You have greater assurance of what the software is doing behind the scenes.

Even if you can’t read code, others who can will; privacy groups (official and hobbyist) likely will.

You can know, even if just through others, sort of what’s going on with the software in a way you simply can’t with proprietary software.

100% this; cheese on its own is always a wonderful snack.

Sitting on a cool 64, over here.

Still making my way through Voyager, for the first time.

If it weren’t for rating you poorly, that’d be incredible performance art.

Making phone calls with a GTK UI is a surreal experience in the best possible way.

isn’t at the expense of either of the characters

It always felt like Odo had the slight upperhand (or narrative sympathy?) in every scenario which was a tad annoying when a major theme of his character arch is his possible propensity for outright authoritarianism (a character arch I thought was brilliant to give him and, sadly, not explored nearly enough).

I still love both of them but that aspect of the dynamic will always bother me.

…new headcanon unlocked.

I wouldn’t say it’s bad acting? It seems right in line with an anxious people-pleaser who doesn’t know when to quit. I thought he was spot on.

So there’s Flare which works (GTK implementation) but it’s far from feature parity; but it definitely works pretty nicely, for what it is.

The device also has really good Android emulation; certain Google Play services still don’t quite work, even though it comes with MicroG preinstalled (e.g. the Integrity API so, unfortunately, all my banking app.s crash themselves), but I can’t imagine Signal uses any that’d cause it not to run.

I have it (the Android version) installed and it opens just fine but I haven’t had the chance to try transferring the account (and all messages) over, yet. So I’d expect it’d fully work but that’s all I can tell you, yet.

I can come back and let you know how it goes and how well it works – once I get there –, if you’d like.

FuriOS’s FLX1s works pretty well; it’s been my primary device for 3 months, now.

Are you using suspend, rather than hibernate? Proper hibernation shouldn’t be using battery, at all (as the entire machine is shut off).

I still follow the old twice-your-ram rule; 128GiB swap for meeeeeeee

The spec.s may not be enough for you but I’d be remiss to not point out that MNT Reform does exist, regarding ARM laptops. So, at the very least, there is something (which may be comforting).

Shhh… (this is cuter)

Entirely unrelated to your point (with which I fully agree) but wouldn’t it make more sense to replace the first period in “et.c.” with just a space (if you’re not going to forego the period)? et isn’t short for anything so the period doesn’t quite make sense (and you wouldn’t be using any more letters than you already are).

No worries, either way (obviously); I was just thinking.

Since 6 whole paragraphs were too daunting to read, I’d be happy to summarize the sources I’d linked to for you in just one manageable paragraph.

The primary cause, in over 50% of cases was an individual undergoing an acute stressor. Trauma could also contribute but, as I mentioned previously, mental illness is rarely a primary cause, even in cases of trauma. But, primarily, it’s an acute stressor.

This also isn’t anything I’m saying; I’m just citing the conclusions drawn by studies on the matter.

Most people

An appeal to general consensus and definition by crowdsourcing is inherently anti-scientific.

kill a bunch of random people and then themselves for no good reason is mentally ill

I mean, clearly the scientists and doctors who study these things didn’t draw that conclusion.

Being in a bad mental state is not, by any definition, an equivalent to being mentally ill. Mental illnesses are particular things, not a general blanket attribute for that person being “different from us” and non-standard.

And in this specific case, she was not a particularity stable individual.

Alright? I already said that some cases certainly involve mental illness. Your anecdotal pointing out won’t change the statistics and studies, though: those are a minority of cases and generally incidental.

But you have demonstrated for all of us scapegoating in action: your entire comment disregards science and evidence-based assessment for an anecdotal definition based on a sense of normalcy that allows us to say, “Fundamentally, those people are just different from us. Normal people wouldn’t do that.”

It isn’t helpful, though.

Of course.

Basically, any study of mass shootings within the last decade all always draw the same conclusion: they are not driven, as a rule, by mental illness. In general, mental illness accounts for 25% of cases (and that’s for mental illness, in general) but the mental illness itself is generally incidental. But, of course, most people have a particular mental illness in mind when they mention it in this context and that’s severe mental illness, generally psychosis. The previous link mentions this as only being present in 5% of cases though this other source mentions 10%.

Regardless, these are clearly minority level numbers and, even if we wanted to stretch things and pretend they were higher for the sake of argument, still well and beyond below 50% as to make saying that mental illness, primarily, is to blame – end of story – just inherently untrue.

But, moreover – and the far more important part! –, the thing that shouldn’t be lost here is that the claim that mental illness is the cause has caught on as such a popular talking point because it’s easier to scapegoat.

It’s a simple answer that, for those unfamiliar, is going to make, supposedly, intuitive sense. The politicians like it – for much the same reason they like blaming violent media – because it doesn’t force them to do anything about the actual root issues (the social conditions that drive people to this desperation or create the far right ideas that become so popular that people write entire political manifestos beforehand) and it works so well as a scapegoat because people with psychosis are foreign (and, therefore, hard to understand) for the generally (more) mentally abled population.

The fact is that schizophrenics are overwhelmingly more likely to be victimized with violence than to be committers of it; but framing violent events like these as being driven by mental illness helps to prop up the misconception and ensure that people with severe mental illness are misunderstood.

Anyway, they were close because the beginning of their comment is spot on only to settle so assuredly on incorrect information but, more over, an unquestioned stereotype that causes real harm due to it being based on erroneous information.