Yeah sure, repairing devices got harder over years and some devices simply aren’t repairable at all (at least not for laypeople who aren’t training or experienced in certain techniques like soldering) or you need very special equipment. But the manuals are less of a problem.

Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour, iFixit?

For real though, look it up. Some 100k or so free repair manuals in twelve languages from phones to washing machines. And often enough, the necessary toolkit in their shop.

But he doesn’t. Because his mail shirt has a boat neck instead of a coif or hauberk. Ergo, bad armour.

It’s not good armour though. There’s a huge invitation to hack/stab into the neck/collarbone area and the chest plate is too long.

Are there water toilets in Jumanji? Or vegan meat substitutes? Internet, supermarkets, refrigerators, floor heating etc?

I guess cloud computing is my old man yelling at clouds line.

Not necessarily. Cloud storage is great for off-site backups and collaborative working on projects, but Onedrive, 365 and the rest of the Microsoft stuff is the problem. It’s clunky, overloaded and generally a pain in the ass to manage. It is successful mostly because everyone already works with Microsoft stuff, especially their office suite, and Microsoft makes it really annoying (and in some places difficult) to go around it.

At my last job I had to implement and manage a lot of 365 and Sharepoint and I find my private Nextcloud more comfortable (and there are hosters who offer Nextcloud as a partially managed service so that in a company environment you’d mostly just need to administer users and small, easy stuff). If for usability alone I’d put Google’s cloud services and collaborative office environment before Microsoft’s (they’re still both shitty megacorps and I recommend staying away from both, though).

No one forces you to use Snaps or a distro that enforces Snaps.

Even the german language version does this now.

How long until the US pull a China and attack mexican fishing boats?

It says “PC exclusive” not " Windows exclusive". Linux PCs are still PCs.

Why are there so many twos though?

I always thought the song was the opposite. It says „We didn’t start it it was always like this“ and continues to listen events during their lifetime that were not already always in motion.

I always interpreted the song as saying „This is how it’s always been and we can’t change it is a lazy excuse for not trying to change anything.“

Regarding your statement about morals, as I’ve stated before, the hyperbole would be meaningless if the creator (of the hyperbole) wouldn’t find any truth or parallel in it.

There is truth and parallel in it. I don’t make a difference between exploiting or killing humans and exploiting or killing animals (in fact, humans are animals, but that is another topic). So don’t do it (unless your life depends on it, but that is a rare circumstance and for exploitation there’s no excuse).

If this was not the intention behind your words, then I will gladly stand corrected.

The intention of my words was to express that bottom left guy is a misrepresentation of vegans in general because he depicts militant vegans who are a minority. Very few vegans would say you have to starve if your only way to survive was eating animals. And the top left guy is a misrepresentation because eggs (or any other animal parts) are not or should not be staple food.

To bring real life examples:
There are many pharmaceuticals that contain animal ingredients. But since that is necessary for living a healthy life vegans generally don’t ask anybody to not take them if they need to (except for a very few who are sometimes very loud).
On the other hand, animal agriculture is heavily subsidized in the EU and most vegans (at least that I know of) strongly oppose these subsidies and advocate to shift subsidies towards more sustainable forms of agriculture.
We are neither okay with incentives to eat animal products (incentives as in subsidies to make animals very cheap, cheaper than they are) nor do we want people to starve or not get the medication they need.

In most cultures killing people is significantly worse than killing animals, so this comparison doesn’t really make sense.

It makes sense from a vegan’s perspective because the whole reason we’re vegan is that in our opinion, animals do have (morally) or should have (legally) the same rights to live and not be abused and exploited as humans do.

And again, the point of my comment is not criticizing your point but criticizing the way you try to bring it across by misrepresenting a few hardcore militant vegans as being the norm. Most vegans meanwhile applaud people who want to cut their consumption of animal products and offer them help.

Ironic, isn’t it? 😂

(And thank you)

This comment section is the opposite. I started nice and explaining things and people got all pissed. And you’re proving my point by further misrepresenting what happens.

Also your comment score immediatly got two negatives… I guess the peeps are super railed up against you, which is sad.

I’m vegan, I’m used to it.

even though I am more like a flexitarian than a vegetarian, allthough I really try to shift my died toward it.

I mean at least you put in effort, that’s more than most people can say.

Putting shit together and reading stuff as a whole is not your strength, is it buddy? If I said „2+2=5 is wrong“ you’d be pissed off about „2+2=5“ and just ignore the „is wrong“ part.

Are eggs meat?" - Yes, that’s what I’m saying, I’m not sure how it can be understood any other way.

Then you’re just plain wrong. Is a woman’s unfertilized egg a baby?

Though, how can calling somebody a murderous cultist not be considered the least bit demeaning, whereas saying their family should starve is? As per “You wouldn’t say „… I do respect your religious tradition of human sacrifice“” having similar aggressive or demeaning meaning as “I don’t care if your family starves”.

You’re twisting my words like they’re players in a game with colored dots on a map.
I even stated that the sacrifice thing was a damn hyperbole. If you think.my comment is demeaning or aggressive, you didn’t read the whole fucking thing.

And maybe this post was just a hyperbole and caricature of hyper militant vegans?

And my comment critizises this post for displaying hyper militant vegans as the norm. But everyone apparently just wants to get all railed up and shit.

No, that is not at all everything that bottom left guy says.

I don’t want to have the same discussion twice simultaneously, so: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/16162457