False. You may think you're getting a deb package but Ubuntu will actively circumvent your attempts. For example, try running "sudo snap remove firefox". Then run "sudo apt install firefox" ... Ubuntu traps this request and reinstalls the snap.

There are multiple packages in their official source list that operate this way. If you want to install firefox as a .deb package you literally cannot do it from an Ubuntu repository. There are whole guides on the internet of how to work around this for multiple apps, and those guides involve adding custom repos to the apt sources list.

You have a choice. Ubuntu hasn't uninstalled aptitutde and you can always add a custom repo to your source list. But fundamentally while I *hate* snap I really disagree with your point. The fundamental point of a distribution is that someone makes decisions for you. The issue here is that Ubuntu isn't the right choice for you, but we shouldn't be saying that any distro should be forced to follow the opinions of anyone other than their own maintainers, because in doing so it would lead to all distros being the same.

Lose business to whom? The reason so many foreigners are using American VPSes is because the number 1, 2, and 3 services for it are American. (presumably the whole top 10 is but I haven't looked that far).

Nah. Just the antisemetic ones.

The answer is simple for airlines. Airtags generate completely pointless customer service interactions and make customers angrier. The fundamental problem is that bags are rarely lost. They are always somewhere, they have multiple barcodes on them, they are part of a complex system of getting from their wrong location to the right location, and that system itself has zero ability to deal with irate customers.

Your bag is somewhere. A ground services contractor responsible will eventually scan it in a big pile and work with the airline to find out where you are and get it to your destination. The airline isn't in control of this process. The best anyone could is tell the ground services team to keep a look out for a bag which looks a certain way in a pile to which the very lowly paid employee will typically say "LOL No! You'll get it when you get it."

All the airtag does is make you call an airline who isn't in control, providing them information that won't be relevant to them, and because they don't have a clue what's going on you will be irate because you'll feel you're dealing with someone incompetent. Knowing where your bag is doesn't do anything for you in the slightest. It only stresses you.

I was once in a flight where a guy was using his phone as we were taxing getting angry and irate at the stewardess because the airtag showed his bag wasn't on the plane and we were taking off. A calamity. The guy was pissed and making a fuss half the flight. We land at the destination and ... well his bag was there, the plane was overloaded so it went on another flight that was leaving around the same time.

Don't be a micromanager. You shouldn't use airtags, you should demand competence.

Don't confuse lying with incompetence. KLM is slow at responses. I have gotten the occasional email from them out of date. "It's time to check in for your flight" Bitch please I'm already at my destination.

You and I are talking about two different responsibilities. Legal responsibility stays with the airline, but physically responsible is the person who they contracted it to. I contracted out to have dormers built on my roof. What's the state of the pre fab? No idea, I'm not the one building it, we'd need to talk to the company I contracted. Contracts do not come with automagical mind reading system.

In most airports a ground services contractor's desk is available to talk to. I see only downsides in having multiple customer service middlemen involved in communication between me and the person who knows where my bag is and is who is responsible for getting it to me.

It means that whoever has the most coins gets to make the rules and that's going to be whoever set up the blockchain. If you want to throw your money away there are plenty of better ways to do it.

The other side of the bad guys because they use violence against left wing protesters at three times the rate of right wing protesters. Also go look up some videos on unite the right in particular the one from YouTuber Shaun. This is very much a left right thing because the left wing is on the right side of History.

Remember the words left and right in a political context come from the left and right wings of the French assembly during their revolution. The right wing were monarchists and the left wing were in favor of democracy. In other words the right wing is and always has been about obedience to the people in power instead of self-rule.

And that's exactly what the protests in question were about. In particular the 93% peaceful protests I talked about earlier what about people being told to sit down, shut up and obey. I hear a lot of talk about not being told what to do from people on the right wing but my experience is they're not upset about being told what to do they're upset about being told what to do by voters instead of by somebody higher up the totem pole than they are

Thanks I should have thought of that it seems so obvious when somebody says it. I'm actually surprised that hasn't shown up as a risk in Apple's stock reports. The iMessage Mafia is that big a deal.

Also hilariously I wonder if iMessage is gradually going to become associated with old people like regular SMS messaging is. I think it definitely will if Apple doesn't do something to stop it and I just wonder what that something might be

For their kids iPhone they absolutely do not keep their phones longer. After 2 years like clockwork and iPhone starts to have weird behavior. Most commonly this is because the battery is wearing out and the software is doing all sorts of weird tricks to hide that from the user. Those weird tricks cause all sorts of headaches most notably you'll start to get messages late because the phone isn't driving the radio is hard in an effort to spare battery life.

Meanwhile I'm at three and a half years and I'm just now thinking of replacing my Android battery because it doesn't last as long through the day. But the phone's performance hasn't degraded I just have to charge it halfway through the day.

iPhone users yeah they can just get a new battery but I speak from experience they don't want a new battery they want a new phone. And with the way cell phones are sold through carriers most of the time they're just going to get one and pay an extra 20 or 30 a month to have it rather than the 60 or 70 it costs to replace the battery. Not very economical but I can hardly complain if they're not buying a bunch of new computer hardware every few years like I do. Never did get the kid into PC gaming.

in an effort to get the people who make a living off tik toks to lobby congress. Which is silly. If they were going to do this they should've done it months ago.

They also did something *really* dumb. If you've got the app installed they sent a noticed to call your congress critter about the "ban". Which a lot of people did. Which sounds great, but if you're trying to convince a Congressman that your app can't influence American politics that's probably not the best way to do it...

None of this matters since as others have pointed out they can just buy all our data from x.com and Facebook (mostly Facebook, does anyone really still use x.com?) and use that for election interference.

93% of the recent protests were peaceful. Of that 7% it was almost entirely counter protestors. Google "autozone window guy", or look up who started those fires at the 2 police stations (hint, it was right wing provocateurs). I guess there was that one girl who got run over at the "Unite the Right" protest, but while terrible that was one murder. I don't think even they turned over any cars.

That's protests. There were some minor riots and burned cars after the last super bowl, if that's what you mean. But those are football hooligans (or Soccer if you're a Yank like me).

I mean, if you're on the left wing you need to keep it *very* buttoned up. For one thing cops are 3 times more likely to use violence against you and for another the Supreme Court just shut down pretty much all left wing protests since if literally *anything* goes south the organizes can be held liable, even if it's just some rando counter protestor causing trouble... which of course they will now.

This isn't about viewpoints. One side is about objective reality and the other side isn't. it's up to you to pick a side.

USDC has missed it "peg" (e.g. it's dropped to a value of below a dollar) more than once, and there's a *lot* of evidence that it's been off it's peg for ages and that market manipulation is hiding it (google it).

It's primarily used to get real money (e.g. fiat currency) into and out of the crypto markets.

We learned from a recent story that minting $1m in crypto costs around $3.5m. We all know what's making crypto run these days is crime of one form or another. Money laundering mostly.

That's all well and good, but integrating that into our main line economy is eventually going to cause a massive crash that'll hit us all. If we let that happen it'll make 2008 look like the .com boom days.

Instead of a cooperative one then or gradually going to see profit go away as an important metric. That's because we're going to gradually become a kind of neo feudal civilization with a very very tiny handful of kings and queens at the top (socially we will probably still call them CEOs or just company owners) a tiny handful of people who serve and protect them and then a massive number of people living in staggeringly abject poverty.

You're kind of assuming that everything is going to stay the way it is socially because it's really hard to think of those kind of massive social changes to completely remake the fabric of our civilization. But with the huge automation pushes going on and more and more and more consolidation every year into the hands of a smaller group of people at some point they're just going to take their ball and go home and they're going to have ai-powered drones and robots that will gun anyone down who tries to fuck with them.

Again this all assumes we stay on the course we're on right to the moment. There are plenty of people who can see this coming and are trying to do something about it. And younger voters are smart enough to know it's coming. It's just a question of whether or not the major world powers are going to be democracies long enough. The older generation is hell-bent on giving up democracy for a variety of stupid reasons and if democracy goes we lose that fight and we become a Neo feudal dystopia.