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[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 92 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.

It feels like there needs to be a category in between conservative and paranoid. I'm probably 90% of the way over to tech paranoid but using Tor Browser and Tails is a little much.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Also the middle should be called Tech Centrist or Tech Social Democrat, daring to use the projects from philosophical minorities is not conservative at all.

[–] original_ish_name@latte.isnot.coffee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Conservative means "not extreme"

E.g. conservative estimates

[–] a_statistician@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Words can have multiple meanings - it might be best to find one that doesn't have the same baggage that conservative has, such as "risk-averse"

[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not extreme is rather moderate. Conservative estimate means there's a tendency to not change what was estimated in the past. Moderate would mean that a small change would be accepted.

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