While I do agree that cars take up far too much space, charging a guest for parking is a bit of a dick move under most circumstances.

Edit: How much of one depends on circumstance. A dense city with a public transit system is a much different beast than a more inaccessible area. The hotel next to the conference center two tram stops from a park-and-ride has a pretty damn good case for charging for parking.

I’d also like to mention gnocchetti sardi as my go-to for pesto, for the same seasons.

That does make sense when you need absolute precision like when doing abstract math. Otherwise you can just use whichever unit and number of significant digits you need and be precise to that amount. That’s what you do with imperial/American customary units as well; a 5/32" screw isn’t going to be manufactured to the precision of a Planck length; manufacturers specify their sizes to three significant digits of an inch.

Let’s say you have a machining project and your tools are precise to 0.1 mm. So you plan things out at a precision of 0.1 mm. It doesn’t matter that a distance is 17/38 cm exactly. It doesn’t matter that it’s 4.473684210526315789… mm. You can’t set the tool to anything better than 4.5 mm anyway.

Also note that the metric system doesn’t prevent you from using fractions. You’re perfectly free to work with fractions where useful. That’s just not how people talk about lengths because those fractions have no meaning outside your specific use case.

They did everything you hate back when you said liked anime. They still have bonkers shit today. There’s variety. It’s not like the entire extremely prolific animation industry of an entire country is moving in lockstep to deliver exactly the same product across the board.

Sure, there trends like the onslaught of bland isekai shit we had for a while but even the worst seasons of that had their gems. Heck, even that genre has gems; there a reason KonoSuba is well-regarded (and it’s full of people who would be utterly unacceptable in Japanese society).

You probably have the same problem that gets people to think that all music became shit approximately 20-30 years after they were born: They mainly remember the hits of their youth and forget that 80% of airtime went to shitty music back then as well.

TinEye found the image on websites dating to 2015. Alamy has been selling it since 2021. Attributions unanimously say it was drawn in 1924.

So there’s two options. Either someone AI-generated an image with a quality generally only possible with current models and not only got it onto two different websites with manipulated metadata but also got a major stock photo agency to sell it with differently manipulated metadata. Or it actually is a human-made image and most likely a scan of an old map.

Be careful. You might end up like my dad, spending much of your retirement hanging out in a repair cafe with people you like, fixing appliances and loving every minute of it. Is that really what you want?

If so, go for it. I can wholeheartedly recommend it.

Might’ve overlooked it. Depending on the client and device a short comment can be easy to miss; for me it’s above the image and the image is comparatively much bigger than on the screenshot above. I also overlooked it at first.

And without the comment as context, the post looks like it states the exact opposite of what it actually does.

From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: River observations 2026-04-27

Everyone,

I would like to point out that the river appears to be wet. I would also like to observe that I saw at least three (3) separate ducks on the river so far.

We will revisit this topic next Monday as per company guidelines.

J. Random
Widget Testing Dept.

Those planets typically don’t heave a breathable atmosphere, though. You pretty much need a large biosphere if you want to be able to walk around without a spacesuit. An iceball world or a barren rock probably won’t contain a breathable amount of oxygen in an otherwise mostly inert atmosphere. If you want to breathe pure carbon dioxide or get fried by nearly unfiltered UV radiation, though, they’d be great.

There are some specialized applications (e.g. RTGs for space probes) where nuclear power is still very useful. I agree that “regular” NPPs aren’t that great anymore.

There is an arguable case for fast breeders as part of a long-term waste management strategy. That one works by breeding high level waste into a more radioactive form that will take a mere 200 years to decay to the level of natural uranium ore as opposed to 20000 years.

The upside: Disposal is doable with technology that exists today as opposed to technology we may at one point possess in the future. We also don’t need to design facilities that last longer than all of recorded history. We don’t need much beyond fast breeders and a few guarded and well-maintained warehouses.

The downside: It still involves guarding and maintaining warehouses full of extremely dangerous high level waste for 200 years and breeders inherently pose a nuclear proliferation risk.

It’s by no means a panacea but as one of the very few feasible ideas for nuclear waste management I think they’re at least worth talking about.

So they’ll make you stateless and ship you off to whichever country is willing to provide a terminal storage facility for politically undesirable former citizens. People who build concentration camps don’t particularly care about details like whether an “immigrant” is a citizen born to citizens.

It’s that Linux distro you just can’t get out of your head.

Look, GitHub is an entry-level offering for the general public. If you want true worst-in-class performance you have to go with Azure DevOps.

GitHub simply doesn’t have features like build steps that randomly take ten times as long as usual to complete for no reason, an inability to refer to a PR just by its ID even though it’s unique, or a navigation that makes no sense at all. Sure, you get that four-eights availability but do you get pipelines that reliably fail even though they worked just fine yesterday and nobody changed anything? Those are enterprise features for companies that pay big money to get the worst damn Gitlab clone money can buy.

I have. Never had your machine just sit there and refuse to boot because a network share is down? Or because the wifi isn’t connected yet?

I absolutely have. The solution wasn’t found in the init system, though, but by giving my NFS mounts the nofail option in /etc/fstab. Filesystem handling isn’t init’s job.

Overall I haven’t had significantly more or less issues with systemd over OpenRC. I’m not a particularly big fan of their approach to things but their init system is perfectly serviceable.

So you get yourself a very narrow bedroom or a very wide bed.

Probably for the same reason he looks like Caillou in an 80s power suit.

So your argument is that since you are opposed to the app’s very existence it’s immoral to test it for security flaws.

I’d like to argue against that with the principle of defense in depth. I’m also not a friend of OS-level age verification and would like it to be dropped. But if it is implemented I want it to be implemented in a way that isn’t wildly insecure. I can simultaneously argue against the principle as a whole and insist that any implementation of it be secure. If it does come I at least want the damage from a botched implementation to be mitigated.

To use your cage analogy, I can both complain about the principle of caging people and about the fact that the cage is badly made and poses an injury risk to the people inside it. Neither is acceptable.

There are 3 or 4 total sentences in the whole thing and the very first one is laying out that this whole thing is about workstations. I don’t know how much more I could do other then literally plan for this argument that you started.

The problem lies with the closing sentence: “sure, but its down there with arch as a usable OS in anything outside of an LTT video.” That implies that both Pop and Arch are not very useful for anything. That is the broad statement that people are arguing against. You may not wanted to have made a strong statement there but you did.

As far as not mentioning nontechnical users, fuck right off with that, all users are nontechnical unless otherwise stated. Anyone who has had to set a computer up for anyone other then themselves knows this. I did not make the comment assuming that someone would get bent out of shape and look for any “win”.

Nobody knows how many people work in your shop and what kind of shop it is. That’s the part where you come in with a premise that is unknown to everyone else. There’s a huge difference between a chain of three computer stores in a 10 km radius, a chain of three hobby stores scattered across a country, and a chain of 100 anything stores operating as part of a major LLC.

Nobody knows if setting up workstations involves you walking over and configuring everything by hand, you pushing preconfigured images over PXE, or (as seems to be the case) you shipping unmodified live USBs to people along with a set of instructions. I assumed the first one, for instance.

We didn’t even know what your workstations are and do. When I hear “workstation” I think of a beefy PC doing things that require a lot of processing power and are typically given to power users. But they could also be thin kiosk systems that only ever need to display a single website. Or they could manage the POS system. Or a million other things. Depending on what those workstations are, the requirements could be anything from a hyper-specialized setup to “here’s a desktop with Chrome; you know the rest”.

So while it was obvious to you that “one of my stores workstations” implies “a general-purpose computer maintained and operated by a nontechnical user in a remote location”, it wasn’t obvious to anyone else.

The stores are 250 kms apart, you can not in good faith tell me arch is appropriate unless you have an administrator on site (and if I was that administrator I would likely strike you).

Given your use case, Arch is indeed a bad fit. I wouldn’t even argue for an Arch derivative (where usually the setup is done through a bog-standard Calamares installer). But that’s like complaining that nobody ever needs a semi truck because it doesn’t meet your needs of being compact and fuel-efficient. Like Arch it’s simply a tool for a different job.

There is no situation where you are setting up workstations for users that are not Linux-averse outside of a Linux development environment, in which case those users will not like that you set up arch for them, as if they are arch fans they will also want to do their own configurations.

Those users also don’t want to deal with any other Linux distro or Windows or macOS. They want their computer to work and someone else to make that happen. And if someone else does make it happen they generally couldn’t care less about what’s under the hood as long as their workflow isn’t impeded.

(Also, there definitely are people who prefer Linux outside of Linux development. Just because my company issued me a Windows desktop doesn’t mean I have to like it.)

The problem is that you didn’t state your premises very well, making your argument harder to follow. (You also argue very broadly.)

You first argued that Arch is not a usable operating system, which is a bold claim given that it’s one of the most popular Linux distros. While you did mention a workstation before, the claim regarding Arch wasn’t obviously connected to that, implying that Arch is not useful for any purpose.

When asked to back up that claim you talked about workstations for nontechnical users (which hadn’t been mentioned before). That didn’t match your earlier claims; you made a broad statement and then defended a narrower one. That’s indeed a motte and bailey argument even if you simply forgot to mention some details.

Also, if the users are nontechnical they’re probably not the ones who administer the workstations so they don’t need to care about technical details as long as you can provide a desktop and the applications they need.

After that you declared that any OS that needs more than 15 minutes to set up is useless, which amounts to pretty much all of them unless you don’t engage in any configuration at all. And, well, it’s another bold claim. It’s basically on par with “Mint is completely pointless because unlike Alpine I can’t use it to ship 5 MB Docker images”; you’re basically declaring that your specific use case is equivalent to any use case any Linux user will ever have.

A coherent version of your argument would be “I don’t like Arch because when I set up workstations for Linux-averse users it was much more work than Mint and I prefer something that’s quick and easy to set up”. And fair enough, that’s a perfectly valid reason for you to prefer Mint over Arch. But it’s not an indication that Arch is worse in general or even unusable. It’s just a bad fit for this specific use case.

Plenty of hard work transparently advocating for the most ridiculously unpopular policies possible. To name a few examples:

• He advocated for an end to the eight-hour workday.
• And for raising the retirement age.
• And for weakening layoff protections for workers above age 53.
• He thinks that health insurance shouldn’t cover dental work even if medically necessary. Maybe because he thinks that refugees take up all the appointments (which there is no evidence for).
• He wants to make Labor Day stop being a holiday.
• He strictly opposes UBI.
• He insists that a wealth tax is inherently unconstitutional. It’s actually explicitly mentioned as valid in the constitution but currently inactive due to a deliberately ignored flaw in one paragraph.
• He campaigned on banning cannabis again.
• He thinks climate change doesn’t need to be addressed too quickly since “floods will happen anyway”.
• According to him, eco-NGOs like Greenpeace should show greater appreciation for the free-market economy.
• When a law was passed that required top politicians to disclose their side income, he tried to stop it with a lawsuit. It turned out he had side income from 14 different sources.
• While the insists he doesn’t like the AfD he still regularly uses their talking points and rhetoric. He’ll also happily team up with them if it gets him a majority.
• He blatantly kissed Israel’s ass after they attacked Iran and, when Germany suspended arms sales to Israel over human right violations, worked to get them restarted ASAP.
• When the ICC issued an arrest warrant against Netanjahu, Merz said that he wanted to find a way for him to visit Germany without being arrested.
• Speaking of wars; after Ukraine was attacked he complained about Ukrainian refugees supposedly traveling back and forth between Germany and Ukraine and compared them to tourists.

That’s not all of it. That’s just what I could think of/find at the moment. That man is determined to torch his reputation.