The Ford F-150 Lightning, widely seen as a failure and canceled, outsold the cybertruck by about double. So no, I wouldn't say the cybertruck is successful by any measure.

I was going to challenge you on that, since the only oath a federal employee has to swear is to honor the constitution. But to even get past the interview stage now you have to declare your loyalty to trump so really that amounts to the same thing in the end. And if a democrat does win the next presidency (which i feel is unlikely), he or she will have to completely clean out the bureaucracy and start over, probably doing their own form of loyalty oaths, which is a very bad thing.

Administrations have often done things that run afoul of the constitution (and congress too) but in the past when such things were challenged and ruled against by the courts, the president and the administration backed down and honored the constitutional decision. This administration ignores the courts and actively fights the constitution when challenged. It really is a stark turn for the United States.

That is correct. You will be wrong. Report to your nearest CCP police station. Now with convenient locations in all major countries.

Hey Trump is only doing what the people elected him to do! If the people want it, therefore it must be constitutional (you must acquit!). America needs a decisive leader who acts quickly on right things, rather than depend on the glacial, democratic process of congressional law making. Such as stopping those unamerican off-shore wind projects. And funneling subsidies back to god-fearing oil barons instead of those godless hippy electric car and solar energy pushers. And to stand up against those epstein pedophiles because no one is above the law. Oh wait.

Life was already pretty bleak for young chinese before LLMs came along. Officially the young adult unemployment rate is 19%, but in reality it's a lot higher than that. Some estimate as high as 40%. The CCP doesn't have a lot to offer them. Also the CCP-caused gender imbalance is demoralizing to their young men as the odds of starting a family are low.

While China watchers such as China Uncensored are unnecessarily prone to hyperbole in their rhetoric, it's very true that some aspects of Chinese society are on the verge of collapsing and the CCP is in actual danger of being swept away.

But we can say the same thing about the impending collapse of western societies, particularly the US and Canada with the rise of fascist populism taking over a significant chunk of the political spectrum.

And the quality of sound production. Lines are mumbled, music and effects drown out the dialog. This is all in the name of "realism." Been watching an old sitcom lately (started in the 70s) and one of the main characters speaks very loudly. That's what actors were trained to on the stage, and it actually works well on the screen with clear dialog. Sure it technically sounds unnatural compared to every day speech, but on the screen it works.

My recently bought (used) Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen 2i dies on battery in suspend mode in some 15 hours (less than 24). So I find hibernate useful. Battery SoH 68.6%.

Not sure what your point is regarding samba and the gplv3. If a hardware vendor doesn't want to abide the license it needs to write its own code instead of thinking it can get a free ride from free software. A vendor could abide by the gplv3 and still sell a good and successful product.

I repeat that if Linux had been any other license other than the gpl it would not be the juggernaut it is today. It probably would still exist but wouldn't be a major player.

Libraries are a case where the lgpl is probably the better choice. And a copyright holder can change the license at any time.

And doesn't the open source driver pretty much work even with opengl on those older cards? Is it really a big deal that the proprietary driver no longer works for these cards?

My understanding is that is not true. Click to raise policy is enacted by the compositor which often doubles as a window manager.

This is why I always recommend that would-be open source developers who have no real concept of the different license default to GPLv3 or later. As the author of the work you can change you mind on the license at any time, so having the default be GPLv3 protects you the most, while allowing you the flexibility to change the license, or even add licenses including proprietary licenses in the future. If your code attracts the attention of a big company who finds value it in, negotiate a proprietary license and a compensation package.

Things get more complicated when a project accepts contributions from others who hold their own copyrights. That's when you do need to do some critical thinking about your goals and possibly get legal advice. The Linux kernel could never now be relicensed to GPLv3 for example, since many copyright holders are dead or unknown.

Although in some ways its regretful that Linux is stuck with the GPLv2, having stricken the "or later version" clause decades ago, it's very fortuitous that Torvalds had the foresight to pick the GPL. Linux would not be what it is today without the GPL. The GPL is what incentivizes large companies across the globe to use and contribute to Linux, since they know their contributions cannot be used against them. The playing field remains quite even, despite large, proprietary companies playing.

I'm always surprised how many open source developers prefer the MIT license which has the dual properties of letting big companies make money off your work for free, and also the big companies expecting to get support and bug fixes for free. That license (and also the BSD license) seems to favor large, proprietary companies far more than any other party, including the developers themselves. The only advantage to the open source community that I can see is the MIT license is generally compatible with most of open source licenses.

I conceded that incompatible open-source licenses is a huge problem when developing open source software. Of course the big companies rarely care about that since they rarely face any significant penalty for stealing code outright.

Some may drive little or at all, but all of them rely on goods and even services that traveled over those roads. Roads and bridges benefit every tax payer.

Even with a physical inspection that records the odometer reading, the odometer does not indicate where the miles were driven. 90% of then could be in another state which would deprive that state of revenue.

But there isn't even L1, most of my friends live in cities in blocks of flats (Europe, Czech Republic).