Interesting that they clearly know that doing that would be undesirable to the laptop owner.

I don’t think he’s right about America’s founding ideas. Free enterprise, maybe. But capitalism is a different beast, and only came to America much later. The young country’s first taste of real capitalism was the East India Company and their tea trading business. And look how they reacted to that.

I don’t think capitalism was what the USA’s founding fathers had in mind at all. I do think the linguistic conflation of “free market” with “capitalism” is an intentional large scale psy-op designed to make people forget that. And it’s working.

Well, it was supposed to be mainly a hazelnut cream with some sugar, cocoa and maybe a few other minor ingredients. And in fact, when it was new and conquering markets, that was what it was.

I think the decades starting with the early 1990s had desensitized a lot of us to enormous amounts of sugar, and in the end we didn’t even consciously notice anymore how sweet that stuff had gotten.

I’m not surprised by it any more, but only because I’ve known this for a while now. When I first saw this breakdown (and looked at other sources to confirm), I was caught a bit off guard by the realization that this stuff is well over 50% sugar. The palm oil is not exactly a plus, either.

Eh, knowing Trump, the reward may stay a pipe dream. He’s like the least loyal tyrant ever, it’s baffling how anybody works for him expecting not to be eventually backstabbed or thrown under the bus.

More over, whoever follows her will undoubtedly be worse. Supposedly Bondi was fired over her handling of the Epstein files, which probably means she was supposed to just break all the laws surrounding evidence and just destroy as much of the stuff as possible.

I used to say, if you are not a “computer person” at all, just pick Ubuntu. If you are a bit more demanding and don’t mentally freeze up in front of computers, yet still want a fairly normal and hassle-free experience, choose Fedora.

These days, I’m not so sure about Ubuntu anymore. They have been disappointing in the recent past.

Maybe I should give Linux Mint a try one of these days.

I hope you realize how much more expensive USB mass storage devices have become in the last three months.

Add another square at the bottom left of the grid that breaks out of the grid on both directions and contains OpenBSD.

To me, the whole BCacheFS thing feels like ReiserFS all over again. Including the borderline insane, self-proclaimed genius lead developer with an out-of-control ego, the massive over-presentation of how important this filesystem, or even filesystems in general are to Linux as a whole, the complete refusal to work within established structures, both in terms of process and in terms architectural structures in the software or to even have a mature discussion about how these ought to be like, and even the ludicrous claims about how Linux will be hopelessly outcompeted if it doesn’t put his genius front-and-center before anything else.

At least Overstreet has not murdered anybody.

There’s also the whole selective perception about software stability. You cannot claim at one point that your fs is completely ready for production use, everyone saying otherwise is a hater, and marking the thing as experimental in the config is basically slander against your person, and then shortly later demand that Linux merge some particularly complex and hard to review several-thousand lines patch in a minor bugfix release because your users could experience horrible data loss otherwise. Those are two things that cannot be true at the same time.

Note, filesystems really are hugely important to an OS like Linux. Even so, both Reiser and Overstreet managed to overstate that to an outright comical degree.

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Have you tried to actually use GNU/Hurd?

So I guess I’m both “Chad” and “Schizo” at the same time.

And also “Cool And Good” on the side. (I run Fedora on a few machines. It’s a relatively hassle-free no-nonsense distro that usually works for what i need.)

Spoken like someone who never accidentally typed something into the wrong terminal or accidentally used the wrong keyboard.

Funny thing about that one, gnuplot is not under GPL and has nothing to do with GNU.

It’s up to Lemmy to safeguard that, not the OP.

Uhm, yes? The discussion was never about anything else?

Reddit changes the stuff to [Deleted] or something like that.

I know, and I think that’s preferable. Gives the OP a way to delete their own stuff while not destroying arbitrary amounts of other people’s conversations and arguments.

This is about data posted by other people, though.

I appreciate what he’s done for VR and retro gaming.

He took money from a lot of donors, used that money to get patents for his company, then sold that company, including the patents, to Facebook (now Meta).

I do not appreciate what he did there.

It’s not like Putin hasn’t tried that…

Honestly, this is a major weakness of Lemmy. The OP of a thread can destroy a lot of content by other people, and they often do. I really don’t get the reasoning behind allowing them that power.

The emergence of a deadly new disease

Wishy-washy question. New diseases emerge all the time, and what do you mean by “deadly”? Almost all diseases can be deadly some of the time, almost none of them are always deadly. We’ve had several “new” diseases that are deadly often enough to be worrying, but no wide spread new ones that are as deadly as rabies. Also, what does it mean for a disease to be “new”? Because of a lack of sexual procreation, and therefore lateral gene transfer, neither viruses nor bacteria are species-forming. Every new individual ever is a new diverging point for a line of successors, and that line will never, can never merge back with the rest of the population. The point at which a strain has mutated enough to be called a new disease is basically a matter of opinion.

Gay marriages will be commonplace

Again, wishy-washy question. What is commonplace? I don’t know a lot of people who would still object to gay people’s right to marry, but I personally don’t know a single married gay couple. Is it commonplace? I can’t tell.

Country will have elected a black president

Clear yes. A big part of the country had a very dangerous and still going meltdown over it, but still, the answer is a clear yes.

Country will have elected a woman president

Clear no, if by a small margin on two occasions.

Illicit drug use, such as marijuana and cocaine, will be commonplace

Again with the “commonplace”. It’s hard to define. I’m going by “illicit drugs” meaning drugs that were illegal on a federal level in 1998 (not that this will make that much difference). By my gut feeling, I would say this was already “commonplace” in the eighties and nineties. Though it does seem to have increased since then.

AIDS will be cured

There have been a small number of cases where it actually worked, but to my knowledge nothing universally applicable. AIDS treatments, however, have become so good that the disease is no longer seen as a major problem of our times.

Cancer will be cured

That was always a non-starter, and even people in 1998 should have known that. Cancer is not one disease, at best you can cure a small specific subset of cancers.

Most stores will be replaced by shopping on the Internet

Brick and mortar stores have become fewer, but it’s hard to tell how much of that was Internet shopping and how much was market consolidation into powerful big-box stores.

Most people will do their jobs from home.

We didn’t even come close to “most” during Covid. Most jobs just cannot be done from home.

United States will be involved in a full scale war

What’s “full scale”? There were certainly a few that were “full-scale” for the other side. Shit, there only just was one shortly before this poll was conducted…