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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It may mean the user doesn’t think their use is similar enough to the people who make the distro/DE, or trust the distro makers’ decision making ability.

    If a distros’ makers think snaps are a good idea, or that the distro shouldn’t by default show available security updates, or have a UI that hides how many open instances there are of a program unless you hover over an icon, or hides the titles of those open programs, or hides panels; then the way I use a PC is too different from the way they do - and there are likely more things in the background that we disagree with which can’t as easily be changed like UI settings.






  • No they’re not - having a kid in an overpopulated world is 2 orders of magnitude worse in the USA.

    • 2.4 tonnes of CO2e released per driver per year with the average fossil-fuel powered car.
    • 1.2 tonnes of CO2e released for electric car users in most countries.
    • 117.7 tonnes per kid per parent per year. Wynes et al. 2017

    Human overpopulation is not only the biggest contributor to push us over climate-change tipping-points, it’s also the root cause of almost all other causes. It’s also the root cause of unsustainable habitat loss and pollution. It’s also the root cause of factory farming and industrial fishing, which causes more pain and suffering every year than all other atrocities ever committed in all of history combined.