Just say no to RPM.

I wrote a compiler for an ObjC-like language (with less brackets), which can produce binaries for any of {Mac, Windows, Linux, WASM, Arm A9 (Zynq), m68k or 6502} running on any of {Mac, Windows, Linux}. So you can produce a dev-signed Mac binary on a Linux box. I’m just going through extending that output range to mobile {Android, iOS} and I’ll release it as open source.

The compiler docs for the language (xc) are at https://compile-xc.org/ - feel free to browse.

I didn’t think getting the signing working for Mac/iOS was terribly hard.

Most sheep don't know what mutton is.

With the price of RAM shooting through the roof, I've noticed quite a few of the new low and mid-range Windows laptops are now shipping with 8gb of ram as well.

Say Microsoft released Windows 11 but 30 years later, half of all Windows users were still using Windows 10. Would you call that A) a failure or B) a monumental failure?

OK, IPv6 is not a failure. It's a monumental failure. Perhaps the greatest and most expensive failure in all of technology history.

You seem confused about how Debian's technical stewardship works. Technical directions are determined by involved developers, and only if consensus cannot be reached among developers then the Technical Committee may be called upon to resolve the dispute. There is no one man in charge of this process, your paranoid rant notwithstanding.

What has us government website visits got to do with game consoles?

Linux already has sustained user base.

Agree that Gnome is shitty, but fortunately installing KDE is trivially easy, and it doesn't suck. You can even keep both if that floats your boat.

So? My 8 week old kitten interacts with smartphones. Catches mice. Also speed dials random contacts.

The acronym is AA. Consider trying to use the same language as the rest of us.

"Falling debris" is Russian newspeak for "drones that hit their targets and blew things up". Which they are not allowed to admit, so they blame the fire and smoke on falling debris.

AAC? Airway Allocation Control? Got your TLAs mixed up?

Germany makes one of the best anti-drone weapons, the Skynex system, an autocannon. But the military is constitutionally restricted to defending the country against external threats, and Germany does not share any borders with Russia. The federal and regional police are officially responsible for controlling drones, but until now, are not legally allowed to shoot at them. Soon that will change, your glib comment to the contrary notwithstanding.

How exactly the police will exercise this new power is a great question. They certainly won't go off half-cocked and out of control, that is simply not typical of German police. They won't be blasting at them with Skynex autocannons, those are heavy military weapons not available to the police. Maybe shotguns or rifles. First they will try to bring them down with ECM, probably. They may experiment with laser systems, which really aren't ready for prime time but kind of getting there. But I think what we're about to see what is Germans tend to do better than just about anybody - get busy and invent some fantastic new machinery designed expressly for the job. Given the urgency, this could happen pretty fast.

Good thing they ignore the anecdotes of random slashdotters.

This is why Boeing killed people: trying to sweeten the sales proposition by eliminating the expense of recertification for a new airframe. Instead, by flimflammery, they tried to pretend that the Max has precisely the same aerodynamic characteristics as earlier 737s without the big high-bypass engines duct taped onto an ancient airframe that simply can't fit them in any safe way. Costly mistake both in lives and dollars. High time to put that creaky old design out to pasture and redraw from a clean sheet. Maybe have a computer more powerful than a hand calculator in it too.