Fair point!

But again, this is mostly useful in a production environment, not as a home user imo.

We’re talking risk for the system here.

Sure, I had to make that distinction. I only mean personal home use here.

Honestly, my current stance on immutable distros is: why don’t you have a mutable distro and just try to follow the best practices without being forced to?

Install flatpaks, use Distrobox when something is only available as a standard package, but doesn’t actually depend on non-isolated system interaction, etc.

This way, nothing breaks the way it does with immutable distros, but you still have a reasonable level of confidence in your system.

Absolutely!

Essentially yes.

Normally, the amount of neutrons generated in a fusion reactor is an issue. Here it is an asset.

…or you do neither of those?

Alright bud, you went too far into angry trolling territory.

Gosh, what .today has become these days…

This is one of the most problematic parts about vigilante justice and why it should be gone for good, regardless of what they are trying to achieve.

Nope, I’m not getting there. Sure, ephebophilia is a thing, and so is hebephilia, but in a given context there’s no point in this distinction.

I’m only saying that many cases of child abuse do not involve pedophiles/hebephiles/ephebophiles/whatever. Children are the easiest to take advantage of, and this is what drives quite a few hypersexual non-pedophiles to become child abusers despite not being predominantly attracted to children/minors to begin with.

Regardless of reasons, whoever abuses children deserves punishment - although I would much prefer for the police, not vigilantes, to be involved in it.

Guess this is what happens when you meet real people online who are not artificially enraged - a productive conversation!

Good luck proving you’re not anything to an angry mob.

Sure, but shows of this kind commonly imply that all pedophiles are child abusers and all child abusers are pedophiles, neither of which is true - and such equations have real-world negative implications.

There’s one more angle to this - apart from the raise in vigilante violence and messing up with police operations which both are very valid.

Just as we stopped getting TV feeds constantly equating pedophiles to child molesters, those guys stepped in to fill the void.

Pedophiles are not inherently child molesters. This kind of equation is not only wrong, it also adds to promoting dangerous behaviors among them.

Plenty of pedophiles will never abuse a single child, knowing full well it is dangerous and harmful for minors to be engaged in such relationships. However, the more we equate pedophiles to predators, the more people, especially in the emotionally vulnerable groups like teen pedophiles, will actually accept themselves in this role. Among those who stands against this anyway, plenty will become suicidal, not seeing an option to live a non-offending life.

Current methods of therapy aimed at reducing child abuse rates go very strongly on this - pedophiles should face message of them not being inherently dangerous, not the message of them being an immediate and imminent danger. Not only this is scientifically correct, it is actually useful in making these people safer for others.

This is the Enter key, Shift is right below

For the sake of memes, Enter is commonly replaced with something like “delete” or “destroy” or “ban” or whatever, illustrating the decisive action. It has nothing to do with the actual Delete key.

The more they do it, the more backlash they are going to face.

Piracy has proven to be one of the undefeatable Internet forces.

If you listen to the conservative messages closely, most of them are crafted in a way that sounds positive, not evil. Then what’s evil and can’t be shown any other way gets framed as the necessary evil to make those positive messages come to be.

The left goes very similar route, speaking of equality, freedom, love, and then coming up with something like “the world would be a better place if rich feared for their lives”. Might be true, but it’s the necessary evil/angry pushback again.

So, it’s not that people on the right chose to be evil, they just grew with one set of convictions that portrays left as unwilling to see the truth or to accept the sacrifices necessary to make the place better overall (in their eyes). And, similarly, far left that wants to overthrow or radically change the system is seen by the right as a massive evil force willing to destroy the country that took centuries to build a system that led people to where they are now - in relative prosperity and peace.

That is not to say they are correct in their thinking - there are massive flaws in their logic - but when you’re committed to a certain worldview, it’s easy to ignore inconsistencies, blinded by the fear of other side destroying it all. This, unfortunately, is what left resorts to as well, while being objectively more true (as in scientifically backed), because in the crazy world of politics emotions go first and reason goes second. Most people never get to cautiously verify and scrutinize the talking points presented to them, after all.

Basically, it allows you to steal all the code and use it in your closed-source programs, giving a green light for corporations to use open-source code without giving anything back.

GPL doesn’t allow that, forcing you to open-source anything that was produced using other GPL-licensed code. That’s, for example, why so much of Linux software is open-source - it commonly relies on various dependencies that are GPL-licensed, so there is no other legal option other than sharing the code as well.