They're horrendous. They marched in packs through Amsterdam chanting "There are no schools in Gaza" (because all the children are dead), pulled down Palestinian flags and attacked locals with metal pipes.

You make an excellent point. I have a lot more patience for something I can understand, control, and most importantly, modify to my needs. Compared to an iThing (when it's interacting with other iThings anyway) Linux is typically embarrassingly user hostile.

Of course, if you want your iThing to do something Apple hasn't decided you shouldn't want to do, it's a Total Fucking Nightmare to get working, so you use the OS that supports your priorities.

Still, I really appreciate the Free software that goes out of its way to make things easy, and it's something I prioritise in my own Free software offerings.

Fucking parasites.

Coincidentally, "The Urbanist Agenda" just did an episode on this sort of thing. They were talking about community action groups in Canada and the US who have been conducting "guerrilla" actions in their home cities. From repainting roads to add bike lanes to installing flexiposts right into the asphalt to calm traffic. They talk about the effectiveness of different tactics and how to find similar groups in your own area.

The Urbanist Agenda: What to do When Your City Won't Fix Things (with Bike Curious)

Episode webpage: https://art19.com/shows/the-urbanist-agenda

Media file: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/b9bf7932-5255-4303-8565-6e147fd9be83.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg9BbnRlbm5hUG9kBjoGRVQ%3D--bba5bdd77df5f5806138bf3e7d4615ea7f8e6a75

What the fuck is with this immigrant blaming? We're supposed to be better than this.

There have been some great answers on this so far, but I want to highlight my favourite part of Docker: the disposability.

When you have a running Docker container, you can hop in, fuck about with files, break stuff as you try to figure something out, and then kill the container and all of the mess you've created is gone. Now tweak your config and spin up a fresh one exactly the way you need it.

You've been running a service for 6 months and there's a new upgrade. Delete your instance and just start up the new one. Worried that there might be some cruft left over from before? Don't be! Every new instance is a clean slate. Regular, reproducible deployments are the norm now.

As a developer it's even better: the thing you develop locally is identical to the thing that's built, tested, and deployed in CI.

I <3 Docker!

The goal is to erode privacy, and the pearl clutching about children is always the excuse. There are a lot of groups who want to eliminate privacy online: cops, copyright holders, and religious nuts to name a few. They're the ones driving this stuff.

This would be great advice if boomers hadn't turned outside into a car-dominated hellscape.

It's not "lifestyle creep".

When I moved from Canada to the Netherlands, my salary stayed roughly the same, but the amount I saved every month exploded. The Netherlands has much higher income taxes, but it should be noted that I also enjoyed some pretty sweet tax incentives as a skilled expat.

The relevant differences between the two environments were:

• In Canada, paycheques come every two weeks. In the Netherlands it's every month, so you have to lean to pace yourself.
• In the Netherlands, your paycheque isn't 1/12th of your salary after taxes. Instead they actually withhold around 12% your salary and pay it out to you in a lump sum partially in December and again in May. You're still getting the same amount, but you're forced to budget on a lower monthly amount, while enjoying bonuses twice a year. I used the bonuses to pay down my Canadian debt.
• The Dutch don't live off of credit cards the way North Americans do. While in Canada you're taught to "build up your credit rating" by using a credit card, in the Netherlands, many people don't even have a credit card. Purchases are typically made with debit cards instead. Unlike Canada, these cards don't apply a fee to your purchase either.
• They also don't really care about credit ratings. Instead, there are laws that restrict you from buying or mortgaging at a monthly cost higher than x% of your monthly income.
• Car ownership is drastically reduced there. While in North America people flip out at the idea of 15min cities and refuse to believe it's possible to live without a car, people do it every day there.
• Finally, and this one may be more specific to me, going out for a meal is a bigger deal there and typically more expensive. Dutch culture expects lunch to be a home made ham sandwich or just a piece of bread, chocolate sprinkles and some buttermilk. Meanwhile I was used to blowing $20/day on eating out for lunch and often went out for dinner too. The amazing quality of food you find at their grocery stores meant that we often collectively bought groceries for office lunch every day, and I cooked at home.

In the space of 2-3 years, I paid off my credit cards (~$10k) and what was left on my student loan (~$12k). Inside of 5 years, I had tens of thousands of Euros in my bank account.

What exactly is the appeal of Docker Desktop on Linux? I can run docker just fine without it, so what's it doing for me?

There's a conversation going on in that Mastodon thread where one dude is proposing a static site fueled by a fact-checked list, but that's the only thing I've seen other than BDS.

As a Canadian expat, these sorts of surveys are an embarrassment. Canada is not that great. It has some good things going for it, but "second best in the world" is a laughable statement.

• The wealth disparity is terrible
• Nearly every inhabited patch of land is a suburban hellscape.
• The government is routinely dedicated to accomplishing as little as possible, especially on climate
• The fossil fuel lobby is embarrassingly strong
• The cost of living is extreme for many, with little effort to reign it in
• The country suffers from an inferiority complex in relation to the US of all places.
• The electoral system is broken

I mean, I love my country, but I've seen a lot of places that I'd rather live. The idea that we're 2nd best compared to even half of the countries I've visited in the last 10 years is just silly.