Not having a right to privacy doesn’t mean we should record everyone’s every move if they aren’t locked in their windowless basement. Which they would have to be since its legally OK to have cameras pointing at your neighbors bedroom window or backyard, or to fly a recording drone over their house.

Additionally I think we should have a right to privacy in public. Why does your right to have your own surveillance fiefdom in your building extend to the street where I’m just trying to go for a jog? It interferes with my peace of mind, and it makes neighbors appear more like police than people I should be able to rely on.

I’m also exceptionally skeptical cameras have any impact on crime. I know police rarely investigate or solve property crime, and unless they prevent the crime from happening outright (doubt), or the camera owner has a full time live human monitoring to respond to an immediate action (businesses), it serves no purpose but to give the owner a false sense of security and to peep on your neighbors.

Getting broken into can be a very traumatic and violating experience, and in a better world we would try to help both the person who is driven to robbery and the person who’s space was violated. In the one we live in, people slap cameras and floodlights everywhere, mental health care is nonexistent, and we punish such that the cycle of poverty and crime continues. Thus nothing is solved and the world gets worse.

Police cameras and municipal cameras are even worse in these ways, now it isn’t the guy next door, its the state and all the money and power it holds doing a peep into your bedroom and a follow down the street. They don’t trust you, they don’t want you here, and you had better watch yourself. That message isn’t for everyone of course, but if you’re already marginalized in a community, it sure reads like the message is for you.

If we do install cameras, like red light cameras or speed cameras which have proven to do something, we need to be extraordinarily careful about where we place them and how we use them. And they should only be there until the underlying problem is solved, not placed as a solution themselves.

I’m not sure that’s how that shakes out, you can’t exactly extinguish open source projects, they may go dormant but they are still there, and there would be the last open source proton build to start from too.

It would also annoy the very people who are most likely to make their own compatibility tools and inconvenience themselves to spite bad business practice. Maybe in some future world where everyone is on Linux/proton, the people who just blindly use windows today because they always have would just keep using the now proprietary proton, but that’s far from the way it is today.

Honestly I just use what is easiest to get working, used to do every game manually, then used Lutris, now I use Steam, probably will use something else that’s easier in the future, especially if/when my library disappears. Til then I’ll support the company that made it much easier to leave Microsoft behind. Nice bonus: valve is one of the least bad large companies in the US at time of writing, so it feels less awful to give them money.

I use transit for transit (it’s in the name) but it also gives fantastic bike directions and transit+bike if I’m not feeling a particularly long ride. I may have had to mess with the settings but it almost always shows biking as an option.

Otherwise I use OsmAnd, but since I almost exclusively get around by bike and bus I am usually looking places up to manually plan routes, not using navigation.

I’m not sure I’m totally on board. The Midwestern united states used as an example in the article have current populations of deer. Our killing of the native predators have allowed their population to explode, and In more forested ecosystems at least, those excessive populations actually cause more risk of destructive fire as they prefer to eat native plants and tree shoots as opposed to invasive shrubs. This leaves a dense layer of bushes and no adolescent tree canopy, and as the old trees die, no fire resistant tree is there to take it’s place leaving a clearing of flammable understory.

That being said, the lack of roaming herds of bison trampling as they go also has an enormous impact and if we could pull fences and interstates to restore their habitat, it would almost certainly help our environment.

In Portugal, as well, many of the mentioned abandoned farms were eucalyptus, and many of the eucalyptus farms were cork oak before that. Cork oak is remarkable for it’s ability to withstand fire, that’s what the cork is for! Eucalyptus on the other hand is remarkable for burning so fast and hot, growing incredibly quickly, and spreading on it’s own. While again, grazing animals are absolutely missing and would help, they aren’t going to be able to fix this on their own. We are going to have to do a ton of manual labor.

Honestly, it sounds like the author would likely agree with all this, but I think it’s important to emphasize that in rewilding, we need to restore more than the obvious species. The wolves, beavers, and bears may be much more impactful than the deer or elk, and removing our infrastructure to make room for what should be there may be more impactful still.

Very localized application to specific plants, ideally ones that are virtually impossible to mechanically remove and that threaten to smother local species.

An example would be Holly in the Pacific Northwest US, it spreads freely, outcompetes local species, and if you try to cut it down it spreads out underground like a hydra. Apart from getting machine digging to excavate the whole deep root, a measured amount of pesticide injected into the root crown is about the the only way to deal with it once it is established.

If this question refers to mechanized agriculture there are systems with cameras that recognize weeds in fields and specifically target them with a spray of poison.

If it’s a grass lawn, the best way is to internally adjust the image of a grass lawn from a golf course to a field at a school, church, or park near you where it’s mostly clover and dandelions. Then you don’t need to spray anything. Maybe then plant cool native plants and wow your friends with an impenetrable fortress of 10ft tall joe py weed filled with bees and butterflies but whatever you’ve got regionally.

I’d just recommend against NVIDIA GPUs if you don’t want to tinker, I’m sure it’s not as bad as it was back when I had NVIDIA cards, but faffing around trying to get NVIDIA drivers to play nice was the bane of my existence (and where I was forced to learn the most about Linux).

Oh and the screen tearing was a nuisance too that went away as soon as I got an AMD card.

Looks like you got lots of great advice on the OS. Good luck, and enjoy whatever you end up doing!

I don’t follow this, how has this person voting 3rd party in 2016 led to facism starting in the 80s? For that matter, how has 3rd party voting led to facism at all? I’m very much struggling to make sense of this.

By definition, an agenda is “a program of things to be done or considered” which does not equate to wanting to do something. It more closely resembles a daily planner or task list.

So in as much as you and I have an “agenda” when we get out of bed, you are right, the person submitting the PR did likely have an agenda of waking up and going about their day. There isn’t a ‘woke agenda’ at play here, however, as the person I replied to seemed to imply.

Imagine you have been purposefully targeted for harassment or excluded from activities in the past due to your preferred pronouns or perceived gender. Seeing “he” with that context would likely feel excluding, which is a reason someone without an ‘agenda’ would want to see it changed.