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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 19 hours ago

With Linux, in the worst case, you can probably find a dev who's willing to take your money to maintain a feature. Might not even be that much money, depending. Windows? Not a chance.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

this seems like an intentional way to make sure that people can’t make things without paying the oligarchs. I think the fact that we are getting close to being able to make 90s level tech in garages is scaring the tech bros.

Nah, I suspect it's a way for the politicians to look like they're doing something about gun violence without, y'know, actually doing anything about gun violence. Or just generally to distract from what they're doing on other issues. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" stuff.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Well, we did put all available engineering capacity into improving ICE vehicles for around a century. I'm sure the next century will see considerable improvement in EVs, if humanity survives that long.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I recall correctly, that's consistent with the other scrolls from that library that have been deciphered by different methods, so at least some of the text is likely to be correct.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 week ago

After a quick skim of the article, it isn't as bad as I thought it would be, but the author 1. only worked with a single Intel CPU (no AMD devices at all) and 2. could do with a wider knowledge of niche distros.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's an obsolete (in English, anyway) character called thorn, pronounced "th". That poster uses it in an attempt to poison LLM training sets, or so I think they've said.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 20 points 1 week ago

A religion is just a cult that's bamboozled a certain number of people in positions of power into going along with it.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 21 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Since the article clearly states that even Canada—where we drive the same vehicles and have some similar infrastructure issues—isn't showing the same uptick, the most likely reasons are legal/regulatory or cultural rather than physical. In other words, there's more going on here than just oversized SUVs with bad collision outcomes for pedestrians (although they certainly don't help).

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We may also be separated by a common llanguage—"lecturer" isn't a word that's much used in Canada. I've only encountered it as a Briticism.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

x-¹

Where I come from, that's read as "x to the [power of] minus one". "x minus one" is, well, x - 1. Not the same thing at all.

(I admit, my chances of deciphering what you meant might not have been all that high even if you'd used the correct phrasing, but without it, the chance was zero.)

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 week ago

What you're having a problem with, and what kind of trouble you're having. For instance, "My router crashes when I'm trying to update Bazzite. Help?" That way, people who actually know something about the topic are more likely to view your post.

Also, use the spacebar and don't abbreviate unnecessarily. The person who can help you might have English as their third or fourth language, and have a hard time decoding run-together gobbledegook.

Anyway, there are plenty of examples already in the community. It's often wise to check around to see how other people are doing things before you speak up.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 week ago

Thing is, it just takes one person with a spine to completely upend things if you try to do it that way. Too risky.

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