The BBB was supported by the overwhelming majority of conservatives. That's why the Republicans passed it. One or two billionaires bitching about it doesn't change that.

The Republicans don't, and never have, cared about deficit spending. It was Saint Reagan who actually started the modern trend of overspending. Literally the only time they bring it up is when there's a democrat in office and they want to shoot down any spending that might alleviate poverty. Meanwhile, historically, Democrats have done better controlling the debt than Republicans.

So why hasn't Europe been bombed yet? The Euro is doing well and many non-EU countries are switching to it as their preferred reserve currency.

The EU also has plenty of military might. The fact the US has more is neither here nor there given both (and Russia) can destroy the world many times over in the space of a few minutes.

Try looking for the "Jump to recipe" button, that's on most websites.

The reason for all the garbage is that... get this... Google downranks websites without paragraphs and paragraphs of filler material that just display the recipe. Trust me, most recipe sharers don't particularly want to write 10 paragraphs of crap about Carrabbas Style Lentil Soup.

> Or, buy and download a song in an electronic format, which will then be lost if I have a disk crash? Again, no thanks.

Unfortunately this seems to be the way the world is going. I do recommend doing two things: creating a media server of some sort, and keeping it in a back-up schedule.

(Disk media isn't immune from problems either, I'm finding a large number of DVDs I have suffer disk rot, probably because WB cheaped out in the mid-2000s)

Back-ups aren't hard these days. Use older, disused, hard drives of the kind you probably have a pile of anyway because you're a Slashdotter, and a device like this:

https://www.newegg.com/istarus...

This is something that means you can treat SATA drives the same way you did floppies back when we used REAL computers.

Second advantage of this is that you can save everything, including the time you'd otherwise need to re-rip your entire media collection if it fails. I've learned the hard way that's not as easy as it sounds.

They care about being punished if they're caught, yes, but only if the punishment is something somewhat more than 5000 quid.

It's not that they're afraid of innovating, it's that they're afraid of having to do the good, consumer friendly, form of innovation where you create better products for end users, rather than enshittify them to boost your share price temporarily through "innovations" that actively harm end users.

It was a rant, but one that was both on-topic and that didn't, actually, claim Trump was responsible for the satellite loss. But then you have someone with the real TDS (the derangement that makes someone admire him) jump in claiming the post said something it didn't, followed by a line of deranged Trump fanatics protesting it was unfair the false post was modded down or criticized or that liberals had claimed they are always right (?) and so on.

I'm so tired of this, but even more I'm so tired of *gestures everywhere* WTF has happened to the world? I miss the days when conservatives just had different opinions on how to provide universal healthcare coverage or whether we need to split marriage into a religious and civil part in order to give equal rights to non-heterosexuals. Sure, they had some pretty awful views about muslims, but FFS, this is just awful.

SpaceX is doing very well launching stuff into LEO and GTO. But plenty of organizations do that and have been doing that since the 1970s. It's (relatively speaking) fairly easy, and SpaceX's main success has been doing it more cheaply and more efficiently than anyone has before.

SpaceX is not having much luck going further or more complicated than putting things in GTO. They haven't orbited the moon, or have a working vehicle for doing so yet (Starship is nowhere near ready), and leaving Earth's orbit is part of the same not-ready project.

Don't get me wrong, with the exception of the idiot who owns the company, SpaceX are some of the smartest space people in the world. They may well get Starship working if they can handle Musk enough to keep him out of it but continue to fund it. The latter... I'm wary in the current political climate of assuming it'll happen just because it excites him. He might not have the funds or power he does indefinitely, and it's far from clear anyone else would take over and continue to fund SpaceX if he falls out of favor with the current administration.

Oh wow, that's interesting, I hadn't heard of that one! Amazingly, reading up on it it ran on AMPS and had a cellular modem. I thought having to use GSM CSD on my 9000 was kludgy!

I assume he's talking about the Nokia 9000? I had one, IIRC it ran something based upon GEOS, but you wouldn't have recognized it from the UI. It's entirely possible there was an MS DOS clone sitting managing the file system, but I don't recall having a command line (I'm not sure I even had direct access to files in the 9000's UI.)

TBH in the 1990s there were a lot of mobile OSes, mostly for use with PDAs, and many were influenced heavily by desktop OSes at the time, but I'm not sure I'd call any clones. But at the same time many were very unsophisticated at the bottom layers. So there's that.

There are minor improvements needed for X11, but nothing that wouldn't be relatively trivial to add once it's understood how it should work (ie things like deeper pixel depths - right now 10bpp is the limit, and I believe different DPIs on different monitors on multimonitor setups is also a thing that needs to be addressed.)

Truth is I suspect the core X11 could continue to be maintained by 2-3 people, with obviously technologies like OpenGL/Vulkan being supported by larger groups, and device drivers by the card manufacturers, and it would still run circles around Wayland.

SystemD was buggy at the beginning and had some strange defaults, such as binary logging, which have been fixed. It's unfortunate it has a spiky developer and that it was released the way it was, but I'd say 110% of the issues people complain about have been fixed, while sysvinit remains the init system of choice for those who are happy to accept they'll have to use rescue disks occasionally if they have an entirely reasonable configuration that just doesn't work because of timing issues or network resources being unavailable.

PulseAudio... I was never convinced that putting all the audio stuff in user space was a great idea, PulseAudio exists largely because the kernel developers didn't have the right skillset to understand what people needed from audio, so someone stepped up to write something as a stop gap until they figured it out. Again, like SystemD, unfortunately early versions were bug ridden and it had a spiky developer - the same one! - behind it. But it wasn't per-se a bad idea, and ultimately it ended up working, it just was a hack to deal with a greater underlying issue that nobody seemed to want to fix.

Wayland - just a shit idea. Made by a group of people who joined the X11 project long after the original people had left, whined and bitched about having to maintain someone else's code, and then decided instead of rewriting it to create some utopian replacement. That it even ended up with something after 15 years is a fucking miracle because generally when people say "Oh this working, complete, system is imperfect, let's replace it with something perfect" they all have different ideas as to what is imperfect about it. But, no surprise, Wayland is garbage. It throws out 40 years of proven design to create a system that's only "modular" because everyone scoped parts to things they wanted to work on, rather than because they were a good idea. Wayland advocates frequently make claims that are verifiably false: "Screenshotting works!", "We created network transparency" (no link but you notice that claim died pretty quickly - no support in ssh like there is -X for X11, wonder why...), "X11 is inefficient, Wayland is the best for games", etc, etc.

Wayland is being pushed because the devs, who control X11, IBM, who funds everything, and so on, cannot be seen as wasting the last 15 years on a side project that didn't work out, leaving X11 to fester when virtually everything useful in Wayland could have been put into X11. In mean time, the only reason it's popular is because people have been repeating the same smears against X11 since the late 1990s about it being "inefficient" and "slow", which sounds credible when you find out it has network transparency and communicates over a socket... until you discover that, no, the only time you see large blocks of data sent over the socket is when it's actually running over a network.

This truly sucks. And no, I think XLibre's leadership is going to drive away many of the people who could fix this. Things just keep getting shittier.

Yeah, not only does he not know what a traitor is, but he apparently is unaware that the Obama and Biden administrations were far more successful at limiting immigration than either Trump admin. Largely because Trump is corrupt and only interested in performative attacks on immigrants (hence going after kids here for leukemia treatments and cancelling the visas of people here legally, rather than going after the people who supposedly are taking American jobs by doing the under-the-table work, and their employers. The people who employ illegal immigrants are 99% Republicans, they'd scream and stop funding Trump if he damaged them in any way.)

Or frauds! Don't forget fraudsters!

Ah OK, thanks! Thought it odd, and Gentoo seems like the one OS that would have full support for x32 (and potentially could be less bothered by ix86 support) so I thought I'd ask!