I agree but we are now talking about different things I think. I am talking about the cases where WFH is viable but companies refuse it due to dogma or a need to control.

Yes please!

In this capitalist world, companies will find a way to make employees pay for it. For instance by mandating that you move near the office. Or by only hiring people that live nearby. And what do you know, they will own nearby buildings and offer you a good deal on rent. One big issue our western societies currently have is that the rich airways find a way to make the poor pay for them. So financial incentives have a high chance of failing, unless carefully accompanied by other measures.

Signal on Debian does not do that. It updates with the other apps, when I tell apt to update all my apps, and it never asks me to update.

I don't want Iran to have nukes. I also don't want any other country to have nukes. The USA do not have a stronger claim to a right to have nukes than Iran does.

Have you tried Kodi?

Just gift them to the local population and insist that they can drive themselves, the great destructive effect will follow.

Making up a false dichotomy doesn't mean that people fall nicely on one side or the other of it. It probably says something about you though.

The beginning of your answer was interesting. Then you projected things on me that are false, not sure why. Then you insulted me. You could have stopped while you were reasonable and respectful, that would have been a better answer by any sensible criterion. Not sure why you sabotaged your answer like that. There's no need to be a dickhead, and no benefit either.

People stop smoking every day, without external help too. Are you saying that these people were not addicted to begin with? I suggest that your definition is simplistic and not useful for this discussion.

Please elaborate. On the surface it seems like a good analogy: both alcohol and sugar can be avoided by making a choice, both are addictions (including everything that comes with addiction), both cause health issues, both have a cost for society. Analogies don't have to be a perfect 1:1 fit, they just have to work well enough for the points being discussed. We could probably make a decent analogy with smartphone addiction too.

OnlyFans didn't convince anyone, adults make their own informed decisions, it's called free will. Age is irrelevant, we have decided as a society that past a certain age you are allowed to make your own decisions, and that you are responsible for these decisions. Granted, economic pressure is a factor.

Would you extend the same criticism to other things that people regret? For example, are you judging Bluesky or Mastodon harshly because people sometimes post things there that they later regret posting? There have been career-ending posts... Or would you extend the same criticism to a tattoo parlour? Some people regret their tattoos.

Does something make adult content qualitatively different and more serious, beside puritanism? Is it about commodifying the self?

Because if it weren't a self driving car, there wouldn't be a story to begin with. Human drivers have no issue dealing with this situation.

I used KDE for a bit around 2004 and I thought it was fine compared to Gnome or Windows at the time. But ultimately what I liked about it was some of the apps, which you can also use without the DE. I have used fluxbox for many years, these days I use XFCE which does more than I need. I think one significant advantage of more feature-rich environments, these days, is the search functionality, for instance I wouldn't know how to search for a pdf file that contains a certain string of text on my whole system. But that comes at the cost of indexing.

I mean, it can be both at the same time. I don't really enjoy the funny side of it myself these days, but knock yourself out. Mostly I find it depressing that there is so much hate and stupidity. I still think it's good that someone is keeping track.

Here is the page referred to about leopards eating faces: https://www.reddit.com/r/Leopa...

It's a bunch of stories about people who voted for Trump and who then suffer unforeseen (by them but not by anyone with at least two neurones) consequences for it. It's very depressing.