Look, Mozilla makes tons of decisions I disagree with, and this is one of them, but some of y’all have turned hyperbolic, misleading, unwarranted Mozilla hate into your entire personality.

Feel free to point out when they do something stupid, but if you’re going to do that try to keep it to the facts instead of trying to make it seem like every dumb little thing they do is the apocalypse. It’s impossible to take you seriously with titles like this.

So… How many burritos worth of debt do you need before you count as a VIP?

The entire Weddell Sea is just north of Antarctica. That’s where the Weddell Sea is. The problem is that everything near Antarctica is just north of Antarctica, including things on the complete opposite side of the entire continent. It’s just a way of saying near Antarctica that sounds like you’re giving more information than you really are.

It can vary from location to location, but honestly I think a lot of it is that a pretty significant percentage of management can’t get an erection unless they’re watching people suffer.

That’s all true, but also completely irrelevant to the point I was making. Gene expression isn’t in that 99.9% of the DNA that is the same. All of the individually identifiable genetic information in the genome is in the other 0.1%. This is a privacy community. A complete understanding of how genetics works is neat and all, but it’s not relevant to the conversation we’re having. I didn’t say that all humans 99.9% identical to each other. That’s obviously not true. I said that there’s no point in storing duplicate copies of identical genetic sequences, and that saying they store less than 0.1% of your genome only says they’re not doing that.

For the record, 5-10% is way plenty to narrow things down to a very tiny number of people. Probably one in most cases, and it contains a lot of important medical information. That’s not some trivial unimportant thing.

99.9% of your genome is exactly identical to every other human on Earth. <0.1% just means they aren’t storing things that don’t change between people, because why would they?

A lot of food doesn’t even have an expiration date. It’s more common on a lot of foods to have a sell by date, which is not the same thing as an expiration date, and some foods are even just labelled with a packaged date, which is hopefully always in the past. Otherwise you’ve got bigger problems than spoiled food. MREs are especially notorious for this.

That being said though, I’m still usually the one throwing food out. At some point you just have to admit you’re not going to eat it, and no one wants your dubious opened packages or half eaten leftovers. It’s just gonna have to go eventually.

Man, we’d be so much better off if we lived in Idiocracy. Can you imagine living in a world where the people in charge were actually concerned about the well being of the people and actively sought out the smartest people they could find to try to solve the biggest problems society was facing, and then actually listened to what they said and followed their advice? That’s basically a utopia compared to what we got.

Linux Mint has an OEM install option that does what you want, I think.

I guarantee that it is physically impossible to fill a cardboard box with pure neutronium. Is it physically possible to get over 70 lbs of the stuff in there in a stable, shippable manner? I don’t know, and neither do you. It’s certainly far, FAR beyond the capability of any technology on Earth, but I guess it might maybe possibly not break the laws of physics. I can’t prove that though, and neither can you, so neither of us can actually prove the statement wrong.

I don’t know why so many people on Lemmy seem to think that when capitalism dies a fully formed socialist utopia will magically spring up in its place. The way we’re headed when capitalism dies the people with all the guns will be in charge, and that’s mostly the same people who already are. The end of the American republic probably won’t be the end of the American empire.

If you think, then you must already exist. I don’t understand how people get confused by that.

I find adults going around trying to shame people for doing completely harmless things fucking gross.

Okay, but I’m definitely certain that the majority of gamers running Windows 11 in secure boot mode with TPM 2.0 are running Zen 3 or 4. How many times can they cut their user-base in half before the people who are left leave because it’s a dead game?

I would guess Zen 1 through Zen 4 is currently the majority of gaming PCs. It’s certainly a massive percentage. I don’t think game companies can realistically just blacklist all of them.

No, you don’t understand, it’s all just part of a 5D chess gambit. If they crash the economy hard enough, then it will be cheap to manufacture things in the US! Plus there won’t be any filthy foreigners coming to take the jobs, since the wages will all be worthless, so that’ll fix immigration as well! As an added bonus, the garbage, worthless wages will also make it so it’s cheaper to run understaffed call centers from the US as well, so you’ll never have to worry about hearing someone with an Indian accent after you’ve been on hold for 6 hours. Isn’t it great?

It is. I mean, it’s also true, but it is pretty cringe.

Yes to the first part, no to the second. For some reason people like to pretend that surveillance is a binary on or off thing, but that’s gross oversimplification to the point of being more damaging than an actual lie. All the various government agencies collect whatever easy to find information about you there is to get, but that information is possible for you to have some control over, and it’s too expensive for them to really properly process all of it. It’s just some random bits of trivia about you sitting in a bunch of disconnected databases until somebody takes an interest in you. If they start to take an interest in you, they start coordinating their information and actually targeting you for more individualized information gathering. This is adding gay and trans people to that next level up of surveillance, and that absolutely does change things. Pretending nothing the government does matters and there’s no point in even trying is maybe the most harmful lie you can spread. Please don’t.

They weren’t allowed to surveil you because you’re gay or trans. Now they are.

Oh come on. Seriously? They’re going to lose “freedom”, and democracy, and the economy is going to go to shit, and the world is going to be less stable, and also they’re not the ones who are going to end up homeless and destitute and worrying about the government killing them. It’s not that fucking complicated.