The main reason there has not been more Linux uptake is most people don't want to install an OS, most dont even know what it is. What Linux needed was a hardware maker that would have sold pre-installed computers that would target the consumer market and had competent marketing and outreach to commercial software and hardware vendors to embrace it. That maker would have then chosen a distro to use. Therefore there is no reason to have a "standard Linux distro", rather ready to use Linux computers directed at consumers. There are also secondary reasons such as a lack of rapid application development tools, also the multitude of package managers. The lack of capable RAD GUI tools makes it a hard platform to port to. There was an attempt to resolve the package manager thing with LSB but even there we couldnt get the larger distros like Ubuntu to stay on board with it. Now there are as many cross platform package managers as there are distros.

The lack of specialized applications, hardware support and ready to use preinstalled systems for consumers created a self reinforcing complex of barriers, so that all 3 would have to have been addressed simultaneously involving a consortium of systems builder, hardware and software vendors, etc to overcome it.

A word on prices, a stock with a moderate price with a PE ratio of 10 does not necessarily mean its a great company. A low PE can indicate the market thinks there is low growth potential, or could indicate some other problem with the company in some cases. When the entire stock market is overvalued, unfortunely the good companies like walmart and costco end up getting overvalued and with how things work today a good company with a low stock price tend to be quickly found meaning its hard these days to find great companies with a low stock price like Warren Buffett used to do due to how everything is online now. When Warren Buffet got started in the 40s information was not so easily available as it is now

By the way there are services that have overvalued/undervalued or overbought/oversold indicators on stocks that give that services view on if a stock is overvalued based on their fundamentals analysis. yahoo finance for example. Some brokerages also have it built in on their stock information accessible in brokerage accounts

This is where fundamentals analysis comes in. Companies are required to post financials. One can look at profits, losses, free cash flow, expenses, debts, etc, price to earnings, price to book, and so on, to get an idea of how overvalued a stock is compared to the measures of a companies revenue, assets, etc. 10-15 is a modest P/E ratio indicating a stock that is valued near to what the company is worth, 30 is getting more overvalued. I have seen Nvidia trading at 200 which is horrific.

Stocks get overvalued because stock exchanges are designed to ensure liquidity. If someone wants to buy NVDA, It may be for instance no one wants to sell NVDA when its stock is at a PE ratio of 30, so the price keeps increasing until sellers start to sell, which may be at 200. Or, if NVDA crashes, and someone tries to sell, and there are no buyers at 200, the price and PE ratio will fall until buyers show up, which could be at a more reasonable valuation of 30. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/06/02/1813237/dead-silicon-valley-unicorns-pile-up-as-unicorpses#

There are two issues, libreoffice charging for it, and the app store.

App Stores and sandboxes are the right thing for most people. Even if your an expert, you should prefer them, you want your apps especially browsers sandboxed. You want the source vetted, You want executables signed. Most people don't use emacs or vim or type arcane commands on a command line, spend days trying to compile things, thats a fringe group. If you have an app store and a sandbox, taking care of updates, t locks out all the email malware download junk. Most people just cant handle figuring out what is legit and not.

Libreoffice charging is another matter, its only for the app store, but you can argue they are violating their principles and its a slippery slope. We' really want an intense accounting of how the money is being used, like no conventions, no fancy offices, just programmers working at home making the product better.

You are the very definition of a mad scientist that could destroy the world and it is scary., All of this over a bunch of mice. Howabout just forget about the problem and stop messing around with crazy stuff that could get out of hand and cause a global ecological holocaust

This is a dangerous virus myth and repeatedly has been denounced by experts, Thats because if the virus has a long enough incubation period, it can spread just fine, despite being deadly, if the deadly symptoms start to show up later. With SARS, its often 7 days to hospitalization, and 3 days to symptoms. So there is a lot of time for it to spread. Higher viral loads can increase spread advantage while making the virus worse. What you are saying is only true of the virus has to kill instantly which is not how things work. Many other viruses don't follow the stupid myth like Smallpox, Measles, Polio, Ebola, HIV, Hepatitis, pandemic Flus, etc.

Even with the platters being broken into large pieces , it still might be recoverable. But it can be expensive. However, its possible to read the data off even a broken platter, using an external reader setup. Its mainly a matter of money. Given enough money, its possible. The thing that would make it unrecoverable is rust or being ground to powder.

The fact is, paying these workers much more would involve inflation and actually would increase poverty and economic misery. This is because while they would make more money, food would become more expensive that would end up driving everyone deeper into poverty, and in fact, these workers themselves because their increase pay would cause inflation, they would in reality see little or no real increase in their quality of living.

The idea you can solve this problem with pay increases is based on really, really bad economic thinking. What you will do is cause increased shortages, declines in living standards for everyone, inflation, all to save some lousy, menial, hellish jobs.

We need to embrace automation and the reality that as many jobs as possible should be automated and we can structure this economically to ensure that we have a ULI universal living income program that is humane and ensures an income for surplus workers. It can also lead to the possibility of shorter work weeks. Because automation should increase productivity, increased productivity can create more room in economic equations for a ULI for surplus workers. The more effective automation is in fact the more generous you can make the ULI program. On top of that you will end up with a highly reliable, dependable and stable supply chain that can scale well to meet human needs.

  We of course will still need workers, often in technical fields, so we also need to invest in STEM education. Of course the need for workers will not go away completely. I know some people say that as jobs are automated new jobs will replace them. I actually don't agree with this, especially if automation is particularly successful that the rate jobs are automated would far exceed the ability for new jobs to be creared to replace them. In fact, I think we should see that as a success and embrace it since it will let us implement shorter workweeks, ULIs etc while having a very productive and bountiful supply chain to ensure a high standard of living. This is why automation is something we should not fear, if it is structured in a manner for the common good, it is what will lead to the most reductions in poverty and increased standard of living for all.

Right. Also, a high level of automation throughout the economy can lead to much increased productivity which can create more room in economic equations for a Universal Basic Income. So, while we will need fewer workers, what this also can mean is that everyone can be guaranteed an income as well. It can also lead to shorter workweeks as well. People ask what will the workers do who are surplus due to automation. This is where UBI comes in. I know some people say that the new jobs will be created somewhere else. I actually don't think that will be the case simply because automation will probably outrun the ability for new jobs to be created, simply because automation will be able to take over so much of the economy. Rather than to get frightened of that, we can embrace it use this as an opportunity to implement UBI and relieve human beings of the burdens of menial labor.

We will still need workers in highly technical fields and this is why we need to refocus colleges on STEM fields to build and maintain the robots.

This is where the UBI comes in. The increased productivity in automation will create enough room in the economic equations for a universal basic income for surplus workers. Of course, we will still need workers, but if automation is successful, far fewer workers will be required. I see that as a success and an opportunity to give people a better life free of menial work. Bring on the UBIs, i say.

I think we have to fully embrace automation as much as possible and implement a UBI. Its what makes the most sense for reducing poverty and suffering for the most people. Look, it could be great. Let the machines do all of the work and then we have enough room in the economic equation due to increase productivity to provide people with an income guarantee. We will still need workers of course, and we need to refocus colleges on training the STEM workers. There will be labor surpluses however, we can see that as a success of automation and handle that humanely by giving surplus workers a living income. now possible in the economic equation due to very high productivity. Compared to the alternative proposed by idiots which is to try to save a few hellish chicken deboning jobs, through massive pay inflation that would create increased shortages, poverty and misery, people who think that way are economically ignorant. The UBI and automation dual policy is the most humane way forward that increases the wealth of common people the most.

I think we have to accept automation and a UBI as the best way forward. It is the option that reduces poverty and misery the most and will lead to a happier society where people have more free time. If you look at the alternatives of massive pay inflation, you will end up creating a society which is far more miserable, mired in poverty, soaring prices, much worse economics, people still doing hellish jobs. You really need to see the basic economics to see that we have to accept automation, refocus college on STEM fields, implement a UBI. The savings from automation can be put toward a UBI program. We should automate as much as we can and then implement a UBI if we have surplus workers. Its more humane than the alternatives of keeping people in hellish jobs and the economic ruination of inflation and shortages

The reality is these are hideous jobs, people dont want them for a good reason. Automation will give us a more stable and predictable supply chain. Paying workers more to take these awful jobs means $20 chicken sandwiches at Popeyes. I dont know if you realize that trying to inflate the way out of a supply chain mess will increase poverty and also fuel inflation and overall make us a poorer and more miserable society so it would be outrageous that this is worth it to save these hellish jobs. We should welcome automation to relieve workers are terrible repetitive jobs and stabilize supply chains. Jobs will still be there to make robots and this is why the US needs to pursue a strategy of using college to train STEM workers only and as automation progresses this also creates room for UBIs in the economic equation. We need to be open minded on using a UBI along with automation, and we will be much better off with that dual strategy rather than trying to inflate pay for hellish jobs. We need to be open minded and as a result of letting machines do more work, poverty can be reduced

They can just as easily use Javascript for malicious mining. Webassembly is for making things such as Mastodon for instance run and load faster. There are legitimate uses