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  • If you graph the prices of beef each year from 1960 to today, the prices goes up except for 2 years. One was the result of over supply do to coming out of the late 80’s after reducing herds and getting back to normal coupled with a reduction in demand (less beef in the 80’s - healthy diet ideas), and the second was a lower demand from foreign markets coupled with cheaper feed.

    But the trend is clear: its going up, and it isnt going to come back down, at least not for long.

    The angle of the chart gets steeper each decade as well.


  • At all the schools my kids went to… Nobody cares. The kids really don’t give a shit what other kids are wearing. In some ways it’s bizarre given that wasn’t the case when I was a kid. But in many ways it’s great. I rarely ever hear of bullying, kids just are themselves.

    Of course thats woke, because they actually speak to the kids and tell them to consider others and will not tolerate intolerance. So I expect schools like these are few and far between.





  • When they say WhatsApp I gotta think that would be the same for any third party conversation app right? I would never use whatsapp, and I would hope any security minded person wouldnt either. But I do rely on an opensource sms launcher and signal. I would assume the framework would make it mess with those too.

    This sucks. Horribly sucks. I can’t stand apple products, they cant do anything. I know that even having google play on my android device means I am fucked anyways, but this is a new low from google.

    Feels weird to buy a google pixel, only to be able to expect it is the best way to not have google on it. (grapheneos or similar).











  • when introducing new people to Linux it’s best to acknowledge there may be some tinkering and adaptation needed to get things working as they should.

    Depends on what “should” means. My printer for example will not work with windows. It works fine with linux. So… that really is a printer driver issue. No matter which one it works with.

    As for the OS out of the box, everything works on a fresh install of either - although linux is far more loaded with ready to go software, and windows requires you to add it. And any of the software you add to either can cause breakages, that is computing.

    I noticed over the years that Linux works fairly well for people who did not start with windows first. Both have learning curves, but habits are habits.

    I am going to take my linux laptop for an example: 2 years. No tinkering. There is nothing to do, it just works.

    My other laptop (windows): damn thing need tinkering all the time: turn off this, regedit that, just to get the nagware and crap out. Won’t allow remote desktop with the license, needs drivers to be updated, software that came with it is bloatware garbage.



  • Yes mounting is different, but that is not a Linux issue. Same as when you boot into windows, but an EXT formatted drive will not appear AND it will never mount. Windows helpful choice is “unknown” and offer to format. These are just OS differences, not breakages.

    Cinnamon might be part of your problem with shortcuts…

    Yeah SMB shares can be tricky. I have issues with them in Windows as well, not linux specifically.

    I am not saying linux is perfect. All computers rely on a person being able to deal with them. I just find it much more stable then windows ever was. You add bottles and Lutris into the mix, and now it is a third party software issue: just like plenty of software in windows as well.