dan

Interesting, I didn't realize that so many popular EVs in the US just look like normal cars.

The US is only 5% of worldwide EV sales, and things are very different outside the USA! Out of the top 20 EVs worldwide last year, only three are sold in the USA - the Tesla Model 3 and Y, and the VW ID.4.

There's big differences in price, too. The BYD Seagull (#5 most popular) is $8k in China or AU$24k (US$17k) including tax in Australia.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/02/03/20-best-selling-ev-models-in-the-world-in-december-tesla-makes-an-increasingly-rare-1-2-win/

You're thinking of apt full-upgrade. dist-upgrade is the old name for it.

The only difference between upgrade and full-upgrade is that full-upgrade will delete packages if necessary (like if you have a program installed that conflicts with a new version of another program), whereas upgrade will never do that. upgrade is safer for day-to-day updates.

If you do an upgrade and there's packages that need you to run full-upgrade, you'll see a message saying that some packages have been held back.

full-upgrade is mostly safe. You just need to read the output carefully before continuing.

I didn't realise Drupal is still around! ~~I remember when they forked from Mambo and I had to convert a few sites across. That was probably 20 years ago now!~~ this was Joomla - I misremembered

Make sure you have the security repo enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list. It should be enabled by default. Just search that file for "security"

Then just run apt update, apt upgrade, and reboot.

This is one reason I drive a BMW i4. It's got some gimmicks, sure, but it's mostly just an EV that looks like a regular car.

There's plenty of much cheaper regular-looking EVs outside North America, too. The US is too busy protecting the low-quality local car market to allow better, cheaper models to be sold in the country.

Are there any actual issues in those commits though? I spot checked a few and they look pretty benign, and don't really look vibe coded to me.

Just because someone uses an AI tool doesn't mean their work is vibe-coded slop. An experienced developer that knows what they're doing can use AI as a tool to take care of boring/mundane parts and write a rough plan for their work, while still paying attention to the business logic and system design, and still fully reviewing everything themselves.

A lot of the recent commits are in the test suite, and building test suites, fixtures and harnesses is something AI is fairly decent at if you give it a good prompt (give it the input, expected output, and expected side effects).

Printing doesn't change very often. The main protocols (like PostScript, PCL, and IPP) haven't had any major changes in a very long time. Software like SavaPage probably mostly "just works" and doesn't need a huge amount of maintenance or have a huge number of issues.

Gas would be more expensive if it wasn't subsidized.

I've been using Linux for over 20 years and yet I've never tried Gentoo. Good idea. I'm not sure how well compilation would work on a 256MB system, but I could probably build a system in a VM locally then use Clonezilla to copy it to the production system.

The 256MB RAM systems are from https://hosting.gullo.me/ and https://natvps.net/. It looks like the latter no longer sells the 256MB systems - their site shows 512MB as the minimum now.

For most use cases, I use GreenCloudVPS or HostHatch. The GreenCloud "Budget KVM Sale" VPSes have 2GB RAM, 20GB space, 10Gbps network, for $15/year.

I'm using the small 256MB systems because they're being provided for free for dnstools.ws in exchange for a link in the footer. Can't beat that price :D

That's an interesting idea that I didn't consider. .NET does seem to have some support for WebAssembly.

Many of the current systems were provided by various hosts for free though, which is how I expanded to so many locations. The 256MB RAM systems are only a few dollars per year, so those hosts were happy to provide a few for free.

In my case it needs to be a VM rather than a container (because that's what the hosting company offers), but Alpine is looking promising so far. No issues with booting from the ISO and installing it on a system with 256MB.

I got my app running on Alpine too. Now I just need to update my Ansible playbook to handle Alpine, and do more thorough testing. Will look into it later in the week.