The only 3rd party driver I can remember ever having used for Linux is nvidia ..

Well, that and some wifi firmware bits and bobs a long time ago.

Norwegian here, can confirm ...

Air has gotten significantly better in urban areas in the last decade. Given that about half the cars on the road now are electric - it's not only measurable, but very very smellable.

Whenever I go abroad now, I can *smell* the difference.

I'm afraid the battery powered busses in Oslo, Norway are dogshite during cold winters. We've been complaining about them for years. Same issue as described in this article. Pushed through before tech was properly ready.

And I'm saying that as an electric car loving Norwegian who has two electric cars and wouldn't go back to fossil cars no matter what. :P

I've already watched Soul Hunters on youtube, introducing my daughter to B5. We'll watch The Gathering after season 1, simply because it's important for the story - but a bit crap compared to the series itself.

The Gathering is there, s01e01 (Midnight on the Firing Line) is missing, s01e02 and s01e03 are there (although they're calling The Gathering episode 1, instead of episode 0, on youtube, for some reason, and all the other ones is shifted by one too).

Hope they ensure that Midnight on the Firing Line re-appears.

This makes my head hurt. I've never even heard of electric can openers. The linked can opener is a very advanced non-electric one. I mean, people should know how to use a pocket-knife can-opener.

And if you don't have that, a knife will do - as long as it's not a nice, sharp knife that you value.

As a kid, my parents had a 30" TV or thereabouts. I remember seeing a huge 42" one. It was SO BIG. Fast forward 15 years, and I bought myself a 50" plasma TV. 7 years ago or so I bought myself a 60" one. I've been salivating for 80" ones for a couple of years now .. and I see 100" TVs that are within "reasonable price range".

My point is simply that as the TVs get bigger, there's simply room for more pixels. And of course one wants it to be more detailed the closer you are.

Silly premise. The future will bring us 8K, and heck, much better resolutions than that too. There are quite a few things leading to it not being popular *yet*.

1. Something needs to drive it, without jitter. That means whatever storage medium the movies/series are on, needs to have enough processing power to decode the video and ship it to the TV. This is less of a problem now in 2025, but my original Popcorn Hour box had problems with 1024p. And that was in 2015.
2. There need to be enough bandwidth, everywhere, for folks to actually be able to watch content over streams. Sure, lots of us have GB connectivity and fiber et al - but that's far from everywhere. Even in 2025. If you don't have enough bandwidth - why would you be interested in this?
3. Even Blue-Ray would not be able to store a movie w/o heavy compression, and what's the point of 8K if you have compression artifacts all over the place? A 2 hour movie needs 100G+ , and if it's not compressed to hell and back - probably quite a bit more.
4. Connectivity. You need to be able to deliver this over a single cable, which needs to be standardized. This might have happened by now - but it needs to be everywhere. Specially designed non-standard stuff won't cut it.
5. Pricing. Very few people will fork out $2K+ for a TV. I still don't even have 4K TVs as they were too expensive last time I refreshed my TVs. Next TV I buy will of course be 4K - as the prices are now OK. For 8K TVs to become mainstream, prices needs to become reasonable.

But we'll get there. We just need the rest of the "delivery technology", standardization, etc. to catch up, in addition to prices to drop. Give it another 10 years.

> If your only goal is to hide things from the police, who have a warrant.

How comfortable would you be with Chinese developed encryption systems, where the Chinese company held the keys, if you were say American or European?

Now, how comfortable do you think it makes non-americans that an american company holds the encryption keys. Especially with the current US administration and how they treat other countries ...

CAD $50K for four years?! That's something like 36000USD.

To study at the University of Oslo, the tuition (semesteravgift) is about $100USD per 6 months, or .. $800 for 4 years.

Of course, there are books and living expenses in addition, but the tuition is .. cheap.

I believe the max speed is 1mph, not 2.

You can read more about it on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You need to look at a map. Seriously. It's entirely true that the land area is pretty small, but you need to look at the shape of the country.

Take a look at this:

https://thetruesize.com/#?bord...

You also have to realize that Norway is quite, quite rural. There's a one "big" city (Oslo), then smaller cities like Bergen, Trondheim, Kristiansand and Stavanger. Tromsà is also considered a relatively big city here - population is 80.000 .

> Code is never produced, vetted, QAâ(TM)d and promoted to production in isolation.

How I yearn to be young and naive again.

As a Norwegian, I'm shocked every time I go further south in Europe. The smell of gas and diesel in every city ...

After most folks have switched to electric cars here - I'm acutely aware of the difference when going abroad.

> Pick a random European nation and tell me the longest drive a citizen would have to make to get to their nation's capital city.

Norway.

Driving from Hammerfest to Oslo will take you 23 hours if you drive via Finland and Sweden.

If you keep within Norway, approximately 32 hours.

Thing is, coal is expensive. Solar is cheap. If the US goes all in on coal, oil, gas, etc. - she'll lose.

China has built out massive amount of solar and wind, and hunkering down on batteries. That means they get massive amounts of essentially free electricity.

If the US hunkers down on labour intensive, expensive, polluting stuff - then all the worse for her.