ElderWendigo

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[–] ElderWendigo 10 points 9 months ago

The fence is there to keep people from crossing the road at the end of that brick sidewalk. The desire path exists because people want to cross the road and are blocked by the fence. You can also see the utilities for the crosswalk to the left of the image at the end of the desire path.

[–] ElderWendigo 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you implying that we should be counting atlanteans, cetaceans, the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh, and the mole people? I don't think they much care about being left out.

[–] ElderWendigo 1 points 9 months ago

However, the issue is that I have to use sudo when using these commands and as a result after mounting I cannot make changes to my files in the drive(s) without using sudo.

This isn't because you're using sudo to mount, that is the way to do it. This is because you're mounting to a directory for which your regular user does not have write access. Create a directory owned by your user and make sure you have write access with sudo first. Or make it owned by a group that your user is a member (I use media) and give that group write access. Then mount the drive to that directory in the usual way (I prefer to clutter up my fstab with entries I rarely use). You should now have access without sudo.

9 out of 10 times new users are struggling with access, it's not a problem with the software, but a problem with permissions.

[–] ElderWendigo 1 points 9 months ago

My take is that the food is just a little too perfectly middle of the road preference wise. As if the foods were cooked with perfect heat so that no piece is burned a little more cooked a little less. Sure it tastes fine, but it doesn't taste authentic. Because authentic food isn't about perfection, it's a dynamic balance of happy accidents. Maybe also because replicated food is designed to be safe. Sometimes the best food isn't strictly safe. BBQ for instance would not taste the same is you removed all the carbonized carcinogenic bits. Coincidentally broccoli and cauliflower also taste fucking amazing if you add those crispy burnt bits by following a cold sear recipe. (America's Test Kitchen has a good short video on the process if you're feeling adventurous.)

[–] ElderWendigo 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The USA does not produce agricultural products in a vacuum. We live in a time of global markets requiring global intelligence to support the decisions of local agriculture. The war in Ukraine has been a pretty clear lesson on that topic.

Also, the US has a history of building and supporting infrastructure projects that are global in reach and benefit, even if they were executed with American interests first. This mostly takes the form of global scientific data products made public. GPS is another high profile project originally designed to benefit the U.S. and later made publically available not just to U.S. citizens and interests, but globally public.

Why do they do it? Obviously because the U.S. is an evil empire bent on global dominance and destruction. /s

[–] ElderWendigo 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This sounds remarkably similar to the attitude of that homophobic uncle crying about the gays shoving their lifestyle in his face by just existing. Maybe reevaluate your hang-ups.

[–] ElderWendigo 1 points 9 months ago

I'm just curious how much RAM you think that is.

[–] ElderWendigo 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Windows is as much a browser based OS these days as Chromebooks are.

[–] ElderWendigo 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Remember when courts declared Microsoft was a monopoly because they bundled their own browser, Internet Explorer, with the operating system? And they did it in a way that made it impossible to completely remove from the OS. Did they learn their lesson? I think they did, just not the lesson we wanted them to learn. Go ahead and try to uninstall Edge from Windows 10 or 11. Dive into the task manager sometime too and you'll see Edge sub-processes running under a surprising number of other apps. There is no Windows operating system any more, it's just Internet Explore refactored and rebranded as Edge all the way down. (Obvious hyperbole) At least Chromebooks were up front about it.

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