Aha oops I edited at the same time as your reply! Thanks for the elaboration, that's helpful!

What does "ssd" mean in this context? I'm guessing it's not solid state drive since that doesn't make any sense in these sentences, but searching that acronym isn't very helpful.

Edit: I guess it means "server side decorations". I see that OP did use the full phrase once, but it didn't click with me initially. Wikipedia says that means the window manager draws titlebar buttons, as opposed to client side decorations which enables the app developer to control the titlebar of their app.

Not everyone values the same things in relationships. Just because someone doesn't want romance doesn't mean they don't deserve or desire intimacy and connection with others.

The edits are automated from what I understand. There's a regex that does it when the post is created server side, but I imagine automatically removing a user entirely would result in problems. The admins probably want user removals to be more intentional and a result of a human reviewing the activity.

In an effort not to fall too hard into the classic Reddit trope of proclaiming that everyone's partner is a bastard in these kinds of threads, I think there could be some yellow flag reasons for this behavior.

People are strongly conditioned to perform certain behaviors in social situations. Her actions could have been a result of that conditioning, especially if she is trying to be perceived as femme. That is, she's performing "flirty, fun, sexy" in non-intimate situations because it's how she wants to be seen in those moments. That doesn't necessarily mean that she's lying about being aromantic in her more intimate and less guarded interactions with you.

This sounds like a perfect use-case for setting Junction as your default "browser": https://flathub.org/en/apps/re.sonny.Junction

It shows a dialog when you open a URL, allowing you to specify which browser you want to use each time.

In theory, you could then open links in your host OS browser usually, but still be able to select the VM browser easily sometimes.

A few of my very favorite episodes of Star Trek ever are in season 1, though. I wouldn't skip it entirely!

• s01e11 Haven, because I love Lwaxana when she's being mischievous
• s01e13 Datalore, for Spiner in his early glory
• s01e18 Home Soil, for a decent "murder mystery"
• s01e22 Symbiosis, seriously one of the best episodes of the whole show with a lesson on why the Prime Directive is important, plenty of Crusher vs Picard moral discussions, and an attempt at a sympathetic view on drug addiction (though a dated one now)

Isn't all of their concern kind of demonstrated to be unfounded? CoMaps forked the exact codebase being discussed and moved to Codeberg already, and they're doing great now. Whatever it is that the Organic Maps team thinks is indispensable on GitHub is clearly not actually an insurmountable challenge to ditch.

This list is... fine, but unfortunately missing a number of good FOSS alternatives. Still, it's good info for most of these categories.

Having said that, it's eternally frustrating that infographics like these so often don't recommend actual alternatives for YouTube specifically. It's always just "keep using YouTube, but with these apps instead" which, that's "fine", but not exactly degoogling. It's not even really a step towards degoogling, because you're still tied to watching content from Google, so when that frontend stops functioning, you're highly tempted to go back to using Google's YouTube apps.

The public out there on the streets of LA this weekend are certainly doing substantial things. Why the defeatism? Go join them and help.

“People often say to me, ‘You don’t pay the authors. You don’t pay the reviewers. You hardly print anymore. The Web is free. Why do you charge?’” said H. Frederick Dylla, the former director of the American Institute of Physics and board member of the Association of American Publishers. “It sounds like a compelling argument. But it actually isn’t.”

Albert Greco, a publishing expert at Fordham University who is working on a book about scholarly publishing, said those making that argument are forgetting everything they learned or should have learned in economics class.

“There are costs,” he said. “Does The Washington Post have a paywall?”

Yes.

“So is it fair then if some high-school student wants to really follow the Supreme Court and doesn’t have the money to pay?” Greco said. “Life is a bitter mystery. We can’t give everything away for free. It’s not that kind of country.”

These assholes don't even have a better reason for fleecing everyone than base greed, and they don't try to hide it.

Oh no, somebody who might be Russian took a family vacation to go fishing with their loved ones!? What an orgy of indulgence! The audacity!