I’d say a noncommercial, maybe UN-backed index that is widely recognized would help.

Also, journal format is extremely outdated. We need to reform the way we store scientific data, and create an international standard.

For all I know, Nostr is a kind of social network with distributed identity.

The problem with publishing elsewhere is not that it’s hard or can’t give you reach.

It’s the scientific metrics dictating your readership, job prospects and essentially your entire scientific career. Not only your ratings are affected, but also ones of your institution, so you have to play by the rules to have a job.

For your publication to count, it needs to be published in journals listed in certain international indexes such as Scopus and Web of Science. These indexes are, in turn, corporate-owned (by Elsevier and Clarivate, respectively) and the respective boards are free to reject (and certainly will reject) your independent publishing source.

As a scientist, we desperately need it. Corporate ownership of publishing platforms is driving science down extremely badly, while exploiting all parties besides themselves.

Many folks at our institution, including myself, simply cannot afford to publish high-rank open-access articles, and with paid articles, our reach will be minimized, especially now that Sci-Hub does not automatically scrape articles after 2021.

The latter also strikes the other way, as many recent articles are simply unavailable if your institution is not shilling millions to subscribe to all possible publishers. So often a seemingly great article addressing exactly the specific part required is behind a paywall by the unavailable publisher.

Finally, plenty of older articles are lost to time and cannot be found because the hosting platforms have gone down and pirates didn’t step in timely.

All in all, fuck publishers and let’s go fix that shit ASAP. Science is absolutely destroyed by greed nowadays.

Terminal is the only thing that is pretty much universal in all distributions. It is too essential to lose relevance. Besides, even when giving advice to new users, you can either list settings for each specific DE and possibly distribution, or you can just give a terminal command.

Dual boot should be default suggestion for everyone trying Linux out. No pressure, just try it.

There will always be newbie-oriented distros as well as ones for experienced/professional users. It’s alright if the former will go towards simplification, as long as we have plenty more keeping the tinkering spirit.

Besides, each and every distro has a powerful tool that can help you do everything: the terminal. No one limits you there, and unlike in Windows, terminal is heavily and commonly used.

I’d be the last to cover for Nazis. I’m literally a commie, lol, you can’t make up the stronger opposition to Nazism.

I just think overreacting about everything holds 0 value and distracts people from real issues. Such as what this agent came to do.

Literally any sign of power or action.

Heck, I remember when Xiaomi had to change fast charging sign from two lightnings to an unreadable vertically stacked lightning because two lightnings in a row were seen as SS symbols by the chronically online. This was just a way to show that more power goes into the battery, Jesus Christ

Seeing SS symbols in everything related to lightning sign is a guaranteed way to have 0 people take you seriously.

We know already that ICE agents are bad, no need to bring in conspiracies.

Aside from all controversy around snaps and stuff, which newbies don’t have to get into, there’s GNOME coming as default.

Desktop environments essentially define how the new user treats the system and Linux as a whole. And I believe GNOME is a terrible starting point, at least for those coming from Windows.

It follows entirely different logic, is very different visually, and overall, adds a lot of extra confusion.

IMO, for a smooth transition, you’d rather offer something based on KDE or at least Cinnamon. Kubuntu will do fine, but it has to be mentioned specifically. Mint will be nice. And then as they explore, they’ll find what fits them best.

For what in partricular?

For all I remember, Timeshift only supports /home snapshots, which won’t help to revert the system. Could be wrong though.

I’m happy you’re happy about your distro, though!

For a boring stop, I ended up on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

It’s not too boring, and at the same time, once you set it up, it just works and does what you ask it to.

It’s also very drama-free, not taking radical and controversial steps and not breaking someone’s workflow.

In case something got broken anyways, rollback functionality is set up nicely out of the box on btrfs systems, and snapshots are automatically taken before any updates.

This rollback functionality, along with extensive automated testing of all packages in the official repos, also makes it pretty much the only stress-free rolling release experience.

True, though I don’t expect for many people to do complicated debugs on the go.

FSF audience is special, though :D

Should have something like ADB to connect it to PC and debug from there.

Does anyone claim so? And does it matter much outside of (potentially) app support?

Absolutely. Americans, Israeli, Russians are all regular people caught in the crossfire. There are some shitheads in support of their governments, and there are plenty more of those who reject it and will happily join the opposing forces, uniting internationally over the same goal.

And outside of political lens, people are still the same as they were a year or two or three ago. It’s just that different political circumstances highlight particular kinds of people.

Thanks for setting the record straight!

Yes, as in “women deserve equal rights across the board”

No, as in “feminism is the synonym to and only valid kind of antisexism and every gendered issue should be seen exclusively through women’s struggle”

I’m here for the equality of men and women, and believe that only in cooperation, through consideration of issues on each side, we can efficiently combat sexism.

Feminism should not be “us vs them”. It should be one part of the larger circle that is looking at how we can improve things for everyone - women, men, and nonbinary people.

We should bridge the gap on all sides, so that whatever gender you are, you have equal possibilities in life, career, and everything else, you are safe and can build your life the way you want.

That means no one should be targeted by sexual harassment and exploitation. No one should be denied jobs or have lower salary based on arbitrary characteristics. No one should be forced to choose a binary gender if they’re neither. Kids should not be indoctrinated with traditional gender roles. Etc. etc.

And, honestly, I don’t think many will disagree here. Many of those who “do not support feminism” don’t mean they go against equality - they are rather concerned about a specific form of particularly loud online feminism pretending men are all evil and that there’s no related struggle on men’s end.

I would actually recommend against Cachy, as it is not very friendly out of the box.

Decent choice, but not for a novice user. Still, can be turned into same thing as everything else.