"Why doesn't Microsoft want an independent encryption program running? "

Mr. Dillinger I'm so very disappointed in you. I can't afford to have an independent program monitoring me.

Basically: Yes. I suspect the US government was behind this stunt, but absolutely... if the US government decides it doesn't want foreign companies to have easy access to non-Microsoft, non-Apple OSes, I can see them pulling this stunt.

The only solution is to ensure that whatever hardware you buy lets you either disable secure boot or install your own trusted key.

Clearly, the US government is unhappy with regular people having robust data encryption.

This is why it is folly for non-US organizations to continue using closed-source US-based software. If they can't see the security risks inherent in this practice, then I don't know what to say.

At this rate, reality is going to put The Onion out of business by 2029.

I'd trust the durability of every other part more than the durability of the screen itself.

not what I was referring too. The South West has multi-century wet/dry cycles and we've recently discovered the last 100-200 years has been the peak wet period. It's only getting drier for a long long time.

There was an initial large disruption as they dumped a huge number of packages into alternate delivery systems that weren't prepared for the sudden massive increase in load. Within a few weeks, it had settled down, and shipping times had improved enough that same-day and next-day shipping were once again available, albeit with shorter "order by" windows. The quality of the delivery experience has dropped significantly (in terms of failed/late deliveries) due to them relying exclusively on "Intelcom" (a gig delivery service) rather than Amazons own delivery system.

My understanding of how it works, at least for Montreal (which used to have multiple Amazon warehouses in the metro area), is that all orders are shipped from the Toronto area, a ~6 hour drive away. Amazon loads orders onto big Amazon trucks (semi trailers) and drives them to an Intelcom distribution centre in Montreal, and Intelcom handles the last-mile delivery. Intelcom doesn't do inter-city delivery, and Amazon doesn't have any infrastructure in Montreal (or Quebec more broadly).

As for why Amazon services Montreal's orders from Toronto (a ~6 hour drive away) instead of Ottawa (a ~2 hour drive away), my only guess is that Ottawa (1.5m metro pop) wasn't big enough absorb all of Montreal's (4.3m metro pop) demand, but Toronto (6.2m) was.

That ultimately won't matter, because the workers have already been laid off, and the courts can't order Amazon to reverse the decision. The best case scenario is that several years down the road, Amazon will have to make a one-time payout to the workers.

https://github.com/apple-oss-d...

Or the kernel specifically: https://github.com/apple-oss-d...

If you run a light desktop environment like XFCE or LXDE, 4GB is probably fine.

However, the instant you spin up a modern browser or office suite, you're cooked. It's the massive applications that are the problem on Linux, not the OS or desktop environment (if you pick a lightweight DE.)

One of Amazon's warehouses in the Montreal area (Laval) unionized. Amazon took the nuclear response and closed every warehouse in the entire province, seven in total. All Amazon orders destined for Quebec are now shipped from Ontario.

Imagine if a bunch of tech bros said: "Hey, you don't need exercise. It's totally fine if your muscles atrophy. After all, we have technology to move you around and it can do so much more quickly than your muscles ever could!" We'd laugh them out of town.

Well, guess what? If you don't exercise your brain, it atrophies. If you outsource your thinking, you eventually become unable to think.

> then why did the iranians rally around it after the leader was killed?

They didn't. They celebrated in the streets when Khamanei was killed.

None of the Iranians I know are in Iran, but many have friends and family there.

Here is a link of people celebrating Khamanei's death.

There are no doubt pro-regime demonstrations. When such a vicious regime demands a supportive demonstration, people will comply.

Note that many Iranians are secular. Persian culture predates Islam by centuries, if not millenia, so when you say that killing Khamanei was like killing the Pope... that really doesn't matter to secular Iranians, who only saw him as a vicious tyrant.

I agree that the people of Iran are brave and dignified people. Every single one that I've met has been a lovely person. They are also overwhelmingly thirsting for freedom from Islamic regime domination.

Well, yeah. The US military is the best in the world for massive high-tech conventional wars.

Ukraine is probably the best in the world for drone warfare.

Iran is far superior to the USA when it comes to retaining strike capabilities under enormous pressure from a stronger foe.