ekky

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ekky,

Thank you for the explanation.

As someone not too familiar with American cultures, I’d probably make an assumption and go for the (to me) more masculine bird over the docile and flower loving bee, since bees have stingers that they normally would never use and birds have beaks/peckers.

ekky,

Hmm, well, I have heard women being compared to singing birds (or more degrading as vultures or pen of hens if in group), but I’ve more often heard women being romantically compared to bees or flowers. Though, I don’t think I’ve ever heard men being compared to bees, but often to birds (eagles, vultures, seagulls, etc.).

Might also be local culture, as I usually think of harmony, nature, and perhaps matriarchy when pondering bees, while birds seem much more gender neutral, like, standoff-ish, elegant, brutal, impulsive, egoistic, even presented as predatory and evil in children movies and some media.

So, using common stereotyping, you can see where I’m coming from.

ekky,

Now LLMs are even taking the jobs of professional trolls! What’s gonna be next? The scambots loosing their jobs to LLMs?!

ekky,

You have a common border with Denmark, right? There might be a possibility there…

ekky,

Why should it be enough? We already have multiple Linux communities across different instances, decentralized and with alternative modteams, should we just merge them all into one conglamorate community with a single point of failure?

ekky,

Well, they’re experts in the field, so they’d probably be able to detect them too.

ekky, (edited )

The paragraphs seem fine to me, they are separated in easily consumable chunks so you don’t get lost (at least on computer). I also like your structure, very straight forward. If I had to point something out, it appears to me that the disclaimer and intro provide the same gist but differently worded.

I assume Toes is asking for a TL:DR or summary in bullet point format. I’m not sure if I agree that this review is long enough to warrant a TL:DR, nor would profit much from from being made more concise, but those are just my two cents.

EDIT: While I don’t necessarily agree with Toes on article anatomy, most of us here should be grownups. Differences in opinions are to be expected, so let’s be civil and not downvote or throw jabs without reason. How about people make a comment instead, or just upvote the comment they agree with if it’s already there? I find that this results in a much more enriching experience.

ekky,

I use a Verbatim DPAA to access old DVD’s. Cheap and simple, works just fine with both Windows and Linux and didn’t even have to install any drivers on either.

Connector is USB-B mini (disk drive) to USB-A (computer).

Sadly doesn’t support blu-ray.

ekky,

+1

I personally started by playing around with Ubuntu, but it just didn’t feel intuitive coming from windows.

Went over to Mint, and was very happy,especially with drivers and gaming. I even fully removed my windows installation during this period. Having gained a better understanding of Linux, I have now moved on again.

The only real drawback of Mint is not natively supporting KDE Plasma (as they did before). And yes, you can just install it yourself, but I wouldn’t recommend a beginner who barely knows how to install Linux to attempt such an endevour.

One word of advice to OP: don’t wait till you can’t use Windows anymore. Start by dual booting and getting a hang of Linux, but with windows at the ready for any tasks you cannot yet do/feel comfortable doing on Linux. As you get a better hold of Linux, you should naturally begin to use Windows less.

The worst thing someone can do, is to jump OS without any backup or safety net. Learning to use Windows took a long time, getting a hang of new concepts and getting used to an alien environment. Now, already having a hang of “computers” (Windows), we have digital needs and expectations (E-Mail, gaming, etc.) which will need fulfilling, but many seem to forget that a different OS means different ways of doing our daily tasks and different challenges to handle.

And yes, “different”, because Windows definitely also comes with it’s own unique challenges, you just don’t see them as much when having gotten used to them.

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