yoevli

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[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

You're generally required to provide identification if you're arrested and in some US states police can compel you to identify yourself under certain other circumstances, but otherwise yes, in the US you are never required to talk to police beyond this.

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (13 children)

I'm not going to respond with a lot of depth because I don't think I have a good enough understanding here to be particularly helpful, but I suspect a collar would be considered as inappropriate in a school because of its strong association with BDSM practices alongside the general societal expectation that one's sexuality is kept out of the public eye. I think that notion can also apply more broadly to the situation as a whole, at least to an outside observer.

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Speak for yourself. I buy stuff for my apartment because I want it to feel homey; I don't really care what other people think of it as long as it looks presentable.

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This generally isn't true. The SSA makes an effort to assign a unique number to each individual. It's happened before where two people have accidentally gotten the same SSN, but they try to avoid this.

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

In what ways do you feel Rust is too clunky and how do you think it could be improved? Not looking to argue or even disagree necessarily; I'm just curious where that perspective comes from.

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Another interesting aspect of this is that many of the German loanwords used in English rely on this fact without English speakers realizing it. For instance: Schadenfreude = "misfortune pleasure", Zeitgeist = "time ghost", and Doppelgänger = "double walker".

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So, have you actually used a 144 Hz display yourself?

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Completely untrue and not even up for debate. You'd know this if you had ever used a high-refresh rate display.

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not familiar with the specific install/upgrade process on Gentoo so maybe I'm missing something, but what's wrong with forcing new installations to use time64 and then forcing existing installs to do some kind of offline migration from a live disk a decade or so down the line? I feel like it's probably somewhat uncommon for an installation of any distro to be used continuously for that amount of time (at least in a desktop context), and if anyone could be expected to be able to handle a manual intervention like this, it's long-time Gentoo users.

The bonus of this would be that it wouldn't be necessary to introduce a new lib* folder - the entire system either uses time64 or it doesn't. Maybe this still wouldn't be possible though depending on how source packages are distributed; like I said I dont really know Gentoo.

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The fact remains that Arch generally requires more work to maintain an installation than a typical point-release distro. I'm speaking from experience - I had two systems running Arch for over 2 years. I switched away when each system separately had a pacman update somehow get interrupted resulting in a borked install. I was using Mint before and Fedora now, and both are a lot more hands-off at the cost of some flexibility.

Also, just to be clear, I'm not trying to disparage Arch at all. I think it's a really cool distro that's perfect for a certain type of user; I just don't think it's great to lead people to believe it's more reliable than it is in the way that I've been seeing online for a while now.

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I hate when people insist that Arch isn't easier to break. There was an incident a couple of years ago where a Grub update was rolled out that required that grub-mkconfig be re-run manually, and if you failed to do this the system would brick and you'd need to fix it in a recovery environment. This happened to my laptop while I was on vacation, and while I had luckily had the foresight to bring a flash drive full of ISOs, it was a real pain to fix.

Yes, Arch offers a lot more stability than people give it credit for, but it's still less reliable than the popular point-release distros like Fedora or Ubuntu, and there's not really any way around that with a rolling-release model. As someone who is at a point in life where I don't always have the time nor energy to deal with random breakage (however infrequently), having the extra peace of mind is nice.

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You would need to have the right to redistribute the copyrighted material, which is sounds like you don't.

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