Chrome being smart here, telling everyone to run while not running too hard itself so it doesn’t show up too high in TM

yo mama’s farts

There’s a kid outside right in the photo, though, playing frogger

Reading through the comments here, the Linux community slowly seems move away from “runs on about every piece of hardware you can think of” to “if you don’t have at least the Nimbus 2000 that’s on you, sucker!”

That was not meant to be a brag, just to show that this is not a beginner’s problem and that I can compare the change over time a bit. Linux still suffers from hardware support issues. Linux also supports a range of (older) hardware much better than others, but let’s not pretend this is solved.

Good for you that the things you happen to have bought work for you, but that’s just anecdotal evidence.

Well, to add my personal experience to yours, I’ve personally bought an off-the-shelf laptop “optimized for Linux” (from Tuxedo, to be clear). That should work just fine, shouldn’t it? As it turns out, energy management does not, which is kind of essential, at least with a standard Linux installation that is not their own Ubuntu-based distribution or standard Ubuntu. They provide a management tool, but you need to build it yourself and the process is not documented properly. You’ll need some experience and be able to interpret error messages in a terminal to find out where the issue is. Setting it up to start automatically on the next boot is another hurdle. I think that’s not very nice, especially with this “optimized for Linux” claim. that might target newcomers in particular who try to avoid such issues.

The tool also requires a lot of additional node.js bloat, just to get your fans work properly and your laptop not to overheat. Sleep/hibernation also does not work properly outside their own OS/Ubuntu, and their advanced management tool with additional features does not work at all outside of Ubuntu/their derivate.

I’ve been there in the early 2000s, fighting with my network and graphics cards and I know it all got much better. Especially now that Nvidia support seems to finally become better. But let’s not pretend issues don’t exist?

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relevant

Yes, there is a lot of research about it and you can go really wild with it. Bottom line is, if you try to reduce the total amount of time you spend sleeping, your body will use the time as much as possible for regeneration. You’ll have a harder time memorizing new things. But basic modes of sleeping mostly during the night with a nap during the day or so are completely normal and unproblematic.

Welcome to 2015 I guess?

A two-party system is not necessarily worse than a multy-party system. They both have their flaws. Just as one example, party programs in multi-party systems such as in Germany are not worth the paper they are written on, because after the election the parties will go into negotiations and come up with an entirely different program. With two parties, at least you know what you vote for.

This is a great lecture on the topic with much more depth to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3-VlQu3iRM

Until J.D. Vance passes by

Apart from all the other bullshit rightfully called out below, this makes an illogical implication. Being the smart autistic superbrain Melon claims to be, it’s surprising he doesn’t see that. Or maybe not, because in reality he’s just a sad ass who is too scared of just going to therapy.

If: Not being capable of violence => Not being able to call yourself peaceful

Then: Being able to call yourself peaceful => Being capable of violence

But not: Being capable of violence => Being able to call yourself peaceful

More floods, storms, droughts, extreme heats, fewer animal/plant species, more garbage everywhere

This. It’s easier to practice/study if you don’t share a room with 3 siblings and don’t need to spend your off time supporting the family in various ways.

Also, don’t get mad at that person trying to give you a compliment

This can have an effect in exactly two ways:

1. retailers lose a bit of profit because they cannot optimize their staffing for this one day. They might be a little less profitable because they have one person at work who is not needed, for example. They might also get mad customers the next day when everybody goes back shopping and they haven’t prepared for it. Similarly, they might have to throw away a few fresh products and not have them in stock later.

2. if (and only if) people buy the stuff they need somewhere else instead. If this is about grocery shopping, well, you need groceries at some point. Doesn’t matter much for the retailer when you buy it (apart from 1), as long as you buy it consistently at their place.

I support the protest, but if you want to make an impact, use that day to find alternative places to do your shopping in the future.

Ah, thanks for the reminder! As a happy systemd user I sometimes forget how stubbornly resentful some people in the Linux community are that they still try to keep this up as a topic. Then again, maybe this is just a troll?

Just look at high tax countries, like Sweden, Finland, Norway. They are pretty functional, although not perfect, with pretty well-working social systems. Look at countries that are all about avoiding taxes like… the US. Look at the UK, and what Thatcherism did to it. Social services are falling apart, if still existing at all.

Whoever says taxes are a problem, implicitly says schools, streets, firefighters, … should be privately owned. And guess who would be the private owners and what they are going to do with prices :)

No, you can’t read a complex sentence

literally

Well, again, the taxes are not the problem, but the bad design of the deduction process. The war on taxes, especially in the US but also in Europe, is a strategy from the right and neoliberals to cut down on social welfare and essentially redistribute money to the rich.

Taxes are good and important, but it’s difficult to figure out what to tax and by how much, and how to use the money well.