Most atheists are agnostic atheists that do not accept the proposition that a god or gods exist. They make no claims.

Theist: There is a god. (claim)

Atheist : I’m not convinced. (Rejection of the claim)

Because society is so heavily influenced by god belief, there exists a term for those that reject the god claim. Most do not believe bigfoot exists, but there’s no special “abigfootist” word for the same exact position about not believing in a god. And people don’t go yelling at “abigfootists” to prove bigfoot does not exist.

There are some atheists that claim there is no god, and that would absolutely require evidence.

That’s a bold statement. Can you prove that we cannot possibly know one way or the other?

Most theists believe in an all-powerful god. If such a god exists, it could absolutely prove that it exists, otherwise it wouldn’t be all powerful. So far, it hasn’t done so, and no one has presented me any convincing evidence, so I don’t believe in a god.

You should meet some more atheists. Most atheists are agnostic atheists – I don’t know whether or not there is a god, but I currently do not believe in a god.

Yes, some atheists do think they know there is no god. That is a belief and requires proof, which like the theists, they don’t really have.

You’re forgetting the response from the theist.

Theist: God exists.

Atheist: I don’t believe you.

Theist: How can you not believe me? You have no evidence, therefore my God exists.

Atheist: …

Our neighbor’s cat visited us a lot and then decided she lived with us instead. We called her Meows since we didn’t know her name. Eventually talked to the neighbors and learned they named her Zoe. We didn’t like that name for her so call her Meows.

I read most of these when I was young and don’t really remember them being overly violent. What I do remember are long descriptions of food.

My perspective as a physics professor at a public university who has spent most of my adult life in academia. While there’s some true points here, it’s annoying to read such overgeneralized statement. I’m not going to generalize my perspective as truth for all universities, but I doubt my experience is far from ordinary. I doubt the OP is in academia.

• As someone else stated, funding is an issue. Many programs, departments, and support offices are underfunded and understaffed.
• While I hate microsoft products, it is simply less expensive to pay microsoft then all the additional required IT staff to self-host servers and email. Salary and benefits to faculty and staff is the majority of a university’s expenses.
• My IT staff at my current institution helped me access our file system on my linux machine, even though they don’t officially support linux. But this was simply extra work for one of the staff who has a thousand other fires going on.
• 2FA is available to those without smartphones via USB dongles. And as much as I hate Edge, stupid microsoft Edge allows access to services without 2FA.
• At my grad school university, we had an IT member dedicated to managing unix/linux system for the physics faculty and grad students.
• How is it the fault of a University that the majority of the public uses social media? Yes, my institution uses social media, though I don’t think they use facebook anymore… Besides Lemmy, I have zero social media, and yet I am aware of all events going on campus. Everything is notified via university email, not just social media.
• The majority of math and physics students here learn LaTeX. As someone that has sat on numerous search committees hiring additional physics faculty, latex is prevalent in physics area of academia.
• Campus PC labs exist all over our campus. Yes, they are window machines.
• It would be awesome to have local faculty and student created research tools. Who’s going to do it? Between my teaching, committee, and advising responsibilities, I have zero free time. I can’t create these tools. What specific tools are you referring to? Our campus library website is pretty darn good at accessing peer-review literature for faculty and students, with no ads.

ChatGPT and AI is a giant problem right now in academia. Nothing I do seems to convince students that using AI to do their homework harms their education. If someone knows a solution to this, I’m all ears. I’m tired of people blaming me, or the university, for things we’re trying to find solutions to.

Anyone have some favorites available here? Been getting back into reading and looking for some recommendations that aren’t the same top 100 books of all time lists that are all over the internet. Many of those books killed my interest in reading for a bit…

I often use national park websites if that is your destination. They have MVUM (motor vehicle use maps) that can be handy. These often list places where dispersed camping is allowed.

I remember a friend telling me how Prince could absolutely shred on guitar. As someone who didn’t really listen to Prince, I was skeptical. My friend showed me this performance.

I doubt debian is what you want if you want to stay up to date. It’s newish now, but won’t get updates for another 2 years.

I’ve never run into issues updating to all short term Ubuntu releases between LTS versions when I used Ubuntu. Though I’ve now switched to Debian as I don’t care about latest updates and some snaps consistently gave me issues.

Maybe Fedora is what you would prefer though?

KDE is available on any distro. Just need to install it if it’s not the default desktop.

Yeah. I have a few necessary apps only available through Google store, but with the exception of installing those, I never use Google play.

I opened it the other day and it’s unusable for browsing apps, whereas I regularly open and browse F-Droid for new apps.

Linux cast.

I’m a big fan of the simple bic ball point round stic. I think it writes great. Though I likely haven’t tried a too large variety of pens.

Did you install the texlive-full package? It would include the curve package by default.

As tal said, if you don’t have a settings.sty that document won’t compile.

If you’re new to latex, you should get a simpler resume template. That one seems unnecessarily complicated. I haven’t ever used the curve package but there’s gotta be a minimalist template out there that could be a better starting point.

I have this on CD. El caminos in the west is a great song.

I’m still getting numerous of these unknown errors getpixel errors for images that load fine on the web and in bloorp. I played with the different client agents and nothing worked.

Is Robertson the same as square head? It looks like Robertson has a slight taper?

Pocket hole screws are typically square and I find them inferior to torx.

I don’t understand this but SumatraPDF is my go-to for viewing PDFs on windows, since adobe is a giant sack of shit.

I’ve been on Lemmy for over a year, where I learned that there’s some difference between liberals and leftists, though what those are, I don’t know.  I also had never heard the term tankie before Lemmy.  I’ve never cared to look any of these terms up though.  Probably makes me one of them…

I have user agent set to let the app decide.

I installed bloorp a few days ago and started using it. I’m comparing it and summit. The 400 and 500 error images simply don’t show anything in bloorp, whereas summit shows the error, so yeah, not an app issue.

However, there are several images that load in bloorp and not summit, which gives an unknown error, getPixels failed with error invalid input.

There is also the feed ending and not showing additional posts in summit with the 400 bad request still while I can infinitely doomscroll in bloorp. Occasionally, though not often, clicking retry will load an additional page of results.

Edit: I tested all the user agents and none fixed the issue.