Just telling them to be smart with money is not what I’m talking about though. What I’m talking about is actually modelling and teaching some amount of knowledge about how to save.

Because of course you can’t expect a child to learn a bunch of vital and complex stuff when you don’t attempt to help them. My original reply here was concerning people who actually had been taught something, rather than those who heard some useless vague advice in passing.

Sure, that’s true. I think in mine and many cases, wrapped up in the “being smart with money” lesson is saving, mitigating risk, and decreasing spending where possible. I at least hope most parents (who bother at all) are defining what being smart actually looks like.

You keep responding to comments with long unrelated comments of your own.

He did already pay in this case I think. Which is honestly shocking because you’re right.

Are you an LLM?

Yes that was a tangent…

My only point is that social media is toxic period and you cannot blame it on just AI or on just certain people. It brings out the worst in people. If I were benevolent dictator I would ban it entirely but I’m not so I’m not advocating for that since I know it’s not realistic.

Social media is full of crap due to AI generated content and toxic people

FTFY

Guess it depends on your perspective but for me this just reminded me of how disgusting cigarettes are

My parents did a lot to model being smart with money and only one of their kids (me) picked up on it. Kids often love being the opposite of what they’re taught, no matter how much it hurts them.

I don’t think this is exactly correct. The distro maintainer is responsible for choosing when and how to roll out/test upstream updates. So if they are doing their job, they would be pumping the brakes on specific kernel updates until they’ve worked out issues with them (or waited for upstream to fix them). So distros based on Ubuntu may or may not experience the specific issues that get rolled out upstream of them. Also, there could’ve been things elementary os was combining with the kernel updates that could’ve caused breakages.

I actually started my Linux as a daily driver journey on elementary os. There were some pretty major breakages that caused me to look elsewhere. I forget what they were but it was very frustrating. I landed on pop os because, like elementary, it’s Ubuntu minus some of the garbage. I think pop os is better now than it used to be, and I still daily drive it. It’s been a while since I had any major issue that seemed to be the os itself. Can’t remember the last one actually so it was probably years ago.

The first string in quotes was you, the second was me. Probably was confusing. In any case you answered my question and I feel less confused. For me, this number would probably be 95% no kidding. 50-70% is surprising but again, before I thought you were implying most sites, maybe even 90% worked fine without JavaScript. Once I consider that you already know many sites that don’t work without JavaScript which you don’t even try anymore, I guess those percentages could make sense.

It’s a wild way to live, gotta say. By turning off JavaScript, you’re essentially turning off most of the Internet. And especially when you are already running it in a super secure container, this is just wild to me.

There are so many things I hate about these types of sites,

What confuses me is that in this case “these types of sites” is “almost the entire Internet”

I’ll be more direct and ask a question. What percentage of the Internet would you say you run into major functionality broken without JavaScript?

It’s just a very confusing thing to claim, that’s all. If 90%+ of the web doesn’t work with js off then you’re either predetermining that you just won’t use 90% of the web. You’ve decided that ahead of time, so you cannot really say “these sites suck” because you haven’t even been able to use them. If you had said “I try not to use JavaScript dependent sites” that makes sense. But the way you’re presenting it, you don’t have any trouble and just use most sites. Which I happen to know is not possible.

That’s not really what this post was about at all. It was self deprecating and not about the person taking forever to reply

I tried using the web again last night with a browser extension that toggles off JavaScript. Out of like 8 websites I tried to use, literally all of them were broken.

So it’s not even just convenience. It’s that practically no one is building websites to work without JavaScript. I think that sucks, but I cannot change it by just avoiding most websites in defiance.

I don’t know what websites you’re using that still work without JavaScript, but they’re in the minority from what I can tell.

1000 upvotes, 400 comments all pretending to get it

This keeps getting reposted… Why? 🤮

That may be true also, but no one posted me with the caption “lmao”

It is confusing to me because A) what’s funny or interesting about this? B) how would one possibly know about libre office and not even know how to check if there’s an osx version. Any idiot should be able to figure that out in moments.

But mostly A.