I do wish tinyVG or similar would take off, but I don't see that ever actually happening. the only thing I think it's missing is animation support, which is pretty niche but not as niche as <script> tags.
37 karma · joined April 18, 2025
cooking is also a form of art, with a strong social aspect. using AI for it has a similar ick factor to using generative AI for pictures. I'm not saying I immediately distrust anyone using it, but I do think it's a sign that maybe the person cares a bit less about what they're doing.
I don't know that I can recommend arch+zfs to someone not familiar with arch linux though. zfs isn't in the standard repository so you have to either add the archzfs repo or add an AUR package. most people probably expect a NAS to auto update, arch linux sometimes needs manual intervention for updates, which I only tolerate because I update multiple arch linux systems at the same time. and with zfs being out-of-tree, sometimes kernel updates can theoretically break it, though with linux-lts that seems to be very rare.
I have a remote system for security footage with debian+btrfs, which has basically none of these issues. installation is easier, btrfs is built into the kernel, I've had no trouble with automatic updates, it's been rock solid. btrfs still does the important stuff like software RAID, snapshots and scrubbing, and it's much easier to add more drives compared to ZFS. just note that I think btrfs has a bit worse performance. totally adequate for a 2.5 gigabit NAS, but a little slower for random access if you do work directly on the NAS like I do. it's also historically not been as reliable as ZFS, but that reputation seems years old at this point.
> But I'd wager 99% of the folks commenting on this thread have never done a build from source before, nor would ever want to?
what an insensitive comment this is to anyone that has contributed. are they really saying "the source is available but it's fine if nobody can build it, who cares about building open source projects anyway?" what use is open source code that can't be built? another of their comments from the same thread:
> We even took protective measures to make sure the open source work we do stays open, by putting them under GPLv3 a while back.
this is almost exactly what minio did; I'm generally in favor of copyleft, but a copyleft license can absolutely be used as a tactic to prevent other commercial interests from benefiting from and supporting an open source project. they want exclusive rights to distribute proprietary versions while benefiting from open source contributors.
I decided to stay away from truenas for my recent nas build precisely because it smelled of enshittification, and it's unfortunate to see it trending further in that direction.
I once bought a oneplus phone to unlock the bootloader, they have the same process requiring an account etc, saying it could take up to 2 weeks to get the code. they never emailed it to me so I returned the phone.
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/1998b650452bdf0bee5...
music does this far better, there's multiple different platforms that all have the vast majority of music people care about, you can easily opt to rent with streaming or purchase outright and download without DRM. spotify would probably love to have tons of exclusive content, and they're trying this with podcasts etc, but the music industry hasn't been able to enshittify as much as the movie industry, yet.
I'm still going to get around to it, because element classic will be deprecated eventually. one of my users is on iOS and has a well-known bug with images not loading, which will probably never get fixed because they're focusing on the new client. and unfortunately I do have users that expect voice calls to work, so it sucks to hear that'll be annoying too.
I'm in favor of the change, the only downside I can think of is users with esoteric clients or simple bots that don't support verification won't be able to post to encrypted rooms with element users.
I feel like I'm alone in having good luck with matrix. I've been self hosting for nearly a decade to a handful of users, and it was a bit rough troubleshooting the encryption problems back when element was still called riot, but it's been a number of years since any of us have had a single encryption issue, and we added a new user recently with no trouble. we're still on 'element classic' though, the new 'element x' is a bit of a mess and loses the background sync feature, you need to set up a unified push server which I'm not looking forward to.
a benefit of the keyboard case is the battery it has that extends the phone's battery, which is nice, but it's an odd setup too. the charge controller on it was originally designed for a power bank and seems like a bit of a crude solution that's lead to multiple issues, like how you could damage the phone having it plugged into USB while the keyboard case is connected. it's slow to charge too, often it can't even keep up with the phone during use.
auto manufacturer lobbyists may have been successful at convincing the government to incentivize the production of more expensive, more profitable vehicles, but it's not like there aren't still cheap small cars that everyone knows about and would fulfill 90% of people's needs for half the money, yet they spend on average $50k for a 4,000lb SUV, to never carry more than 4 people and some groceries.
maybe lobbying got the price of SUVs down 10% relative to smaller cars, and sure some people considering a smaller car might upsize because of that. but I don't think it's possible to discount the cultural component when you look at what people in the US buy. and if people fall for that because of advertising, that's essentially cultural.
that's partially because the operating costs are very low, which is a good thing.
Grid transmission losses
what about the cost of shipping gasoline?
The tires on an electric vehicle[...]
this is part of what leads me to think your entire article is just anti-EV sentiment wrapped in a facade of being about planes, so you can point to the planes when people criticize it. most people here are not arguing that it makes sense to put batteries in planes, they're pointing out the very obvious inaccuracies in basic calculations like the $5/KWh the article leads with. and I also take issue with the un-cited sources (a link to a home page is not a cited source).