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Because it's an easy solution esp. to a rather new installer: setting up swap on disk (partition or file, if file which file system, if partition w/o encryption, ...). Zram: install one additional package and forget.

See also the "zram on Fedora" section in the article.

Can the "vibe" statement be substantiated in any way? Also your "scheduler" is in a completely different domain, it doesn't even remotely relate.

Which ones? Translation is local. Preview summarization is local. Image description generation is local. Tab grouping is local. Sidebar can also show a locally hosted page.

> In theory Intel and AMD would pay the HEVC fees once

> In practice it seems everyone in the value chain are forced to pay, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, HP, Dell and then even browser and software.

The fee is payed by the one who makes it "available" to the enduser. AMD and Intel pay nothing, they implement "math" accelerating it, but they do not "provide" it to a customer. The fee is collected by the last one in the chain enabling it for the customer.

So Dell selling a product supporting it out of the box as a complete "experience" is the last in the chain. If e.g. Dell doesn't support it and the user acquires the "enabling piece" from the Microsoft Store, then Microsoft has to pay it. That's why U.S. based Linux distros (backed by a company) disable the codecs, because they would be the last in the chain (e.g. by shipping the "enabler" through mesa). For the same reason Firefox would be on the hook, if they ship the "enabling" part - which they get around for h.264 by providing a blob payed by Oracle or relying on the OS facilities for h.265.

> Also, nuclear reactors don't deplete water for cooling so the premise of this article doesn't make sense. It goes from water to steam, to rain, back to water.

The premise of the article is pretty clear: It's a statistic about how much raw material was extracted by the industry. Nothing more, nothing less.

There's also the number for agricultural consumption. But somehow we don't need a huge disclaimer about the water cycle to prevent hurting people who like agriculture.

Twitch did in the past (mostly), but it is trying pivot at the moment: Take tight control over the encoding settings on the client side and just pass the already encoded stream through the CDN. https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/multiple-encodes

Also having different encoding settings for different purposes is desired (e.g. high quality local recording for an edit later while live streaming to different services at the same time [Twitch, Youtube, ...]).

That said, I'm not aware of Intel limiting the number of encoding streams, so I don't know where the number 2 originates.

It changes the color, but that color has no inherent meaning. Let's eradicate any prior knowledge of what was clicked. Let's say you make screenshot of the current state, and show that to a random person on the street, who has never used FF before.

What are the odds of that person identifying what is currently active?

If the counter is "you know because you remembered" or you "know because you learned" then any of these answers indicate a inferior and non-intuitive UI design.

I moved on to sideberry and hide the normal tab bar completely. But if you open two identical tabs in the default layout I have no clue which one is active anymore. You can't understand that UI, you have learn it. It's infuriating.

On that point: How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem - LinuxCon 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7YbqrJ0_nM

PS: The core of Valve's technical contribution is around the SteamDeck. You already know it runs Linux, Proton, yadayadayada. An obvious fact that only clicked for me after being mentioned in the presentation: if you aren't in the Steam store but want your app on the SteamDeck the primary option is a Linux version (distributed through flatpack). That (commercial) incentive alone is a huge benefit. Suddenly you can make a business case why your product maybe should support Linux.

> Can the mouse scroll speed be configured in KDE, nowadays?

If you use Wayland the answer is Yes. There's a "Scrolling speed" configuration in the Mouse settings.

> "Fedora" is mentioned prominently in the comparison. Not sure if I could do more :-)

My bad, I only read the title here and never parsed behind the parenthesis on the original page.

Nonetheless the overall language seems to put a lot of weight on the different desktop environments, not the spin/distribution choices.

> Could you show the top output for your distros? I wonder why there's such a huge discrepancy.

This is from MX Linux: https://pastebin.com/7drT8LWt

Not activating the whole Akonadi PIM subsystem by default should easily free two or three hundred MB on KDE. Not sure about the rest.

That's fine, but the disclaimer is important. I did a quick test for myself by choosing what's at the top over at distrowatch(tm).

- Fedora plasma ca. 1.4 GB (matching your numbers) - MX Linux plasma ca. 600 MB - EndeavourOS plasma ca. 800 MB

Considering the significant difference you either have to go into more details or make that disclaimer prominent.

*on Fedora

Now do it again on a different distro which packages different default apps and services, and see how these values differ by multiple hundreds of MB.

The Apple menu top left is the start menu, you organize it however you want.

Keep in mind that this persons appears to be a pro nuclear industry lobbyist. So the number of objective nuclear opinions on this twitter account is 0.

The news shows the extraordinary. It also reports car accidents and car shows, but not all the millions of people driving everyday.

It's dirt cheap because it's heavily subsidized by the public. For example no commercial entity in the world insures a nuclear power plant. These costs are completely hidden.

Afair (alas it didn't make a screenshot there) it was Apple-Pay onboarding but that dialog had a Abort or Later option.

> There's also stuff that's just straight-up bullshit. I've never seen an ad in the settings pages.

Here's my iOS 15 update experience as someone, who doesn't use any other Apple services:

https://i.imgur.com/bAAePuG.png

The only way to "Finish Configuration" was to click on a "Setup Apple-Pay" link. That isn't even an ad anymore, that's a dark pattern.

Of course it should take a freak event to take out a nuclear power plant, it shouldn't happen every second Sunday. But I would also expect it to be an event that doesn't happen regularly every few hundred years [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html

> Instead of informing the public of the facts (The plant was an antique, didn't meet safety standards, was built on a fault line)

Knowing these facts makes it even more scary. We can't move countries away from fault lines, so plants are going to be build in these places again. Everything new is going to be old eventually. There's no reason to expect meeting safety standards in the future if we can't do it right now.

I'm still confused how they made it through regulation. Image you're a security-engineer and read "On average the indicator light runs at only 50% because we think it looks cool."

> If building a new plant was cheap, I'm sure you'd see a lot more happening.

Not only that, but running it. No private company insures a nuclear power plant (at least in the densely populated Central Europe). We're talking about dozens of billions each year.

Currently the operator does a token insurance of a few hundred million but if things really go south it's essentially up to the society to absorb the costs of the aftermath.

If you can't socialize the risks and have to pay market price the "cheap" goes out of the window fast.

Maybe QuickLook outlived itself. It was a technology tailored to the HDD era of hardware, when complex apps required dozens of seconds to start. In a world were even LibreOffice cold-starts in under three seconds on middle of the road hardware QuickLook is just a familiar workflow instead of a necessity?

Initially I missed QuickLook a lot after switching away from macOS, but now I haven't thought about it in years.

I tried to find numbers. This seems to give some context [1]: Look at page 8 and 9 and compare flight hours vs fuel consumption of single engine planes vs turbo-jet.

So there's a gray area that can be addressed in the future. Same goes for "should business build consumer electronics in Asia and fly it in" or "build it locally". But that wont change overnight either.

Nonetheless the regulation is a start, and as with any regulation I don't expect it to be perfect on day one or in cynical, bad faith.

[1]: https://download.aopa.org/hr/Report_on_General_Aviation_Tren...

> Private and recreational flying is explicitly exempted from the tax too. So I don't think it affects them.

That was my point. Most of the comments hammer down on "oh, the corrupt elite wants to cheaply fly to Davos", ignoring that flying - while a very expensive hobby - is an aspirational and achievable endeavor for many people including an attached industry and jobs.

Who talks about jets or crews? This doesn't affect billionaires, but private and recreational use of mostly small propeller planes. Flying is expensive, but it isn't a privilege of "rich jerks". You want to make it a privilege for the elite, then go ahead and tax it to death.

> This was the end of my relationship with Sony.

One day I couldn't transfer my legally, newly bought Sony Music CD to my Sony MD player for mobile use (on my also expensive car and mobile MD players) because of DRM.

That's when I decided I don't care anymore. What's the point if after all that money Napster and the newly released iPod provide a better experience.

This legislation is directly aimed at preventing a race to the bottom, because societies (represented by their governments) realized that they are getting played by extranational entities if they act alone.

This happens all the time, see e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

Of course you're free to ignore it, if you don't care about hundreds of million potential customers.