It started as a very easy to use wiki, for internal knowledge at a company. It still is good for that use case.

But they tried to bolt on everything else under the sun to it, and it now tries to compete with Trello, Asana, Monday, JIRA, and everything else... and now apparently GMail as well.

The more a company tries to do in Notion ("because we already have it"), the more messy and unusable of a mess it becomes.

All of the software on all of these devices comes from random anonymous people from all over the world.

All of the software on everyone's phone and PC and server is based on open source coming from all over the world.

Well the current regime is working very hard to not let "them" vote in upcoming elections.

The rule is there for economic protectionism.

That is the reality.

What sort of capitalism? Is there a free market at all here?

Oh wow. What a great excuse! The corruption under the current president is at a scale you've never before seen. For example, the president's son-in-law is peddling influence and making money from his official connections on a scale that make Hunter Biden look positively angelic.

Besides that, are you really excusing your champion's corruption because of smaller-scale, previous corruption? Surely you would condemn all corruption and desire to shine a light on it? Or is corruption not an issue when it's your man and your policies being enacted?

Another ancient here - I still try to convince the admins to give me my first account back, this one - number 13802. The place both has and has not changed - it always had its share of ranting, but people do seem to knee-jerk more negatively to developments than in ye olden days.

Note that I created my account, saw that nearly 14,000 people were here and thought "what's the point? Who will ever possibly hear me in a place with 14,000 people?". Now of course, you can get ten times that for a picture of a dog's nose.

Hmm. Have you been to Europe? While New Orleans certainly has old buildings, it's nothing like European old buildings and homes many of which were build hundreds of years ago in a cooler climate. These buildings were never designed to accommodate forced air heating, let alone A/C air handlers. It's going to require some very interesting engineering to bring mass cooling to Europe to existing structures. I'm sure it can be done, of course. Where there's a bill there's a way.

Which of course brings us to a core issue of climate change. The world's poorest people, who contributed the least to CO2 emissions, will bear the most cost to adapt.

Interesting advice. Here in Canada we design houses for the winter. That means good insulation, primarily. Coincidentally, this leads to cooler homes in the summer and makes for more efficient cooling too.

I have zero interest in getting looped into Meta's sub-standard AI and relying on it for stuff when the rest of my ecosystem is all wired into Gemini and Claude.

When will a glasses maker launch with OPEN SUPPORT for what AI assistant you want to use with it? Why does it need to be tied to a specific vendor?

AVERAGE temperature matters.

The gulf stream is a moderator. It keeps Britian and eastern Europe warmer in the winter than it deserves to be, but in the summer, has little effect.

What we are seeing now is a heat dome over the summer. IE, the AVERAGE ANNUAL temperature of Europe is going up, not the daily temperature.

If and when the gulf stream shuts down what will happen is Britian and western Europe will freeze in the winter.. in fact it may start to become covered in ice. Go look at any globe and look at where Britian exists compared to Russia and Canada, it is further north than Labrador. For all rights, it should be fozen in ice all winter. The reason it is mild, is because of the gulf stream.

It definitely is. Every dollar a person makes on such a site comes from a dollar lost by another guy. And the numbers are staggering. Like a billion dollars. And they way they are set up, those who are already rich can set things up so that they make even more money from much poorer people. The more money you have to play with, the easier it is to win on the predictions gambling sites (not to mention cheat with insider knowledge). Fantastic video on this from a young lady named Dee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Highly recommend for anyone who wants to know how this scam works. 70% of the takings go to 0.1% of the players (who also happen to be the ones with the most money to start with).

At least on the stock market, there is such thing as growth from companies making money, paying dividends, etc.

I'm not at all surprised to see Zuckerberg getting in on this. It's not enough to addict the world to social media and sell their privacy. He wants every last dollar they have. It's really quite evil.

Yes you absolutely can do it for some modules. For example, systemd-timesyncd can be removed and ntpd or chrony installed instead if you need more functionality than just simple client time syncing, such as when you need your own time source as well as syncing.

Likewise systemd-resolved is often left out and a caching local DNS server can be used instead, or left out entirely.

And I very well could remove systemd-networkd and systemd-container since I don't use containers, flatpak, or kvm.

Can I remove others? Possibly, but there's not a lot of reason to do so. These modules serve valid purposes and address actual technical shortcomings we had before, such as process cleanup which was often a problem before systemd-pam.

Shrug. It's not a boogeyman. No one's out to get you. It's not a government plot. There are many valid reasons why systemd has become a core Linux component. There are plenty of distros (and operating systems) that eschew systemd if you don't want or need features like containers and KDE or Gnome, etc.

that can run your old classic desktop environments like you always used to.

Yes I have done a timer file before, but it's been a long time.

Fortunately Cron still works fine, and will continue to do so. But I'd be hard pressed to remember all the cron parameters without a comment at the top of the crontab to remind me.

Shrug. It's sixes.