What would you prefer the school do?

How could they motivate you to actually pay attention in class instead of playing with your phone? Honestly ask yourself if this “addressing motivation” would make geometry more interesting than tiktok.

Mastering? It’s an OS not a skill.

Are really looking down on people because you open the terminal often instead of being able to click something?

People under the age of 25 tend to be really bad at the Internet. The number of times high schoolers or college kids are mystified by how I’m able to get information quickly from search engines is beyond me.

I’m not surprised they can’t tell what’s real, they can’t search for tiny details like “transmission time to Mars” or “gravity on mercury”.

The hexbear is so afraid of introspection and thoughtful consideration of their beliefs they lash out.

Real bad faith framing of your opponents argument there; be better than that.

Like trying to reframe my argument as “rich country good, poor country bad”?

I’ve mentioned statistics, I’ve mentioned a human angle and I’ve been upfront about what ways Cuba is better than the US. You’ve tried to dismiss my argument by misrepresenting it. This level of insecurity shows how shallow your beliefs are.

No, it’s that saying one place is worse doesn’t make it so.

Human development index and quality of life studies put the US ahead of Cuba. Cuba isn’t a hellhole that many people make it out to be, but that doesn’t automatically make it better than the US.

Cuba has better healthcare and lower cost of living, but Americans aren’t on rafts to Cuba.

One of the problems with enacting good and lasting change in the western world is that life is pretty darn good on the whole. It could be a lot better, but just shouting that the US is bad is mindless propagada. Be better than that.

Notice how when confronted with facts the hexbear has no real argument but assumes being obnoxious is the same as making a coherent argument.

Cuban refugees carry a higher level of risk than other countries, and yet they still come. Ignoring facts doesn’t make a country better. You wouldn’t let a fact like that slide from the US. Hexbears lack intellectual honesty.

Each year around a 100,000 Cubans are willing to risk their lives for a chance to live in the US.

The US is far from perfect, but people don’t get on rafts hoping to make it to Cuba.

Cuba is an interesting one.

The problems with Cuba are political prisoners and their handling of AIDS. And a huge chunk of issues intertwined with the trade embargo.

As with all nations, it could be better, but it’s far from the worst nation in the world.

Fuck Microsoft, switch to Linux

Absolutely. But I wouldn’t hold my breath on companies actually stopping use of MS.

My team recently finished the PDR for an astroid lander, this picture is surprisingly accurate.

Didn’t Microsoft lose a large anti trust court case about this shit for internet explorer?

Yes and no.

MS made Internet explorer uninstallable and made it even if you could install Netscape you couldn’t set it as the default app. Forcing teams to open internet explorer edge is more in line with iPhones and Android. Both phone OSs will let you install different browsers, but opening links from most 1st party apps opens safari or chrome with no real way to change it. It’s one of the worst things about phones and now MS is trying to move Windows that direction.

It’s going to get worse. Once corporations start to adopt edge MS will move to make browser office the only office. Clicking a .doc in edge will redirect to browser word 365. Saving already defaults to the cloud, soon we’ll have “virtual downloads” that save your download to your cloud and you can only meaningfully interact with it via edge.

We need more legislation and regulations allowing software choice for all platforms. We’ve never been allowed to own software, now we can’t even buy a perpetual license. Soon we won’t be allowed to have a copy of software saved on our devices, and files made by that software won’t be allowed on our computers either.

VB was great for learning coding.

Slap some buttons down and have them do math. I made an NPC generator for every RPG I ran in VB as a teen. I felt like I was a hero putting out something that looked “good” for the time.

Every hour was obviously hyperbole. It would break often. Normally due to some issue that would pop up, most often drivers.

She did run on unstable and had a fetch for updates automated every evening. Her goal wasn’t a stable OS, but to be at the forefront of testing. She knew no programming, so it meant that she would report bugs and have a box with a giant fan that didn’t run anything most of the time. She made bad choices.

I’m sure stable Debian is stable. I’m sure it’s gotten better in the past 15 years, but the fact my experience with Debian was an unstable mess that was more of a job than a useable system makes me suspicious of the distro.

I had a girlfriend who used Debian back around 2005.

Never have I been around an OS that didn’t work as often as Debian. It wouldn’t crash, but need to be updated or something every hour. It was a full time job keeping it running for her.