will only ever present two choices. (So vote in the primaries.)

Naivete at it’s finest. Reality is that the choices available to you will never conform to all of your desires, so in that sense, a choice is always going to be for the lesser evil. If you think there’s an action you can take to avoid making a choice at all, then reality will disabuse you of that notion as well.

The fun thing about having a built-in package manager provided by the OS is that the line gets blurry there. Is it the application developer’s responsibility to make sure they have a package for each distribution? Is it the OS’s responsibility to make sure they have a working package for each application a user may want? If there is a third party package maintainer, should the OS include that in an official repo if they don’t control it? Lines of responsibility for any given scenario are not clear, and there are a lot of different possible scenarios.

Because in the end, the end user doesn’t know who is actually responsible, and they shouldn’t have to know. Unlike the download-and-run-installer of Windows, the only user-facing interface IS the OS’s package manager, and it is their responsibility to make sure it works. That is why major distributions spend a ton of time testing and repackaging software in their official repos.

I think that’s the point of the rant. The setup process is out of reach for non-technical people. Bazzite doesn’t fix that problem of the packages don’t include the needed functionality. That the problem can be corrected isn’t the point; the correction process is still a technical hurdle that non-technical people shouldn’t have to overcome.

That alone is worth an extra half point for the effort.

It’s good to know that we have advanced as a society. We’re talking about now, not 80 years ago.

You also seem to be under the impression that making a “correct” choice would be without consequences. It would be nice if the moral or legal choice always had positive consequences for the chooser, but that’s not always the case. That doesn’t chance the morality or legality of the choice. Yes, soldiers have been persecuted for disobeying an illegal order; either legally or socially; but that doesn’t change their duty.

(Also, David McBride was arrested for releasing confidential documents, something that is very much illegal. We can debate the morality, but that’s not relevant here because it’s not remotely related to a soldier refusing to follow illegal orders.)

A soldier following an illegal order may lead to people dying unnecessarily, so they are duty bound to not follow illegal orders. A doctor choosing to not treat patients because they don’t like something about them may lead to people dying unnecessarily, so they are duty bound to treat all patients.

A doctor’s agency does not supersede another’s right to live. A doctor doesn’t get to choose who lives or dies; and yes, even requiring that the doctor refer the patient to a different doctor would result in people dying.

A soldier’s job includes disobeying illegal orders. That’s the law. Try again.

Nah. That would piss off the mailroom employees, but they don’t control who gets sent mail. The weight costing money does hurt the people who make the marketing decisions, though.

Blame Kellogg

I believe the intent is to use appdata for user-specific configs and programdata for system-wide configs.

My response would be that if you cannot explain your position, then you cannot defend it, and therefore you do not understand it yourself. This implies that you are simply feeling you way into your position using gut instincts, which are easily created and manipulated without a reasonably sound argument. An ad on TV, a op-ed piece only half heard, a slew of biased headlines, and more all contribute to these gut feelings without providing a rational base.

In short, I reject your claim that complicated positions cannot be explained. Yes, many can’t be easily explained, but you should still be able to explain and defend them.

So when the position is challenged and you can’t defend it because you have only these gut feelings at the core, you fall back on the belief that anyone would have the same feelings eventually. This is, of course, not true.

I hate that phrase so much.

It sole purpose is to belittle and dismiss the person you are talking to.

It tells the person that they are obviously unable to understand because of some unrelated trait. It’s an ad-hominim that just shuts down the conversation.

It’s only used by people that cannot actually defend their position, but rather than continue to discuss it, they would rather just shut out the other person.

It’s them telling the other person “you are less than me which is why you are wrong, and you must simply accept that because you cannot possibly understand how I am right.”

It also has built-in Facebook Container to isolate Facebook links.