calcopiritus

I don't think the multibillion price tag is about the physical battery itself.

It's probably the cost of the entire project. Which includes:

• Project management
• Engineering
• Digging the whole
• Security
• Maintainance
• Environmental impact analysis (among many other analysis)
• Reducing the environmental impact
• Permits (and a LOT of bureaucracy)

The list goes on. Notice how I didn't even mention the battery itself.

Most issues are a maintainers issue. Rarely is the issue in Linux itself. Most of the issues are in userland.

Yes. All OS have bugs, and yes, we are used to doing workarounds for windows too. But most of the time, that workaround is fishing for a setting in an obscure menu with a Windows7 UI. But it is still a GUI. If you read the labels of the buttons you can navigate the menus to reach the button you want to press.

I have never ever had to edit the registry to fix an issue. I have maybe edited the registry 10 times in my whole life, most of the time it was to customize beyond what the GUI offers, not to fix a bug. That's on my PC, I don't work in IT for a company. Maybe company management requires more extensive use of the registry.

The whole point of my comment is not that Linux breaks constantly while windows doesn't. Of course it's going to break more often, since there is an uncountable different Linux configurations, it's incredibly more complex than having 2-3 versions of windows to maintain.

The point is that you can fix most issues on windows with the GUI, while on Linux you have to use the terminal most of the times.

We also know those windows workarounds because GUIs are way more discoverable than terminal commands.

GUIs act like trees. If you don't care about the "personalization" branch of the menus, you just don't click on it.

Terminals act like lists. You do ls /usr/bin you'll just get shown hundreds of binaries. Which are not categorized in any way. Only when you know which binary solves your issue you can read the man and get something that hopefully resembles a tree, with headings of different levels.

If there were no billionaires, a corrupt person could still have power inside a government. Making it a corrupt government.

Then he could benefit from that corruption and become a billionaire.

It's not a one way relationship.

Corrupt entities make powerful people. And powerful people (sometimes) do make the entities corrupt.

And this is an issue for all political systems.

It's not a "get rid of billionaires and the issue is fixed". We must both redistribute power so it is at more reasonable levels. And clean the entities.

And once the power imbalance is smaller and the entities are clean, it is a constant maintenance fight to keep those entities clean and the power balanced.

A single democratic election can give a lot of power to a person that previously had none. Power is always flowing.

Calculating the AR locally doesn't mean that you won't be sending the recording to Facebook.

They don't collect data because it is necessary for the technology they use. They collect data because they sell it.

For AR you need to be recording. If you are recording, it is being sent to Facebook servers. You accepted Facebook's terms and conditions, not me.

If you don't want to be punched, you should advocate for laws that make the glasshole glasses ugly through non-avoidable methods of detecting if the glasses are recording.

For example by requiring every glass hole glass to have a physical cover that physically covers the view of the camera, and it should be a bright color to easily see if it is covering the camera or not. The contour of the camera should be painted with an equally bright color, contrasting highly with the cover. So you can easily see if the cover is covering it completely.

A led that turns on when recording is not enough, it's very easy to remove a led from a device.

If you want to not use glass hole glasses for evil, you should want it to be mandatory for other people to see if you're using it for evil or not.

You can't pirate ram though

Do they get to release the legitimate interest mosquitoes if they aren't given permission?

That would be true if the GUI worked correctly.

However, more often than not, some inner thing breaks, which means that the GUI just throws an error screen and tells you "good luck". So you have to search for that text in Google, and it will send you to an obscure forum where a guy said in 2014 that the solution for that problem is to run some random command in the terminal.

For example the "app store" GUI for Kubuntu never worked for me. It always stalls at some point or another. Meanwhile, running sudo apt upgrade worked flawlessly. Both operations should be doing the exact same thing under the hood.

Two times already, a relative that uses Manjaro but has no idea about Linux came to me for help because the "app store GUI" (which is a different one than in KDE) one day stopped working. The issue was to run some random key-relayed command.

Years later, I found out that apparently the Manjaro maintainers let their certificates expire MORE THAN ONCE. Which has to be fixed manually by the end user apparently. And they apparently didn't think of adding a notification in the GUI telling you about this. Which is bonkers. Not everyone reads all the news articles relating to their OS.

Because I don't want to be a politician.

There are also too many stupid executives. That doesn't mean that I want to be an executive. I cannot both be a politician and an executive.

Yes, the post is meant to be pro-left.

But your first sentence in your comment is wrong. Classic correlation is not causation. With the addition of "if X is Y because Z, if Z wouldn't be, then X wouldn't be Y".

An emergency stop is better than nothing, but they should ALSO have an emergency "let me take control". Sometimes stopping does not decrease the danger.

Example: the waymo enters a rail crossing with flashing lights, and the barriers close with the car inside. The waymo sees the barriers so it stops. What you want in that case is accelerate and get the fuck out of there. If you have a baby in the backseat, there may not be enough time to get the baby and get out of there on foot.

It's the only logical place. Trump won the FIFA peace prize. It's only fair they hold the world cup in his country.