Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children Date: 3 Jun 2025 15:50:43 GMT Lines: 69 Message-ID: References: <100lcd7$30vat$1@dont-email.me> <100ljn1$30vat$2@dont-email.me> <6831b9a7$0$8595$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <6832fab9$0$11442$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10131kd$28rgm$2@dont-email.me> <10184uj$3fruv$4@dont-email.me> <1019ljc$3s6rv$4@dont-email.me> <101damu$mkpm$5@dont-email.me> <101detf$nrh9$1@dont-email.me> <101g272$1gvrm$1@dont-email.me> <101k3rp$39a21$3@dont-email.me> <101lsmt$3q48r$1@dont-email.me> <101n25d$20jc$4@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net bvon1amXWwODVjAC40JBJw5SyglLc+Borzp4PHH3cu6cEPH6Ry Cancel-Lock: sha1:Lhv+nIxpx4nd+Yhy+LHi2Sna4eM= sha256:GTtK3qOO6wNDwkJ3eP8HCVA2bQK92WEyrfJMTa1Z8Qw= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.163 (Hmm5; 89a33f9d; Linux-6.15.0) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:68257 On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 15:51:25 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote in <101n25d$20jc$4@dont-email.me>: > On 03/06/2025 14:26, Borax Man wrote: >> Of course, society would be far better if people could get together for >> a shared interest, and no one made it about having to share political >> views as well. That would just be common sense, right? > > One of my ex employees said 'working with you was hard work, but I > didn't realise what a pleasure it was workjng in a company where there > were NO politics, until I went to work in one where it was all > politics'. > > Running a company IMHO is about focussing on getting jobs done for > customers in the most effective way possible. The only criterion is cost > benefit analysis. > > Is it worth doing? > > I wasn't there to make any political points, espouse any religions, or > dictate what my staff should or shouldn't wear. Just to mange the > business to make sure people had what they needed to get the job done, > knew what the job was, that needed to get done and in fact did get the > job done. > > I only once commented when the guy with the tongue rings and tats came > in with blue hair...' 'You are not visiting customers with that' I said. > It was gone in a few days. > > The problems is that today we are bombarded with political and > commercial marketing telling us what we *ought* to be doing. > > Most from a moral perspective,. The Left love their moral compasses and > social justices and all that crap. > Everything has to be Fair. > > My schoolmaster dismissed that within a month of arriving in his class. > He had fought in WWII > > "Life is rough, tough and *desperately* unjust, and you had better > learn to get used to it" > > Today's whiny little snowflakes have no idea. Once my Dad told me "life isn't fair". I ask him, "shouldn't we try to make it as fair as possible?" Humans have an innate sense of justice -- from birth. Also empathy. But we have filth like Musk telling Rogan that empathy is a "bug" and "exploitable". And this has nothing to do with Linux. ObLinux: Running 6.15.0 with NVIDIA binary blob drivers. To get the drivers installed, I used: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.57.08.run --no-unified-memory --skip-module-load ...and chose the MIT/GPL branch (default). (None of this is necessary if your distribution handles it.) -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G OS: Linux 6.15.0 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18 Mem: 258G "Overload--core meltdown sequence initiated."