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Why, LLMs of course. Isn't that obvious by now?

It'd be interesting to add Nemotron, which is quite popular on Spark alongside Qwen 3.6.

24.04 is a stable release. Package updates in stable releases need to follow the Stable Release Update process https://ubuntu.com/project/docs/SRU/stable-release-updates/ In essence someone needs to do contribute time and effort to make it happen. Canonical is free to choose the packages they want to maintain themselves and which ones go to universe and are community maintained. The upstream, if they care enough, can choose to get involved and try to do the updates. The process isn't exactly easy or fun. There's a bunch of requirements regarding backward compatibility and testing that need to be met. Snapd upstream goes though it for almost every release and it takes anything from a couple of weeks to a month. I don't think anything is stopping either party from updating the packages, although I don't why upstream wouldn't be interested in getting involved making this happen.

> "There's a bike behind you travelling approximately X speed"

Funny how garmin varia gives the exact same information but on cars. "There's a car behind you travelling approximately X speed" (which is most often over the speed limit anyway)

This looks like a choice is a serious eye injury if you roll is something you're looking for. Why not buy a handlebar mirror like this one https://cateye.com/intl/products/accessories/BM-45/ I have one on each of my bikes, road/gavel/fitness. Dirt cheap, gives very good rear visibility and very compact size.

You forgot to mention it's also $200+. Some folks buy bicycles for less than that.

Seven tokens long input isn't very realistic, is it? For coding tasks it's normal for the input to be thousands or 10s of thousands. If it wasn't for prefix caching it'd be one miserable experience, but even then at the very best the input is often in hundreds each time. And don't even try to dump some logs into the prompt.

> An alternative service manager could

I guess we would care if one showed up, no?

Why would they care about any other views but their own and those who contribute either financially or through code? Seems like all people can do these days is complain on github, X, mastodon, reddit, HN. It's only talk, talk and more talk, but no do.

Can you share what was that thing that didn't work with systemd? I've seen pretty crazy setups and can't quite imagine how horrid of a mess those would have been if a large rc.init shell script ridden with sleeps was used instead.

I believe this is called competition, encouraged since the EU markets are open and freedom of migration is guaranteed. If it wasn't for those guys, you'll have migrant workers from Ukraine, or India or some other place. However, I suspect that before the Poles and Romanians came to DE, you already had quite a bit of migration from Spain, Italy and Turkey, isn't that right?

> patch series from a competent team that changes 3000 lines should probably be

split into a bunch of much smaller changes?

Isn't that essentially a release of Ubuntu with a different kernel, DE and maybe some userspace utilities?

The constructed policy is quite strict and expects certain UEFI things to be set up correctly. For example both this https://github.com/canonical/secboot/blob/7434bac27844362ff8... and https://github.com/canonical/secboot/blob/7434bac27844362ff8... are enabled in the policy. The policy choices and various early checks, even as trivial as confirming that the TCG log content is correct after booting into installation system, are enough to rule out a lot of potentially problematic EFI deployments. Effectively making it more strict helps avoid a lot of funny issues where the firmware is clearly buggy and things would fall apart sooner or later.

> But maybe that's why I started drinking coffee?

you don't remember why, do you?

If there was a major event in Belgium, which city would the news outlets refer to in order to avoid ambiguity?

You forgot to include https://github.com/9front/9front/tree/front/sys/src/libflate which gzip is built around, which brings it closer to 10k lines.

Main is all you need to set up a working system and deploy services. Much like BaseOS in RHEL you get full support for those packages for 5+5 years. With snaps you effectively get rolling releases of LXD, microk8s, openstack, docker and other relevant things. What else do you need? Seriously, how come this isn't enough for a non commercial user?

> And if you aren't paying you aren't even receiving many of the updates.

Are you sure you didn't mean RedHat? Last I checked there's no requirement to pay anything in order to use an LTS release of Ubuntu. Even if you go with Pro to get those extra years of Extended Support (to make it ~12 years?) you still get up to 5 licenses for personal use. No money asked, no *BS* subscription model. Isn't that more than enough any non-commercial user?

I wonder what made them do it. The conspiracy theorists are really going to enjoy this.

> GC is a showstopper for my day job (hard realtime industrial machine control/robotics)

Which is a very niche use case to begin with, isn't it? It doesn't really contradict what the parent comment stated about Go feeling like modern C (with a boehm gc included if you will). We're using it this way and it feels just fine. I'd be happy to see parts of our C codebase rewritten in Go, but since that code is security sensitive and has already been through a number of security reviews there's little motivation to do so.

I believe we already have that, and it's called a cab. You pay extra, get an exclusive social experience and, at least in some parts of the world, get to share the bus lanes with other folks taking the bus.

> - Tried to reinvent the wheel with sudo-rs

reinvent how? sudo-rs and a bunch of others are maintained by: https://trifectatech.org/ a non profit registered in Netherlands

> A basic setup to make use of secure boot is SB+TPM+LUKS. Unfortunately I don't know of any distro that offers this in a particularly robust way.

Have a look at Ubuntu Core 24 and later. Though it's not exactly a desktop system, but rathe oriented towards embedded/appliances. Recent Ubuntu desktop (from 25.04 IIRC) started getting the same mechanism gradually integrated in each release. Upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 is expected to support TPM backed FDE. Worth a try if you can set up a VM with a software TPM.

Keep in mind though, there's been plenty of issues with various EFI firmwares, especially on the appliances side. EFI specs are apparently treated as guidelines rather than actual specification by whoever ends up implementing the firmware.

Why should I care though?

Coal does not magically materialize either, it needs ot be mined, transported, processes and then transported some more. You'd have to account for that in order to make a fair comparison.

You may also want to take into account how localized and preventable the emissions are. In this particular case, burning fossil fules to heat up homes, already implies no expensive filtration systems, because installing them would be a private investement and one that likely makes no sense given they could equally well replace coal furnace with gas one for less the price.

What's more important is Poland has one of the highest electricity prices in Europe. Even accounting the downsides, it totally makes sense to replace the base of the energy mix with nuclear power and leave coal/gas for when there's a shortage of power. At that point moving to electical heating should make the actual, both financial and envioronmental, cost of inevitable emissions more 'efficient' and manageable. So two ghouls with one rod?

The shit part is what easily stris emotions and can be played by various actors and their agendas.

How come folks seem to focus on beef, while IMO the real stakes are in obtaining access to important minerals. Lithium, nickel, copper, graphite, niobium, etc. are often listed. There's a nice breakdown on EC pages:

https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-cou...

Liberty Leading the People would probably be flagged as highly NSFW too.

Oh they have agency. They also have bills to pay, families to take care of and many other obligations that folks of privilege do not need to be bothered with. It is immediately obvious how privileged we are compared to many others who are not a liberty of designing their lives or careers.