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They know what they have to do. Bring Ballmer out of retirement!

Those are no longer being developed. OpenBSD is.

If you try to kill somebody and fail, that’s still a crime.

For a second I thought that “eleven a frog” was a time of day.

I’m so sick of everybody and their dog trying to strongarm me into using their app.

If you fork it, the fork doesn’t belong to them. You can do what you want with it.

Besides, if they don’t want to maintain it, why don’t they stop maintaining it right now? What does Lemmy 1.0 have to do with it?

Why are they dropping support for Tesseract after Lemmy 1.0?

Wow. I consider myself a pretty frequent user of Lemmy, and I have no idea what they’re talking about here. Any of it. And if it doesn’t concern me, then it sure as fuck doesn’t concern any “normies”. Normies aren’t doing deep dives into Lemmy politics. They don’t know, and they don’t care—just like I don’t. It’s a classic case of taking a personal vendetta and pretending it’s some grand crusade for decency and normality.

This is the worst case of needing to touch grass I’ve ever seen. Maybe before posting something like that, go take a walk first? Get some fresh air.

The idea that they are the standard-bearer for normal people.

There is no class.

Well, that’s a new one on me. I’ve seen people argue that the earth is flat, but this is the first time I’ve seen somebody argue that being rich is the same as being poor. So, congrats on originality, I guess.

I’m no expert, but it sounds like they were killed by authoritarianism, not communism. I don’t think communism requires concentration camps, famines, or cultural purges.

What a crazy coincidence. I was just checking out this GitHub today. It has a project called Anewbis which is

A fork of Anubis without the cringey anime catgirl. This fork provides no other changes. It just updates from the main project and removes the stupid catgirl.

You got banned from the entire site for that?

I haven’t had issues with bugginess in years, but it probably depends upon how you’re using it.

Presentation is huge, at least for me. The thing that pulled me over to the Linux side was people posting screenshots of their tricked-out desktops with cooling-looking terminals. It made learning the terminal look fun, not intimidating.

You avoided my bigger question.

Love should be conditional. It should be reciprocated.

Years and years of mental abuse makes the love for your family go away.

Right. Because your love was conditional. Which is a good thing. You loved them; they abused you; you quit loving them.

What am I missing here?

Sure, I’ve heard that referred to as your “logical family” (as opposed to your “biological family” ). I have estranged family members, too.

What’s interesting is HC Trumbull’s contrast with the Arabic concept of blood being thicker than milk (from the Wikipedia entry) which seems to be closer to your meaning. I’m not sure if this is referring to people who have fought together or if it’s some kind of “blood brother” ritual, though. Unfortunately, in English the word “blood” is used as a metaphor for family.

In my case, and in the case of some of my friends, family members are just a disappointment while my friends and I have unconditional love for eachother and are even there through the hardest times.

I’m glad that you’ve found friends like this. I don’t understand the appeal of unconditional love, though. I expect that if I turned into a horrible person, my friends’ love for me would go away, and I wouldn’t think any less of them for that.

It seems like your love for your family is conditional upon them not being assholes. I think that’s completely reasonable and appropriate, but why have unconditional love for your friends but not your family? If your friends started treating you the same way your estranged family members have, wouldn’t your love for your friends also cease?

Maybe I’m missing something important about love here. This seems likely, because a lot of people hold the value of unconditional love in high regard and act as though its goodness is so obvious that it doesn’t need to be explained. Perhaps you could tell me how I’m wrong here.

Yes, and that’s a good thing for you. But is it a good thing for the dog? I’ve known dogs with very abusive human companions.

This is why I don’t understand why unconditional love is put up on a pedestal. The person that you love unconditionally could fall, hit their head, and become a completely different person who now treats you horribly. Should you still show them that same love?

People saying this mean to say that family bonds are more important than friendships.

That is how this phrase has been interpreted since the 12th century.

But it’s incomplete. The full expression:

blood runs thicker than water from the womb

This version comes from “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”. A couple of writers in the late 20th - early 21st century made the claim that this was the original phrasing; however, they did not cite any sources to back up this claim. See details in the Wikipedia entry.