In OSS there's a certain desperation for quality code where a lot of bullshit has historically been tolerated.

In the comment you posted at the top of this thread, you talked about servers, desktops, and mobile devices. Now you want the conversation to be only about desktops.

Extreme? Not in my opinion.

Swappable batteries seem to make sense for city cars, otherwise they don't really work out. It would perhaps work better if we built space frame vehicles, but unibody is actually superior for overall user experience, especially in NVH.

On one hand, you raise good points, and on the other hand they don't apply to automotive traction batteries. Battery packs are chassis structural members.

Guess you forgot that we totally fucked up Iran

We have to both be thinking of TNG and later because in TOS the primary interface is physical controls and most readouts aren't screens.

In TNG the primary interface for casual use is verbal, but there are displays everywhere and it's common for people to ask for something to be displayed on them, and the primary interface for technical activities is touch screens.

I'm getting into music production using an all-digital FOSS toolchain with only a Suno subscription and some second-hand Midi Controller hardware as the proprietary stuff. I use Suno as a source of inspiration and foundations for own tracks. What newest 5.5 model of Suno puts out, even in written and sung lyrics, is absolutely impressive. Media production is a field that's being turned on its head by generative AI and the most impressive case for that is about 80% of stuff Suno has put out for me in the last 10 weeks. If there is anything sustainable about how Suno is doing its thing, entire production pipelines in the music industry can basically get ready to shut down. I've seen sound engineers turn speechless listening to what Suno does with their raw material in less than 5 minutes for a process that would take some pro an entire week and even then not quite reach the level of quality.

Given that every cord and cadence has been played and (re)discovered probably hundreds or even thousands of times I wonder if anyone has a case against their AI or could argue that Suno is not original in the same way humans are. But other than that, as of today modern digital music production has basically ceased to be a job IMHO.

Israel consistently breaks every cease fire. You won't have to wait long.

Oh, did Naziyahoo stop sending them money?

They expect people to not know, and they are taking advantage of them. You are forgetting that the average person knows how fucking nothing works.

I'll go ahead and accept those percentages, but only with the caveat that this reality is based on the pervasive, dominant paradigm of not questioning authority.

"the left" certainly does "sound like pigeonholing" though. American politics no longer has anything to do with left, right or center. Saying otherwise is pigeonholing.

Also, the claim is not correct. Objectivity is not monopolized by "the left", nor critical thinking, nor naivety. Conservatives USED to be critical thinkers and centrists are principally defined by that. While conservatism is influenced by selfishness, liberalism is idealist. Both alignments are subject to bias.

In fact, the entire bogus conclusion "sounds like pigeonholing".

Because around half the country either doesn't believe that's happening or is in favor of it happening, and "their" side is in control.

Read the 13th and tell us which one we are