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Comment Re:Wut? (Score 1) 64

Excuses excuses. That officially ended over a hundred years ago, and numerous well-meaning parties have fallen all over themselves in the last 4-6 decades to rectify this problem. Regardless of all that, such failures have nothing to do with moralizing Christians pushing their modern agenda against public schools. Absolutely nothing. Especially not in a place like Baltimore where they have no power. Kindly address the raised point - that social conservatives are somehow responsible for the failure of schools.

Comment Re:Maybe you could pay teachers enough (Score 2) 64

Are there legions of better teachers we can hire right now to do a better job, if in fact that's what we need them to do?

When I was a school kid, I had multiple teachers bust down whatever egos we had (especially in math class) by reminding us that various Soviet students could run circles around us in math with an abacus instead of our fancy graphing calculators.

There are school systems past and present that have produced better testing results on less money spent per student.

Comment Re:Wrong Model (Score 1) 92

Large houses in hot climates don't have enough roof space to accommodate the number of panels you would need to displace grid power.

Simply putting panels between the sun and the house substantially reduces the need for cooling, even if you didn't connect them to anything, because the back of the panel is white and the other side is dark.

Comment Re: Going for gold (Score 1) 239

I only had so many choices as I wanted to buy something from costco so that I could easily return it if it failed. It was LG, Samsung, or Sony. The reviews all said that the LG was good except for the interface, and the other options were bad including the interface.

Comment Re:bullshit dude (Score 1) 37

the point is that legacy filesystems (e.g. Minix) and operating systems are facing doom because of the Y2038 problem

Oh no! This is of no concern to anyone but hobbyists today.

You could invent some ad-hoc replacement filesystem but then it won't be compatible with Linux.

Unless you added support for it to Linux.

There are still people out there hacking on 2BSD. I am sure they are aware that NetBSD is available as an upgrade path.

Again, hobbies don't matter.

Comment Re: Going for gold (Score 1) 239

I even have it set to never sleep for efficiency and it still occasionally tells me to wait while it gets its shit together before I'm allowed to change inputs.

All you need is to change channels and inputs

In fact, that is what I was talking about. You may read the quoted section at your leisure.

I had one a few years ago (returned due to developing a fault with the screen after a couple of years) that was inexpensive and didn't think the lag was bad.

This one is only a bit over a year old, so it's newer than the one you were using. The entire line has been panned universally in reviews for its laggy interface.

Comment Re:Can we get 64 bit for Linux? (Score 1) 37

If you say "which should be available in both architectures aren't" then I guess you're using Ubuntu not Debian.

Actually, I'm using Devuan. But I had the same problem on actual Debian.

As for appImages: they deserve no words other than an exorcism formula. Same for Snap.

AppImages work, which is more than you can say for snaps.

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