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antennafirepla

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antennafirepla··on I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
For not much prior research, he sure has done a lot of prior research to even know about desktop environments or bootloaders compared to your average windows user. This article read like every other promising Linux is user friendly and easy, then proceeding with the author fixing issues the average user wouldn’t be able to even diagnose.

I think anyone technically savvy enough to follow the article is already aware Linux is a viable primary OS, the question is can you manage it without having to become a Linux nerd? I want to be able to tell normal people they can use Linux.

antennafirepla··on The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
You could, for orders of magnitude more compute than reading a magnetic encoder (my assumption at how they estimate it)
antennafirepla··on OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself
Very frustrating, I read with the mouse pointer and this made it impossible.
antennafirepla··on Laser-wielding device is like an anti-aircraft system for mosquitoes
Yes, absolutely. But that precursor was actually a scaled up version of a device made to target birds.
antennafirepla··on Tesla blows past stopped school bus and hits kid-sized dummies in FSD tests
There isn’t. We won’t regulate until there is public outcry over tens or hundreds of deaths.
antennafirepla··on Heat stress mitigation by trees and shelters at bus stops
Everything costs money. The cost is relatively low to the public and economic benefit from plentiful public transit. Breaking even financially would be icing on the cake. Public transit is a service, we should expect it to cost money — and not necessarily pass 100% of the cost to passengers, since it needs to be affordable to provide the full benefit to people.
antennafirepla··on Accountability Sinks
You're right, you plan them both together before the fact.
antennafirepla··on Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
Agreed, I think these systems may perform well in the short term with brand new and maintained equipment but will start to fail with age and once the fleet is large enough they push maintenance schedules.