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Bluesky is not a true alternative. Just recently there were news about them banning opposition accounts in Turkey.

So, you’re saying that calling for Netanyahu’s death penalty and stating that Israel has committed crimes is a “bold-faced, already debunked Israeli propaganda”? Yeah, I don’t think there will be a discussion here.

Okay? That has a lot more to do than you think with how Palestinians weren’t all displaced and starving to death, and still had a functioning healthcare system

Mate, if you drop a bomb on that levels a building in region that has over 5000 people per km², you expect at least dozens dead.

Unless you take special precautions to protect human lives - like roof knocking, text messages, and phone calls informing civilians about the attack.

Are you living in the same reality as us? They’ve been bombing hospitals hospitals and aid workers since the goddamn start

I’m sorry, I had this conversation a million times online already and I’m just tired of repeating myself.

I’m just going to list some facts and leave.

1. Hamas uses hospitals as bases/warehouses. Same with schools, churches, libraries, etc.
2. A protected building loses its protected status if used for military purposes.
3. A lot of aid workers were working for Hamas (the entirety of UNWRA was compromised).
4. Propaganda works overtime on both sides so even valid targets were painted as crimes.
5. It’s not - and probably never will be - clear how many of the “war crime civilian casualties” were Hamas fighters in civilian clothes who got stripped of their weapons after they died. Same for aid workers.
6. Hamas is responsible for bringing the war to Gaza, it’s also responsible for at least some of the Israeli attacks on refugee camps, by using them for military purposes (we have videos of them shooting missiles from between white tents in the camps)
7. At least in the beginning, when people were crying “genocide”, there was nothing suggesting actual genocide was taking place. Aid was coming in, vaccines where coming in, USA built a whole port to send food in, Israel was making extreme effort at ensuring target buildings were empty before levelling them.
8. Israel has 100% committed A LOT of crimes, including shooting verified aid workers, reporters or even diplomats.
9. All people responsible for war crimes should be tried and appropriately punished, but we know that won’t happen in the case of Israel because nobody has the balls to touch them.
10. Netanyahu should be put up against the wall and shot. He’s the main reason this whole thing even started.
11. Now that right-wing psychopaths have practically unlimited power in Israel, and the real genocide has begun, nobody gives a shit, because you people have cried wolf over bullshit for so long.

Ah, you’re one of those guys…

In the initial stages of the fight, before the first major ceasefire, Israel was causing a historically low number of casualties. It was around 0.8 dead Palestinians per dropped bomb. That’s not how you do genocide, however you want to look at it.

Food and water was being delivered from Israel, they did a vaccination campaign, etc., etc. There WERE efforts to protect civilians.

Mind you: I’m not saying that no crimes were committed during that time, of course there were. But it was very, very obviously not a genocide.

Unlike now. But now people hear about “genocide” and just roll their eyes.

And nobody gives a shit anymore.

People where screaming “genocide” for so long at things that were decidedly NOT genocide that now, that the real genocide has started, we’re already past the point of attention saturation and not a single person in power will do anything about it. Congratulations, keyboard warriors and weekend protesters!

Nobody tell this guy he’s advocating for DEI, he’ll have a stroke.

Right. And then we see comments like the one that started this thread: “whoa, there was a Pocket integration??”

Thanks for this! I would’ve completely missed the 2FA update without this post!

For this whole spring have I clicked hundeds of times that I’m aware that my trial is ending

This is… not quite related to the topic, no? Trial ending warning is not a “hey, here’s a new feature you might want to try out”.

They also introduced a new feature that they promote on a space that takes literally half the screen

Could you elaborate? I used to use Edge as my daily driver, now it’s my secondary browser. I have no clue what you mean here.

In a world without dark design patterns, there would be a single pop-up when you first install the application, to ask if you want notifications and/or suggestions for new features

This is exactly how it works in things like Office or Edge.

If you click “no”, it should never bother you again unless you go into a menu and opt in

Yup. Or unless a new feature is introduced, in which case a new pop-up appears. That’s precisely how it works.

Ideally, that pop-up wouldn’t even exist. They could just have a collective “don’t bother me again” checkbox on every non-essential notification

Edge, most of the time, just opens a new tab with “Your Edge was updated” and a list of new things.

If your user has already indicated that they are not interested, any further pestering is essentially harassment.

If it was about the same feature that you already dismissed - yeah, I get the sentiment. If it’s about completely new things - it’s a really weird thing to say. How are users supposed to know that something new was introduced? Sift through thousands of lines of changelogs…?

The difference is in convenience.

On the one hand, you can add a page to your bookmarks, after choosing the correct folder, of course.

On the other hand, you can click a button and a page gets automatically saved in your “read later” storage, with a description, summary, and a preview of the content.

On Firefox? I’ve used it for years and this is the first time I hear of Pocket

And then people get all pissy when Google or Microsoft show a pop-up of a new feature…

You don’t need to stare directly into the ball of fire to determine where the Sun is. All you need is the flashes of light through the leaves - and you CAN see that in the jungle.

How the heck do you find north based on your watch?

Like this

I live in north Manchester so I know Manchester is south

What if you go on a trip to Thailand and get turned around in the jungle?

Or I can look at the sun if not midday and figure it out

That gives you a very approximate direction.

Yeah, I guess I sound a bit aggressive. That wasn’t the intention. I just get an allergic reaction when I see the “Linux is just better than Windows now!” stuff. It is - in some scenarios. In others it’s worse. Someone who wants to do IT (and it kinda’ sounds like OP’s heading there) needs to understand that.

I love Linux. I’m running Linux and love the experience.

But…

i7-4970 i7-4790 so running windows 10 with all its bloat was not going to be an easy task for em

What in the world are you talking about, man??

Even ignoring the silliness of the “bloat” - i7-4790 eats Win10 alive and asks for seconds.

I stated that as long as they dont know how to work with wine/lutris or know any specific linux packages that run windows games on linux they should not be able to play in the middle of lessons

So… No, you didn’t stop them from doing that. All it takes for them to get back to playing games is to google “linux roblox how to” and 20 minutes later they’re good to go. Windows has AppLocker, and GPO to prevent running unwanted software - have you researched alternatives for Linux?

does this mean linux now is ready for the education sector?

Well, depends on scale. The setup you did is fine for, what, a single classroom? Two classrooms? It’s completely unusable for a larger school - for that you need an MDM solution, ideally with some form of IAM. In the Windows world that’s SCCM/Intune with AD/EID (local/cloud). Correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s only bare-bones equivalents in the Linux world for that, which would be the bigger a problem the larger a school you’d be dealing with.