Ah yeah you're the guy who always affects a folksy southern accent whenever you're saying anything especially dumb.

Except going to a web site on a mobile phone and trying to find anything useful is too difficult.

I do this all the time. I don't have an iPhone and siri and I don't like using google voice. To humour you, I typed in "heathrow t4 departures" , "gatwick departures", "luton departures" and "london city departures" into google on my phone, and the first link took me to a well-formatted-for-mobile list. It was super easy. I say I entered those, but it actually autocompleted a fair bit of what I'd have to type.

For ones I use a lot (rail, bus), I have an app installed, but probably a large part of that is Android decided to take a step massively into the past and make it annoyingly hard to put anything other than apps on your desktop. The rail app is just an HTML view and looks the same as the website anyway.

This stuff is all pretty easy and people do it all the time.

This is the difference between a lease/subscription type contract and a support contract. Frankly the former where it comes to something like ovens on a navy ship should not really be under consideration.

It should be sell the government the equipment, installation, and training. Second sell them a support contract that states things like, we will have any parts required availible at on of the following locations withing X hours (Navy more likely to be able more things around world effectively than anyone else) and we will have technicians that can be taken on site availible within x... whatever.

That way it does not matter. If some sailor massively botches are repair and makes the problem even worse you get to sell them extra parts and time cleaning up the mess at enough markup to cover your usual day rate and then some.

The Navy for its part is able to solve immediate problems. Its a 'commercial oven' sure it probably has all kinds of fancy timers, moisture sensors, etc that all very useful to the efficent operation of the galley. However at the end of the day the door needs to be able to open and close and bake coil needs to be energized. Even if some boatswain mate has to hack a knife switch on there and some seaman needs to be assigned to sit there with the infrared thermometer and cycle the thing on an off by hand well they got people for it, they can get dinner rolls baked for the mess.

That kind of thing is really important for crew performance if shit does hit the fan.

Traffic was light and gas was cheap. It's the only part of that situation that I actually kind of miss.

You could hear the birds all the time. I don't care about cheap gas, but cars make cities noisy, ugly, polluted and dangerous. I only realised this in covid when almost all of the cars went and councils allocate more space for everything else for social distancing.

A state run prison is not a death camp.

The due process questions are BS, a court had already found he was gangster, he is now on trial for human trafficking. We are not better offer because some activist judge brought him back to the sates.

It is all slap fights, none of this about efficent, fair, immigration or legal processing.

LOL like that time Obama created what amounts to an entire immigration PROGRAM DACA out of nothing but EOs that now nobody can do anything about?

Correct EOs are not laws, but Trump's immigration related EOs for the most part are not attempting to make law. They are no more and no less the same priority/priority stuff every previous administration as done.

So just to be clear what you are saying here. Obama with just EOs can create a program where the government actively solicits applications to remove individuals from enforcement priority where immigration law is concerned, but Trump cannot say decide to put zero priority on approving student visas? Trump cannot decide that implementing his OBLIGATION to enforce the immigration laws we have, these people are "criminal suspects" under the law can't prioritize quanity over severity of violation?
Why do we have traffic courts, clears no officer should be writing tickets where there are personal and property crimes they could be solving instead right right?

This isnt even what-about-ism. It is just a matter of two tier justice. Conservatives win elections they are prevented from implementing policy choices, using the same mechanisms that liberals when elected are allowed to use. That is manifestly unjust; it is manifestly undemocratic. Where does this leave us? With the following possibilities (not exclusive) for the American left. You are profoundly ignorant. You are profoundly hypocritical, you are profoundly cynical and dont really believe in things like democracy you profess to care about.

Anyone who chooses to remain associated with our national Democratic party, is not a good American full stop.

I am not sure 'amazed' is the right word!

The only sane reaction to all this is to say: JUST DOGE IT!

Short to taking states right to extremes of wanting to start another civil war most conservatives are concerned when the federal government tries to expand into areas historically handled by the states, they don't imagine the supremacy clause does not exist.

We did this back in like 2010 when AZ tried do immigration enforcement. The courts made it pretty clear that they could not even carry out black letter federal immigration law, let alone add their own. It is beyond any reason then to assume state and local governments can actively interfere with the federal executive enforcing federal law. I suppose a "sanctuary" municipality of some kind might choose to not actively assist, share information etc, but the instant they step over the line where they assist anyone in evading enforcement; that makes them at least accessories to those immigration crimes, if not engaged in insurrection.

I guess sure its more data, but is it much more?

I mean the TSA (part of DHS) already had/has access to every boarding pass. At least for the first outbound flight, most trips being round trips, they already had your travel plans. I guess some of the connectors might possible have been unknown to them but realistically they probably already have enough other data sources to figure it out.

To me this speaks more about how ineffective and bad at IT / big data DHS is that would even need/want/bother with buying this information than anything else; while already having almost all the data needed to generate it.

And as I wrote elsewhere, X11 is arguably one the most far sighted display projects ever created in the history of computing, period.

I quite agree. There were an amazing number of things they had right in 1987 which held up incredibly well during a period of absolutely colossal change in how computers work. It's proven to be remarkably resilient and adaptable.

What's particularly good is the decoupling of various things. Sure these days there's a lot less call for the line drawing primitives, but it's not like that actually matters. It's positively kilobytes of code that was debugged three decades ago.

Funny thing over it's 38 years of existence it's had a large number of very angry detractors, but it's always been for different reasons that keep shifting. Meanwhile it just keeps on working.

That we're throwing it out because most of the maintainers didn't understand it is absurd.

And being thrown out because the code is a mess... well who's fault is that?! And if they made a mess first time why won't they make a mess again? Wayland still, in 2025, has no way for programs to request a placement position for their windows. The wayland devs have tied themselves in knots to justify why this is hard, or why users shouldn't want it, or why programs that use it are "legacy", "old fashioned" or any one of a number of pejoratives meaning broadly "working, keeps working, and no one fucks with it to make it stop working". Meanwhile X had it since 1987, probably before, and it's supported on Windows and OSX and probably a few more obscure systems.

You know funny thing is I've never installed Debian. I switched to mint, which is pretty straightforward to install, but I usually then customize things a bit. I've no problem with trickier installs, they're not hard, I've run RedHat 5.2 back in the day, Arch, even OpenBSD on a Zaurus (that was an adventure!), but I've never had a go at Debian.

I've not tried Mint desktop, my personal preference is a weirdass FVWM setup that no one but me likes, but I find XFCE quite reasonable with good defaults and customization, so I'll use that if I'm not taking the time to fully set up a machine for long term use and/or it's going to be shared. I've not tried mint desktop, I suspect it's fine.

The problem for us is probably going to be the various "big" self-contained projects like LibreOffice or even Java, and the risks they'll drop X11 support too.

That's probably what'll do me in in the end. Probably via GNOME dropping support for GTK on X. Though of course the big projects lag a long way behind, because who the heck wants GUI toollkit churn?

I cannot believe that SystemD, which was actually needed as Sys V Init was awful, is the one attracting the controversy, despite it slotting into any existing distribution and requiring no additional support, but Wayland gets boosted, and not just boosted, but boosted usually by Slashdot's old farts. Maybe there's a way to persuade Poettering to lead the Wayland project, as I suspect 99% of it is a personality conflict thing.

Yeah they have sanded most of the rough edges off systemd. It was a bit broken at the beginning to put it mildly. And it was very politicised with GNOME breaking support for sysv init almost forcing distros to adopt systemd for a while. It was a mess, and very intrusive, but it didn't take all that long, a few years to actually fix the bad bugs and now it does what we did before, plus a bit more, but at some point I forgot to care anymore. Wayland is 17 years old and which is to say it's nearly as old as X was when X was all old and busted and Wayland was to replace it.

It's also bonkes the "X teh old" mantra, given Linux isn't much younger now. But if you tried to presuade those people to use a kernel written in Rust I wonder what their response would be!

All these companies to run around saying how they are net-0 or net-negative; will at some point have to explain despite the giant carbon sink they all supposedly represent we are still emitting.

Should be a good show, have your pop-corn ready.

IVF as practiced at least generally results in a whole lot of abortions, also known to thinking people as murders.

Just look at the quote above and the words used to talk about the even by people who ostensibly see it as good thing, 'bought' as if this person is some kind of pet or worse slave.

We need to remember there was only ever one price enough to purchase a child of God, and that price was his own blood.

The thing that annoys me about snaps is that the security setting are a combination of excessively restrictive to the point of making work impossible and so permissive they are useless. Particularly, they are limited pretty much to reading ~. That's where all the really sensitive information is stored, my private keys and all that jazz. But "for security" I can't get them to read the big old disk I have mounted elsewhere. This is completely useless.

I've had various other problems with file paths. On 25.04, I couldn't (from BASH) do:

cd to/some/directory
inkscape file.svg

which is a pretty fundamental thing in unix. This does not work with the inkscape snap. So I uninstalled and got a proper version.

Basic stuff breaks with snaps, unless perhaps you are using nothing but the most 100% standard machine entirely from the GUI. And that's ignoring the fact that they are glacially slow in startup compared to normal programs. Maybe that's fine if you use a Mac or Windows style workflow where you open a large program and do a lot of stuff then maybe switch to another, but I'm using Linux in a distinctly unixy way.

And after trying for days to be OK with their GNOME, I gave up in disgust and installed XFCE.

By the time you have to put in the effort to remove all the ubuntuishness from ubuntu, as you why bother?

No, that's no how it works. The OG font system (which you were never obliged to use and few things do now) has font descriptors (XLFD) which look like this:

-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

See the two 75's in there? those indicate that that specific pixel font was designed for a 75dpi display and would be 12.00 points tall. The point is X11, the original version makes ZERO assumptions about the dpi of the display: those numbers can be arbitrary. Just because it came with a lot of fonts with 75 in doesn't mean X was designed for 75. In fact you can change things just fine. X will attempt to find the file that best matches the XLFD and then fix any discrepancies by scaling the font.

Your car probably came with normal tyres and if you live in a snowy climate, you may well fit snow tyres in the winter. It would be nonsense to say your car was designed for normal tyres and you fixed a design limitation of your car by installing winter ones. It makes as much sense to say 75dpi was a design limitation of X.

I don't even know if X11R1 came with 100dpi fonts or not. R3 was the earliest I could find with a few minutes of googling, and this information may be lost as X was largely proprietary back then. The only reason we even raise this as a point is because X from R1 had a general purpose mechanism that supported 100dpi and indeed any resolution of fonts so the only way to know is not to look at the manual but to see if it actually shipped with those fonts.