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With ICE cars, typically manufacturer warranties only are valid for the original purchaser.

They traded user experience for developer egos. Ego is the equivalent of wealth in the OSS world, just as it is in academia. KDE 4 developers had some grand ideas to push on the world, such as the semantic web, regardless of whether or not their users cared for them.

That was a bad time for KDE. They pushed 4 out with a lot of fanfare and it turned out that GUI wise it was a bad windows vista clone that broke every great established KDE 3.5 application.

Definite enshitification. They took something great and replaced it with a craptastic DE that didn't reach feature parity for a decade!

I bailed for XFCE at the time, never gone back to KDE, wouldn't trust them to not do the same thing again.

It's not strange. Mozilla Foundation is a non profit and Google is not.

Taiwan is composed of the refugee losers of the Chinese civil war. That gives them zero legitimacy to continue as anything but a breakaway state occupying a formerly Chinese province.

Supporting peace?! That's a right wing cause now?

No thanks. I think the military-industrial-welfare complex has enough of our money.

Ukraine is not a formal ally of the United States.

When did Zelensky's presidential term expired again?

How is the Jones Act responsible for the failure of domestic ship building? Seems like the Jones Act didn't go far enough if we really cared about a strong domestic ship building industry.

It's still basically another mac address or unique identifier for the system, regardless of which local network it happens to be on. Great for being tracked by FAANG, I guess, but I'd rather for my devices use a generic local IP and a randomized mac. There's no reason why the refrigerator needs to be uniquely identifiable on the Internet.

I don't want all my devices to have their own unique address. The internet dream that created ipv6 is dead. It's malware, spyware, surveillance capitalism now, and the more obscurity through layers of addresses, the better.

The problem with trebuchets though is that the trebuchet makers are less well connected politically, so there's less opportunities for graft along the way.

It depends if the plane is pressurized or not. There's no xray or other security theater for turbo prop flights.

Same in Germany. Graffiti everywhere; walls, buildings, fences, signs, historic monuments. It's awful and I don't know why they can't manage to do anything about it, but it also seems like no one cares about it as a problem to begin with. To me, such an individual invasion of the public space seems like a mockery of the common trust and the notion that the Europeans (and the Germans especially) have some sort of communal responsibility.

For someone who has only used offline, local password vaults, what is the advantage of a cloud-based solution (for personal use, not enterprise)? I'm interested in their self hosted option, but not sure what the advantages would be over keepass and syncthing.

Or later, seeing how long it took to load /usr/bin in a filemanager.

Wayland as a just protocol... Isn't that the same argument they used when it shipped without copy/paste or a screensaver?

Removing support for Radeon VII is a bonehead move that smacks of stupidity or greed. The cards were targeted for enthusiast gamers but have enterprise level hardware, like HBM2 memory and 1 TB/s bandwidth.

Twitter was never slim or lightweight. At the time, I remember checking its page weight only to find the website loaded over 100k of scripts and other cargo. With a 140 character limit, one can only conclude that the other 99.9% was malware and anti user algorithms, probably in an attempt to replicate Facebook.

The IDF has been entirely dependent on US and European armaments and funds for all of its battles, with the only exception being the '47 independence war. Since then, Israel has been a Western military-industrial client state. The current genocide is entirely funded by the US.

It seems foolish, because giving the defense industry a free subsidy via Israel annoys our Arab oil suppliers and our oil companies, but there must be enough corporate welfare to go around because the defense companies and the oil companies haven't gone to war with each other directly, yet.

They can have Nevada.

True, but Israel could be seen as just the latest Crusade.

Western Europe went through ~200 years of brutal religious wars from the advent of Protestantism. The same is going on in the Mideast, it just started only 100 years ago with the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Is PTC the first step in getting rid of human engineers, billed as a safety system?

Maintaining NATO also ensures American hegemony over Europe and potentially the most disruptive global competitor. It may be expensive, but we know that left to their own devices the Europeans are wont to start a war amongst themselves, over some trivial border dispute, and then involve the rest of the world in it. So it's cheaper in American lives and material this way.

This whole thread reads like two chatgpt bots talking to each other. HN needs a flag for obvious LLM content.

But this chaos fits Big Tech's claim that there are not enough American workers, so they can then turn around and onshore H1Bs from the hiring manager's hometown back in the old country.

Why should the individual end user be concerned about CO2 emissions? Or are we letting corporations in China outsource that guilt back to us?