In australia it takes 3.5-4 years for a PhD. Then after you finish you move on to postdoctoral research, because doing a second PhD makes no sense

What am I missing in the “end Kernel panic” one?

You actually think you’re going to rise up and fight against your national army? How about fighting for a better democracy instead, like by getting rid of Gerrymandering, abolishing corporate lobbyists, adopting preferential voting etc

Oh no! I only got an education from my school and didn’t get to fire a gun even ONCE! Let me go sit in a corner and cry myself to sleep with my secure, well paying job and free health care. By the way I’m in army reserves and get paid to shoot rifles and automatic guns at firing ranges. It’s okay, I guess, but I wouldn’t go if I weren’t paid lol

damn, she hot

That was a good read with some helpful tips, but they didn’t have a conclusion at the end so they never answered their own question!

I’m all for getting into old school tech, I even like to browse neocities.org on occasion just for the hit of nostalgia for the old web rings. I never got into newsgroups though, and I’m wondering what reasons you might use that instead of something like Lemmy, Mastodon etc?

Apart from the piracy side, I know all about that already lol

How dare they!

Same machine? I only have the one computer, and I use it for everything. What am I missing here?

I mean I guess I do agree with the sentiment that defederating shouldn’t be the default response to finding offensive content on another instance.

If you check the highest scoring comment on this post you’ll see it’s also me, because I also find the content on that instance highly offensive. I’m just wary because Lemmy still feels very new, and the our behaviours now might set a precedent for the future, and I don’t want every disagreement to end up with another instance defederated.

And no I don’t use the N word regularly, I’m not even from the US

It’s always refreshing to read an intelligent and well thought out response. The world needs more nuance!

Oh that’s interesting, exposing kids to it is a great idea because then they won’t have the whole barrier of the ‘fear of the unknown’ when considering installing it on their own PC. Thanks for sharing!

I just had a look at the main page, and saw a post with the line, “The lying cunts at shit Just Woke are trying to claim that we’re Nazis because we fight against their far lefty woke ass shit about transgenderism and how it’s used to groom and mutilate children”, and another that says, “Reeeeeeee!! Don’t you understand that unless I read soft porn children’s novels to five year olds about the joys of anal sex, that trans kids will literally be genocided!!?! Reeeeee!!”

Yeah I’m comfortable with people not wanting to associate with an instance like that. You wanna be a part of it, go for it. Doesn’t mean the rest of us need be exposed to that kind of ignorance, bigotry and hate.

I was skeptical of this claim so I went and had a look. Here’s some of the posts I saw:

“Polar Ice Sheets are thicker than ever despite predictions that the Arctic and Antarctic would be ‘Ice free’”

“Leftist Parents “Flee” Florida Because Of New Laws Blocking Child Mutilation”

“It’s strange how you never see pedophiles, im sorry, drag queens reading to old people instead of kids”

So yeah some pretty insane takes there

I would like to see a breakdown of useage by region. For example I found stats that said India’s share of linux users rose from 9% in May to 15% in July. That’s quite a sharp increase in only 2 months! With a population of over 1 billion people, I’m betting this rise would have a significant increase in global stats, so I wonder what is behind it…

Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india

nah totally off the mark. I may be a 39 Linux user, but I work in Ag science!

tbf they said “older”, not “old”

Wow thanks that’s the best breakdown I’ve read! I’ve been torrenting for maybe 15 years and used to collect all the shows I watched until one day my external hard drive died and I lost everything :(

Nowadays I just delete a show after I’ve watched it, so Idon’t think I’ll worry about making my own server yet. I’ve had a look into it and think I’ll start off with NZB Geek as indexer and Frugal Usenet as a server. Drunken Slug seems pretty popular too but they don’t seem to be open for registrations atm

that’s unfortunate, making an account for me took like a minute

Can you recommend any good walk-throughs for noobs? I didn’t even know you needed a server lol