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Look into the cheap Sceptre displays. They make non-smart panels with decent resolution and performance, so long as you have external speakers and use the optical audio output instead of the output from their garbage DAC.

Time will tell, but in theory the Volts should last a really long time also. The generator only directly powers the drivetrain at highway speeds, and in the gen-1 they were really conservative with allowed pure electric range on the battery.

I'm planning to drive mine until it dies, and suspect that salty winter Midwestern roads will render it unsafe/broken before anything else does.

"Error: cannot start (no connectivity). Please call a licensed repair technician to service your vehicle."

More than possible, it's common as an attack: cryptojacking.

I did, but had trouble getting it to work. It was a while ago though, and the image I was working from was old/unmaintained even at the time. Linux guest. Do you have any examples to hand?

Is there something specific about the AMD drivers? I have a decent Nvidia card (I know, I know…)

I do kill it, but I’m in and out of meetings all day, so it’s easy to forget.

I found the video quality and responsiveness to be far worse, and I have to teach and work over Zoom. I tried running the desktop client virtualized as well, with similar results.

So… sketchy it is. I find myself wondering what it’s doing with 15% CPU when not in a meeting. Feelsbad.

It does keep running and using CPU after exiting though, so I always have to ‘pkill -f zoom’ it.

There’s a desktop Zoom client. Also, the web office 365 Word works… okish.

Yeah, I was thinking of the workshop.

I’ve been playing with GPGPU on Julia lately also, and it really seems like things have come a long way in the last few years. Check out the Juliacon 2021 talk on GPU compute if you’re interested.

> I think you're confusing Arch with Gentoo or something - the Arch package manager is not from-source, it ships binaries just like apt. Perhaps you're thinking of the AUR

Sorry, what I meant was: when I need to manage the version of something carefully, I just compile it from source and that's OK with me. My understanding is that people use the AUR for this on Arch, and the pains don't seem worth it.

> The main thing that people like about it is the rolling release model

Fair enough, though I've been pretty happy with the pace of update from, for example, Fedora.

> That's very much a "cover-your-ass" type disclaimer, like a ToS that says you have no right to expect anything to work.

Fair enough

Yeah, exactly. Why?

Can an Arch person explain to me why their approach is worth it over something with a more comprehensive package manager like apt or dnf? I don’t mind compiling programs myself when needed, but for most things I’m happy to not have to hand-hold my OS when it comes to updates.

From the wiki:

> Before upgrading, users are expected to visit the Arch Linux home page to check the latest news, or alternatively subscribe to the RSS feed or the arch-announce mailing list

Like… why?

Not to mention all the people that were on Instagram and WhatsApp before the sale… If a competitor emerges, it will play out the same way.

I see what you mean now. I still draw the line differently - I don’t think I’ve ever interactively worked through conditional logic, control loops, or user prompts, so I’d happily make simple bash scripts from basic commands, but I wouldn’t choose to write more complex programs that way.

Good for them, but I have no trouble using different tools for different tasks. I find bash cumbersome to write complex programs in, so I just don’t.

Shell scripts are one way to do this, but I don’t have a library of shell scripts because I always have access to actual scripting languages.

To each their own, but writing bash scripts that get more complex than moving a few files around and sucks (imho), so I don’t bother.

Interesting article, though for me an acceptable middle ground is to just use bash and friends as an interface, as described, and to write any larger and more complicated scripts in Python with argparse (or similar).

I don’t see why the shell must be both nice to program in and a concise textual interface.

The migration requires multiple instars, so they reproduce on the way.

And then, of course, iTunes got steadily and uniformly worse for years.

I’ve repaired numerous non-lenovo laptops, it just required googling rather than an official web-page.

That’s overhyped. Keep your foundation clear and dry, and the wildlife will stay in the habitat you create. I live by a forest, and when we moved in the place was surrounded by sterile lawn. We had all sorts of german cockroaches crawling in, mouse damage in the garage, mice hiding in all the outdoor equipment, etc. Since then, I’ve been waging war on the lawn, and despite obvious vole activity in the various mulched areas, the pest situation in the home is better, if anything.

Well, sure, if you have a lawn and stop maintaining it, the result will suck. That’s not the alternative though, which is environment appropriate landscaping. Out west that’s often succulents and hardscape. Where I live in the Midwest, that’s perennial flowers and prairie.

Seaweed is great - it also pulls excess nitrogen out of the water, can be co-cropped with bivalves, can be fed to cows for decreased methane production, can be eaten directly in many forms…

If we had an actual price on carbon seaweed production would be a boom industry.

> Best estimates I've seen is that this would lower the total population burden from lead by well under 5%.

That sounds pretty great actually, for such a simple solution.

And then iPhone users are stuck due to anticompetitive lock-in.

Maybe competition was the wrong word for what I meant - I meant software alternatives. I've recently owned laptops from Acer, Asus, Dell, and Apple, and I put various flavors of Linux on all of them (pre M1).

Software alternatives.