At least it can’t be as bad as what we’ve got in Australia.

A ham fisted law passed through to ban ‘all vapes’ except for a select few that are manufactured by philip morris and the other big tobacco companies.

The tax on cigarettes alongside this has made an extremely lucrative black market for organised crime.

If you don’t mind me asking when did you join reddit?

I agree but the fediverse doesn’t solve all issues, once it attracts mainstream attention we will have corporate advertising that subverts the system with bad advice to make sure you buy their sub-optimal products.

Reddit used to be a wealth of information for things like this and it was poisoned by those corpo-ghouls.

Obligatory fuck spez and fuck the botched knob job nazi who he kowtows too.

I unfortunately bought a subscription before dickhead made his statement. Looks like I’m with them for a year >.<

Yeah I hate this stuff too, I usually pipe it into a file figure out what it’s doing and manually install the program from there.

FWIW I’ve never found anything malicious from these scripts but my internal dialogue starts screaming when I see these in the wild, I don’t want to run some script and not know what it’s touching malicious or not it’s a PITA.

As a linux user, I like to know what’s happening under the hood as best I can and these scripts go against that

What the actual fuck, Kavin.

I’d disagree, that’s a talking point promoted by big oil/corpoghouls to encourage divide and conquer tactics and move perception away from the issues at hand.

There’s been a concerted effort by petrochemical ghouls to hinder any progressive innovation that doesn’t require oil for the last 100 years.

This paired with western societies exceptionalism and belief that it can live outside of nature and limited resources is the biggest driving factor behind the mass extinction event.

We need to radically rethink our society to cause effective change, it’s hard to orchestrate that on the individual level but innovation that can offer convienent alternatives would cause the majority of people to reduce their carbon footprint without sacrificing quality of life.

At this point in time it is too late for us to continue living as we know it. Billions of people will now have to die, borders will be reshaped and our entire societies will become unrecognisable from what they are today, most likely for the worse.

I paint it out to sound like we should give up, but we absolutely should not. We have a choice to drag our heels kicking and screaming into the future at the detriment for all or we can continue fighting for a better world.

My common solution to boot issues that lock me out is,

1. Get a USB Live distro (always good to have a backup lying around)

2. Boot into live distro

3. Chroot into the broken distro (Arch wiki has an article on this)

4. Fix any bugs that I can find and/or reinstall the bootloader

5. Test, repeat until the problem has been found and fixed

Hope it helps any newcomers!