Man, I dip it in ketchup like a literal toddler.

Some things that are apparently classics that generally, outside a handful of titles for some of those, bore me to death: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Tool, Radiohead, Metallica…

Unraid’s “killer feature” is the ability to mix and match disparate drive sizes and only requiring the parity drive to be at least as large as your largest data disk, a la MergeFS/Snapraid. Also ZFS chugging RAM like there’s no tomorrow so not really an option for underpowered devices like some NASes. But yeah, TrueNAS is nice.

KDE6 took a week or so, didn’t it?

Some of it is pure misinformation - the very thing they fear, getting weaponized against them. There’s a way to present things to people that sounds very convincing to someone with weak critical thinking and/or without empirical research experience. These people typically will focus on the few pieces that validate their beliefs and throw the rest out as lies/conspiracy/garbage/etc. It gets kind of dangerous when they hit peak Dunning-Kruger and they totally refuse to hear reason, they usually need some kind of major tragedy close to them to question themselves lol…

I guess some of it might be some sense of belonging. There may be a part of it that is purely about validation from peers.

I’ve also had many friends over the years who didn’t get vaccinated as children over religious reasons.

I just answered your question. If one wants latest up to date, LTS release-based distros are just not an option. You do you lol.

FWIW, I only reach out for Flatpak if I can’t find something natively. Unless you just use your DE as is without changing the look of things, making your apps look consistent is made pretty complicated by the requirement for your theme to be repackaged and distributed on flatpak. The sandboxed nature also can get annoying for certain types of apps (e.g. IDEs which tend to reach out for external tooling pretty often, etc). I also tend to trust my distro’s packagers a bit more than randos on flathub, but maybe that’s just me.

Those systems are getting worked on regardless. It's not either/or. Fight the bad ones regardless.

Didn’t say otherwise

I mean take a look at the report. Still not sure how it’s “wrong”.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln-metrics/cvss/v3-calculator?name=CVE-2023-40547&vector=AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H&version=3.1&source=NIST

Yup, M is for “mille”.

Niagara works fine here.

Blind unwavering nationalism is a cancer. The (North?) American Dream is one of individualism and corporate reliance. It's slowly seeping north of our common border, too.