You're officially an asshole.

I always wonder how many people think the cooling towers are “chimneys” blowing “smoke”.

Why are you asking me like I would know?

“They’re teaching the cops parkour… we can’t have that in this surveillance state distopia.”

The species is called the Kin. Basically squats with a new paintjob who live in the galactic core. The Votann are both their first ancestors that left pre-Imerial Earth, and the current Ancestor Core computers that they worship as deities. They are cloned with beneficial stable mutations, resistant to chaos (minimal warp presence), and when they die, they get tossed into the blender where their experience is uploaded into an ancestor core and their biomass is repurposed. They frequently trade with other cultures, and avoid open combat if it would be deemed wasteful.

every 40k faction except maybe the tau

Add the Kin to that. They are callously pragmatic to the end, but I wouldn’t call them outright evil.

Since we’re on Lemmy and all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy#Personal_life

Lemmy collected German military regalia; he had an Iron Cross emblazoned on his bass, which led to accusations of Nazi sympathies. He stated that he collected Nazi memorabilia because he liked the way it looked, and he considered himself an anarchist. He spoke against racism many times. Lemmy said he was against religion, government, and established authority. In 2011, he identified as agnostic, saying: “I can find out when I die. I can wait. I’m not in a hurry.” Jeff Hanneman, the founder of the thrash metal band Slayer, befriended Lemmy due to their shared fondness for collecting Nazi memorabilia. According to Keith Emerson’s autobiography, Pictures of an Exhibitionist (2004), Lemmy gave him two of his Hitler Youth knives during his time as a roadie for the Nice. Emerson used these knives many times as keyholders when playing the Hammond organ during concerts with the Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer before destroying them. Lemmy defended his collection by saying that if his then-girlfriend (who was black) had no problem with it, nobody else should.

Yes, Inquisitor, this heretic above me.

Debian: Always has some non-school-related books in its bag. Only watches films that stayed popular 10+ years after release. Has a flip phone and a Craig brand MP3 player.

Ubuntu: Wants to be like Debian, but only reads manga and watches anime with original audio, even if it couldn’t find subs, “because it’s the only real experience” (does not speak Japanese). Unironically wears a headband. Best friends are all weebs. Somehow still the most popular kid.

Mint: The nice kid. Always friendly and approachable. Went to the same primary school as Ubuntu, now trying to distance itself.

Fedora: Gadgets out the ass. Goes to midnight launches. Both parents are rich corpo executives.

RHEL: The rich corpo parents. You never feel comfortable around them. A teacher once overheard you talking about them and told you to keep those opinions to yourself. Pretty sure two-thirds of the school’s funding comes from them. Might be involved in human trafficking.

CentOS: RHEL’s oldest child. Graduated years ago. You haven’t heard from it in a while.

CentOS Stream: RHEL’s middle child.

Bazzite: Fedora’s gamer boyfriend.

Arch: The weird geek. Gray hoodie and cargo pants. Always has a solution to every problem (mostly unsolicited). Small group of like-minded friends. Has RSS feed with alerts on phone in case new music is released. Once forgot its boots at home. Wears gold.

EndeavourOS: Like Arch, but polite and dresses nicely. Space nerd.

Manjaro: Like Arch, but socially awkward and can mess up even a greeting. Often misses the bus. Wears gold, but it really clashes with the rest of its outfit.

SteamOS: The Gamer. Happy to share/trade game discs. Learned Russian from MSGV, production planning from Factorio, and Excel skills from EVE Online. Parents own a successful winery. Neighbourhood delinquents called Timmy and Wolfy have a grudge, for some reason.

SuSE: The exchange student. Apparently went to a classy high school in Europe.

Knoppix: You never see it in class. Somehow still good grades. Always down for a beer.

OpenWRT: The one with the car.

Kali Linux: Doing a network engineering introduction course. Unironically calls itself a hacker. Always carries a Flipper Zero.

Slackware: The chilled out janitor who sells cigarettes.

SLS: The retired previous janitor who sells weed.

(edit: some more!)

The BSDs: Students from a small rural town. They always hang around, but aren’t actually students. Sometimes complain about life in the city.

GNU Guix: Homeschooled all its life. Has an opinion on everything. Only uses pencils from a particular manufacturer. Vegan.

Artix: Former friend of Arch with many of the same interests. Argument about Lord Of The Rings versus Harry Potter caused a schism.

Proxmox: The computers guy. Half of its bedroom is dedicated to computer hardware. Hosts a dozen game servers, but never actually plays. Finds silence extremely distressing. Has a forum.

OpenMediaVault and TrueNAS Scale: The media gurus. Think of any film or series, they have it.

Gentoo: The mechanic. There’s nothing it can’t assemble or fix (in two to three days). Takes great pride in its own work. Has a bicycle that was assembled from mis-matched parts. Thinks the ship of Theseus is a stupid concept.

Android: Always on the phone. Always “has an app for that”. Nobody really likes it, but always involved in everything.

GrapheneOS: Android’s twin. Goth. Disillusioned with modernity, but couldn’t lift a hoe to save its life. Kind of a dick.

That’s literally what I wrote on a satirical post about moving to Windows! https://lemmy.world/comment/14612934 Except I was being sarcastic and you’re being serious.

That is part of the deal with Debian. You get stable software… but you only get stable software. If you want bleeding edge software, you’ll have to install it manually to /usr/local, build from source and hope that you have the dependencies, or containerize it with Distrobox.

If you go to a butcher, don’t complain about the lack of vegan options.

It’s literally how Blender is distributed. Get archive, extract wherever, run blender.

Calling something “literall 1984” is trite, I know, but this is pretty damn close to getting charged with wrongthink.

Magnetic tape. It’s one of the better long-term offline backup solutions. It is compact, inexpensive, has no moving parts (bearings, motors, reader heads), no scratchable surfaces, and can last for decades in a moderately climate-controlled room.

Just keep it away from magnets… or iron vaults. According to an anecdote (that I can’t find right now), a large bank vault was repurposed as an offsite backup storage, except it kept wiping the magnetic tapes because the thick iron walls reacted to changes in the geomagnetic field.

DB would be an improvement.

What’s your guess?

ADS-B can be disabled (not unexected for military aircraft) or made private at the request of governments.

You wrote an SQL statement?

Just off the top of my head:

State-sponsored higher education that is later paid back through taxes. Free healthcare, also paid for by taxes, and affordable medicine. Decent mass transit, although railways are a disgrace. Labour laws. Paid sick leave and mandatory minimum vacation days. Paid maternity leave, and tax breaks for new mothers.

PM is a Russian asset, but still better than Trump.

There’s only one other that could trump it.