Bobo The Great

I wonder why apt search on ubuntu and debian must be so bad: on mint each package has a single line and an easy letter telling you if the program is installed or not. On debian/ubuntu each program takes multiple lines, are all green and the only way to distinguish installed ones is to look for an (installed) string at the end of the first line. I like Mint’s apt version so much

Those probably aren’t the normal cured meat you get at any supermarket, if it’s quality aged stuff, it’s good stuff

Why is the Enterprise NX-01 missing a nacelle?

Pretty sure TNG did it way before with the traveller episode

That feels so bad for signal integrity, especially at 5+ GT/s

Also doesn’t that mean Mr. Robert here fed chatgpt some numbers, that are presumably in the 120-130 range?

Maybe eroded by the wind

There’s a reason this photo was shot in 1958 and not yesterday

Not only it’s not aligned but the magnetic north pole is constantly, and measurably, drifting, so it would several kms farther than what it was 65 years ago

As far as I know it’s common pratice to include chemical markers in explosives unique to the factory, so if the explosive get stolen/used in an unauthorized manner the investigators can trace back were they were trafugated.

Maybe they also include high visibility pieces of plastic as a visual markers. If so on them there would be printed some identifying information like lot number, manufacturing date and factory address.

Also, at least for ext4 filesystems, probably many others, there’s an option (noexec) that prevents any execution. Might be worth checking that

And brakes as well. EV are, for the most part, greenqashing designed to sell you more cars you wouldn’t need in a better designed world.

My “everyone” was a bit too wide I think. I’m not talking about everyday people of course. I’m talking about 50+ employees companies, that would save money by hiring a sysadmin and running their own servers. I know of companies with thousands of employees that pay millions on Azure and AWS and have no in-house infrastructure. That’s how you get to Amazon running half of the internet

If you tell me gasoline yeah probably (diesel generator to power electric motors is done in big ships), caol I highly doubt it.

But apart from pollution per se, an electric car used everyday would require at least 50% of a household power budget to charge (2-3 kW). If every single ICE vehicle would be immediately swapped to electric, I doubt many countries would be able to cope with the increased power consumption. That’s why we need more energy infrastructure before a full switch. Or you know, less cars and more public transport.

Electric vehicles are not a solution for environmental problems, not now at least, they pollute when building the batteries and, unless nuclear energy is widespread, they will be powered by coal/gas making them pretty polluting. They will be a solution only when we have cleaner energy available.

Bonus: people should stop being lazy and learn to setup a server infrastructure instead of using “the cloud”. Your data are safer, you save money and give less power to gargantuan cloud companies.

If a security researcher is installing on their browser a free vpn browser extension, I assume they are a moron and can’t do their job.

Seriously, not only your first question should be “how are these people paying for 6 millions people using their VPN?”, but your second one should be " why they don’t provide a client of a wireguard/ipsec/openvpn configuration file? So they don’t have access to my webpages?"

That’s good, AppImage is still my favourite of the “distro-agnostic” package systems and I think it really is missing a central repository solution.

It’s a package repository, but I would hardly call it “central”

I’m not saying that’s not true.

I’m saying I’ve almost never downloaded a Flatpak that didn’t require a new dependency downloaded.

When I removed all my flatpk some time ago, I had: Steam, Viking, Discord, FreeCad and Flatseal to manage them. All of them and their dependencies used something arounx 17 GB of disk space (most of which was of course several versions of dependency runtimes), and that was after I removed all the unused runtimes that forn some reason it doesn’t remove after I uninstall or they are upgraded.

I’m sure if I installed more Flatpaks, some dependencies would eventually be reused, but you still need a good collection of them at any given time. So in pracrice you still need a lot lf space unfortunately.

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but up to a couple of years ago, Flatpak was configured so that externally mounted folders were not accessible. I discovered that when Steam on flatpak refused to install games on my hdd, and it was quite frustrating to figure out how to enable it. Still, it’s difficult to criticize how “bloated” are electron apps (they are) when I need to download 2GB or runtime for an 80MB telegram binary

Snaps integration is even worse as I’ve seen browser extensions state they straight don’t work on snap’s browsers. Also desktop integration on gnone (even files drag and drop between snaps) are broken on the ubuntu installations I tried.

Appimages have the least drawbacks and are my preferred methods between the three (at least they take less storage space than an equivalent Flarpak for some reason, but are still broken sometimes), yet they still miss a central package repository, and that’s a big problem.