And also “Good. If they’re found they’ll be patched. Worry about the ones that ‘aren’t’ ‘found.’”

I’m assuming the pun has something to do with rice pilaf.

Rice pilaf is a dish made by toasting rice in fat (like butter or oil) before cooking it in broth with seasonings, which helps to infuse flavor and keep the grains fluffy and separate. It can include various ingredients such as vegetables, nuts, and spices, making it a versatile side dish.

Yes, that is the reason to make them lowercase, so I don’t have to shift when using the terminal to access my most used directories.

Counterpoint, Begotten is unsettling enough to be kinda scary.

But actually I like “scary movies” not because “scary” but because “Monsters, Magick, Aliens, Kaiju, and Slashers are fun.” Simply gore, torture porn, or jump scares just don’t do it for me, I need an element of whimsy. I’ll take Leprechaun in the Hood, or Jason X, or Killer Clowns from Outer Space, or The Thing, or Godzilla Vs Biolante, or The Blob, or even Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Maximum Overdrive, before Hostel or Saw.

Haha gotta laugh at it imo, lest I go insane!

Ahh I get it, knead, it’s a stress ball, or cube as it were. I mean tbh looks like a fine stress ball but sounds like it’s having the opposite effect so far lol.

Hell those people use an iPhone and nothing else lmao.

What the ever living fuck is a Nee-dough lmao.

Yeah but what I think you’re missing here is that “that’s stupid.” We can still call those people stupid for being stupid, when they complain about stupid things. As we’re all doing currently. The difference is he thinks users should care about important things instead, you’ve given up on that, and I still don’t actually give a shit either way.

(Tbf also I do agree with him users should often get gud, and I say this as a user, I’m only a “dev” if writing personal bash scripts using copied stack overflow for loops I don’t fully understand counts. I do also agree with you in that they’re probably not likely to get gud, but I still think it would be good if they did.)

I mean I get where he’s coming from, it shouldn’t, just use the damn program and don’t focus so hard on the name which in all honesty does not matter where functionality does.

But also people complain on this one because A) Sex is icky and everyone is a Puritan and B) it has been used as a slur in the past I guess. It’s almost like naming an RNG tool “Free Auto Generator” or something.

Personally idgaf.

Though one would expect such technically inclined users to install the OS themselves. When I bought my 16 I bought “no OS” because while Fedora (which I knew would be installed) was an option I wanted FDE and so I chose to install it myself. It’s possible many of these were first time linux users who wanted the savings but also the ease of buying with a pre-installed OS.

Tbh even if they figure it out (and they should, not everyone is me) I probably won’t use it often, I like the extra layer of security having to type my LUKS pass to unlock the FDE then my User pass, just in case. Plus as you noted it starts plenty fast already at under 30sec, it’s not a 5min boot like windows on my old laptop.

I mean, even that isn’t going to work, there’ll be ways around it. “Old” printers, 3rd party firmware, jailbroken printers, etc. Life uh, finds a way.

Better than “appeal to nuh-uh.” You’ve put forth nothing of an argument beyond “you quoted the wrong name in the article.” Which has been resolved, yet you still screech “nuh-uh” at the heavens. Forgive me if you’re less than convincing.

Oh sorry I didn’t realize I was talking to the great Bill Cheddar, foremost US crime statistics expert and king of all knowledge. How silly of me to not recognize you my liege.

Did I lay the sarcasm on thick enough? Don’t want to accidentally stroke your clearly already too massive ego. In case it wasn’t clear I’m going with “the guy who went to school for it” over “lemmy dickhead.”

I remember that video, yes, always be wary of trailing accomplice(s). Amongst many other things, really, it isn’t always as simple as “have gun.”

I mean you can disagree with the accredited crime researcher and the NCVS data he used (it is a move I guess) all you want, but I’ve posted the source where I got my claims, so “unsourced” is verifiably false, it’s right there.

More water = more people drown, it’s not any more difficult than that, ban water.

My mistake, it wasn’t Harvard, it was Phillip Cook using the NCVS (National Crime Victimization Survey) Data. It’s only been 8yr since I read the article, please forgive my indiscretions. In my defense Harvard is also mentioned.

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/13/602143823/how-often-do-people-use-guns-in-self-defense

Needless to say I disagree with the disqualification of defensive display categorically, but understand why it would be done for official estimates (though that would mean the official would be purposefully low, by the nature if many of them not having police reports or being one’s word against another even if they exist there’s no real reliable way to collect those statistics, so I think it’s best to leave them out.) Mostly I think it should just be kept in mind that the official estimate is based off of incomplete data and is low, lest we end up with ridiculous estimates like 3,000,000.

And yet still, Harvard the NCVS data* (whoops lol) estimates defensive gun use as 40k higher than gun deaths, and that’s with less than 20% of Americans carrying daily. To say it’s so rare it’s a myth is to say all gun death (60k), gun homicide (12k), accidental gun injuries (~1,500) and deaths (~500), are also myths due to rarity. And also the OG Black Lotus card at 1,100 printed.

The rate is far lower than the rate of gun accidents, or even gun homicides though.

Is still indeed not true, regardless of if I misremembered just who said that one detail from 8y ago.

That’s actually incorrect, the lowest estimate for defensive gun use (by Harvard Phillip Cook using NCVS data, whoops), only counting verifiable police reports and completely discounting defensive display, the most common form of DGU) is 100,000/yr, while gun deaths including accidents, homicides, and suicides, are ~60,000/ yr. That’s still a difference of 40,000.

Also good to keep in mind, only 45% of Americans even own a gun, and only somewhere around 20% carry it ever, and even less carry everywhere every day. Combine that with many mass shootings taking place in schools which federally ban firearms or businesses which often have “no weapons” signs on the door (which depending on the state can actually be legally binding), with all of that the chances of there being a “good guy with a gun” in the first place are still pretty slim. If he’s a “good guy” even if he brought it he likely left it in the car in accordance with the law and posted signage on the mall (or whatever), and it can’t do any good there.

Not just once, it’s happened multiple times. There was also the one at the mall where the good guy was then mistakenly shot by the police, that one time 4 store patrons all pulled guns on an armed robber, those are just the ones that I can recall off the top of my head.

Actually Defensive Gun Use (hereafter DGU) estimates vary wildly, from the CDC (self) reported numbers by John Lott and Gary Kleck (500,000-3,000,000), to the more realistic estimate (based on verifiable police reports, and completely discounting the concept of defensive display) by Harvard Phillip Cook using the National Crime Victimization Survey data of 100,000 DGU/yr.

But in any case, by the lowest estimate we have, DGU still happens at least 100,000 "once"s per year, and more if we count defensive display (though that’s hard to get numbers on so I leave it out of the “official” count, it does still happen, and likely more often than bullets actually get fired.)