Yep. This, like many problems associated with regulated utilities, is one where the right answer is also pretty simple: Just make the prices reflect the costs, then let the market sort it out. But the "just" in that statement belies the political challenges of making such changes.

High quality AR with normal glasses has an absolute crapload of obvious applications.

Games, I guess?

I mean I can certainly think of industrial usecases. I can't think of any outside of games for consumer AR. Of course a HUD for navigation can work, but we can do that already, it's not really AR, since the graphics aren't tightly registered to the world. There's other entertainment like a view to an extra screen, but... does the registration to the world help? Screens in a headset have been around but not very popular for decades.

I am genuinely curious.

I don't need it.

So you say, but you swanned into a thread on the year of the wayland desktop to bitch at me when I said I didn't think it was ready.

If you want people to stop commenting about missing features, then get off your lazy arse and code them up. Or don't join threads about whether Wayland is ready yet.

Pulseaudio was a very nice improvement over the horrors of getting ALSA configured properly.

When someone's busy stabbing your leg with a big fork it's nice when they stop and switch to a smaller fork. These days pulse audio mostly just works for me though on some machines, or in some usage patterns I'm not sure which it still needs killing every so often because it craps out. At least with this generation of distros I finally didn't have to build a newer version from source to get around the constant crashing.

I haven't tried pipewire yet, I hope we haven't switched to a new, flakey not complete one just as all the major bugs in pulse are finally hammered out. Fingers crossed!

I thought gnome was universally hated?

I've met a lot of Linux users over the years and I've never met anyone who loves Gnome, certainly not post 3. The never-customizers tolerate it, everyone else switches. I personally don't get it. It seems to be the one that gets the funding though.

this is cool i think .

I guess... though the sad thing is that it's even a thing to wonder. With NVidia cards, you can get anything from an ancient, crappy, bottom of the range 1050 up to an H100 and all of them work out of the box. For example, pytorch just works.

With AMD there's just so much compatibility checking, fuckery and uncertainty it's not really surprising they're getting nowhere.

You assume. You should consider that people with an inside view who see what data is actually collected, how it's secured and managed and how it's used, may have a very different perspective on that. I mean, without an internal view you understandably have to assume the worst, but they (we) don't.

Speaking for myself, I very few concerns about Google's privacy violations today. But with respect to the future, you and I are in the same boat, neither of us can know what a future version of the company might do. And on that score I suspect you and I would find ourselves in strong agreement on the potential for serious harm. Where we might differ again is that I see the work being done to limit Google's access to user data so I'm cautiously optimistic that before all vestiges of the old corporate culture are lost and the bean counters take over completely, Google will largely have ceased collecting and using data for advertising and what remains will be easy to limit and make safe.

Re: your subject "Not true", the data doesn't lie. The fact that you're an outlier doesn't change the situation.

Me too, though usually it's audiobooks for fiction and certain types of non-fiction. Being able to "read" a book while mowing the lawn, or whatever, has made chores far less annoying and opened up big blocks of time for reading.

The other thing is, if you know how to make a hybrid, you know how to make an EV. It's not like it's hard to scale up an electric power system. The motor driver is a small challenge, but the rest is just more and or bigger with no real complexity changes. So there is really no excuse for them not being able to make a compelling EV.

Part of hydrogen technology has improved a lot. A partnership between GM and Honda significantly improved fuel cells, mostly in the cost department.

Storage is still terrible, though, which is why it's failing.

Maybe someday someone will solve the hydrogen storage problem in a reasonable way, and then it might take off. But if batteries continue improving as they are then it's going to be even harder for it to catch up.

In some special circumstances, such a non-compete would be entirely viable.

Systemd caused me problems I couldn't reasonably troubleshoot without debugging systemd, so I left Ubuntu and derivatives for Devuan, where I am back on sysvinit. Good riddance to that poorly conceived and even more poorly written trash.

Did they fix in version 6 the KDE bug that was causing some programs running under wine to only run when they were not in the foreground? I left plasma 5 for XFCE over that. As a side benefit, Thunar has sane drag and drop behavior.

Oh? I do not see any in a private setting. Industrial setting, yes, and they are used.

In that case no agreement longer than a couple pages should be enforceable since it's arduous to comprehend the full import if you are not a lawyer.

Weren't the founders and top management of Google citizens of Israel?

It dozen't seem all surprising from that perspective.

These protesters should have gone back to writing code to surveil Americans, I guess?