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Comment Re:What if? (Score 1) 48

Your question makes sense, but I think you're right - It's not that simple.

Your theoretical Debian distro might be fine for general purpose use, but there may be people who want a distro for games, or a wide range of hardware compatibility. In both of those cases, you might need to have a kernel compiled with specific options, and a distro bundled with certain desktop GUIs and applications.

The hardcore linux enthusiasts will tell you to compile your own kernel. Have you ever tried it? It's not for beginners, and the choices you make during compile time would only serve to frustrate you later.

Look, I just want to use linux without needing to build it myself, but there are so many different ways to do things, there is no one way that would make everyone happy - no matter what changes you add on top of it.

Comment Re:strange (Score 1) 149

The question is: Who is going to stop him? No one, that's who.

He appoints judges that will defer to him.
He has the majority of the House on his side.
He has Secret Service personal protection.
He controls the military.

I would like to believe that there is some governmental bureau that would arrest him, and hold him for crimes, but he seems to fire anyone who seems to be able to do that.

The only other option I can think of (outside of violence) is to just wait it out until there are more Dems in the House, or his term is up.

Comment Re:Windows 11 really is that bad. (Score 1) 150

It's not that Windows 11 is *BAD* per se, but it requires TPM 2.0. I cannot upgrade from win 10 to Win 11 because my machine is too old, and doesn't have a TPM, but I'm not willing to throw it away for a newer one. Despite it's increased learning curve, Linux is now the preferred choice.Also, recent advances in usability and similarity to Windows also makes Linux more appealing now.

Comment Re:missed opportunities (Score 1) 81

USB ports used to have a polyfuse inline with the +5v contact. A polymer fuse that, as too much current is drawn, heats up and then stops conducting, which stops the current flow. The fuse cools down in about 5 minutes, and starts conducting again. It's a small simple device, and the USB port shouldn't be sourcing more than 500ma anyway, so I don't know why those chromebook USB ports were sparking and catching fire...

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