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Comment Re:Atomic packaging systems suck (Score 1) 68

On one hand, I agree with you, I want everything done the old way and all my packages updated, and for all that software to still work.

On the other hand, that's not actually realistic, and a lot of people have to do a lot of hackery and patchwork in order to make it be like that.

I chose the version of Lutris that you get from their apt repo. If it installed extra 3d libraries, I didn't notice because disk space is cheap. I noticed it installed extra copies of runners available to Steam. I'm not thrilled about it, but I only noticed because I was was watching (I like to watch... status messages, that is.)

I run Devuan and I mostly run the versions of things I can get at least from backports, and I am running testing now, but it is now in rc status so that is not very testish. But sometimes, if you want the latest version of something, the best options are a flatpak or appimage. I also have found myself using docker containers to build a lot of software, and to run some services that are just problematic to get working otherwise.

Comment Re:Know what's better than a 3-wheeled car? (Score 1) 54

something would have to be seriously screwed up for a design as light and aerodynamic as the Aptera to be barely better than a Model 3.

People don't appreciate how aerodynamic cars can be at this time, and have been since the late eighties. My 1989 240SX fastback had an 0.21 Cd. Yeah, the Aptera has a lot less frontal area, but it also has a bunch of stupid shapes sticking out that a car doesn't have to have.

Comment Not just solar (Score 1) 54

this week the EV site Electrek pointed out that "There have been a handful of 'solar car' projects and they all have failed so far."

Same for three wheeled car projects. The only time they ever made sense was for war-ravaged Europe trying to get back on its feet and saving scarce materials and manufacturing time by making simpler 3-wheeled microcars with fewer complex parts. It seems like a good idea at first glance, you reduce rolling resistance, you could potentially reduce wind resistance, you save money on parts. But the driving experience is shit; you can't corner as hard so your ability to avoid obstacles is reduced, the three tracks mean you drive through more potholes and hit more other obstacles (all kinds of shit falls off vehicles) that you could have dodged if you had two tracks, replacement of the third tire is more complicated than on a normal four-wheeled vehicle, you can only tow them on a rollback and not with a wrecker, etc.

Three-wheeled vehicles are shit, and any business plan which involves selling them in volume is stupid.

Comment Re:Sure, work sucks (Score 1) 177

Graeber said, "a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case," when talking about "bs" jobs, but isn't that nearly every govt job?

No, only the ones involving determining eligibility for social services that should be replaced by UBI.

Comment Re:Flatpak: a solution in search of a problem. (Score 4, Informative) 68

If an app isn't available locally just download the source tree and compile it yourself.

I've been compiling software for Linux since I first started running it 1994 and it has never been more complicated than it is today. Dependency changes five levels deep or more and you get compilation errors at multiple levels. Your dismissiveness is unwarranted and makes you look ignorant.

Comment Straight gears (Score 0) 125

If they want to make their machine noisy they should use straight cut gears and omit the sound deadening asphalt. Then it will be loud as shit all the time, without having to pipe in any fake noise bullshit.

Quiet is one of the best things about EVs. Being able to hear the other noises the car makes is actually useful, unlike this crap.

Comment Re:A question for people familiar with cryptology (Score 2, Informative) 35

Is my assumption incorrect that a QC could be made to crack the older encryption methods?

If a more powerful quantum computer can be built, then it could do that. But there's no evidence thus far that an actually useful one can be built.

Comment nonsense (Score 1) 46

Some worry that the more closely companies intertwine, the more susceptible they are to creating a bubble

This is nonsense, they cannot create a bubble now, because they have already created a bubble. "Some" need to catch up with where we were months to years ago. At least it's safe to predict that something which is already happening will happen... yeah, we know, we can see it.

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