My dad used to pay protection money for his corner shop up to like 2010 -- every week a couple of scary guys would show up to collect, and you could always spot some familiar dudes hanging around every 2 blocks or so keeping an eye on things.

Absolutely they did protect his shop, at least the 1 or 2 times a year some uniformed guy would show up with a knife thinking he was about to get some easy money (cops were very slow to respond on our part of town).

Also I think this gang must have been pretty chill, never heard of them having been too harsh on people who didn't pay for protection, nor having mugged or killed anyone, and they never even beat up the guys that tried to rob our store too badly. Pretty sure they never even dealt anything harder than weed or steroids but maybe they had something to do with contraband, idk.

By the end of the decade my dad would constantly be busy with a bunch of other stuff so I often tended to the shop, and obviously I kept paying them. Thankfully no one ever tried to rob the store while I was subbing for my dad but the vibe started to get a little weird for my taste.

The gang must had been growing a lot because I rarely recognized the guys who came to collect, and soon after, a couple of addicts started hanging around, then pass a couple months and way more often you'd hear about so and so having been mugged -- no one would say it out loud but people suspected it had been guys from the gang.

Eventually the cops finally started cracking down on racketeering so we never again had anyone come collect protection money, but if you ask me, I would've stopped paying anyway because I just love spreading misinformation online, also my dad started to beat me up with jumper cables, so yeah.

the idea that you can just jump to linux with zero research needs to go

• no you can't have every game and program you're used to
• no you can't translate windows or mac knowledge
• yes you have to know what partitions, desktop environments, distros, and other bunch of terms mean
• yes you may have to type terminal commands (no one complains about ipconfig when figuring out whether it's ISP or DNS problem)
• yes there are a bunch of shit tutorials online with copy-paste commands that don't work

Jōhatsu (...) refers to the people in Japan who purposely vanish from their established lives without a trace. (...)

the MP3 jingle is a .flac

it's also a bidet. i save so much water by simply washing up with the clean bowl water before dropping a deuce. flush 2 for the price of 1

Heartwarming: Chatbots inspire suicidal people to see the light in life through extreme sports

urethra! ☝️🧑‍🦲

no, this isn't a game competing with minecraft.

it's a minecraft-like voxel engine with a big library of games, modpacks, and mods. a significant amount of content is minecraft-inspired, but there are tons of variations and original ideas

I haven't tried, but there's probably an automated way to get countries shapes with openstreetmap https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shapefiles

on web, hover over the link icon, on mobile click share
it's different on each instance tho

seems cozy. you can sit on the top of stairs but with your back against a wall, so there's no one coming up behind you

bit of both i guess? "normies need to get good" could be diluted into "do your research before going to linux", which in most sensible online discussions is already the recommended way: test things out in a VM, try out different DEs, practice configuring things, finding alternatives to your current workflow, etc etc. it's a harder sell than "just switch to linux" but IMO it's absolutely necessary

but my comment is more of a reaction to influencers not doing that at all and making le funny challenge of jumping to linux blind and breaking shit because it's good content and "trying out linux" is still trending

problem is they must be getting this idea that "linux is so easy and fun and seamless and you don't have to research anything" from somewhere, which i do think is probably way more from people in their audience hyping up linux and not necessarily the wider linux community but these voices gotta be out there

mega piss ray from space

there's already official appimages for neovim, I use them (but not with firejail) and they work fine. but the lsp stuff is all installed outside, my guess is it'd be really annoying to mantain a custom compiled appimage

the best option is probably to just run neovim inside a docker container, you can then mount the directories every time you run a neovim container (~/.config/nvim, ~/.local/share/nvim, optionally .local/state/nvim and your undodir/undofile, there may be more I'm not sure).

assuming you want to isolate your home directory, what gets annoying is giving it access to only the code you're editing, I've yet to try this but my next plan is to give it read access to $HOME, then read/write access to the neovim dirs, and then take an argument to mount the project directory

some other options which I also haven't tried are

• distrobox, which just creates containers as well but by default wants to mount your entire homedir inside them
• devcontainers
• lspcontainers which isolate the LSP binaries themselves
• LXC/LXD/Incus containers which behave a bit different from docker containers, could be worth looking into

politics and economy are not separate worlds. capital, monopoly or not, is political power greater than any vote or government seat

what sense does it make to say you'll keep the ruling class in check while letting them keep their power?
can you make a benevolent mafia by taxing the racket and breaking up mafia monopolies?

it's lightweight and still looks pretty good, and you can have plenty of fun fighting bots, surprised more people haven't mentioned it

Mbuttive

too busy with the rocket boy

as far as i can tell, those keybindings are handled internally, they don't invoke shell commands

you can use something like wtype or ydotool to send keybindings from kdeconnect

in this case, you'll probably have to create a desktop entry in ~/.local/share/applications/ydotoold.desktop

something like

[Desktop Entry]
Name=ydotool daemon
Exec=the command you used to launch
Type=Application

you can look at other .desktop in the same directory for reference