i guess that viruses might be evolutionarily very old, dating back to the RNA-world-episode, seeing how primitive they are.

maybe they could have a use (exchanging DNA segments between individuals) but that is pure speculation on my part.

almost all animals and a lot of people too have worms, most of them aren’t really dangerous though, so no worries.

but it’s less prevalent in humans than in other animals due to hygiene or sth

source: i read it somewhere

obviously

Also, what does it have to do with whether he was a father or not? If he had had no kids, would that change anything? Can it be more acceptable to kill someone who hasn’t had kids? What’s the point in that?

most names are made-up anyways, and i can’t remember made-up stuff. there has to be something profound about it or i forget it

actually i have adopted a hobby of just giving people new names (yeah i know it could be seen as disrespectful but for me it’s just a normal way of doing things) and then calling them by that name. yes, it has led to confusion in the past. but it just feels like the proper thing to do. (yes you can call me weird and no i won’t take it as an insult.)

also, there’s this weird phenomenon that when i make up a new name for somebody, somehow that’s much easier to remember. and if i do forget and make up a new name again, that new name will often be the same as the first time. so there seems to be something “recognizable” or “fundamental” about it.

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basic social etiquette lol

in other words, forced and unnatural and unnecessary behavior that is just a parasite eating your lifetime and energy

so relatable, i call everyone “dude” or “man”.

i think names are an exception and only reserved for rare occurrences. honestly, i wouldn’t mind if people didn’t have names in general. just call everyone “child” “man” or “hey you” depending on their appearance. names are a weird concept to me. it’s not natural that people have names, i guess.

Public dissatisfaction aside, doesn’t the government direct benefit from high inflation because it means its debt is cancelled?

Wealthy and rich have nothing to do with one another.

Wealthy is a person that lives in a stable environment, where they aren’t threatened with death on a regular basis (such as, losing one’s job).

The most important “medical care” they need is food, lots of food.

Oh, and an absence of bomb shellings every other day.

yeah guys always get the wrong idea, after all /s

it’s class warfare, that’s what it is.

I respect your opinion, but I see it differently.

Paying for entertainment and content like well-made animations makes sense to me. After all, paying for content is some kind of democratic participation, choosing what is produced. I didn’t mind pirating a lot when I was younger and didn’t have the money to pay for something anyways, but now i prefer to do things “the right way”.

interesting

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yeah just like with mounting EFI vars on linux…

it should be possible because “root can do anything, really”, but also, it’s dangerous and should be disabled by default.

Now if Google could explain why toggling wifi through Tasker requires root, I would LOVE to hear the reasoning…

tbf all hardware-functions require root permission by default.

Linux does the same thing. If you want to access /dev/sda, it requires root.

I could guess one of the ways it could interfere with security is that it would probably also allow the app to disable WiFi. If the app does that, it could incur costs as now data is being transmitted over mobile connectivity. Also, it would maybe allow the app to find your mobile-IP address, which could be used to geotrack you. But i don’t know, i’m just talking out of my ass here.

tbh the security settings on desktop devices tend to be more lax in general; for example almost any desktop pc has an open bootloader, means you can sideload an operating system from usb. The consequence is that no password-at-login will protect your private data; only full disk encryption can.

Smartphones on the other hand often have a fully-locked bootloader, which means it’s totally non-trivial to install an alternative operating system. especially, it often contains wiping any data on the smartphone, so an attacker with access to the device can’t simply install their own OS and read the internal storage.

you can bypass this with a rootkit

i think they do it for security reasons. if you can take screenshots of sensitive data, so can malware. however, you should be able to disable it for netflix for example.