nyan

Averaging nuclear over the entire world really doesn't give it a fair shake, since there are many jurisdictions that won't build nuclear capacity for political and societal-preference reasons, rather than technical ones. Where I am, the percentage of electricity supplied by nuclear power plants is more than five times what's supplied by solar and wind combined, and we're doing just fine (and building out more nuclear in addition to more renewables).

Nah, some of us land on Gentoo from the beginning, and then watch the Arch people act like teens who think they're edgy. 😜

As with most other things, it depends on who or what you're trying to attract. If you're trying to attract cats, giving them a nice warm server to sleep on is always a plus.

Arguable. Google has long since jumped the shark, but Yandex was never that great to begin with.

He expects that his potential dates are as unintelligent and lazy as he is. Actually, if he's looking for someone who shares his "values", filtering out anyone smarter and more energetic might not be a bad strategy . . . 🤔

I think they're implying a violent authoritarian crackdown on anyone who doesn't hew to the Trump Administration's party line. Probably around the time that Trump refuses to leave office after the next presidential election. As nightmares go, that one isn't quite as far-fatched as most of the world would like.

Geez, you could probably download the molecular formulas for all of the many chemical compounds in coffee and the ratios to combine them in to imitate various beans without using that much data.

I would expect Gentoo's rankings on Distrowatch to be lower than its actual uptake. I mean, it's an oddball distro, an old and well-known one whose reputation probably spreads more by word of mouth than anything else.

Gentoo doesn't do user stats, so it's impossible to tell.

I think the disconnect may be due to the article repeatedly mentioning that "this stuff is used by smartphones/websites!!!" but almost never mentioning that full-sized computers exist, even though most of the software being discussed is Linux-primary (and some of it is also used on Windows/Mac, like SQLite). It looked to me like the author's target audience was "people who use a smartphone as their primary or only device."

What's missing in this article (or at least as much of it as I could read) is that much of the software listed has alternatives. For instance, bash can be replaced by a combination of some other shell (fish, zsh, dash . . .) and some other scripting language (python, perl . . .). There are other compression algorithms than xz, even if they're less efficient. And so on.

Others are nice-to-haves, but their absence wouldn't cause much actual technical dysfunction. If Harfbuzz vanished tomorrow, it would result in some ugly text displays. This is not the end of the world.

Some high percentage of them will be that stupid, yes, because the people making the decisions are not terribly computer-literate and just want things to go back to "normal" without having to learn anything new or retrain anyone.