Bubble-dwelling can indeed be a kind of sickness.

It this was subtle parody then hat’s off, nicely done.

Reported for flagrantly breaking community rule #6. Not that you need worry, the mods are fast asleep.

Maybe best not even talking about the temperature number. It’s all but meaningless and a lot of people (uh) like warm climates. I’m thinking it would be better to talk exclusively about the numbers around things like flooding, fires, species loss.

For typical middle-class people (like the ones probably reading this), usually the single worst thing they do is flying. It’s the only way to blow your personal carbon budget for the whole year in just a few hours.

That’s at the individual level.

This is going to trigger people who just forked out for “insanely expensive” gym memberships, but it’s obviously true.

I can think of two caveats:

• body-weight exercises are clearly healthier than pumping iron, but they will only get you toned, not jacked (personally I think being jacked is ugly as hell, but whatever)
• presumably many gym-goers are there for the same reason that sociable people do all kinds of things in groups - because otherwise they would not find the motivation

Firefox until there is consensus about which is the correct replacement. In FOSS, dispersion is dangerous.

Spend a few weeks camping or hostelling. Then you’ll see how many of your possessions you really need.

Exact opposite here. Missed almost none of it and wondered why I had wasted so much money buying it.

Apt, never noticed that parallel

It sounds like such hard work to be a member of Gen Z.

As others have said, there are two discrete threat models.

Turning off all the radios (pull out the SIM for good measure) is enough to block any proof of your geographic whereabouts. That absolutely includes wifi. Cell towers are yesterday’s news, geolocation is also done by wifi and GPS and your device will be sharing that with a bunch of third parties if you let it connect.

But there’s a separate issue about what happens if you have to surrender the device. For this scenario, your choice will be between fighting the authorities over the encryption key or presenting a dummy device as your only one.

This radical dualism is partly an American thing. Here on the other side of the pond, most people believe (IMO) that one can be simultaneously a “piece of shit posing as a human being” and a great actor.

Leonardo DiCaprio. I get huge, cringy ‘imposter syndrome’ vibes from him

Exact opposite feelings here, and I generally have a hard time suspending disbelief. I remember seeing The Basketball Diaries (this was before Titanic) and being blown away by his acting. I’d say this is a rare example of an actor being held back by good looks. A lot of folks have just not wanted to admit that this particular heartthrob has genuine talent. To contrast with, for example, Keanu, or Clooney.

Even in a genuine authoritarian state there’s no need to “discard” anything. For these occasions just keep a separate device with plausible data on it, or don’t take one at all.

This discussion breaks community rules, not server rules. The breakage is so flagrant that I don’t know why you’re bothering to argue. Just say you don’t want rules.

I want Lemmy to succeed, do ye not?

Breaks community rule #6 about as flagrantly as is possible.

its not difficult to pipe a file of packages into a shell loop to get the behavior as described

It’s possible, but “not difficult” is a bit of a stretch. FWIW I’ve used this in the past, among other hacky solutions that don’t always work as expected:

# Print packages installed from different origins.
# Exclude standard Ubuntu repositories.

grep -H '^Origin:' /var/lib/apt/lists/*Release | grep -v ' Ubuntu$' | sort -u \
| while read -r line; do
    origin=${line#* }
    echo $origin:
    list=${line%%:*}
    sed -rn 's/^Package: (.*)$/\1/p' ${list%_*Release}*Packages | sort -u \
    | xargs -r dpkg -l 2>/dev/null | grep '^.i '
    echo
done

As a non-Nixer I completely share your frustration. Immutability, i.e. tracking of config changes, is so obviously a good idea. It’s high time it became universal.