Fukushima hasn't directly killed a single person; there were some deaths due to evacuation panic and cleanup efforts. Meanwhile, climate change risks billions of deaths, will probably render northern Europe uninhabitable (on the level of Alaska or frozen-brass-monkey-balls parts of Canada), etc, and short-term air pollution from power generation alone kills a Hitler's worth of people every 3 years.

So for those who don't parse your comment as irony, there's some astounding level of believing their feels rather than statistics.

Another point is that all three nuclear power plants that failed (Chernobyl, Three Mile, Fukushima) have been built in the '60s. The technology has advanced a wee bit since, and if new nuclear plants were allowed to be built...

Why would you want socialism? It has been tried in more than 100 countries by now, and every time it included concentration camps and related goodies (strictly speaking, there were close shaves like Grenada which had only disorganized killing -- but given that it lasted only 4 years in a nation with 100k people, two towns and a bunch of villages, I'll give it a pass). Also, every major brand of socialism: soviet, nazi, maoist -- includes a massive push for propaganda and social control. Are you going to suggest that current socialist countries (China, N. Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, etc) don't use dark patterns and AI in their propaganda?

Capitalism's record isn't so stellar either, but at least it's not 100% bad and not so extreme. But then, the word "capitalism" is way too fuzzy to use in a serious discussion, we'd need to define it first. And the definition that was used the most, in countries that had dedicated universities of Marxism-Leninism and had mandatory lectures in all other university departments, was "capitalism = every economist system other than communism, including those that don't use money at all (like early kibbutzim), but excluding cavemen ("primitive communism")".

The other major definition is free market. But those billionaires you've spoken of are not so keen for free market, they prefer corporatism.

Thus: your post about capitalism vs socialism deserves to be at -1 not +4, as it brings no valid contribution to the discussion.

Well, UK has declared war on Germany on 1939-09-03, then done nothing for a year until Germany was done with Poland and France, then started attacking them for real. Thus, a "preemptive" attack wouldn't be a big deal...

If the addition of an e-core makes your machine run like crap, use a better OS.

I made a tool "topline" that nicely visualizes this kind of scheduling. Run it on some terminal, then run various tasks somewhere. Observe the tasks moving between p-cores and e-cores.

Spanish okupas would have a word with you.

We were talking about European cities... And indeed, I'm a Polack living a bit east of the country in TFA.

Bowser is a Koopa not a toad. BTW, in Polish "Koopa" means "shit", which is appropriate here.

You need a home 24/7/340, you need a car only sometimes. "Parking" the house is a hassle too (need the flowers watered, etc). An analogy to the rental car would be going abroad for a few years -- in that case you rent the house away.

Not using a car is unthinkable to Americans, most of whom need one just to go to the nearest store -- but the company in TFA is in Germany.

The moment you use a gun during a crime, it's +5 years in the pokey if you get caught. Most of US states have a law that says: carrying a gun while committing a crime is +X years, brandishing it +Y years, discharging +Z years. That's a lot compared to a shoplifting charge.

I have never owned my car my entire life, and I have a task that would need a car once in 2-3 years or so -- I got used to the public transport. But, there's a ton of cars parked everywhere, as apparently some people still use them. If cheap car rental was available, a good part of them could get rid of the hassle of a personal car.

No, their business plan will get a boost the moment self-driving cars arrive for real. They'll just dump the remote drivers in favour of AI. The core of their business plan -- renting cars -- will stay unchanged.

Their innovation is making a better stop-gap before then.

You jest. On the other hand, it'll stop those insane return-to-office mandates though, as all new development will be remote.

If you say "which should be available in both architectures aren't" then I guess you're using Ubuntu not Debian. In Debian, all release architectures had >=98% archive coverage since forever with few exceptions, never below 96%, and non-moribund -ports are also >= 90%.

Things are worse outside Debian proper: for a time I maintained an out-of-archive arch but gave up because of the monstrosity that are binNMU version numbers. That's why derivatives (including even Ubuntu) use sourceful uploads for rebuilds.

As for appImages: they deserve no words other than an exorcism formula. Same for Snap.

If you still run Windows games, then pirate instead of using DRM like Steam. They'll continue to work forever because of emulation.

The whole 32-bit Windows brouchacha comes only because of people not being told which arch to install. Microsoft had to keep 32-bit for a while because of 1. broken BIOSes in computers sold before ~2010, and 2. their software sucking balls when it comes to DLL hell. But then, if the installer shown them a popup like "you're installing 32-bit system on a machine capable of 64-bit, are you sure?", there wouldn't be a non-negligible install base anymore.

Or alternatively, they could have implemented in-place upgrades like they do with Win7->Win10->Win11. Meanwhile, I'm still running a multiply migrated and crossgraded Debian system that was initially i386 potato.