Yeah all the EEE/“Threads will kill us” talk reminds me of how Slack killed IRC by first offering an IRC gateway, and then killing off support. And after that IRC literally died.

/s

I saw a post here about how Threads’ biggest enemy at this point is antitrust, and a federated approach is a clever way around that. I think that makes much more sense than the EEE narrative.

Sure. But that’s unrelated; Apple is a publicly traded (“public”) company. IKEA, for example, is a privately funded (“private”) company. Being largely proprietary is separate from the ownership structure…

…but Apple is a publicly traded company.

I feel like one of us got whooshed, though I’m not entirely sure who.

I don’t get all the Apple hate from the Linux community. Out of the box you have a fully usable *NIX machine — they even switched the default shell to zsh! No advertising in the Start menu, and ssh (client and server) included by default. Install homebrew and boom — tmux, htop, nload, lolcats…most of your favorite tools can be installed easy as on any linux distro.

I use Debian for personal use, and I much prefer it…but basically only because I prefer i3 to the Mac GUI.

But isn’t it the legs moving backwards that propels you forwards? 🤔

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-israel-hamas-strike-planning-bbe07b25

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/world/middleeast/hamas-iran-israel-attack.html

Not sure if that’s the type of source parent was referencing. My understanding of the consensus among certain groups is that the point of this conflict, from Iran’s perspective, is to make it unappealing for Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel — which may be exactly what they’re getting, e.g.: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/14/saudi-arabia-puts-israel-deal-on-ice-amid-war-engages-with-iran-report

Don’t forget the preservatives!

I, on the other hand, enjoy all-natural pickled vegetables, which are just regular vegetables immersed in water, sodium chloride, acetic acid & trace flavors — chemicals which act as preservatives for the vegetables sea salt and vinegar.

Yeah, it seems that “your meme is kinda gatekeepy” is a pretty good way to start some “spirited discussions.”

I get that it’s a meme, but what’s the problem? I’m vegetarian/flirt with veganism; it’s purely for moral/ethical/environmental reasons.

Indian food is delicious. An Impossible burger on a pretzel bun dripping with grilled onions, avocado, vegan aioli and mustard with a side of steak fries? That’s also delicious, in my opinion.

Meat is delicious, and that’s not at all incompatible with my reasoning for being vegetarian.

I think it’s common for 4sp transmissions. 5sp less so since it makes more sense to put 5 and R on the same side of the H (unless it’s a dogleg 5sp).

It’s at a much, much larger scale** than that — our local group is collapsing in on itself, and it’s ~10M lightyears in diameter.

** talking about length scales only makes sense in reference to the specifics — two bananas separated by 10M lightyears, with no other matter nearby, would (I’m guessing) be expanded away, but a cluster of galaxies will not.

Is the dotfile overhead of a DE substantially more than any other program? Is there a particular conflict that you’re thinking of?

For a multiuser system it can be great to have multiple DEs or WMs.

I think the advice should be taken to heart here — you’re dealing with a userspace problem but you’re trying to get the kernel to make it all better.

You’ve already mentioned the two big things, compressed RAM and swap; optimizing userspace (or paying for more RAM) may be the only option at some point.

If you want to get creative, is there a reason you can’t use a local computer for some of these services? An old raspberry pi or similar could potentially run some of your services. You could run some containers on your home server and call it a day. Quick search turned up this https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/routing-docker-host-and-container-traffic-through-wireguard

As a general rule, if you set out to design an experiment to show that light is a wave (or a particle), it will behave as a wave (or a particle). The more fun thing is to show that it behaves as both, which can be done by utilizing sensitive detectors and exploiting interference patterns.

I think the best way of thinking about it is that it’s neither. Vaguely speaking, “quantum stuff” can be described very well by math, and this math has some elements of “waveness” (think wave equations, interference) and “particleness” (think ladder operators or maybe position eigenstates). But that doesn’t mean it’s one, the other, or even both — it’s described by some math, and that math is agnostic as to what you call it.

In our macroscopic experience it’s easy to divide the world into these two convenient buckets, but the reality is different.

Personally I think this weirdness is exploited by popsci to get more clicks, but maybe that’s just my jaded opinion after years of grad school…

streamline that shit

Or mainline that shit — for me, “true” Linux support means drivers are in the mainline kernel, and will Just Work. Not sure I’ve ever had problems with drivers for an RS232 dongle on Linux, but I definitely have under Windows.

I some (all?) places you’re also owed interest on the deposit!

Bold choice of machine! I think my best time is with Black Bull or maybe Green Panther.

In this case presumably the MTB weighs more, which helps on downhills.

I think there’s a whole literature out there on rolling resistance as it relates to tire size and pressure as a function of road quality — for really nice pavement/velodrome, skinny tires at high pressure win, but for rougher surfaces (e.g., chipseal or less than perfect pavement) lower pressures can be advantageous.

I think the emphasis here is on “mildly.”