Audacity9961

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Audacity9961,

It’s passthrough to WMF.

A really terrible decision for the open web.

Audacity9961, (edited )

To be honest a lot of this stuff is pretty easily answered and has been discussed ad nauseum in spaces like /r/vegan. This is also not a great space to ask this question of vegans, as a lot of carnists (yes that includes vegetarians) come here to argue against veganism and upvote answers they agree with but that practicing ethical vegans are likely to reject. You are likely to get better answers from vegans in other spaces.

In terms of your above post there is nothing scientific in what you’ve described. It appears you are using a veneer of science to avoid adopting views you disagree with. To be frank there is a lack of research on almost all animals in terms of their sentience, intelligence and capacity to suffer, presumably due to the carnist nature of society. There is also the unavoidable philosophical problem of other minds, which we are unlikely to be able to readily solve with science; we will never truly be able to determine the experience of another non-homo sapien creature and can only work through analogy to the experience of homo sapiens.

The above notwithstanding, even if some creatures are more “intelligent” in some ways than other creatures, how does this impact their entitlement to the bare minimum of moral consideration, i.e. freedom from intentional harm and exploitation? How have you determined that each “tier” that you have created only deserves the rights you have designated? The assignment and exclusion of moral consideration is the province of philosophy and politics, not science. There are certain classes of humans who are alive, and through severe disability or illness, have intelligence arguably lesser than many of the animals listed above in your lower tiers. Would you therefore exclude them from moral consideration? Of course not, and this is why intelligence is irrelevant to moral consideration - it is not a morally relevant characteristic.

The morally relevant characteristic that stands philosophical rigour to determine if moral consideration should be granted is a capacity to suffer. It is pretty clear that all of the animals listed, apart perhaps from tier 5, have this, so it makes sense for these animals to have moral consideration.

You have also completely ignored the well established link between commodification and carnism in the above, which is a key reason, as to why exploitation and commodification of animals is ethically unacceptable and should be eschewed - the commodification of animals, or relegation of them to zoe, is fundamentally how we as a society and as individuals justify their ongoing torture, mistreatment and slaughter in most ways throughout society. This is without even going into other issues regarding exploitation, such as an inability for an animal to provide meaningful consent, and respect for bodily autonomy that we grant other individuals, regardless of intelligence.

This doesn’t mean that vegans would generally be opposed to adopting animals to care for them, or opening sanctuaries - most people I have encountered and literature I have read understand that we operate within the internal logic of a carnist society, and that while it is unethical to engage in the support of further breeding, it is ethical to care for adopted animals (or animals you had prior to going vegan) that have already been brought into existence through this system.

In terms of your tier 5, due to the lack of research here, the problem of other minds, and the lack of necessity here for people to engage in the exploitation or harm of these creatures, I am of the view that the default position should be erring on the side of caution.

Audacity9961,

This is just frankly not true. There are an extensive number of arguments against eating even the eggs of adopted hens in your backyard. The least of which being you likely paid for the hen from a breeder that grinds up chicks like any other slaughterhouse.

Rather than rehashing this basic objection we hear constantly, please check out this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YFz99OT18k

Audacity9961,

This is a common question. I think this video summarises the backyard egg question quite nicely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YFz99OT18k

Who here uses a less popular Linux distribution? What made you choose it?

Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.

Audacity9961,

Is Gentoo lacking enough popularity?

If so, I use it because it offers unrivalled flexibility, even compared to Arch, portage, which is an epic package manager, a dedicated security team, reasonably large community and developer base, source-based package distribution and fast package updates, which often outpace even arch.

Audacity9961,

Free software, Free society is his collection of essays.

Audacity9961,

It is apparently a new one in libvpx

Audacity9961,

Yes, project bergamot.

Audacity9961,

Just fyi, in 118 they have essentially integrated that extension.

Audacity9961, (edited )

Only due to broken anti-trust laws and precedent in the US based on faulty ideological assumptions from the chicago school.

Any reasonable fair-minded examination free from the shackles of this ideology and precedent would show it to be anti-competitive.

Audacity9961,

Can you reproduce this in troubleshoot mode or with a new profile?

Audacity9961,

Local translation was never available in xul extensions. What are you referring to?

Audacity9961,

It can already do that as long as your desktop environment uses portals. You just need to set the appropriate about:config flag or envvar.

Audacity9961, (edited )

For phones, new pixel with grapheneos.

The new pixel phones have 5 year support windows now.

Audacity9961,

Thanks, I’ll adjust my claim to 5 years. I must have misremembered re the longevity of security updates.

Audacity9961,

I think this is a bit misleading.

Most or at least the majority of distros offer the proprietary nvidia driver.

Pop, Zorin, Ubuntu, Garuda, etc just bundle it in the install media as an option.

Audacity9961,

Phoronix has always had a strong editorial bias. No mention that Firefox has recently caught up on Speedometer 3 or the other benchmarks Firefox is faster than Chrome in.

Firefox Flatpak version crashes when trying to print, but apt installation works fine.

I can not figure out why this happens. I tried to play around with all the permissions, reset printer settings on Firefox, created new profiles, all had the same problem. But when I used those same profiles on the apt installation it printed just fine. Is there some weird Flatpak sandboxing happening because I can print fine...

Audacity9961,

I would report a bug to Mozilla on that one if you can consistently reproduce with a new profile.

Audacity9961, (edited )

The difference is absolutely negligible.

Audacity9961, (edited )

I like Mint a lot, and have it running on one of my computers, even though it’s not my daily driver.

However, I recently tried Zorin just to see what the fuss is about and honestly I can’t see many reasons to recommend Mint above Zorin to new users. Both are based on Ubuntu LTS and have a bunch of tools to allow purely graphical management and Zorin has several windows-like layouts (both 10 and 7) that are more polished in my view, but Zorin also has the benefit of a more modern compositor and DE base with Wayland support, being based on gnome and mutter.

I’d be interested in your perspective, as from my end the only reason now to recommend mint (until muffin gets sufficiently modernised) would be if you knew a user would prefer cinnamon’s slightly more traditional feel (almost XP), or if in the future LMDE became more of an important feature.

Audacity9961,

Is that not the same as Mint? Both are based on Ubuntu LTS.

Audacity9961,

Thanks, that’s interesting. Do they only update the cinnamon parts, or is there something else more substantial that is updated?

Audacity9961, (edited )

Plenty.

For older cards that do have reclocking, it works exceptionally well, including for gaming.

For many newer cards, even though it won’t reclock it will get you into a desktop, and even give you a good accelerated wayland experience.

Moving forward, once the new open source nvidia kernel driver and nouveau bits land, and the driver matures it will probably be the best nvidia driver on linux.

Audacity9961,

I don’t know of a distro that writes tools in it, but my favourite terminal emulator ever, tilix, uses it.

Audacity9961,

The upgrade is super seamless though. Basically bulletproof in my experience over many releases.

Audacity9961, (edited )

This is not correct.

arewefastyet.com shows very clearly that although chrome beats firefox in some benchmarks, firefox trades blows with it and is similar to or faster in others.

Audacity9961,

To the foundation for their advocacy.

Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?

Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux and FOSS. I have been using and installing distros on my own since I was 12. Now that I’m working in tech-related positions, after the Reddit migration happened, etc. I recovered my interest in all the Linux environment. I use Ubuntu as my main operating system in my Desktop, but I always end...

Audacity9961,

Why would you be running apt upgrade on live images?

Audacity9961,

+1 for Veg-1 for sure on my end.

Audacity9961,

Gentoo. Great rolling release that is stable and had timely updates, but has the flexibility to configure my system down to the tiniest details, with a great and knowledgable community. I love source-based distros and Gentoo is definitely the best.

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