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"We have the guns to keep the state in check but we won't actually do that because that's bad so instead lets keep shooting each other and show off our cool guns".

I am not advocating for an insurgency. I am pointing out that it won't happen because that's not why gun owners own guns. Despite the claims of noble ideals.

You fundamentally misunderstand what privacy means if you're replying to someone stating using a VPN will help you avoid getting spied on by your ISP for commercial purposes with state actor based worries.

The fact that he's so anti-immigration as an immigrant himself is so odd. My rather negative interpretation is he doesn't consider himself to be an immigrant which screams white supremacy.

Very much agree. It's a pretty common mistake to bundle real information with obviously wrong details and lose credibility. Especially in the eyes of people looking for a reason to discredit the argument.

I also want to say I really appreciate Tim Cook’s emphasis on user privacy and I hope John Ternus can continue this trend.

You're kidding right? News [1] just broke about how Apple's permanent notification storage (that they refuse to fix) undermines encryption and is being exploited by law enforcement. And they conveniently left out the fact that they were giving out push notification data to law enforcement without any warrants from their transparency reports [2]. And these are just from the top of my head.

Do we now presume all companies putting the word privacy on their ads are emphasizing privacy? Because Meta and Google does that too.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2026/04/10/fbi-pulle... [2] https://www.wired.com/story/apple-google-push-notification-s...

I simply don’t do anything that won’t teach me something new or improve my existing skills.

Not trying to be rude but you either must not be a professional software engineer or your skill level isn't that high yet. You simply cannot always do things that teach you new skills or improve existing ones. In any sufficiently complex project, even the most novel ones, you'll do things you've done many times before.

Background shader pre-compilation does not use all cores by default and the only way to change that is to manually edit a file. So unless you're consciously changing it, you won't have this problem. It'll only use all cores when you launch the game.

I have been having the issue with the system hanging up when steam is doing big writes. I had assumed it was due to something wrong with my drive and was contemplating reformatting it.

I like Helix. I couldn't get Neovim to stick after a few tries but Helix let me into the modal editor world. Just works, no config required and their editing model is better for newcomers because you can see what you're about to do. I eventually switched to Neovim after a few months though (thanks to Kickstart.nvim), because configuring with a programming language is just so much more powerful.

That said, I'm convinced people praising Helix because they "don't have to install 60 plugins" or "constantly keep tweaking their config" will just start blaming Helix when it gets plugin support and if it gets a dynamic configuration language.

You don't have to install 60 plugins (I have 6) and you don't have to keep tweaking your config (I haven't touched core parts of my config in years, just like to play around with logic sometimes). It's not a feature to not support these things just because you lack the self control to stop playing with your editor and focus on your work.

I'm excited to see how neovim is making progress with native LSP, but for years getting it working meant continuously tweaking vimscript/lua code or adopting a plugin written in TypeScript.

Lua and native LSP supports were introduced at the same time. Not getting how you would tweak Lua code to get LSPs to work before Neovim had native support.

LSP just worked; it read what was on the $PATH and used it.

This is how Neovim loads LSPs as well. You don't need a plugin to download and manage LSPs. You can just install them externally yourself.

not spending any time configuring LSP servers were the top problems plaguing my usage of neovim.

It's been years since it's just a few lines to enable LSPs with the config shipped in nvim-lspconfig if you don't want to override any server-specific settings. And even then its still pretty easy.

I will give you that Neovim should ship with nvim-lspconfig and just load a compatible LS if its already in the PATH. Enabling each server one wants to use is annoying. But again, it's just a few lines (and I'm pretty sure a lot of people wage war if they did either of those things because "bloat").

I have it configured to not skip ads on a few creators who:

1- Makes good, useful content that I watch often. 2- Doesn't abuse sponsorship sections. Sponsor segment at the beginning of a video? Auto-skip. Half the video is about the sponsor? Auto-skip. Constantly gets sponsorship from spam/fraudy/irrelevant companies? Auto-skip.

For all the channels that doesn't fall into these categories: tough luck.