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Sometimes when she tells me she’s going to do… anything, really, I just say something along the lines of “no”, “out of the question” or “you’re not allowed to do that”. Almost 15 years later, it didn’t get old - for me! - yet. As for her, I think at this point she just tuned out these things hahaha

The people who really think of age verification as effective measures tend to also be against having those in schools in the first place.

Nobody calls it “Sol” except video games and movies. And while you’re technically right, it’s easily fixed by saying “planetary system” instead. Finally, everyone still understood, which is the whole point of language, so I’d say pointing this out is more pedantry than anything. Which, looking at your comment history, seems to be your thing lol

At a very low level, yes, everything is 1s and 0s. However, virtually nobody deals with binary anymore. Programming languages are abstractions over abstractions over abstractions not to have to deal with typing binary.

The point of programming languages is for humans to be able to read it and make sense out of it. It’s a way to represent in a kind of intermediate language that’s halfway between something humans can read and computers can interpret.

Say the game’s programmer wants to handle moving your character right on pressing the right arrow key. They might write some function called “handleRightArrow()”, which does whatever. Then your compiler will turn this to some instructions - read stuff in RAM at address XYZ, copy it over, etc. The original code with readable names, comments, documentation, proper organization, it’s gone. Once you decompile, it’s gonna be random function/variable names, compiler might have rewritten some parts of the implementation as automatic optimizations, unlined some functions, etc. The human readable meaning of the code is lost. It does the same thing as the original code, but it isn’t the original code either.

Android has allowed sideloading forever and those apps are a very strong minority. As for sidestepping privacy or security requirements, I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Isn’t permission handling happening at the OS level?

Wouldn’t really be of any use if they’re doing things right and salt their hashes

How do you define “usable”, and how long did it take X to get to that same point?

Would you wish SELinux on a beginner tho

Jesting apart, it’s admittedly a solid option. Sticking to a mainstream distro is typically what I recommend, regardless of which one. Most of the debates surrounding distros are pretty silly to begin with, IMHO, considering most differences boil down to which package manager and init system they use, and their set of default software and configurations.

• Alma/Rocky - I wouldn’t particularly push fresh converts to RHEL/CentOS based distros, but maybe that’s just me…
• Debian - sure… given they can figure out the slightly less intuitive installer and non-free stuff
• Ubuntu - Canonical has been making some weird decisions lately. With them dropping Unity, then Mir… I wouldn’t bet on snaps while the rest of the world settled on flatpak

Yes, some people do it. What proportion, realistically?

Sure. It is not what the comment I was responding to was referring to.

Oh, agreed. Most headsets are obnoxiously large and bulky. It just looks so much like Oakley ski goggles, as a former ski instructor, it's kind of jarring haha.