Comment Re:Insane ruling by troglodyte judges (Score 1) 99
Trying to keep physical evidence from the police is not testimony.
Heck of a business to be in. Make a service that has been available for free in some form or another for decades. And then compete with dozens if not hundreds of other startups and open source projects. Maybe I should sell of the few shares of WORK (Slack) that I have.
We have had jabberd setup at work for about 15 years. But a few years ago, my work decided to pay for both Slack and Teams. Teams is sort of free, but not everyone actually wanted MS Office so it was only free in our IT department's weird fantasies.
How do I find my coworkers when we're on 3 different services. I run 3 different apps/tabs. Also a handful of coworkers refuse to use chat programs, and will video conference but only if you set it up via email in advance.
I'm not really trying to complain. More pointing out that the tech industry is full of brilliant people who can't even make a simple agreement on which nearly identical pieces of software to use company-wide.
Folks with Windows for games probably aren't going to bother with Wine.
I've been a Windows to Linux waffler since I put Slackware 2.0 on a 386DX25 with 8MB RAM and 120MB ATA hdd, using Kernel 1.1.47 (thus dating the start of my Linux saga) with A, N, D, and enough of the X set to run Netscape 2.0. And on that system I played (besides the epic classics like Nethack) Doom and Abuse. I ran Windows 7 for some time because it was a great place to run most games, even most of the vintage ones, and a tolerable place to run other things. I ran Linux occasionally in VMware Player or from USB stick for tasks that Windows couldn't or wouldn't do gracefully.
Now I run Devuan 5, and I am having a fairly excellent experience gaming with a combination of Lutris, PlayOnLinux, Steam, and Proton-GE. I only have a Pinnacle Ridge (1600AF) and a 4060 16GB, but I only game at 1080p. I got the version with more VRAM for LLM stuff, and so if/when I do get a 4k monitor, the card isn't worthless. I am frequently surprised by how many games I actually can run with this combination. With the exception of games with Windows kernel DRM, by far the vast majority of them can be made to work well.
If I were only gaming, I'd probably be on Windows 10. But Linux now is a very viable place to do a lot of gaming, and thanks to work put in to support the Steam Deck, a lot of games will now run very well indeed. Publishers of older games are also putting in a fair bit of work to make games function on Linux today. The new Fallout 4 patch coming out (I know that game is old AF, but it has an extremely active community) is Steam Deck Verified, but the game has run at least as well on Linux as on Windows for years now.
I do sometimes indeed still use normal Wine, but more commonly I use Proton-GE. Try it out, it's impressive.
no but you normally talk shit so I had to clarify
You not picking up what I'm putting down doesn't mean I'm not putting it down for you.
Also 8 times out of 10 those same people who are open to a non-Windows OS are just taking a trip to their Apple store.
Why can't they handle it like they have done with other foreign media moguls? I think they just made Rupert Murdoch become a US citizen or something like that.
Separate thing.
The US is able to impose domestic ownership requirements on broadcasting licenses, because they are the sole grantor of license for use of the airwaves.
There is no issue with his ownership of News Corp.
Restriction of corporate ownership is a bit more murky in the constitutional waters. The Equal Protection Clause comes into play (as TikTok is a legally incorporated US entity, it therefor has rights), as well as the constitutional restrictions on Bills of Attainder.
Passing a bill specifically targeting an entity was seen by the framers as a usurpation of executive or judicial power.
YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook are all banned in China.
This is a stupid fucking bit of logic right here.
You know what else is banned in China? Speaking ill of their fucking dictator.
Seek a better fucking benchmark, dude.
That's exactly how it works.
No, it isn't.
The "Coulomb barrier" is a potential. You can break it any day of the week with an uncharged particle - only once you put a charged particle inside the field does it require energy. The more energy the more charge your particle has.
No, it's not. And no, you cannot.
The coulomb barrier cannot be broken by any uncharged particle, because it by definition is the energy required for two nuclei- always and invariably charged- to react.
That energy requirement is higher or lower depending on the number of protons in the nucleus.
No, it's not. It's 3 to 10 kV [wikipedia.org].
1) you misquoted. It's KeV, not KV.
Repeat after me: They are not the same fucking thing.
However, the wiki page is misleading.
The coulomb barrier for deuterium-deuterium fusion is 100KeV.
You can however get reactions to occur in small amounts much lower due to quantum tunneling.
However, you're never ever going to get close to break-even on a reactor if you're only getting reactions via tunneling.
You are fundamentally wrong in your understanding of fusion physics.
E = MC ** 2 +- 3db