ezchili @ ezchili @iusearchlinux.fyi

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Any advanced user will face dozens of hoops a month on Linux

It's never the simple things, nor the very difficult things. It's small, niche workflows & use cases of your computer that you "sometimes" do, like, I don't know, editing a PDF, installing shareX or an equivalent that can take a screenshot and upload it to imgur / run OCR on a part of your screen, running a Space Engineers server for your friends, running SSEEdit.exe to dump the contents of a potion overhaul mod in Skyrim and calculate which are the best ingredients to plant in your Skyrim greenhouse and garden for maximizing gold output.

No need to look up ways to do any of those, I'll get different ones next week, and then more the week after.

You know, the millions of things that no one ever does except that guy in 2019 on StackExchange, but that you will have to do and then never again.

the annoying stereotype of vegans pushing their diet

Also, vegans actually do something good for the planet instead of just choosing a different OS for their PC. So, maybe acknowledge that to your neighborly vegan next time, instead of telling them a story about how you once met someone who was really pushy about veganism.

You can get rid of all those uncertainties by just rolling out a pilot and seeing how it goes. There's no way cops being able to stop cars remotely causes any more trouble than them actually flipping cars over if they take .3 seconds too long to park for a traffic stop, like they did to that pregnant woman who died in 2022.

The police has also demonstrated many, many times that they can't be trusted to rationally judge whether to indulge in hugely dangerous car chases or not, and they routinely end up making perps crash into random people/objects for traffic stop evasions that turn out to just be a guy fleeing because they have felony quantity of coke or a revoked license. You give it a pilot and see how it goes, if it does more good than harm, then you keep it.

For security, there are many remote-access-control security dances out there, and it's a solved problem. Tons of them are just a certificate to authenticate, and do a little challenge to solve to be protected from repeat attacks. If one certificate gets leaked or abused you can revoke it and that's that. If that somehow still has flaws - that's why you're doing a pilot.

"Disadvantages"

43 000 deaths a year and you cry at the slightest inconvenience

Drivers need a reality check

Driver entitlement episode 456: "what do you mean my death machine needs to have a remote kill switch???"

Insane.

Monopolies don't need to create value for the user to keep their leadership

If the market wasn't fucked they wouldn't need to have good leadership, they'd do it or die

Sundar Pichai has got to be the worst CEO in the silicon valley period

Google has managed to produce next to nothing of value with a dreamteam of engineers the likes of which no one else had access to

From one uninspired leadership decision to the next they've just been sitting there bolstering what's already there while every once in a while adding a new product to the Google graveyard

I've seen paper used to separate thin cured pork slices

Euler giving the circle two big balls and an erection:

O3--

The minecraft server is down :(

Not fully worried yet about the software engineering job market but getting there!

Having seen original source code hasn't been an issue in previous cases where the reimplementation was done in another language with the changes one would expect coding up something a second time, I believe

Holy shit noelshack is still alive?

Is this an american thing

Even for Elon it sounds more likely that someone made that up

That seems too stupid to not be made up

Common misconception, that's a heftagon

"Tank looking for group"

Aw :(

Do you know what is theoretically limiting it to 40-45% in the physical process we are using?