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  • i work at a library. please put the books in the spot labeled book return. it may not seem like it but because there are so few people working there just a few people in the library can keep us so busy we will miss the books you put down. also, check if your library has an ebook/audiobook thing like Libby. the wait times can be long but it’s still pretty cool if you’re into those.










  • the people making art in those caves were basically modern humans. evolution happens over a very long timespan and homo sapiens has not been around for that long. even the other human species at that time would have been, within some margin, as smart as modern humans. to find a human ancestor that was only capable of the level of creativity ai bros show you would have to go back to before the appearance of homo sapiens (our species, btw) and likely several species before that. this means they dont even show so much as the bare minimum of creativity a human should be capable of.





  • you misunderstand (or more likely I phrased it like an idiot). im not saying something like that is easier to manage on fedora. what I meant was that you would encounter minor things on fedora that would give you the chance to learn the skills necessary to fix or at least diagnose a bigger issue. on mint you wouldn’t see that and on Ubuntu you generally wouldn’t either (in my brief experience using each before settling on fedora as my main)


  • IMO mint and Ubuntu make things simple in a way that keeps users from ever encountering something where they have to be aware of what the computer us doing. this means if something is happening that shouldn’t (malware, something misconfigured, steam being an asshole, etc.) they won’t know where to look. this is something windows and Mac do as well and it leads to the vast majority of people not knowing that they can make the software on their computer do what they say. if people dont know how to do that, corporations will (and do) take advantage of it. i probably am exaggerating a bit but I still think putting a new user on Ubuntu or mint is doing them a disservice.