the Germans occupied Ukraine, actually occupied the house of one of my grandfather. What is your stupid point?

>"I need an OS that I can plug a sound card into, start up my machine and it installs the driver and starts working"

Generally, that is Linux. I have installed various Linuxes over decades on hundreds of various machines. For the most part, modern Linux detects all the typical hardware and just configures and uses it. There is no need to "install drivers".

>"I want GUIs for all common tasks and I want it intuitive enough the I'm not spending hours looking up"

Again, that is generally the case with modern Linux. All the good distros can be completely managed through a GUI.

Could you end up with trying to install a not-so-great distro on a machine that has some unusual hardware? And have to take a dive into stuff? Sure. But that is the exception, not the rule, at least not in 2025.

You're pretending there's a good option on the table. There isn't one.

Option 1 is make lots of noise about defending democracy while half assesly egging along an overt proxy war with a nuclear armed adversary, being prosecuted by a country just as crooked as that adversary (sharing centuries of cultural ties with it), just more broke.

Option 2 is accepting that that aforementioned nuclear armed adversary actually achieved military conquest over some territory already (11 years ago) and exercises de facto control of some more, thereby acknowledging that the taboo on military conquest that the west has pretended to espouse over the last 80 years, has for the past decade plus been more pretense than something we will die for. Thereby removing some disincentive for other potential aggressors elsewhere to attack our nominal allies.

Option 3 is to pretend that no such tradeoff between bad options exists and look like a fucking fool to anyone out there without qualms about sending their boys into the meat grinder pro patria mori. And those people and places exist and they are watching. See downsides of option 2 above.

No, he chose war in Europe, this is the next step for putin. You didn't really think the ruzzian murderers that make up their armed forces will be allowed to return back to the motherland alive, did you? The next target is Estonia or Latvia, then Poland and the rest will follow. Regardless what anyone thinks, ruzzia has learned to fight the next type of war and nobody is ready for this except for one nation, that is holding the orcs - Ukraine.

If you look at the design of GPS signals, they drew on then-novel (1970s) pseudorandom codes and digital matched filtering and multiplexing work that was being researched for both defense applications and also made its way into early CDMA cell phones.

This is what lets up to 65 or something GPS signals broadcast on the same band at the same time and the receivers could disambiguate them apart.

The GLONASS system didn't have that. There was no Soviet private communications sector driving that innovation and Soviet academics were very late to the gamr on all things digital (Store clerks used an abacus and think I remember my dad using a slide rule in the 80s when in the West cheap calculators were everywhere).

So GLONASS was built using separate frequency bands for each satellite. There weren't enough bands allocated so satellites on opposite sides of the globe have to share bands so that no two satellites in view from anywhere overlap in frequency and jam eachother.

I remember reading this at some point for the first time about 15 or 20 years ago when GPS III was on the drawing board here and Putin was making noise about reconstituting GLONASS to its full glory days. And I remember asking myself (yet again) how the fuck did such a backward place hold its own for so long?

Bandera is a national hero, fighting for Ukrainian freedom from occupiers, the ruzzians spout nonsense. Ukrainians are actually proud that Bandera was a Ukrainian. If the ruzzians went to war against the USA they would call George Washington a nazi, whatever.

I just landed in Warsaw, taking a ride to Ukraine right now. There are dirt poor people living in Ukraine, I am sure, probably some older folks are. That said, I work with over 950 people from Ukraine, vast majority of them living in Ukraine, over 200 people in software development, over 600 in support, many sales and other roles. Half of them own their homes, half of them have their own cars, everyone owns a computer, power banks, generators, satellite communication equipment, most also have fiber at home. They dine in nice restaurants, food is not worse than anywhere.

Here is a link to one of many restaurants I frequent when in Odessa for example. https://maps.app.goo.gl/GvHDHh...

Here is one in Kiev https://maps.app.goo.gl/JSnpEW...

one in Mykolaiv https://maps.app.goo.gl/Sd72r6...

here is a shopping mall in Harkiv https://maps.app.goo.gl/3osPzi...

You should maybe find out a few things before typing something, though we know that paper tolerates everything.

It is not possible to "run out."

It is, however, *very* possible to neglect to build infrastructure to collect enough water from the environment to meet your specific needs.

Similarly, it is possible to stay dry in the rain. It is also possible to fail to build shelter and get wet. And humans being human, it is also very likely that it's the rain that gets blamed instead of the lazy fuck who failed to secure adequate shelter. In the parable of the ant and the grasshopper, the grasshopper is not the good guy.

I don't think treason could have been made to apply. It's defined in the Constitution, and the definition is a *LOT* stricter than colloquial use.

Ah, but who is the consumer of those resources. Perhaps Google is selling compute to other companies. That could be quite a profitable approach.

As I already said in the previous post:

"MacOS mostly doesn't really even use ~/.config, because, well, "Apple".

We don't know if Mozilla will do that on MacOS, which does not follow all Unix conventions. Especially desktop ones, of which this is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

>"Linux" appears ZERO times in the specification."

And yet, 99% of who this change will affect will likely be Linux users. MacOS mostly doesn't really even use ~/.config, because, well, "Apple".

>"This is a specification for UNIX. Linux copied from UNIX but is not UNIX."

If it quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it is probably a duck. Linux is Unix, in all ways that matter to anyone now (and for a long time before now). Worrying about exact Linux vs Unix vs UNIX vs Unix-like vs BSD vs POSIX is kinda no longer relevant.

>"Apps should keep their files in their own directories. Spreading them across a 1000 different directories makes no sense and just make uninstall a hassle"

It will still be in its own directory. Just in ~/.config/mozilla instead of ~/.mozilla

For example, LibreOffice stores its settings in ~/.config/libreoffice, GIMP is in ~/.config/GIMP, Thunar is in ~/.config/Thunar, VLC is in ~/.config/vlc, etc...

>"To date Firefox has just positioned all files under ~/.mozilla rather than the likes of ~/.config and ~/.local/share.

That is not technically correct. They have been using ~/.cache correctly for a very long time. So it is not *all* files. But it is true the other files have been in ~/.mozilla. I manage an ACTUAL multiuser system (something you rarely see today; yes, hundreds of different users each often running Firefox on that one machine), and even I don't care much that it is ~/.mozilla instead of ~/.config/.mozilla, but I will have to adjust a lot of scripts.

FWIW, Amazon lost money every quarter for nearly a decade. It hasn't been doing that recently.