Containerized Cat for the Docker version?

Dock Dog would work too.

Dog /s

All of the long time Linux users have what you perceive as flawless experiences because they already did all the stumbling you did and more. Every operating system has steep learning curves and you will struggle with how it does things when first starting out. I recently had to start using Windows again after exclusively using Linux for years (and Windows 11 no less which I never used before) and there are plenty of times I’ve failed to do simple things I could do on Linux without even thinking.

I’ll probably just kill myself. It’s either get killed by a zombie and become a zombie or die on my own terms and spare the world from my undead corpse.

Also, a zombie apocalypse isn’t going to “end” when the majority of the population are already zombies (which are functionally immortal given that they’re already dead) so there’s nothing to look forward to afterward. Like exactly zero zombie apocalypse stories have any sort of end game where the minority human survivors win or even how they could conceivably win. What am I living for then? To spend a decade or two starving, afraid, paranoid of everyone living and dead, and surviving just for the sake of surviving? Fuck that, I choose death. Survivors of even the nuclear apocalypse have something to live for because it can still get better with time and humanity might still have a chance to rebuild, but not a supernatural apocalypse orchestrated by forces literally beyond our rational and scientific comprehension.

Do Samsung phones even have FM antennas? As far as I know they have to be a minimum length and old school feature phones had a hacky workaround where you had to plug in earbuds to listen to the radio because it was using the earbud cable as an antenna. Modern Samsung phones don’t even have headphone jacks so I can’t imagine they support FM at all. Probably your best bet is to use an internet radio service that has access to the stations you like.

Are they trying to evoke the Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs vibe by saying Harvard dropouts? Do they not realize that those are HORRIBLE people no one should ever look up to?

IDK about you but I’ve always assumed any fire alarm might be real and will act accordingly. Sure most of the time it’s a false alarm, but better to be inconvenienced by having to leave unexpectedly than die in an actual fire, “boy who cried wolf” style. Being annoyed by false fire alarms is a pretty good problem to have. It means the fire protection systems where you live are working so well you’ve never actually experienced or even heard about from your friends and family the horror of being in an actual building fire.

Also, there needs to be a distinction between an individual smoke alarm and a centralized fire alarm.

Individual smoke alarms are what you have in a single family detached house, at most they may be interconnected with a signal wire so all the alarms go off when a single one goes off. These systems are designed for a building small enough that a fire in any part of the building should be immediately noticeable and common mishaps that trigger smoke alarms like burning food can be very effectively communicated to everyone in the building. As such, they don’t have a central control panel that you can use to see the status of the system nor do they automatically call the fire department. So yes, in your home (assuming it’s detached) it can generally be safe to ignore a false alarm as long as you have inspected the entire house. I definitely wouldn’t disable a smoke detector though, there are documented cases of families doing that because of a verified false alarm, followed by a real fire which burns down the house with them inside because they disabled the only protection system.

A centralized fire alarm is for multi family housing and commercial/industrial buildings. These buildings are large enough that it is impossible for any individual to figure out why a fire alarm is going off, but they also tend to have false alarm protection built in, for example, they may need both a smoke and heat detector in the same area to go off before issuing a general alarm for the entire building. In apartments and other attached housing, the smoke detectors in each unit are usually the former individual type and only the detectors in the common areas like hallways are apart of the centralized system. The logic is that smoke in a single apartment may not actually be a fire or at the very least it’s being contained by the unit which usually has fire containment considerations as part of the design, but smoke in the common areas (meaning the smoke has breached the door) is more likely to be life threatening to everyone in the building. These systems are also the ones with the pull handles for manually triggering an alarm, and the vast majority of the time a centralized system has a false alarm, especially in a commercial building, it’s because some shithead pulled one of the manual alarm handles. But, again, the nature of these buildings is that you literally cannot be sure there’s no fire, and large buildings also have a ton of inaccessible space for wiring and ventilation and such, and if a fire is spreading through those spaces, you could be right next to it and not notice anything until the fire violently breaks through the wall (again, there are documented cases of this happening). So it’s better to just GTFO and let the fire department clear it.

Every summer I have to re-learn how to sleep without a blanket. I used to turn on the air conditioner so my room is cool enough to sleep with a blanket before I realized that’s dumb as hell.

I think you’re treating all these mostly unrelated initiatives as an “ideology” in itself and not just things people are interested in.

On the flip side the capitalist consumerist alternatives to all of these benefit from there popularity and thus offer a better value to most people. The question is about what made you defer that better immediate material value in favor of something else.

What makes you think a given person prefers the capitalist options? There are plenty of reasons to like all of these things which is why some people do.

Socialism on a small scale cannot solve the inherent issues of a capitalism that surrounds it.

No, but socialist countries are routinely sheltered from the capitalist driven cataclysms due to their control of the economy. Look at how much China was affected by the 2008 crisis vs Western countries.

Also, socialism in places like Canada necessarily means decolonization of both the Indigenous peoples here and ending our corporate exploitation of both people abroad and Canadians. If that’s not a reason to support it I don’t know what is.

Veganism benefits from more people becoming vegan and restaurants and grocery stores providing vegan options.

The WHOLE DAMN POINT of veganism is to get rid of a luxury (animal products) because you think it’s unethical. Vegans are not bothered by restaurants not catering to them because they simply won’t go.

Also, grocery stores providing grocery options? Ah yes the flop of the vegan tomato left the vegan community reeling. What are you buying at the grocery store of all places that you don’t think it’s always been possible to be vegan? You know you can just buy plants and make your own food right?

FOSS, or more specifically desktop Linux, benefits from more people being on it and software developers designing for and maintaining applications for it.

Linux is measurably more efficient. Like seriously compare the background resource usage of Linux to Windows, Linux can be up to twice as light giving you more resources for your actual applications. Linux is also a lot more private which a lot of people care about over the convenience of a mainstream big tech OS.

Also, the simplicity and dare I say “non-technical user unfriendliness” of Linux is also a draw for technical users who don’t want their computer coddling them. It’s a niche for a reason.

the fediverse benefits from more people veing on it and more diverse communities so those with niche interests besides the above causes can find community here.

Can you elaborate on this one? I don’t know what it means.

Gitea?

But why disable it for the people who can use it? Unless there’s a security implication to the handshake?

What magical company do you work in that gives you UEFI access on your work computer? Mine’s so locked down.

True, but I’d wager a lot more people have uses for a multi meter than an oscilloscope. If you’re interested in DIY electronics by all means get an oscilloscope (since you probably already have a multimeter in that case), but if you just need a basic tool for when you occasionally venture into the arcane world of electricity (checking a battery, checking if an outlet is live, checking if a fuse is good, checking if something’s shorted, etc) then the $10-15 Aliexpress multimeter is enough. In fact an oscilloscope is less useful to most people because it only detects waveforms (and by extension voltage in general) but not resistance or current among other metrics (unless you get one of those cool combination multimeter osciliacopes).

A multimeter

Do I keep my language skills?

Then have a normal childhood with normal social interactions in Canada instead of the awkward immigrant who can barely speak. Also potentially get diagnosed with autism as a kid because I kind suspect of the language barrier masked some of the symptoms.

Or just leave your house when work time starts and leave work early to account for traveling home.

The commercial first floor and residential higher floors configuration has been used as early as Carthage. It’s literally ancient history yet our governments are shocked when it works so well.

Honestly that fits what I use it for then. I’ve got into debates with my family about not changing the filter when the pitcher tells us to and doing it only when we taste the chlorine in the tap water (since the only reason I didn’t want it in there was because I didn’t like the taste). I always just saw it as a way to make the water taste better but they think there’s a health benefit and that it filters out more than just chlorine.

Also, this is more of a symptom of the dumb as hell separation of commercial and residential development that Canada is just barely now overcoming (and even then we’re not upgrading neighbourhoods to mixed zoning unless the entire area is being torn down and redeveloped). You have tons of Downtown businesses that rely on the influx of commuters to operate while people working from home wanting to go to a restaurant are out of luck because their entire district bans commercial buildings of any kind.

I sort of suspect that the wiring is in a diagram somewhere

That’s called a schematic and not only are those not public, they’re closely guarded trade secrets that companies will spend a lot of resources to prevent from leaking to the public.

Also, just because a schematic says the switch is connected a certain way doesn’t mean that’s actually how it’s connected. The only way to prove how the switch works is to inspect the traces in the PCB, which is very difficult to do especially without destroying it. Modern computers have multi layer PCBs that you’d basically need to peel apart to see the inner traces.