I think it is providing them something that they did not previously have access to before. And that providing many avenues and not fewer is something that we should collectively strive for in many various domains.

We've been warned about overuse of antibiotics and MRSA. It's like every other year papers get published about how MRSA and other antibiotic resistant things should present this existential fear to humanity.

NOPE, clearly we're going to go with conspiracy I guess. I guess we'll worry about all those warnings about antibiotic resistance when it blows up in our face. Sort like all those warnings about expanding without care into uninhabited lands and how it could trigger a pandemic.

You know it's whatever. We'll keep doing this shit to ourselves and blaming it on other things because that makes it easy for us to accept that we literally ignored every single fucking warning that scientist gave. There's never a bigger lesson about our place in this world and how we, humanity in general in case anyone is unclear about who I talk about, are really shitty stewards of this planet.

NOPE has to be a hit job. NOPE has to be a biological weapon. NOPE couldn't be the consequences of our collective actions.

I guess that's just where we're at right now.

I mean they're literally asking websites to ask for your driver's license for porn because parents apparently can't monitor their children's web habits.

Parent's routinely hand a electronic brick to their kid, let them load up social media, get bullied online, and then blow their brains out, OMG it must be social media's fault. Not thinking for one second, who handed the brick to the child?

Just the world we are living in at the moment.

What I have found about outsourcing is that in particular countries, your data for your company quickly becomes their data for whatever the fuck they're doing to subsidize their meager wages.

Just because you aren't handing cash to the employees doesn't mean you aren't paying for that labor, you're just paying for it by having all your intellectual property stolen. Nobody gets to sidestep paying for labor, you just get to pay for it in different ways.

There's a reason why everyone has your phone number, email address, and so on.

You clearly don't know a lot of poor people.

I live in a community in the middle of nowhere Tennessee where this program has been a massive boon.

They are not eating McDonald's because there is none here. They are not worried about their TikToks and Instagrams because they are trying to get by. What the Internet has allowed them to do is gain access to futures markets, connect with farming resources that previously did not have, have access to extension offices for programs they didn't even know exist, and so on. These people live on such thin margins, the "basic Internet" plan to gain access to those things is not something they can just idly enter into a year long contract. The "basic cable" plan doesn't even exist because there isn't even "cable" in this area. We have our local co-op fiber internet that is ran by our community, but ACP funds greatly helped secure those who weren't even aware that the Internet could help them. Now that some of these folks have seen what's possible, now that they've had access to markets that their beatup truck couldn't get them out to, they stand to lose that access. In all of your hateful diatribe, you failed to mention a single point that sounded reasonable. You haven't the slightest clue.

Your comment is quite possibly the most uneducated thing I have seen to date on Slashdot. You should go to Reddit or Facebook or something with that kind of quality comment.

And yes, the community is coming together for some of them in the loss of ACP. But the fact that Congress let this slip because "not enough Republicans" would sign on to it, even though it would have passed with Democrats is a stupid reason for why we cannot use some modicum of Federal dollars to help out fellow Americans. Americans that likely put food in your grocery store you want everyone to go buy food at you goddamn idiot. Americans that I'm pretty sure who have worked harder in a single day of their life than you ever will in your entire spiteful pitiful fucking life.

The ACP lapsed because Republicans continual support of the Hastert "rule". Which isn't a rule in the standard way one thinks of rules in Congress, but just this really weird thing Republicans do as tradition that was started by a guy who ultimately served time behind bars for funding sexual abuse of teenage boys.

Hastert started the rule of "majority of the majority" in that no bill would be allowed to be heard unless a majority of the majority would vote to pass the bill. Since this is a Republican only tradition, it basically means that no bill can come to the floor if Democrats would carry it to success, unless Republicans are also behind it.

That's it. A lot of bipartisan support was behind funding ACP, but because so some stupid ass tradition started by some idiot pederast in the 90s, lot of people in my community in particular will either have downgraded or loose Internet connectivity altogether.

Great job Republicans. Once again, showing everyone how awesome your party is.

It couldn't be the ads that they keep adding. Or the ads that they have for other programs on the horizon.

Couldn't be the telemetry that they collect that's only gotten worse as we keep going on?

Couldn't be all the fucking hoops you have to jump through to just install an OS without having to sign up for a goddamn Microsoft account.

Couldn't be the copilot AI bullshit and the forcing it down people who didn't want it's throat.

Couldn't be that despite all this shit that is crammed down your throat Windows 11 offers next to nothing in improved performance compared to Windows 10.

Couldn't be all the dumb shit that happened with TPM 2.0 and all the dumb things you have to do to get it working without TPM 2.

Couldn't be the whole wonderful things you need to do to "actually say no" to do I want to use Edge Browser.

Windows 11 is Microsoft's hubris manifest. They literally are just going to add this shit and honestly think, "No no, we know better. It's better this way." All the while, every day, various Linux distros are becoming viable alternatives to Windows AND the people who love and use Windows 10 is quite strong and it has less of the annoying things listed above. Even in corporations, I know, no company wants that copilot shit randomly popping off in the office. Literally day one when it became an option in Active Directory, the higher ups turned that shit off. Because the literal ramifications of someone whispering shit into copilot while at work is not a non-concern to a ton of C-level staff.

There's just this constant stream of things nobody wanted, no one wants to use, and nobody wants to keep, that just keeps hitting Windows 11. And the upper levels of Microsoft just won't hear otherwise. So no shit Windows 11 uptake has been massively depressed. There are few people on this planet outside of Microsoft that speak highly of this new OS. This version is a paragon of engineering self-indulgence. Every single feature that they have patted themselves on the back for, is something that has quickly become something despised by those who actually have to use this crap. The people creating this operating system, the people promoting this operating system, the people who support this operating system, and the people who steer the direction of this operating system at Microsoft are completely divorced from the actualization of that operating system in real life. They have molded the rubber only to ignore completely where it meets the road.

It's not as bad as say Windows ME. It's not BAD OS overall. But it's an OS where they are actively NOT LISTENING to anyone using it. They are ignoring what people do actually want. Say what you will about Vista or 8, at least Microsoft listened to the hate and came around to fixing things. Windows 11, they just stopped giving a fuck. That's the biggest single difference with THIS version of Windows. Nobody is listening to consumers and the OS shows that off in spades. That is what makes Windows 11 set apart from the other tocks in the tick-tock of good-bad Windows that Microsoft seems dead set to follow. This one is bad because the OS isn't being made for what consumers want, it's being made for what someone thinks consumers want when they don't want that.

Just randomly pulled one from the air. Which that's funny I got a "why not XYZ", as that kind of hits home the point. There's plenty of non-systemd Linux out there.

Thank goodness. Holy shit the tribalism here it something else. LWN and phoronix have much more level headed discussions. Slashdot has just turned into a massive knee-jerk of "BACK IN MY DAY!"

If you don't like systemd, there's literally a distro for that. Just go use that. The "let's all go kill Lennart Poettering" gets old.

If I had mod points I'd mod you up. There's so few people left that think we should all just use what we think is the best tool for a given situation.

At least the US perception of those reports. Google still has to obey US laws and if the US' government is scared of RISC-V because "Chi-na", that means Google is hedging by putting in some distance.

T2 SDE has been around for a bit. They're usually pretty good at floating up vintage stuff to get a desktop going.

They've got a codebase that works pretty well on SGI Octane machines. The Itanium support, that's more interesting. There's not many of those machines out there.

These are DDX drivers, not more modern DRM drivers. DDX is the really old driver model that's pretty much required for vintage machines. Also, these are the drivers, not the server itself. No one is working on the Xorg server itself.

I don't know why people keep on with Wayland meaning the end of X. X only ends when nobody wants it anymore. There's a clear demand for it, so it'll be around for some time. The ecosystem is absolutely large enough to have multiple display technologies. Nobody is afraid of DirectFB disappearing and e16 runs great on it. It is some odd false victimization that we can only have one display technology, when we've had plenty for some time now. Heck you can still hook a VT320 to a modern box, I don't see anyone scared about loosing that.

The Wayland boogieman is so overblown.

Gearing. A generator can run continuously at a specific RPM that is optimal. You can very easily vary the power given in an electrical motor because we're pretty darn good at moving electrons. This is the thing about all motors, not just car motors. In an ideal situation you run at a fixed RPM for as long as possible at a specific gear ratio that maximizes the power delivered versus the torque delivered based on application. If you're looking for maximum power, you minimize torque as much as possible.

Except you cannot do that in a moving vehicle because you need to modify that torque when going from speed to stop or form stop to speed. This stopping and getting back up to speed is a massive drain of efficiency on a moving vehicle because the best we can do is the gearbox, which isn't the most effective but most effective given we want to minimize weight. But in an electric generator we can spin at a fixed RPM because we only need to stop the motor when the battery is charged and we can spin at the correct RPM and gear ratio to maximize power because, we don't need a massive amount of torque, because we aren't moving the car with the motor, just the generator.

And the same is true for generators at nuclear plants, hydro plants, for water pumps in a muni watering system, and so on. There is a reason why water towers exist, it is because we can run the water pumps at their ideal parameters for longer to deliver maximum cubic feet of water per minute. When the load on the water system goes down, the pumps are delivering a surplus volume of water, and so we fill the tank. When the load goes up, the pump isn't delivering enough volume into the system, so we drain the tanks. The point being the pump spins with ideal parameters through all of it, we just use the tanks to maintain or supplement as we carry on. Any time we have to vary from continuous parameters pretty much the whole "things in motion really dislike being coaxed into non-motion" kicks in and at scales that provide us power and water at the city level, every time those parameters fluctuates, shortens the life, just a little bit, of the very expensive pumps that you want to exist for as long as humanly possible. So it's massively cost effective to have water pumps, storage tanks, whatever, to ensure those pumps stay as ideal as possible. If a water tower costs your town about $3M for break ground-to-online but reduces variance in your pumps by 5%, that $3M is recouped in about two years. So if your town needs a water tower and the pumps are not in their last five to ten years, putting up the tower makes a lot of economical sense even in the worst of cases.

Trains have been using this mixture of diesel / battery design for decades now. And it's total effect is that trains go longer between repairs, stay on the rails longer, and require less refueling between stops. And in really difficult terrain, some trains are hybrid, in that the battery and fuel can both turn the axle. This is how cars like the Prius can achieve such insane MPGs, because the motor attempts to run at any of the ideal parameters for the given gear and if you need less, rather than slow the motor down, it charges the battery. Motor running in the ideal configuration for longer means more of the fuel going in is power and not heat.

Anything with a motor, you want spinning at it's ideal parameters for as long as possible to maximize the desired effect. And any motor that varies those parameters a lot, requires lots of maintenance and upkeep to keep it running. Hence why oil changes are really important in car engines. They're important in utility motors as well, but can be done a lot less frequently than a car motor because the motor is being ran ideally for longer periods of time with way less variation in the input parameters. The dynamic nature of a car motor is one of the biggest factors in design considerations that sets automotive motors apart from other motors.

Oh yo. I'm with you there. You happen to have $30 billion on you by chance?

Every time someone mentions the "clean" of nuclear, I need to remind them that, I'm not anti-nuclear, I'm just a realist on price tag. 1GWh nuclear is around $20B to $30B and 1 GWh solar comes in around $780M. At least for face plate values. I'm not joking in that we could literally build a 5 GWh LFP battery for about a quarter the cost of the nuke, and in three to five years that price tag for the battery will be about half. So 1 GWh + 5 GWh battery could be done about four(ish) times for the tag of a single nuclear. Even if the sun didn't shine, we've got enough pepper on the land with that many installs, to still not justify the nuclear plant.

I love me some nuclear energy, but goddamn the price tag is fucking insane. The sobering point was like five to seven years ago for nuclear. These motherfuckers can press panels faster and cheaper every year.

Which, how's that different than right now? How's that different than 30 years ago? Like this is such a silly argument. EU has never soloed their energy production, but when people talk of solar and wind, "OH NO, you have to do it 100% inside that way or nothing!"

But that's not an unrealistic thing on a multi decade timescale. Like some people get hung up on building a 100GWh battery by tomorrow and that's not realistic. But seeing how LFP can reasonably over a ten to twelve year period produce that amount of storage, it is indeed, that we could possibly do that given enough time.

And I'm not saying you're wrong here, but we've got the technology to overcome it. It's a matter of time and cost, not technology. We can technically overcome that aspect.

Something to point out here as well is that the batteries they are talking about wouldn't even be good at consumer grade things. They're a different chemistry that prizes storage, cheap up front cost, and long life over most other factors. There's trade offs they have to take like the low energy density, the complexities of ventilation and how you can only stack these things so high, and the delivery of these things at some of the places of generation (like wind farms).

This is one of the cooler things about battery storage over traditional fuels. Chemistry can be modified to meet application, it's just a matter of researching the chemical attributes that yield the desired results.