SpaceCadet

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[–] SpaceCadet 4 points 9 months ago
[–] SpaceCadet 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guess it’s why some Jellyfin streams started transcoding for me.

You're better off using the Jellyfin Media Player standalone application anyway.

[–] SpaceCadet 1 points 9 months ago

The way you wrote:

A big majority uses KDE, followed by GNOME and then the Window Manager guys.

... with Window Manager capitalized like that, my first thought was: wow, WindowMaker is the #3 desktop in Linux?!

Ah well, I guess it isn't 1999 anymore :)

[–] SpaceCadet 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The thing is, you can't really engineer against anti-social behavior. For every better made apartment you will find that there is an even bigger anti-social idiot who still manages to make life hell for their neighbors.

I'm pretty blessed with my mostly boomer neighbors (🤞) who don't make a peep after 10PM, but my girlfriend has had some shitty neighbors even though her apartment is pretty well made. Sound insulation between apartments is no match for cigarette and marijuana smoke wafting in from the balcony below any time you want to open the window to air out, or if, heavens forbid, you want to sleep with the window open in the summer, nor does it help much if they are partying and speaking loudly on their balcony until 4AM on weekdays. And then I'm not even getting into how they're treating shared spaces.

The proximity makes everything so much worse than it would be with a house, at some point only adding distance helps.

[–] SpaceCadet 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

A core memory of mine is getting flung off of one of these things because of the centrifugal force, falling on my back, and being unable to breathe for like 20-30 seconds ... until I screamed at the top of my lungs, and things slowly returned to normal, while the teacher just went: oh you're fine, don't be a baby. I was 6.

[–] SpaceCadet 0 points 10 months ago

All true, yet it has nothing to do with what we are discussing, so why are you muddying the water with it?

[–] SpaceCadet 4 points 10 months ago

my body, my choice

It's a bit more complicated than that with transplants. Should people for example be able to sell their kidney to the highest bidder? That's also "my body, my choice". And should doctors be forced to participate in such a scheme?

A transplant system should consider fairness, equality and possible abuse. Obviously I think it should be possible to donate to a loved one, but we should also be careful not to create a system where the rich get priority, because they can pay more, and where poor people could be financially pressured to give up their bodily integrity by having to sell an organ.

[–] SpaceCadet 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We're explicitly talking about a situation where the donor is suitable. So I don't know what kind of information you're trying to add here.

[–] SpaceCadet 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The past year or two I've found several stores where they are abandoning it. I presume because people carrying cash, especially coins, is becoming rarer and they don't want to inconvenience their customers?

Strangely enough, carts still get returned even at these stores.

[–] SpaceCadet 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Even if her partner could donate his own liver, it should still go to a better recipient

That's nonsense, because the partner would not donate his liver if it went to someone else.

[–] SpaceCadet 23 points 10 months ago

Or ctrl+w to close the fucking site and never come back.

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