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What is your opinion on people "screeching" about the Holocaust, given it happened so long ago?

EDIT: No answer. I'm assuming the user is as in favour of erasing memories of the Holocaust as he is of erasing memories of the genocides commited by Stalin and his supporters.

Almost the entirety of the political spectrum of most democratic countries sits as far away from Trump as it does from tankies. Let's stop pretending that if I oppose people who pretend that no genocides happened under Stalin I'm suddenly pro-Trump. There's an entire political spectrum between those two.

"People who built the Volkswagen, people who genocided millions of Ukrainians, what's the difference?"

Just thought I'd turn your line around. It's fun to reduce the atrocities of a movement to a good thing they did. Though the OP didn't even mention communists at all, he mentioned tankies, as in the people who actively deny the atrocities of stalinism and maoism. It's weird that you'd jump to defending communism.

You're right that there's a difference between fascists and tankies/ stalinists. And if this were a discussion in an academic setting, that might actually matter. But in an online discussion about the evils of both, it sort of doesn't really matter. They both have a track record of authoritarianism and mass genocides, and I don't get along well with people which defend either.

While I understand the sentiment, I hate this trend that whenever someones talks about how soulless the internet has become, the answer is always Web 1.0.

I don't want web 1.0. I like having CSS and Javascript around. I use them to build things I couldn't with HTML alone, and I've seen countless incredibly creative websites which fundamentally couldn't have been built without Javascript. It's weird to me how the article mentions the creative aspect of the old web, versus the commercial aspect and "sameyness" of the current web, only to then toss out tools that allow for even more creativity and personalization in the current web.

Whenever I finish reading one of these articles it always feels like it's mostly nostalgia and not much else.

I used to be an Arch guy, I had a pretty stable setup for a couple of years, until I had some problem with a printer and I just decided to toss the whole thing out and just go for a distro with neat defaults in which I wouldn't be having problems with printers.

I've been using Solus since then and it's been fine. Even during the "bad times" of no updates, my laptop kept working fine so I didn't bother switching to something else and I keep using it since it's been more stable than distros I've used in the past which were supposed to be stable. I've seen mentions of the possibility of it eventually having an AUR style thing which would honestly make it the perfect distro.

I'm pretty sure it is, I'll keep that in mind, thanks!

I'd love to say the same but on my Lenovo laptop I get frequent disconnects with bluetooth earphones on Linux alone. Apparently it's a firmware problem with the AX200 board, but even after having updated the firmware and following all the online fixes I still have the problem.

My whole use case for my laptop is getting away from my desk when I want to read something and listen to music at the end of the day, but it's annoying to have to reconnect the earphones every 10 or so minutes. Like everything Linux, it's incredible as long as you have supported hardware and you don't bump into some weird edge case.

I don't understand the frustration. With all of the recent examples of people winning photo contests only to reveal later that their "photos" were made by AI, it's only natural that judges grow paranoid of these things.

As for your friend's comment on photo competitions, that sounds like someone who's butt hurt for not winning. I enter some photo contests ocasionally and I have yet to see one in which the winner hadn't produced some pretty decent work.

The images look fine from kbin. Also, this setup looks great. I love setups that look useful and look like something one could actually use everyday and that aren't only meant to be pretty.

I had no idea this existed, cheers!

I'll sometimes contribute when I'm travelling to more rural areas which are less likely to be well mapped. The experience in my country has been that cities are very well mapped on OpenStreetMaps with a lot of detail, often having more up to date information than Google Maps. Less populated areas usually don't have as much detail, but the basics, like roads and buildings are usually well mapped.

I've also noticed OpenStreetMaps is awesome for trails and smaller roads used by hikers, usually being much more useful than Google Maps.

I second StreetComplete. I actually had quite a surprise when I first installed it - I expected to have a lot of mapping work ahead of me in my somewhat rural area, but most of it had been mapped in a lot of detail already.