Lolwat. It’s an image format, not some snooping -adjacent web tech or something.

That’s not an issue, IP addresses allow localization to some degree

The Californian law only affects California.

Individual OS vendors might decide to implement it in a way that affects other places as well, e.g. in the past, Valve decided they’d rather not implement age verification for Germany and just stopped selling all porn / super violent games in Germany. Maybe they’ll now implement it for Germany and California.

And Germany.

It really sucks for non-developers. I can easily afford to walk out the door laughing when a place I’m interviewing for tells me I’d have to use Windows, but clearly that’s not a privilege all professions have

Yeah, as long as it made any sense to browse the web without JS. These days you need at least an allow list.

And also neither cloud-based nor LLMs

That’s what their actions felt like for decades yet somehow they’ve always kept chugging along.

That’s why they make sense in code and config files. JSON is neither, despite the insistence of far too many people to write configuration in it.

You missed the point: I quoted and linked to contemporary decision making because it illustrates that there’s no “strongarming” necessary if something is the only game in town.

Sysvinit was no longer doing the trick, Upstart wasn’t architecturally sound, OpenRC wasn’t a serious contender at that point either: they could adopt systemd or wait for a few years in case some alternative would come along.

That’s why your framing doesn’t make sense to me: it implies that there was some sort of choice that Big Init was trying to stack the cards for, but there wasn’t at that point.

No, see the reasoning why distros switched, e.g. Debian or Arch. TL;DR: technical merit, no good alternatives existed at the time, as evidence by how the Arch maintainer paraphrased the average systemd critic:

I think there might be this other project that possibly is doing something similar. I don’t really know anything about it, but I’m pretty sure it is better than systemd.

Would the landscape be more diverse if other people would have built someone when Poettering first announced systemd? Probably! Did anyone do it? No! OpenRC wasn’t a fully fledged alternative back then, Upstart had fundamental design flaws.

But does anyone regret adopting systemd? Also no! Everybody is happy. It’s robust, it works, it makes admin lives easier. Users no longer have to deal with zombies, slow boots, and unnecessary services running.

Here we go again with the conspiracy bullshit

Analog, and what really matters for analog signal is if the wire carries load or not.

Like a phono cable from a record player or a analog signal cable from an old sound card matters, but it doesn’t matter how you send the amplified signal to the passive speakers.

This means if you have a HDMI cable going into a decent AVR and speaker cables coming out, you basically can’t do anything wrong.

Why do you think that he’s still in it?

Probably more like it automatically installs is when you install the system but yeah.

This isn’t Debian. It has a live image that comes with Nvidia drivers so you can have these from the start too.

Well, Bazzite has it pre-installed, but that’s the experience for other stuff lol.

I don’t recommend mint for newbies because it comes with X11 even still.

Same for my partner’s old gaming PC: she used Windows 10 until recently, and Bluetooth as well as the steam overlay didn’t work properly.

Now on Bazzite they do.

Exactly. I’ve seen so much data destroyed silently deep in some bioinformatics pipeline due to this that I’ve just become an anti CSV advocate.

Use literally anything else that doesn’t need out of band “I’m using this dialect” information that has to match to prevent data loss.

No:

• CSV isn’t good for anything unless you exactly specify the dialect. CSV is unstandardized, so you can’t parse arbitrary CSV files correctly.
• you don’t have to serialize tables to JSON in the “list of named records” format

Just user Zarr or so for array data. A table with more than 200 rows isn’t ”human readable” anyway.

I literally got banned from the “awfulsystems” Lemmy instance for suggesting that Firefox isn’t horrible. No exaggeration, there was nothing else to my comment than a polite suggestion that Firefox is pretty good actually.

If that ban isn’t driven by hate, I don’t want to see how real hate looks like.