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Right?

I don’t think there’s a previous period to compare it to. The US has gone through isolationist periods before (eg 1930s) but never dictatorship.

Thanks for coming back and letting others know what your solution was.

Boot from a USB stick with a Live environment on it. See if you get the same issue.

For most people, using Linux is not a buggy experience. So no, people aren’t gaslighting you. Normally, you grab a modern release like the latest Fedora or Ubuntu and you can get a live desktop up in seconds booting from a USB stick.

Esoteric hardware can be a problem if particular driver haven’t been developed yet. That tends to hit laptops harder than desktops, but it’s much less of an issue than it used to be.

People are asking for specifics because they don’t share your experience and so can’t fill in the blanks.

…but it’s Rust!

Really wish the rusticles out there realised that the language is not a feature for user-space apps. Nobody cares if their disk utilisation tool is in Rust. All that matters is that gives useful information in a timely fashion.

• Samaritans
• Liberty

Neither are perfect organisations but both are trying to help people in desperate situations.

To turn the light off/on

My sound is always that of a cynic.

Probably never. Those 2048 cores are all separate threads. GPUs work with a cluster of cores all following a single thread of execution.

MIMD Vs SIMD.

Not OP, but I doubt that’s what he meant. An APU still has a CPU and a GPU on it as separate things.

I think I would have preferred to just manifest as a being of energy that could take corporal form at will.

Would have been a lot easier on my mum.

https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4

…but then you’re losing quick copy and paste.

Select text then middle click on the window you want to paste it. No keys. Select and a single click.

Of course, if you have more than three mouse buttons you can do both.

It’s arch. There’ll be no issue here.

No

The last decade has brought a lot of clarity to me on this. People follow the herd and are tribal. If a movement gains enough momentum, most people will go along with it even if it’s “against their principles”. There are very few people that will stand up in front of an advancing hoard and say “Stop! This is wrong.”

I suspect Nazi Germany was the same. Most people will have accepted what was happening as the price of an easy life, and it wasn’t until it was too late that they realised what had happened.

You don’t give up ever.

You pursue a better solution whenever one presents itself.

I remember going to Auckland in the 90s and being amazed how low everything was considering it’s size. Wellington was vertical. Auckland was horizontal.

At least, that’s how it felt.

In the UK and a city? Probably Liverpool and because of The Beatles.

A Town? Well it certainly used to be Lockerbie where Pan-Am flight 103 crashed after a terrorist bombing just before Christmas 1988. It was on it’s way from London to New York.

Probably not known by the younger generations though.