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Exactly. Not everything needs to be a goddamn SPA!

Svelte is for if you hate React and like vanilla JavaScript. Solid or Next is if you like React.

Rules for thee, but not for me.

Got it. Get a MacBook and install Asahi Linux on it. 😅

For beginners, I would definitely recommend Zorin OS since it can run .exe files in case there's no Linux version (.deb, flatpak, snap, etc.) of the software you're looking to run. You can use Wine in any other distro, but I feel like Zorin OS makes it foolproof with a simple UI.

Eh, it's opt-in so if even if you don't do anything, nothing changes.

It's perfectly fine to ask users if they're okay with telemetry. I'm fine with that. The problem comes when it's opt-out or if there's no way to opt-out.

Then send thoughts and prayers when it happens over and over again. We've done nothing to fix the problem and there's nothing we can do about it!

Lots of Fedora haters here, but I agree. Fedora is the best distro ever, especially if you like stock GNOME.

Fedora is a fine distro. Red Hat is still a huge contributor to the open source community, despite the decisions made by IBM managers to restrict RHEL source code. It just means that it'll be a little more difficult to make RHEL clones going forward, but I doubt it'll have any lasting impact. Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux and other RHEL based distros have all announced that they intend to continue their operations, with little to no change in how they do things. Really, the controversy is overblown.

I'm subscribed to three publications: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. I regularly read articles from The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, and other publications like ProPublica. I also read academic blogs on journalism, nuclear weapons, and other topics. I follow a lot of academics and experts on Twitter to get their hot takes.

When it comes to communicating well in English, it's easy to get stuck between words that seem very similar. For example: poll vs vote, citizen vs civilian, politician vs representative. When you don't know the difference between words, try to find what makes them different from each other.

For example: a poll can be an opinion poll, but a vote is only for an election. So all votes are a kind of poll, but not all polls are specifically votes.

Another example: a politician politically represents the will of their constituents. A representative may represent any company, organization, or government. So representatives generally represent groups of people, but politicians specifically represent their constituents in government.

Another example: what's the difference between plausible and reasonable? Something reasonable means it's logical or can be reached through reasoning. Something plausible is a story that makes sense, a good enough story that could actually happen. So something reasonable needs to have a relatively consistent logical thread to it, whole something plausible needs to make enough sense as to be possibly true.

When you are asking if something is plausible, you are asking if the story is true or if the reasons given make enough sense to make the story true. When you are asking if something is reasonable, you are asking if using your reasoning ability, you would come to the same conclusions.

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." - Neil Postman