abrasiveteapot @ abrasiveteapot @sh.itjust.works

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What's the hardware and network demand like ? I've been vaguely thinking of doing so myself.

Sure but that's true of any packaging system. The .deb or .rpm you just downloaded off not-a-scammer-honestly.com could just as easily be malware.

That was in 2018...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-found-in-arch-linux-aur-package-repository/

The AUR has the same risks as adding a ppa to a debian tree install, or downloading an rpm from a website.

If it's not in the official repository of your repo treat with caution

Definitely happens at some places, but not all, others put last year's unsold stock on sale. Clears out stock rooms and warehouses for new stock. This is definitely true of one high street retail chain who went on sale today.

Cool. Good article - which shows exactly what I said.

Solve is not the same as reduce/improve/alleviate.

As Musk knew full well when he tweeted it. No one has a solution for it, the best you can do is alleviate it for a bit.

Is he being a pedantic dick ? Yes. Did the original tweeter provide a plan to solve world hunger. No.

He provided a plan to reduce world hunger for a time. It's not a solution, it's a reduction in misery which I'd be very happy if Musk paid for. But it's not making world hunger entirely go away even short term let alone long term.

Aid spokesman engaged hyperbole drive and tweeted "if a billionaire like @musk gave us $40bn we could solve world hunger"

Musk replied "ok i'm listening, show me how you can solve it, if it sounds real I'll write the cheque"

Aid spokesman (back pedalling) "well not solve as such, but definitely make better"

Musk "whatevs then"

I mean he does say so much actual stupid shit, why do you guys keep making shit up ?

Edit to add not verbatim I can't be arsed to go find the tweets now he's fucked twitter

Seconded. Jerboa is much better than lookout liftoff which I also tried, but the backspace bug is irritating

properly maintained roads

Laughs as he drives across the border into Belgium and has a filling shaken out

OP claims to have successfully installed arch to confirm it's not a hardware issue fwiw

No prob.

In my opinion always check the arch wiki if you're having problems, even if you're not running Arch, it's a gobsmackingly good repository of linux knowledge

Not had any run-ins with turnitin I see

Did you check the wiki ? If you look that model up on

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Printer-specific_problems you check the wiki ?

And click on brlaser (the default driver) you'll find a comment pointing to a fork of the driver

https://github.com/Owl-Maintain/brlaser

Hope that helps. If you'd already gone through that then sorry to waste your time

That's a good point - I know polling is becoming problematic because the majority of people still retaining landlines are older and conservative, it has become quite difficult to achieve demographic balance for the sample for polling (and internet polling has known biases too)

Good point. But aren't most of the matches (and most sports generally) on paid/cable tv ? Everything of any consequence seems to be on Sky or BT Sports ? I rarely watch sport so I'm a bit out of the loop. I understood a handful of major events are legislated to have to be available on the BBC but only a few. Is that wrong ?

The "live tv" in the article above is just the stuff you need a TV licence for I thought ? BBC and ITV ?

If all the football fans are able to watch on BBC then all of sudden that's a much bigger number for sure.

Not young and have two teenagers that don't watch TV ever (youtube on the other hand, oh lord).

Probably biased sample (age, tech biased etc) but I did a couple of straw polls at the pub when I was thinking of ditching the tv licence and that's the basis for the statement. They could of course be telling fibs 😁 but the general consensus was "why have the tv licence with what you can get from netflix Amazon disney etc".

Sure, but how many of those are watching live to air ? As opposed to the witcher or whatever on a streamer ?

All my friends have TVs and most nights they'll have something on, but it's netflix, Disney+ etc.

I was the laggard on ditching the tv licence - I hadnt had an aerial in 10 years, but I paid it for access to the nonlive BBC stuff. After realising we never actually watched anything I asked around and most everyone responded that they'd ditched it, a few kept it for the occasional "event" programs.

It's certainly not a valid poll (demographics of my pub mates varies on ethnicity but not so much on age and gender), so I appreciate it's a loaded sample, but the near universal reaction was "you're still paying a licence, really ? Why ?

OK, I'm confused up near the start of the article you have the rather startling (to me) stat

" the proportion of people who tune in each week was down from 83% in 2021 to 79% in 2022."

Then further down you have

"Ten years ago, the average evening audience sitting down to watch the evening schedule at around 9pm was around 20 to 24 million people. These days, on a summer Saturday, the number is getting close to half of that."

12million is what, 20% of the UK population ?

On the first stat I find that extremely implausible, literally the only person I know who regularly watches live TV is my elderly neighbour (70 pushing 80), fair enough habits of a lifetime and all that. But none of the adults I know watch live TV except for "events" like the FA cup that aren't on a streaming option. Literally none. How can 79% of the population be watching live tv and I know 1 out of what, 50 odd people do in my social circle ?

The 20% figure is far more reconcilable - I'm sure there's a decent slice of people still watching East Enders and Love Island, but 79% is just gobsmacking

Ditto. I've literally never had an aur package break my system either, but like you if it doesnt want to play first go, I'll almost always find an alternative.

Which, again, misses the point. Original OP said "install native" replying OP said "but what about (package)" (obviously intending that to be a gotcha) and I replied with "well it's in mine"

I have no idea what debs& rpms are available, nor do i care.

And what is this "possibly broken aur" rubbish ? It's a repository, and it most certainly isn't broken.

Individual packages may be broken but they can be broken in any repository. Are you saying there's never been a broken package in a debian repository ? Lol.

Edit to correct "you" to "OP" as you aren't the original person doing the "whataboutism"

Nope, nothing broke but

Aborting... error: failed to build 'tuba-0.4.0-0.1':

and I can't be arsed troubleshooting why for a package I have no intention of using. LOL