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Well sync still supports that at least so: Test

Damn I was wondering exactly that a few days ago. Once again lovely job from eff to clarify here.

Oof altered carbon got me that hard. The first season is so confusing and amazing. The second season.... Well

A pound of ground beef or tofu is a third that price.

I understand what you're trying to say here. But I just wanted to add, making a vegetarian/vegan burger is not as simple as grinding up a pound of tofu and sticking it together to fry in a pan. I'm not saying you have to buy some of the "no meat" brand burgers to make a nice vegan patty but simply substituting some meat with natural unprepared tofu and expecting a great tasting result is IMHO where a lot of people get their aversion to tofu (and often derived to all meat alternatives) from. (Source 15years of vegetarian eating and cooking) The fact that ready made vegan patties exist and taste great these days is awesome for someone like me who sometimes just wants to make a stupid simple tasty burger.

Tl;dr: Tasty vegan patties aren't that simple.

I agree that people should be encouraged to cook more (I love doing it when I have time and it hits me). But simply declaring "nobody can cook anymore" and demanding people that might not have the time to prepare a home cooked meal in between their first and second job is not helping.

Of course the convenience of fast food and ready made meals is one of these classic situations where an "invention" that makes our life simpler and more convenient is a good reason why we don't need all that time we save to ourselves anymore. i.e. you don't need a lunch break when you can just microwave something up and eat it while continuing your work.

Sorry got kind of a long winded bit here. Hope it makes sense

Germany is actually well known for having very low grocery price

English language article that mentions this though the main subject of the article are the " true price of groceries including climate costs: https://www.dw.com/en/the-true-cost-of-germanys-cheap-food/a-38976477)

This is largely done by price dumping the suppliers and low balling the workforce (as much as German labor laws allow) <- I'm aware I have no source for this I will try to dig one up tomorrow when I can

Took me a second to figure out that was the Nvidia drivers version number. I was wondering if gnome made another major version shift from 45 to 545 for a second :)

Now name 10 distros that aren't based on each other. And yes I'm counting the *buntus as being based on Debian.

If you look at the famous lineage graph there's a fill out there but barely any reinvention of the wheel (not that that's a bad thing).

Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn!

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I love yes it is an amazing tool. I never had an actual use for it since any tool I might want to use it on (like apt) already has some kind of command line switch for it already

But I just once in a while stumble across yes again and run it for half a minute and have a chuckle.

Just like every time I read: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

I understand and appreciate you trying to learn. I think one of the issues why nobody can really point you to a good resource is that there are no 100% neutral resources that document "the conflict". Even just where/when you start something like a timeline can be biased.

Keeping all that in mind I have found a video that gives a short simplified summary of the base history.

https://youtu.be/1wo2TLlMhiw?si=_ANEgker8DzQZQxR

I liked it (might be part of my bias since I like crash course). But I'm sure there are mistakes in there and as above some details/framing might just be due to biases of the author's/presenters etc.

I love ThinkPads especially the "good old" ones. Especially for their accessibility of parts and easy repair/upgradability.

My personal laptop has been a Thinkpad since 2013 (Thinkpad Edge E135 > Thinkpad X220 > Thinkpad x260) and at work we are also given ThinkPads (currently running a T14 gen 3).

Most ThinkPads I encountered are also sturdy built and not Gleis together or some crap like that. However I recently had an issue with my x260's power button no longer working and to get it to work I had to replace the top bezels. Well maybe to put it more bluntly I had to get a replacemt bezel and put my Thinkpad into it since to replace the bezel I had to take out almost everything and then put it back in the reverse order. The mere fact that I managed to do it and there are officiall step by step instructions on how to (hmm) are a big upside of ThinkPads. But like others have said it used to be even better.

Well long story short: I've recently preordered a framework 13 amd while I honestly would have preferred a "Thinkpad black" Chassis framework just seems to have the right idea to me.

Yep. Use it at work every day (on Ubuntu). Gives you more features than the "oicial preview client" used to do (like custom video backgrounds and screen sharing on Wayland) but you can run it as a seperate app instead of just in your browser.

Yeah. As someone running a NAS/Jellyfin server of a SBC/USB SSD I would love to pick up an x86 sffpc too properly put everything inside but idle power and quiet aren't easily beat.

Software support olinwouldnt really agree since x86 gives a lot more options than ARM

Smartphones have been "good enough" for a while now. Enough power and battery to do all the things needed for enough time before running out of battery.

IMHO there are 2 reasons we still regularly upgrade.

1. "Obsolescence" wether it would be perceived new hardware features or just new software not being available
2. Use/breakage (I include batteries dying in that) with no reasonable way to replace parts

I've had a few phones over the years some of them I "legitimately" just broke (one had a cracked mb after a bike accident) I broke my second to last phone trying to replace the battery (thought I would be able to, broke the screen). The fact that everything is glued down and made to not be replaceable irked me so much that my current phone is a Fairphone. Replacing the battery takes 1 minute and requires no tools. Replacing the screen takes like 5 min and 8 screws. I plan on using this phone for at least 5 years more if possible. But I understand not everybody can shell out 600 dollars for an "OK" phone.

At work I use Ubuntu which comes with Firefox by default so yeah I use the default.

At home with arch I have to download one anyway ... so I use Firefox.

There has been only a brief period since I first started using Firefox that I used another browser as my main (chrome/chromium back when Netflix only worked on it properly) When Firefox rolled out "quantum" I jumped back never regretted it. Still one of the only remaining browsers.

So. I've seen the some more news video as well as the Technology Connections one. I have not see the Unlearning Economics one (but it's going on my docket for tomorrow).

Basically the Some more News video is just a simple overview on the concept of Planned Obsolescence i.e. the idea that some things are designed/engineered in a way so they will break easier/faster than they normally would or made in such a way that a repair is not economically viable so that instead of keeping/repairing a product a customer has to buy a new regularly.

One if the most famous and oldest examples is the lightbulb cartel where lightbulb manufacturer actually had a contract that limited how long a lightbulb would live to 1000h (including penalties if the manufacturers produced longer living bulbs). Iirc Cody mentioned that one in his video as well (I will watch all 3 vida back to back tomorrow just to straighten things out here).

Now this "Phoebus" cartel as it was called is exactly what the Technology Connections video is about. However Alecs point is a different one. He is basically saying that while it was true the cartel limited the Lifetime it also meant they were producing "better" bulbs. Namely ones that would burn brighter while using the same amount of power as ones that would last longer. His second point is that lightbulbs are more or less a "spare part" i.e. they are cheap and easy to replace (usually) so if one breaks you don't have to throw away your nightlamp or whatever it is attached to you simply replace the bulb with a cheap replacement and you're good.

So basically the Technology Connections Videos Thesis is the Phoebus Cartell wasn't actually planned obsolescence but a move to a better lightbulb and a bit more runtime (2.5x in his example) isn't worth the worse light output.

Nothing. Also everything.

You can probably do most of not all of the things I do on Linux on a regular basis on windows just as well. But at this point I feel like I have a reverse "Windows is the default" effect going on since for me Linux has been and is the default for over 10 years.

When I start work in the morning I turn on my Linux laptop to ssh into some Linux servers (and RDP to the occasional windows servers/desktops).

After work I play games on my Linux handheld or do some work on my Linux desktop. Maybe move some files on my Linux Nas.

Like I said I could probably do all of this on windows. It would be a major change and in would have to relearn some things in addition to figuring out how to do some stuff on windows that I just never do. But at this point why even bother. There are a lot of ideological reasons to move to Linux there might be some technical reasons on either side but I just don't have any pull to use windows unless I need to (some special program/firmware updater whatever) for which I do have an install hanging around, which I boot once in 6months or so

So. To answer you "hypothetical" question if we ignore all the factors making it complicated (like 32bit compatibility, drivers, etc.)

Yes it is "feasible" to Install an OS using a modern System and just pull out the HDD and shove it into an old system. Especially since the way BIOS/MBR (aka "Legacy Boot") is the exact same on all systems you write the "what to start" code in the first few Bytes on the HDD (aka the MBR) and set a bootable flag on the device. Now you can pull it out and plug it into any other machine which will simply "look" for a bootable flag and then run the code in the MBR (usually a bootloader). This bootloader (usually grub for legacy systems) will then execute one of its boot entries and start a kernel. This is probably where a real world example fails because of the problems mentioned by everyone here.

So yeah. If I needed a 12 step process to update my system it would still run kernel 4 :D (I'm lying of course) but i really don't do as much as you and I don't do more than necessary manually. Basically I run 2 commands to update:

1. update which runs the update process more below.
2. clean which removes orphans and cleans the cache

So update is the alias where the magic happens and it does the following:

1. It runs sudo pacman -Syu checking with the Informant hook if there are any unread news, if so it stops the update. Otherwise it just runs through it.
2. Then it runs pacdiff to check if any config files changed (I ran into an issue with that before where I didn't check properly and suddenly couldn't login anymore.
3. Then, if flatpak is installed it will also update all flatpaks.

So my only manual intervention is "accepting" the news if there are any. Accepting the updates. And (of necessary) merging the pacnews. This way I have kept a fresh and stable system for a couple of years now.

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