rabbit stew 🤤

see my comment above; it’s way more efficient to read individual files out of a zip archive.

zip is better than tar.gz for some applications though.

notably, individual files can be read from a zip archive without unpacking the whole archive, different than tar.gz files.

tar.gz files are only better if you pack and unpack the whole archive at once, but even then, they don’t have much advantage. the major advantage is that you can pipe the output of tar creation over the network to another computer who decompresses the tar immediately, thus transferring a folder. zip has index at beginning/start, so it requires seek when writing or skip when reading, so it can’t be streamed.

i hope the quality stays up and i guess that we’re non-commercial might help with this; as we’re not pushing people to use this platform; the people here are people who actually want to use this platform and i guess that in itself could do a good thing.

sexism does exist on lemmy but the algorithm is less aggressive about pushing rage-bait, so it rarely shows on the front-page. also, the people here are a bit more considerate, i’d say. but that is mostly because it’s a lot of nerds here (heheh).

yeah i’ve met some thorough tankies recently and wow are they annoying. just completely blind to reality.

well i’d argue that setting teslas on fire is property damage, while slashing social security is murder or at the very least neglect of duties that led to deaths of many people.

it is clear that property damage is the minor damage of the two, according to contemporary interpretation of law.

about the guillotining:

same story. talkings about guillotining people is a reasonable threat when the alternative is to let the billionaires upend your roots and your lifes through horrible policy decisions. it’s an act of self-defence at some point, i’d say.

though i agree with you at least partially that the US is different than say europe.

in the US, the mindset of “hard work” is more far-spread, as it the mindset that people who don’t work, don’t deserve to eat. that’s just the US being the US i guess.

I’m not sure whether this should be a “standard”, but we need a Linux Distribution where the user never has to touch the command line. Such a distro would be beneficial and useful to new users, who don’t want to learn about command line commands.

And also we need a good app store where users can download and install software in a reasonably safe and easy way.

As to my understanding of the background behind this and the greater context:

Economic growth on Earth is slowing down significantly; that is because quantitative growth is not possible without damaging the planet, and qualitative growth (such as infotainment, IT) are slowing down as well (consider “enshittification” as a symptom of poor vision for the IT industry).

For one, that is why people want to go to Mars. I’m definitely not a Musk fanboy, but people have wanted /thought about going to Mars before Musk. (consider Robert Zubrin 2000 “The Case For Mars”). If it is doable, and it probably is considering there’s enough water on Mars to sustain a civilization, they are hoping/predicting that it might become a booming market. I don’t want to be a “lunatic” or whatever you’d call me; but i’d argue i’ve done more research about this project than you, in case you’ve watched a YouTube video that says “it’s dumb/impossible”.

But back to the article:

Since growth of Earth’s economy is slowing down, demand for human labor is decreasing. Since the labor market is a market, less demand at equal supply leads to lower prices (wages). That is why “cost of living” appears to be skyrocketing. Food prices have not gone up in the recent years (because the means of food production did not change much in recent years), but real wages have gone down, if you subtract inflation. That is how it should be looked at.

Lower wages lead to a significantly lower quality of life for workers, as they are arguably one of the most decisive factors for quality of life. That is why “everything seems to get more difficult” over time.

I honestly don’t see a solution for this; demand for human labor could not easily be stimulated more than has already been tried in the last 15+ years. If automation still replaces labor, it will not lead to mass unemployedness (such is a thing of the past, when people were either employed or unemployed), but instead to drastic drops in wages (which makes it more attractive for companies to employ people or keep them in employment). I know laborers are proud of their labor, and are going to feel it as a “shock” that wages go down. I still think it’s necessary for the Quality of Life (which is very important, maybe the most important thing that politics should talk about) to introduce some sort of subsidy (like Universal Basic Income). I know some people are gonna be against it (notably without giving a good argument); but i do deem it necessary. That would give more buying power to the people and people could more easily deal with the rising cost of everything, including education.

well, Silicon Valley used to be good 5+ years ago. The enshittification cycle only started somewhere around 2018 imho.

Trump can go fuck himself.

i don’t trust any messenger system that uses the word “serverless”. such a word is misleading, at best, and a scam more likely.

the government can go into unlimited debt if it is willing to cause a hyperinflation at some point later in the future to eliminate all of that debt.

we need more working powers to keep our wealth and our standard of living up. obviously, as things are crumbling around us, this means we don’t put in enough effort to maintain things, and more hands would help.

that is a false thought. The labor market is regulated by supply and demand. That means, fewer workers lead to higher wages and a higher quality of life. It might seem paradoxical, but having a smaller workforce means people in the country will be able to afford more stuff.

That is especially important as people discuss the birth-rate, and immigration, in all countries, also in the US and in Europe. People say things such as “women have 1.6 children on average, which means our population is declining, and obviously that is the reason why our quality-of-life seems to be going down as well”. However, the opposite is true. As automation takes over and well-paying (and meaningful) jobs are eroded, having fewer people around doing all the work actually drives wages up, and leads to an improved quality-of-life.

I honestly don’t really know, but i can guess.

Stock on basic food items, maybe enough for a year or more (including noodles, rice).

Maybe, if you can afford the space/time for it, learn how to grow some basic vegetables on your balcony/garden, to go along with the calories.

That is all i can do. Maybe, also look into viable long-term accomodations in case you lose your house/apartment. Could be homeless shelters, could be sanctuaries, idk.

don’t forget the source code!

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What distro are you using, and how difficult was it for you to get started with it?

I’m currently making a list of distros and looking at each’s pros and cons, including:

• what did work out of the box?
• what required more work to fix / workaround?

No, I was arguing in good faith; But I see it doesn’t resonate with you at all, so i’ll just leave it.