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Comment Re:Can we get 64 bit for Linux? (Score 1) 33

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.

Comment Re:Where is the like button? (Score 1) 23

Excel vs Calc is a battle with no heroes. Both have bad interfaces. Both use bad macro programming languages. Both are missing inexplicable functions, though Excel is missing fewer obvious ones that you would want than Calc is so I guess there's a slight edge there, and of course LIVE PIVOT TABLES are massively important to many spreadsheet users and that's an obvious Excel win.

Comment Re:Wrong Model (Score 1) 72

half the nation can't use home solar anyway

This is nonsense. Of course it can. You simply need to add more panels. Nobody wants to install used panels for money, because the way they profit is by marking up parts prices, and you get a bigger markup at the same percentage on a new panel. But there are absolute piles of used panels out there, I am actually seeing large numbers of them just given away, so this is absolutely a viable business. And that's never been more true than it is now with microinverters, because you can add panels in any numbers you like. One panel, okay. Ten panels, okay. Twenty panels, fine. There's no need for them to match, either.

Comment Re:Murdercars (Score 1) 12

I think the opposite. I think this is an example of why human drivers will be easily surpassed by automated systems. When a problem is fixed by a vendor they can roll out a fix that fixes everyone. We've been trying to fix human behaviour for a century and have failed at doing so.

As long as the cars are using machine learning, there is never going to be a fix that actually fixes all of the instances of even a single problem. The whole idea of being able to have a conclusive fix in an "AI" system is nonsense.

Comment Re:Can we get 64 bit for Linux? (Score 1) 33

Why? The point of multiarch is precisely to allow you to upgrade some software to a different arch

Because multiarch sucks, especially if you're on Debian or a Debian-derived distribution, which most of us are. For some reason Debian is really bad at it and it causes a bunch of problems. Some things which really should be available in both architectures aren't.

What you're preaching is multilib, which had been transitioned away for a good reason.

No, what I'm preaching is more like appImages.

Comment Re: Going for gold (Score 1) 235

They don't. LG TVs have an absolutely trash interface. I have a 43UT8000 and it is the laggiest fucking thing ever made. 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.

Comment Re: Credit scores are not what you think they are (Score 1) 101

I *was* in the high 700s, I had a 790. I got there by just getting one card and keeping it paid off.

Then I got some more loans and paid them off and now my score is *lower*

You keep telling me things about how you think it work which are obviously incorrect and then you want to tell me more things and expect me to believe them. That's literally insane.

Comment Re:Not really a rival (Score 1) 49

What's surprised me in the processor market is AMD making inroads in the laptop space that Intel owned for decades

AMD has superior power management in their chip, in terms of being able to shut down functional units when not in use, so now that they are on the same or superior process technology they have an efficiency edge over Intel. Intel was only ahead of AMD in mobile because they had superior process tech. That is now over and there are no signs it's coming back (Intel having failed at getting acceptable yields with two process shrinks in a row now) so AMD has the clear edge for the time being.

Comment Re:Stop with the be gay, do crime stuff (Score 1) 135

immel got drummed off the air for lying on air saying that the shooter was a conservative MAGA supporter..."one of their own", long after official statements and evidence have plainly stated the opposite.

What official statements, as if those were relevant? What evidence?

Comment Re:America's food security depends on immigrant la (Score 1) 86

If there are no immigrants working for slave-like wages, food companies will have to do a couple of things. (1) Innovate with technology to rely on less labor. This is called a productivity gain.

All of the low-hanging fruit has been picked there, pun intended. Crops which are easy to machine cultivate are already produced with machine cultivation.

And (2) start paying people a decent/humane wage, and this will attract more workers to this line of work.

The first thing can't happen or they would have done it already, and the second thing is the opposite of their mission.

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