Rivalarrival

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[–] Rivalarrival 79 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

To be clear: The Trump administration said the courts don't have the power to order his return.

The courts certainly do have the power to order the Trump administration to return him. The court that issued the original order can find the administration in contempt, and order restitution for each day that he is held in El Salvador.

[–] Rivalarrival 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Real printers used real paper...

[–] Rivalarrival 111 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This transfers money from the advertiser to the advertising agency, without creating a sale for the advertiser. This devalues the services of the agency.

[–] Rivalarrival 3 points 2 weeks ago

Get out of my head!!!

[–] Rivalarrival 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I would say that the software side all qualifies. You're setting up the full software stack; that's definitely self-"something".

I, personally, would only consider it "self hosting" if I can take a sledge hammer to the bare metal without getting arrested.

But, I acknowledge that is an arbitrary, puritanical distinction. I don't look down on VPS; they have specific pros and cons, and I use them myself. I just think that "self hosting" includes hardware factors, not just the software.

[–] Rivalarrival 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Dump him right on the border.

The border runs right through the middle of 4 of the 5 Great Lakes...

[–] Rivalarrival 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

they don't want to mess with the terminal to troubleshoot any errors.

I reject your premise that the purpose of the terminal is to troubleshoot errors. That is part of the widespread misconception I am talking about.

The terminal is simply for using the computer. With all the command line utilities available, and their widespread interoperability, the terminal should be one of the first tools a user looks for.

A GUI is a hammer. The CLI is the Snap-On tool truck.

[–] Rivalarrival 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

EVERYTHING? I enjoy doing things that aren't eating and sex on a intrinsic level that I was never trained to enjoy.

No, not "intrinsically", you don't. Food, fuck, sleep, that's about it. You likely enjoy other things as well, but not intrinsically. I enjoy Sudoku, but that is something I learned. There is no "enjoy sudoko" element within me that I did not put there myself.

Why didn't people adopt personal computers en masse before Windows came to be then?

They did. Everyone I knew back in the Windows 3.1 days already had computers. Most of those people didn't have Windows, and used standalone applications. The increase in ownership came when hardware prices finally fell enough for them to be affordable. Windows development was a result of that uptick, not the cause.

[–] Rivalarrival 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Rivalarrival 5 points 2 weeks ago

Shut up, wesley

[–] Rivalarrival -1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Do you also think that anyone that wants a car should be a mechanic?

I reject the premise.

I think that anyone who wants to be a driver should be able to understand that the brake pedal squeezes the pads against the rotor.

I don't think that everyone who can identify a brake rotor is a mechanic.

Anyone that wants a drug should be a pharmacist?

I think that anyone who wants any sort of medicine should have enough medical, mathematical, and statistical knowledge to understand that vaccines don't cause autism. I don't think that everyone with such knowledge is a pharmacist, mathematician, or statistician.

The idea that the command line is "unfriendly" and that decelopers should hide it away is, in my opinion, the computer equivalent of the antivax movement.

[–] Rivalarrival 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Most people do not intrinsically desire that.

The only things that people "intrinsically" want are food and fornication. Everything else, they have been taught and trained. The training they have received from Microsoft domination has been "don't learn how to use a computer".

That training is something to despise and reject, not incorporate into Linux.

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