Sure but those bad people are democrats, or probably illegals anyway though. If they are US citizens they really shouldn't be. Seriously voter fraud in the US is very easy to define. Any vote that's not for a republican (Trump really) is fraudulent. And those casting such contrary votes are illegal aliens. Because we all know that true Americans vote Trump. It's that simple.

As for our kind of people, we wouldn't want a true patriot's freedom to organize an insurrection to be infringed on with domestic spying.

If cars are basically just phones now, they should at least provide a factory reset button!

And yet their humorous take on the news was very much appreciated. I count myself among those who once considered themselves well informed, and I was a regularly Daily Show viewer. I also loved the various Canadian comedies over the years such as Double Exposure, Royal Canadian Air Farce, etc. And I still listen to BBC's the News Quiz when it is available. And Dead Ringers.

You can think what you like about comedians, but humor is always a good thing and the ability to poke fun at everyone (left and right) brings more balance to the news than a lot of news sources out there.

Humor is very much missing from public discourse these days, especially among the current crop of right-wing politicians. I judge a person on their sense of humor. The ability to not take one's self so seriously is as important as the ability to think critically. A genuine warmth of character. I remember back during the Bush days although he was a polarizing figure, he had a personal warmth that is completely gone today. He could even make fun of his own (many) gaffes.

These characteristics are completely missing in the present administration but are present among some of our more "liberal" entertainers. Hence I listen to them, and more often than not I learn from them, even if my personal views differ greatly from theirs.

While Ollama does have a GUI, as I understand it and use it, it's primary purpose is to download, host and run local LLM models. I always use ollama from the command prompt. You usually interact with models hosted in Ollama with a separate agent.

I suppose Thunderbolt compares roughly to Claude Desktop, AnythingLLM, or Qwen's desktop GUI.

Running Thunderbolt or AnythingLLM with a locally-hosted Gemma 4 model is kind of interesting, possibly useful. Gemma4 is quite amazing for being able to run on lower-powered machines. I can run Gemma4:26B on an nVidia GPU with 12 GB VRAM pretty well, although startup time is about 3 minutes. I've only tested it lightly. It seems to be able to make sense of simple C language programs, can translate languages, and analyze and summarize documents. quite useful actually.

I personally prefer the CLI agents like OpenCode. I suppose openclaw could be in this camp, but useful agents to me have lots of checks to prevent agents from wreaking havoc without intervention.

I've been using 128 GB SD card in my phone for many years. Linux had no problem formatting it to fat32.

Yet Israel and the US both have nukes but it's okay because we would never use them, right? When you see someone as unhinged as Trump running the show, I have more to fear from American nukes than I do from Iranians. If it's really about nuclear weapons then everyone needs to give them up, including and beginning with the USA. If not, why should Iran give them up?

Besides that, we all know that we have to get off of oil, and nuclear energy is the only real solution for baseline power. So at some point we have to grant Iran access to nuclear energy.

Anyway the situation with Iran remind me of a Star Trek episode where a world joining the federation is beset with terrorist attacks. The Enterprise finds out that the terrorists are a direct result of the world's government's own actions. Likewise Iran has been marginalized and isolated by the rest of the world, particularly the US, pushing them to extremes simply to get any respect (or fear) at all. Things started to thaw under Obama, but Trump tore up the agreement and pushed Iran back to the only thing that ever worked for them. If the US and the west had invited Iran into the world community, and worked with them for peace it would have weakened the authoritarian, islamist tendencies of the regime. But Israel strongly benefits from Iran being a boogeyman so they are strongly opposed to peace with Iran. A constant state of ware benefits Netanyahu.

And never mind that the US is entirely responsible for this trajectory after overthrowing the democratically-elected government in Iran in the 1950s. The Shaw that the Americans installed was so brutal that it paved the way for the Islamist uprising.

I rode on the Thalys train in France a few years ago. Looking out the window I could tell we were going pretty fast but it was so smooth I guessed maybe 160 kph. Turned on GPS and discovered how wrong I was. It was actually 300 kph.

Sadly no they don't. BYD cars are just like Tesla and anything sold on the market today. Big screens, always-on connectivity.

The EV perveyors say the screens and always-on internet connection are important so you can make sure to get maximum efficiency and make sure you can find a charging station. Some EVs even require you to use GPS navigation in order to properly prepare the battery for a fast charge! Apparently tactile controls and small screens just don't work on cars these days.

I love the idea of EVs and want to buy one, but the screens are a huge turn off.

Albums don't really exist on spotify anymore. I mean they do exist theoretically, but most music renters never listen to full albums. Spotify just feeds them individual songs according to their algorithm. I suspect in the near future, if it's not happened already, musicians will just be releasing singles as albums have no real meaning in this streaming world.

You're right of course. But rsilvergun is not wrong too. Slavery is definitely part of the equation.

But at a higher level, China has beaten the rest of the world because they've got a complete, integrated supply chain. Literally every part of a modern EV is made somewhere nearby, by more than one company. Whereas in the US, companies largely abandoned that model in favor of just in time suppliers. In other words, Harvard Business School that placed short-term quarterly gains above everything else. Labor is a liability. having parts on hand is a liability. Making those parts locally is a liability. I'm a little surprised Trump hasn't targetted this aspect of American business ethos and executive ordered the Harvard Business School to disband after the damage they've caused and influenced industry wreckers like Neutron Jack.

I don't think you can run x64 Windows in Parallels on the M series macs. At least you couldn't do that last time I tried it. Windows has its own x86 emulator that works pretty well within Windows for ARM.

Linux is a hot mess on *all* ARM hardware because of proprietary firmware. Device trees, kernel forks, custom distros, extremely proprietary GPUs.

Snapdragon X supports UEFI, so that should make Linux support easier and more standardized and capable of running generic distros. In theory...

Do you use a ton of existing crates? If so how do you determine what is appropriate to use? Do you worry about supply-chain attacks? It seems like every rust app I try to install with cargo pulls in a dozen or more dependencies. I have no idea how to vet them. As a mere user it seems like I'm trading one kind of vulnerability for another. This is not unique to rust of course. All the modern, hip languages do the same thing.

Not quite sure what you mean about ignoring concepts like RAII. Those go back to the beginning of C++.

Rust's reason to exist has not gone away. Rust will continue to slowly replace C and C++ in systems programming where it makes sense.

In other areas where it seems more like people are creating yet another version of a classic utility but in Rust, the answer is, "yes I sure hope so."

The problem with all modern programming languages now comes down to supply chain risk. Even the simplest utilities depend on dozens of crates to be pulled into my computer from who knows where. Go, Dart, Python, Node.js, all have this problem. I just installed a cool utility (written in Rust of course) that pulled in 50 dependencies. I am to trust that they are all good of course. Still it seems a little excessive for a utility that does graphical browsing of disk usage (darya). But hey it's a modern utility.

Maybe it will settle into just being a useful tool, like it was intended.