For Debian, “unstable” just means “not running a five year old compiler”.

USB in 1996: Let’s make one connector that handles everything

USB in 2024: Let’s make one connector do thirty different incompatible combinations of things

I don’t think we’d be at Star Trek levels, but I do think it’s OK if we went slower. The breakneck pace of development since the Industrial Revolution hasn’t been done in a way that’s healthy for the planet or for people.

As things are, we might have a Mars colony by the end of the century, but with a ruined Earth behind it. If we pushed that Mars colony out another century and focused on improving the planet we have, that would be OK. These goals aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive–a Mars colony would likely take a tiny fraction of Earth’s combined economic output over the next 80 years–but there’s a lot of things we would do to make things more sustainable that will be more expensive in terms of label price. We aren’t fully incorporating the true cost of things on the current label price, so of course those will go up when they properly reflect reality.

Crop rotation isn’t that, though. It’s a good idea for efficient use of agricultural land over the long term.

Scorched Earth is the mother of all games. Therefore, all games are inferior to Scorched Earth.

I pirate because it’s too much hassle otherwise.

Oh, yeah, a lot of people made that mistake. It was badly named.

Lying through its teeth.

There was a bunch of DOS software that runs too fast to be usable on later processors. Like a Rouge-like game where you fly across the map too fast to control. The Turbo button would bring it down to 8086 speeds so that stuff is usable.

FWIW, retirement studies would suggest a 4% withdrawal rate the first year, and increasing for inflation each year after. There are some other ways to go with this, but it’s a good starting place.

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To where? Right wing fascism is on the rise pretty much everywhere.

It’s used all over the place in the US. It’s usually a weird, thoughtless mixture. Milk is sold in gallons, soda is sold in liters.

In fact, you’ll find exceptions in most countries once you start looking for them. Just a matter of how prevalent the metric system is; nobody is 100%. Most common exception is car tires because of how industry standards work.

It works fine when everything around you is in those numbers. The scale for medications might be set to mg, or injections in mL. The bottles for both are labeled the same way. Everything works together, and you don’t really have to think about it.

Part of the problem with converting everything to metric is it really needs to be everything. You can try talking about driving distances in km, and your gas tank in L/100km, and your speed in km/hr. However, the interstate highway signs will still be in miles, you buy gas in gallons, and the speed limit signs are in mph. This isn’t a case where you can just choose to use the metric system as an individual, because the whole system works against you.

Significant digits of accuracy befuddles everyone.

Flame throwers are allowed as long as they’re not aimed at civilians. Thermite is just another type of flame when it comes down to it.

They might have forgotten the pump part.

Implement a cryptographic web of trust system on top of Lemmy. People meet to exchange keys and sign them on Lemmy’s system. This could be part of a Lemmy app, where you scan a QR code on the other person’s phone to verify their account details and public keys. Web of trust systems have historically been cumbersome for most users. With the right UI, it doesn’t have to be.

Have some kind of incentive to get verified on the web of trust system. Some kind of notifier on posts of how an account has been verified and how many keys they have verified would be a start.

Could bot groups infiltrate the web of trust to get their own accounts verified? Yes, but they can also be easily cut off when discovered.

“I get headaches when I run on Nvidia hardware. Now, AMD, running on those things are like swimming in a river of fine chocolate.”

And they validated this data 4 times. It’s really good data.

Then maybe they should start. I have to do a lot of qualification to justify voting Democrat. If I’m going to vote Green, I expect to be doing a lot less qualification than with Democrats. The only reason I would is because nobody holds Greens to account on what their actual policies are. Which only helps the Greens, because they’re fucking loons.

Maybe if you read my comments, you wouldn’t be confused.

They’ve opposed nuclear for decades, and we’d be having a very different conversation about global warming if they hadn’t basically won there. They have opposed WiFi and cell phone radiation as “cancer causing”, and have supported homeopathy. If they ran on their policies, they would find a dwindling number of people on the left who actually support them, because they’re vestigial loons concocted in a 1960s hippie lab.