It’s just like Microsoft to remove the one I might actually want out of those three. More pinball, less data collection!

I believe it’s due to kernel philosophy.

Linux and Mac are a monolithic kernel, which I understand to mean that the entire OS runs in kernel space to operate the compatible hardware. This has the advantage of making sure the OS is in the drivers seat for resource management, and no individual program is easily able to overload the system and create instability, but it may limit the power of some programs and delay compatability of new hardware and software.

Windows, on the other hand, is a hybrid kernel, which means some functions are managed in user space so that a program has more control over the hardware. This can be useful for pushing gaming to the limit or running experimental/custom programs, but it can lead to instability from resource hungry programs or security vulnerabilities from Trojan horses.

As for why their ISO is huge, I s’pose it’s due to all the extra crap they throw in there like AI, pinball, and data collection stuff.

Apologies if I got something fundamentally wrong—there are plenty of bigger nerds than me on here—but that’s my best attempt at explaining the difference as well as I know it.

Debian.

If you’re sitting on a million dollar market gap, why are you telling us about it and not making it?

You rang?

Molten steel, usually.

Congratulations to you and your mistress. I’m sure her parents will understand. /s

Well…duh! Reddit had a massive head start plus they’ve sold their soul to the money guys to ensure that they remain a staple part of the normie diet.

Furthermore, Reddit is a home for propaganda that gets artificially inflated by bots and state actors, thus leading to insane upvote counts.

Here, we have a refined palate. We don’t have 1000 posts of slop, we have 100 posts of open source trans autism. Once you train your taste buds to be accustomed to nutritious content again, you won’t be able to stomach the slop anymore.

It’s an adjustment, but it’s worth it, and in the end, I feel like this place has been better for my mental health.

Welcome to Lemmy. We greet you with open arms.

I think she is poorly wording an idea that I’ve been talking about for a minute: the death of the cottage industry.

The avenues for a temporary gig are diminishing. You can’t drive uber or make store deliveries if a robot does it cheaper, you can’t sell weed if it’s legal everywhere, and you can’t even stand outside Home Depot and get picked up as a builder if the powers that be are arresting people and enforcing trespassing laws. We don’t live in the 1930’s anymore—you can’t make ends meet by pickling your backyard vegetables. Unless you’re a hot chick who is willing to sell her nudes on OF, then there aren’t really many options for the unemployed to survive.

The human connection is great and all, but the bigger thing she learned was that those drivers needed that opportunity to drive so they could meet their expenses. It still isn’t enough, but something is still better than nothing.

Put simply, I’ve done a whole lot of drugs and been around a whole lot of drug users. I’ve used just about every method of administration.

My personal experience and opinion is that powder cocaine is a medium level drug. The intoxication isn’t super extreme unless you are really digging in to a bag, and if you pace yourself, it is easily manageable and enjoyable. Crack and injected cocaine come on much stronger and shorten the duration of the high, so it is like compressing a powder high into a bigger “up and down”.

As with many drugs, the addictive potential lies partially in the users inability to tolerate discomfort and partially in the habit forming nature of dopamine stimulation.

The more you use in a session, the more awake you are, and the less you are receiving the euphoria. This leads some people to chase the high for days, slowly going a little nuts from sleep depravation and exhaustion. I believe you would see a similar effect in anybody who stayed up for an equal length of time, it can just look more erratic on cocaine because there is extra energy fueling the exhausted person due to the sped up metabolism.

That said, the discomfort of a comedown, especially from only a gram or two of powder, is not actually that extreme, especially when compared to other drugs like heroin or methamphetamine. It’s just a little anxious awake-ness that wears off in an hour or two and is totally gone after you sleep. You might wake up a little foggy, but probably better off than a night of drinking would leave you.

In my years of using hard drugs, the only people I saw display bipolar behavior on cocaine were people who were either already mentally ill to begin with or people who were doing large amounts of crack or intravenous cocaine.

This is all just my experience and my opinion though—nobody should read this as scientific proof of anything. That said, I think first hand accounts can also paint a clearer picture of behavior and risk sometimes too, so take it for what it’s worth.

Out of curiosity, have you done it?

I disagree with your assessment of cocaine. It tends to make me awake, calm, and talkative—not really bipolar. The comedown can include a little anxiety, but it isn’t that bad—mostly just still feeling wake when you are out of happy chemicals from the high.

If I were to try to make a similar generalization, I would say:

[Cocaine Wakefulness Unit] is equal and opposite to [Marijuana Sleepiness Unit].

Oh good, more earth to pillage.

I’ve been summoned once, picked never. Waited around for a few hours just to do nothing and get a small compensation check.

First mistake is using windows at all when you seem to have options.

I am forced to use edge at work. Pity me.

Ooh, I actually know this one!

HIPAA applies to personally identifiable information that links the patient to the medical data. It can be shared if the patient has been obfuscated enough to not be personally identifiable, but the interpretation of that can be pretty broad.

For instance, I can say something like in the Generic County area, there is a predominance of [Disease] among the [Race] community. This was found to be 10% higher in non-citizens of that race. Of patients surveyed, 40% were noncitizens. It was also noted that the Generic Neighborhood displayed a 15% higher rate than the average for this disease.

No single person is identified, but I can narrow down a target audience to a specific neighborhood and ethnicity if I’m an advertiser. This same information can then be used maliciously to infer that the Generic Neighborhood likely has a population of illegal immigrants living there.

When combined with the other data they collect on people, they can likely narrow it down to individual people and homes.

What HIPPA says I can’t say is “Juan Lopez is an illegal Mexican immigrant with gastroparesis.” It was a law designed before the current AI data bullshit, and it needs to be updated to be a lot stronger to provide the protection it is supposed to provide.

Idk, swelling the weight of a bag is a dick move and I think it should be punished harshly. /s

I’m generally against waving the flag of another nation at a protest. Nothing wrong with protesting about those issues—your intention about foreign affairs is just usually a lot clearer with a sign instead of a flag.

Vero and Vera sound nice and aren’t likely to cause confusion.