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  • i been linux only for over 30 years now.

    I tend to use Debian stable. At least for the last 15 or so.

    The reason is simple. I use it as my main PC and the stability is my main priority.

    The only negative is software in the repos is often out of date.

    But honestly while that was a pain in the past. Now for the vast majority of things I use. I find flat pack or appimage downloads work perfect ally.

    The only exception is ham radio software. Here I tend to compile later versions if I need/want them.

    Other negatives

    I’m really not hugely into gaming. But use blender a lot. Due to this I use Nvidia cards as they are far better supported by blender.

    Installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers is a bit of a pain on Debian for newbies. But once you know the process its simple enough. Just not obvious for beginners. The community drivers are still very limited thanks to Nvidia s weird ideas.








  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uktoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux is not your Panacea
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    29 days ago

    Yep, there are ways to do a full installation onto a thumb drive.

    While It’s not exactly complex. It does tend to require more understanding of how file system mounting works than the audience OP is indicating would have.

    It is likely time to create a user/id10t friendly app designed to download and fully install any ISO as a live thumb drive.

    That will still need some help for odd hardware. But for most it would be a fair option.




  • If we are unbiased and ignore OPs political claims. (Both/all sides use aid for this when they can).

    And the actual statements of skill do not contradict each other. Cuba will be using very different equipmentment and procedures compared to the MX. Just like most poorer nations. A very very skilled doctor in one nation will usually.ly take time to fit into the system and requirements of another. Adding the limited supply from Western medical tech to Cuba due to political restrictions. Well of course things are different. MX for all its immigration hate has a healthy trade with the US.

    Anyone who thinks Western doctors have nothing to learn when going to Africa etc. Is rather unrealistic.


  • All amounts to the same thing.

    Your just a guy eh is in a position to choose 1 or 5. And did not. So from that point. Yes you chose to allow 4 people to die. The death of those people is on your hands when you chose to do nothing.

    You seem desperate not to make the choice but the responsibility for that lack of choice still lies with you.

    Just as you were in a position to choose trump or Harris. So trump is as much your fault for failing to vote a viable alternative. As if you had chosen to vote him. Just because do not like either option dose not forgive you the effect of not choosing.


  • You really seem to be failing to understand. And simple typos are easy to read around. I’m visually impaired so have little patience for that excuse.

    As you said its a thought experiment. As you say you only have two options. Rejecting responsibility is the same as leaving the lever in the kill 5 position.

    Pull or don’t pull. If you pull 1 person dies. If you don’t 5 die. There is no don’t kill.

    Yes the person tieing them to the track murdered them. But just like not voting you don’t get to rewind time amd select better candidates. As the guy in the signal box. Your duty iss to direct the train. Just as your duty is to vote. Not wanting people to have been tied to the track is obviose but not an answer. Unless you are the one willing to invent a time machine. Your duty is still to direct the train.

    Not voting leaves you with trump. Because you live in a fptp nation where 3rd parties just reduce the opposing vote.

    Just like not pulling the lever means 5 folks died. You still had the task to direct the train. Refusing to pull the lever still leave you responsible for 5 rather then one dying.

    Refusing to take responsibility dose not forgive you for failing to select the lesser evil. You are still directly responsible for choosing the greater evil by failing to pull the lever.

    Rejecting responsibility and blaming others is not an option provided. Because the thought experiment recognises you live in a system where you have to make choices based on facts not your hopes and wishes. You live in a world where if you don’t have the option to stop the train. Or prevent the arsehole tying people to the tracks. You still have responsibilities. I refuse to play still has an effect on the world you live in. Like it or not.




  • You are still the one making the choice.

    Hence why the trolly problem is equivalent to a political vote. Not voting has the same effect as not making a choice between one or 5.

    If you are there before they get tied to the track you do more. But that is not the situation you are in on election day.

    On election day its to late to change candidates. Just as its to late to try and untie the victims. If you do not have correct of the breaks or the ability to stop the trolly on time.

    Your only option is to choose or not to choose the lesser of 2 evils.

    Failing to choose is no less evil then choosing the worst.