This is definitely the way for configuration files that you shouldn’t change permissions or ownership on but only want to modify a few times.

However, I find chmod easier to use without reference by using the ugoa (+/-) rwxXst syntax rather than the numbers.

Remotes exist

To turn off and on light bulbs

Japanese Breakfast, the latest single Picture Window has been living in my head rent free since I first heard it

I agree that most of them are athletic, but they simply aren’t competing in an athletic competition.

I think your comparison to the Globetrotters is on point. In the ballet and other examples, the difference to me is that they’re not pretending to be in a ballet competition while dancing the ballet.

There’s no doubt that what most wrestlers do requires skill, talent, and athleticism but it’s “fake” in that what you’re watching isn’t an authentic athletic competition despite the people involved pretending that it is.

The outcome of the match is predetermined while the participants pretend that it isn’t. That is why there are constant arguments about whether or not it’s “fake”.

Ultimately, people suck ass.

The algorithm pushes them that direction.

On YouTube I’m constantly one video away from “owning the woke libs” content because I turned my view history off.

I’ve been on it for a few years now.

It’s different from Twitter and that’s fine. I have no real drive to join bluesky to see if it’s similar because Twitter felt deeply unhealthy anyway. Crack cocaine isn’t good for you.

Nobody needs to know about the existence of, for instance, “bean dad”.

As a user of both Mastodon and Lemmy, I think there are inherit differences between the formats that make Lemmy easily a capable replacement for Reddit, but Mastodon not at all a replacement for Twitter.

To get into specifics, Lemmy is more meme and news based, and as long as there are a few thousand users using it and some percentage of those posting content…it largely scratches the same itch.

Twitter was very much an active global conversation forum. It was nicknamed the hell site for a reason because if someone took issue with or was very amused by something you posted and you became “the main character” of Twitter for even an instant (something I experienced only very slightly) it was electrifying and even sort of scary at times.

In addition, the people that were active on there were very active, and it felt at times like you could talk to anyone who had been twitterized…which was a lot of people including prominent politicians, celebrities, and even experts of certain fields.

It was just an entirely different thing altogether. Mastodon is like many of the Twitter alternatives that have popped up from time to time. It’s largely kinda the same with regards to functionality (though not having quote tweets is completely ridiculous IMO) but the engagement of it is very low, and the place largely feels very inactive. It feels like you’re talking to dead feeds posted in syndication and there’s nobody on the other end (and in many cases I don’t doubt that is literally the case).

It’s not the same as Twitter, and I doubt that Bluesky will even be the same as Twitter. Honestly, maybe all of that’s a good thing. But the virality and the engagement and the discovery and everything on Mastodon is way turned down versus Twitter. Twitter was like the crack cocaine of social media…fast, cheap, addictive, and terrible for you. Mastodon is like a cup of tea by comparison.

Hey I’m not saying it wasn’t the worst part of the COVID years, just that it wasn’t most of the COVID era…which is even being vague as to what the COVID era is or if it even ever ended.

I’m one of the crazy people constantly masking still.

He definitely had an outsized impact on the overall COVID response in mostly negative ways. I think the only thing he did that was good is fast-tracking the vaccines and even then he managed to screw that over because of all of the other things he was doing wrong.

I have a Motorola razr 2023. It’s absolutely great.

The use case is that it fits in your pocket.

Eh, they’re perceived as more “lefty” than most of the stereotypically “patriotic” corporations of the US.

There are a couple of reasons for this: (1) Steve Jobs has/had a “crunchy granola” reputation (despite likely being a crypto fascist) due to likening himself to civil rights leaders and other “woke” people and living in California, and (2) they have a large amount of usage by people in the creative arts such as music producers, visual artists, and other people who the right would call “woke” without blinking an eye.

I think it’s all perception, and they are easily just as fascistic as the rest of the corporations. But they try to stay on the good side of a lot of people that care deeply – or at least claim to care deeply – about eroding democratic norms, and the rolling back of people’s rights and that produce a lot of the cultural artifacts the right largely hates, but are broadly-speaking massively popular.

Probably market cap

Was it this bad this fast? I Seriously don’t recall it being this bad.

It was pretty bad pretty quickly, but it was mostly changes in culture. Things like the “unite the right” rally happened pretty early on in his first term. Ultimately though, he was pretty hamstrung by an unreliable, rotating cast of supporting characters in his first term that weren’t all on board with turning the country into Nazi Germany part two.

He’s shed all of those people and now he’s surrounded by dyed in the wool maga. The GOP and the makeup of the supreme court are also drastically different this time.

But it was terrible his first term, so terrible people don’t even remember all or even most of it.

Trump was president for less than a single year during the COVID era.

Yes they are that lazy. The average office worker also has the attention span of a gnat. Write shorter emails with fewer questions if you can.

You’re welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.

I just heard people applaud a fucking sunset. I’m circling the drain.

It’s a fucking lotto. Lucky people always think they’re smarter or more hardworking than others.