I don't think that would matter in practice. This law wouldn't let them specify what *news* is allowed, only what news sources, and there would be a huge stink if they tried to block the major real news outlets. They'd like to, I'm sure, but I really doubt that they'd succeed.

Russiagate was absolutely not "proven false". Mueller's report and both the House and Senate reports (from committees led by Republicans) thoroughly verified it.

L3 is not used as direct communication would be impossible with today’s technology. A relay satellite at L4 or L5 would be required. There are no L4 or L5 satellites right now but L5 is being planned for a space weather satellite that monitors solar activity.

"Hateful virtue signaling" by using her full name?

So I take it you will not explain anything you mean. We are supposed to read your mind about your grievances then.

Only if it wears a toga.

From what I can tell at the places I've worked: Macs cost a little more; however, they are only slightly more than business PCs. Remember large companies do not buy the cheapest consumer models from Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. They get the business models. They are cheaper when it comes to maintenance. Incidentally one coworker with transitioned over to a Mac in one day. She had a Dell laptop and was visiting our offices for a meeting when her laptop just died. To fix her laptop would require a week to get the parts. It was a few years old, and she was due for a new laptop. But they only had Macs or the largest Dell laptops readily available at our offices. So they copied everything over to her new Mac.

[sarcasm]Yes because Steam 100% controls all the software that they sell. No one else sells this software at all like GOG, Epic, Microsoft, every publisher themselves, etc. Also no one makes PC hardware that plays games. No one at all.[/sarcasm]

It's $300 for 1.5TB more. Without part numbers we can't really tell it that is slightly more than component cost or not. A Gen4 or Gen5 NVMe SSD is around $300 though. Also performance and reliability is better if the SSD has a small RAM cache which adds to the cost.

I priced out a similar build for over $1,000 today. I probably could have saved some money by bargain hunting and waiting. That's the sad state of PC parts due to the current situation. Unfortunately the $1049 price is a deal today.

If you can buy those components and build this for $500 these days, good luck to you. Also why is it Steam's job to subsidize your gaming habits?

This is the actual problem with nuclear power. And by the time it comes around, the people who made the decisions have already safely moved elsewhere or into pension.

I guess by your virtues means we do not call people by their legal names, then sure. However like HST, JWST, etc, abbreviations are used by everyone to soothe your hurt feelings.

Correct. Breaking is entirely irrelevant to this discussion.

If something breaks, it's on me. This is about companies being able to take something away that isn't broken at all, at any time they choose, without any refund.

For any other item that'd be theft and would land them in jail.

My company uses lots of Macs. Some of the users are software developers. The main reason I did not get a Mac during the last refresh was one application was Windows only. That system was retired so I do not have that limitation anymore.

Well, not just one young arrogant engineer, also most of the maintainers of the major Linux distros in the world.

If it's really a bad idea, the blame doesn't really fall on Poettering. Many young, arrogant engineers have built things that were stupid, and their things got ignored by the world. Some smaller number of young, arrogant engineers have built things that were stupid but were able to convince their PHBs that they weren't stupid and they got deployed. I don't think that's how I'd characterize the leadership at Red Hat (I never worked there, but I have good friends who did), but let's suppose that they were clueless and that's why they deployed Poettering's stupid idea.

But then how do you explain why so many others looked at it, experimented with it for a few years, and then decided to adopt it, and even extend it?

The systemd opponents are loud and forceful on social media. The people who actually build the systems, however, disagree. And It's not just one or two groups who are somehow beholden to Poettering, nor is it people who don't know anything or have no technical stake in the decision.

You might want to consider whether you're living up to your nick here.

I don't personally care that much. I find it mildly annoying that the old scripts my finger muscle memory still wants to type by default don't always work... but honestly I rarely need them any more, because my systems Just Work. And I have to consider the possibility that systemd is part of the reason Linux requires so much less maintenance than it used to. There are multiple contributors here. A lot of it is that drivers have gotten a lot better and other aspects of the system have matured (like the audio subsystem :^)).

But given its broad adoption by nearly all open source and commercial Linux distros, Occam's razor says that it's probably better than sysvinit. Or BSD init. Or Upstart. Or OpenRC, or... <insert favorite system manager here>.