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Comment Re:CLEAN-ENERGY cables??? (Score 1) 68

There are lots of different kinds of cables for different application. What you say is true, but it doesn't necessarily trivially apply in all circumstances. For example the undersea cables have limits. The person being interviewed in the article specialized in undersea cables, from what I can tell. I don't think you can simply just jack up the voltage and magically get more capacity through an existing undersea line.

As others stated, traditional overhead wires also have their limits. and are designed for specific voltages and currents before you run into problems with insulators, discharges, etc.

Comment Re:Despite (Score 1) 263

Like I said you can keep on buying it. No skin off my back.

It's interesting. Things like table of contents are to me much harder in office than libre office. Especially if you didn't start out doing things right. At least it was like that last time I was asked to help someone set up a table of contents in office for an existing document. With LO by default styles are associated with table of contents so it's really easy to with the stylist to set up the document for table of contents. Office last I used it seemed to apply heading styles without setting the data points for tables of contents or indexes. Really surprised me.

Anyway if you don't want to learn a slightly different way to do things that's totally fine.

Comment Re:Can pixel owners request kernel source code? (Score 1) 46

And that creates a binary equivalent to the kernel running on my pixel that could be drop-in replacement for the stock kernel? I highly doubt it.

Google has managed to do to the GPL and open source in general what MS only dreamed about back in the Linux cancer days. What a world we live in.

Comment Re: Can pixel owners request kernel source code? (Score 1) 46

NVidia doesn't distribute kernels, just their blobs, so they can get away with it. When I download the driver and install it, I'm the one tainting the kernel. Google, on the other hand ships the kernel and their own drivers and blobs.

It's an open question whether Ubuntu can legally ship ZFS support since they are shipping both the GPL kernel and the incompatibly-licensed ZFS modules.

Comment Re:Despite (Score 2) 263

That's why MS has a subscription just for you. Just keep writing them a check and you can continue to work in Word or Excel.

I don't how people can like and use the ribbon interface in Office myself, but there you go. By the way you can switch LibreOffice from the conventional interface (you know the one that made Office 95 so usable) to a ribbon interface. View->User Interface and select "Tabbed."

Comment Can pixel owners request kernel source code? (Score 4, Insightful) 46

Wonder what would happen if a pixel owner requested the source code for the kernel from Google. Would they honor the GPL and provide all the kernel source, including their own patches, to build the exact same kernel that is shipped in their firmware?

I suspect Google would simply send him a link to the official kernel source github and conveniently ignore all the other bits they added to the kernel that absolutely have to fall under the terms of the GPL since they are distributing it in their firmware.

Android is such a disappointing wasteland full of proprietary blobs and locked boot loaders, and the alternate firmware scene is bewildering (hate how it's all done in random 50-page web forum posts), thanks to Google's unwillingness to treat Android more like the open way in which Linux distributions are developed and exist.

Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 110

Most Wayland desktop environments set the DISPLAY variable, and fire off XWayland on demand. So you can just ssh -X as you always used to, and it just works. Remote X11 windows show up on my wayland desktop just like they always have. It's analogous to Xquartz on macOS which offers the same functionality. As long as the remote machine has applications that require and use X11, it will work fine under Wayland desktop environments. I happen to use and recommend KDE.

If you want to remote a wayland-native app, there is a program called waypipe which is probably in many distro repos. But I've never tried it because I just don't need it since ssh -X with XWayland works fine.

Comment More yucky pastel colors (Score 1) 23

The screenshots in the linked article look hideous to me. They have a different definition of "color" than I do. Adaptive colors is one of those things that sounds good in theory, and works for some people, but not all. My background is a picture of a beautiful sunset taken out my window, and Android thinks that I want pink as one of my main colors. It's kind of embarrassing. I found a free app that kind of fixes this on rooted phones called ColorBlendr that at least lets me choose grey as my color. Android pretends to offer colors, but red doesn't mean red. It means pink and lots of pinky russets. Everyone knows best what I want.

On the plus side, even with pastel colors Android 18 looks a lot better than the new "design language" Apple introduced at their WWDC this week.

Comment Re:X.org (Score 1) 110

Not for the foreseeable future. You will continue to be able to ssh into Rocky and Raspbian systems and run remote X11 apps just as long as there are apps that support X11. For Qt-based apps, that will be a long time. For GTK apps after GTK4, I'm not totally sure.

For wayland native apps, there are networking solutions that are being worked on and should fill the gap. waypipe is one.

I do agree wayland developers are way too opinionated and don't listen to what actual Linux users say and want. Like you, I need remoting support. Currently with XWayland, it works just as well as it always did, so I'm happy.

Comment Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score 4, Insightful) 109

Yet I've spoken with quite a few normal (and relatively sane) people who fully support what Trump is doing in general, and this military action specifically. They aren't trolls. They aren't wackos. They see themselves as average Americans. I just hope to get some to ask questions and do some serious thinking.

Comment Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score 4, Insightful) 109

You're actually okay with the military deploying on US soil? This sort of thing has been illegal for years, and for good reason. Using the military against people (most of which are citizens) in your own country is the sort of thing that dictators do. That's why people are speaking out against this. The fact you are not concerned about this is, well concerning. What happens when a democrat becomes president king and starts to use the military against people you support? Or do you think that your guy really will be king for another few terms? That's why I and many others are concerned and speaking out while we can.

Comment Re:Biden's Cyber Policies? (Score 5, Insightful) 109

It's almost funny how people get fixated on this autopen thing. Which trump himself has used too. It works with a sharpy just as well as a pen. Very creative (and pernicious) reasoning by certain people about this.

I've always maintained that the best politician, the best leader, does as little as possible. Biden's policies were simply those of maintaining the stable political status quo which, among other things, granted freedom and prosperity up til now, which you enjoy. Boggles my mind how many want to burn it all down.

It's also shocking to me how many people in the US are fine with a king and wouldn't care if they never voted again (or just did a symbolic vote for the king every four years which is how many look at elections). American Kings have been in the making for decades, the foundation laid by both parties. But one party has run with it beyond anything I have ever seen. Now with the king, life is okay for you so long as you fall in line with the king and happen to agree with his opinions. But should you ever differ from him (or his friends) on anything, keep your head down. Yes I do have some Russian friends and they just try to do their thing and not attract attention. Not a life I want.

The thing about freedom is that the same freedom that allows you to do and say what you want to do also allows people to do things you strongly, vehemently, disagree with. Would you fight in a war for your country to ensure people you disagree with get their say in government and society? My family members who fought in WWII did.

As with all things, we don't know what he have until it's gone. That's why it's important to speak up on these things.

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