This is working as intended, though. In most cases, nobody cares how stoked you are about the product, people mostly care which flaws the product has. With a target average of, say, 4.5, the 5-star system gives you options to give +0.5 stars all the way down to -3.5, giving negative reviews significantly more weight.

relevant xkcd

A lot of arch users are kids fucking with thinkpads ricing up their systems and putting anime wallppapers while not doing anything serious.

Ubuntu is commonly used by researchers and hardware developers who don’t really care about distro as long as it’s linux. The amount of times I saw people use the entire distro with default gnome skin just to launch a terminal to run their black hole simulation, the crypto cracker or some centrifuge control script… I myself am neither but ubuntu has been my go to as well since I usually don’t have time to screw with archinstall, so I just use ubuntu as good starting point and then tweak the internals as I go.

I was perusing that map recently. Was kinda funny seeing a bunch of ships with clearly Russian names like “Admiral Yuri Dolgoruky” or “Cosmonaut Eugene Ponasenko” under Mongolian flag, of all others Yeah, the landlocked country. I guess there’s nothing wrong with landlocked country owning ships, but I just could’t get this meme out of my head

I just realized I have never left part D in my life… Gotta travel more

I don’t see it as that big of a problem, countries with exclaves exist, could be something like Armenian-Azerbaijani solution with mutual corridors (though this one has shown to fail miserably). The fact that Fatah and Hamas went their own direction is a bit more of an issue. My position is simple, though - Israel should fuck off all occupied territories, including those of Syria and Lebanon, and lift all blockades they have enacted. They can put as many walls and iron domes as they want, but fuck off the territory that doesn’t belong to them. Whether Palestine re-unites after that or remains as two independent states is then up to Palestinian people to decide.

I recognize Palestinian people’s right to identity, autonomy, self-governance, sovereignity, freedom of movement, etcetc. But I can’t in all honesty say that I recognize the two de-facto disjointed and powerless entities under Israeli occupation and control as a singular state, if any at all.

Freedom to Gaza, end to West Bank apartheid, glory to Arstozka

XLibre, headed by a… shall we say, interesting figure

Still better than IBM/Redhat, tbh

Those art pieces are literally poison to a young aspiring artist’s mind. It condemns them to a life in poverty, chasing dreams of becoming high profile abstract-postmodernist-whatever artist selling shits in jars, instead of focusing on making what the world really needs the most:

I prefer to grind my woman rough

A bit weird to use soyjak in this one, most mic munchers don’t nor can have beards as they don’t have fully developed balls yet

Huh, I’ expected more awareness from the lemmy community. I’m not the guy to write long explanatory essays, but the message is serious. Just give it a bit of thought, like, what is it that teachers actually do? (hint: It’s not teaching, just ask any teacher)

ACAB includes teachers, including preschool teachers. They are the core pillar of government oppression and arguably even more bastards than cops themselves.

Seems way too stacked in favor of black. In fact, I feel like it’s a forced win in like 30 moves or less. Can someone knowledgeble plug this into fairy stockfish or something to confirm?