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Unfortunately, reading the specs for a tech product is mandatory. A single sentence in a preview will never tell you everything you need to know; this was an expensive lesson for you. I’d like to second the recommendation for a Brother laser printer.

Yeah, same here, that’s why I specified that they’re only nice when they work. Often they just don’t work, so Flatpak is better.

Damn, alright haha, I completely missed that news. Good for them.

I think I’ve landed on Flatpak as my favourite between Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage. AppImage, when it works, is nice though. Snaps are just kind of inconvenient (auto-updates are a no for me) and bloated and the things Canonical are doing as an organization put a bad taste in my mouth.

So if I already use K-9 Mail, should I bother? Does anything set it apart yet?

At this point, I am an LMDE shill because it works so well for my non-tech wife. She has only had to use the terminal 3 times since I installed it for her in the summer and most of what she needs for day-to-day desktop computing came pre-installed.

It “just works,” even for multi-monitor setups, which I thought it would have trouble with.

In Ontario, Canada people can opt in when renewing their health card (a card used to access public healthcare) or driver’s license, and it probably does positively impact the rate of opting in, but it really doesn’t seem to address the need. I’ve been a registered organ donor since I was 16, but most people I’ve brought it up with aren’t.

I suppose if choosing an option is mandatory instead of voluntary then that would change things for the better. Is that what Germany is doing?

I think this post is alluding to the results of the US election and asserting that (at least part of) the reason is that many people decided not to vote.

Related to people’s tendency to do nothing when faced with the need to opt in is the status quo bias—the tendency to do nothing when faced with making a decision.

For what it’s worth, I agree with you. Most telecom infrastructure funding has been historically pocketed. There is a chance it does work, though.

If not, maybe the tariffs will help in the short term by minimizing profit from overseas supply chains and incentivize American manufacturing, causing a positive effect on the sector in concert with CHIPS (but I doubt it).

Oh, the thing Trump called “so bad” on Joe Rogan a couple weeks ago? He said that tariffs are his preferred strategy to force companies to build in the US. Maybe that was just rhetoric and you can’t trust it, but he did say it.

As it stands, CHIPS isn’t going anywhere, so at least Americans won’t be totally fucked.

Every time I see the Fedora logo I think of DisplayFusion instead. Windows poisoned my brain. :(

I downvoted because of the title’s implication that OP kills spiders for no reason. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Looks like this is the study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6776349/