Singapore has significantly limited real estate and energy capacity and is a US ally, so it's not a very good example.

You'd never be able to pull your head out, not that it was likely in the first place.

It means they asserted a definition of exactly where the rainbow ends, and thereby found the pot of gold.

The pot of gold being that their publishing-grind slop made it into the news and gilds their resume. It's the ultimate win for the modern academician.

Ok, you doubled down... but you didn't actually say anything.

Why are you saying it is a "lie" that Sanger was violating the canvassing rule? Everybody agrees he was, and he doesn't deny it. He simply makes procedural arguments for why he shouldn't be called out for it.

You're a typical right-winger. The only time you shout "lie" is when you're telling them.

You're nearly illiterate.

Your quote wasn't an example of "telling people hard truths." She wasn't telling anybody anything. She was just trolling somebody.

Not only do you not understand it, but even when you're informed that you misunderstood you still don't go and refresh your memory.

That personality flaw means you're going to be a complete idiot on every single topic, you'll always be wrong about everything because you think you have a perfect memory. But you actually have a human memory, which means it's not reliable enough to lean on.

That's not how linux works. Distros having extra stuff isn't bloat unless you install it all.

You're stuck with windoze because you can't stop yourself from switching an installer to an advanced mode and clicking every single checkbox?!

That's getting into "maybe you don't need a desktop computer" territory.

Anyways, I thought Wayland was supposed to fix the problem of X11 having too many features?! Of course, my response was "I can afford a few megs of storage for X."

Plus, even if you do install "everything" on Linux, the whole thing fits on the cheapest HDs on the market using only a tiny fraction of the space. So what's the "bloat," even at the extreme of installing junk? Just too much stuff in the menu, and you don't know which of the 10 applications for Foo to click on?

It may not really be needed, the more time that passes with no new features and only security updates, the more solid it will be.

And they're not really an OS company anymore. They don't need to keep pushing people who don't want it at Windoze 11.

When you get the meaning wrong, then yes, it's only you to go back and learn what the actual thing was, instead of just pointing at it's memory.

Indeed, that's why your misunderstanding stood out so clearly...

They don't get comparable subsidies, so you're right... I'll be "waiting to find out..." and waiting, and waiting...

It's only a matter of time, though.

If you want to know the best case for how this ends, read Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut.

I carry a handkerchief in my pocket at all times, and I use that.

Your sis is a jerk, I'd be horrified if I had to talk to somebody that spoke to people that way, too.

The normal thing in the US is definitely to "blow your nose." As with napkins and plates, disposables are popular, but so are durable, traditional tools.

No, that's the same for any energy source, you either need a lot of excess capacity to service the high demand times, or else you need energy storage.

You either have a typo or you should see your doctor about your medications.

You don't have to convince the fossil fuel greenwashers of anything, you only have to ignore them.

I'm a firmware engineer who has been using linux since the 90s.

I haven't read the source code because I haven't needed to.

Was it a hassle having to switch from using SysV init scripts? No, because they kept working...

Was it a hassle when my distro's cli commands changed? Yeah, but for the first few years I just used bash aliases.

In the old system you couldn't have efficient networking; you couldn't accept the connection first, figure out what to do with it, and then pass it off to a process after that. Which is important, because the process that is going to handle the connection might not already be running. There's numerous use cases from that, from servers that do a little bit each of a bunch of different things, to high load servers that need to more manage a lot of processes. A virtual file or pipe just doesn't cut it. And none of the whiners have another solution for that that works better than having a heavier-weight init.

Did the audio stuff piss me off? Yes, but that's actually on the distros for switching too soon without enough resources applied. There were also important improvements in that area that eventually paid off.