But they did, I made a friendly comment, I was even self-deprecating about it, mostly to be funny, and they accused me of having prejudices. I don’t take well to being called prejudiced, I’m not and hate people who are. Then they randomly brought up racism, that was a weird exchange.

No. OK, you’re not being a rational person here so goodbye.

Well mine was a tongue in cheek comment too, and I thought quite friendly and fun, and then you decided to call me prejudiced. The main point I was picking up on was mindless internet scrolling which is something I do when I’m unhealthily managing my boredom, it’s a warning sign for me, maybe it’s not for you, but I thought I would share my perspective, as I did in a non-judgemental way. Masturbation is perfectly fine, it can be healthy, it can be not, when combined with mindless internet scrolling it didn’t sound healthy to me but that’s just me. I don’t get fishing either but I wouldn’t judge someone for it, just like I didn’t judge you, but you responded like I did judge you, it’s like we’re on Reddit or something.

Why, do you know me from somewhere? The key word there is “seems”; if you truly get fulfilment from mindless Internet scrolling, pot and masturbation then go for it. That’s just not my experience. When you posted that here did you not expect other people to share their own perspectives?

mindless Internet scrolling, pot and masturbation

That part seems more like succumbing to boredom than combatting it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m guilty myself.

It’s not about blocking ads for me, that’s a happy side-effect, it’s about owning your computing and taking the necessary protection against tracking. Before “ad blockers” existed I spent a lot of time manually configuring my browser to block websites from connecting me to unnecessary, potentially intrusive third party servers, after all it’s my browser and my internet connection. Now uBlock Origin does that for me, it’s not an ad blocker, it’s a wide spectrum content blocker and the user should have the final say on what they connect to. I think we should stop calling them ad blockers.

Steadfast. As a native English speaker it feels like a very strong, grounded word which also suits its meaning. Originally literally means fixed in place, it’s come to mean loyal and unswerving.

I think it makes the point that needlessly large cars add even more risk than necessary.

Buses on net reduce the number of vehicles on the road which makes them a net benefit for safety.

Yes, it’s definitely getting better and should be celebrated, it’s a good video, I’m just concerned that the title might discredit the message for many people since it’s showing mainly areas outside of the City where the statistic doesn’t apply to.

It’s great but is the statistic referring to the City of London or Greater London since that’s a big difference? (City of London being a small part of Greater London). The video talks about and shows lots of areas of London that aren’t the City. But the specific wording of the title makes me think they might be overstating things since it would be much easier to achieve in just the City since a lot of people don’t drive there anyway.

Free as in freedom. But also free as in cost for most PC use cases. Red Hat and SUSE are mostly selling enterprise services.

What’s “on read”?