The cheaters and cheat developers will just move to Windows, and the legitimate Linux users will quit. I don’t see the upside, this doesn’t solve the problem.

A while ago (late 90s?) they straightened the border and reevaluated land along the 49th parallel. Some towns switched countries.

Such a stupid border decision. They should have fixed it in the territory swaps a few years ago.

My grandparents did this. Rather than downsizing after the fire and moving closer to services, they rebuilt their house even bigger and added an elevator, then asked all their kids to drive them around. Not ideal.

Seconded. Great rice. Excellent flexible do-everything-reasonably-well appliance.

I don’t think that is necessarily out of the running yet. OS development is expensive and low profit. Commodification may be inevitable. Control of the shell and GUI, where they can push advertisements and shovelware and telemetry on you, that is profitable.

So in 20 years, 50? I predict proprietary OSes will die out eventually, balance of probability.

They also tend to have linux support. Where the AAA companies want to eat the entire mammoth and scorn the scraps, small companies can thrive off of small prey and the offal. :)

This is why I say ‘metre’ for the measure and ‘meter’ for the measurement device

Saw that from the Lion’s Gate a couple hours ago. Looked pretty nice!

I have never seen someone shoplift food and I never will.

Didn’t that originate in a Sabrina The Teenage Witch episode? Or did I just imagine that?

Well, north America anyway

Zed ess aitch

“This part of the Crown corporation is profitable on its own, we should sell it off!”

“Why are we spending so much money to subsidize this Crown corporation!? We should sell it off!”

Most package managers store md5sums. A few times I’ve used that to validate package binaries. I’m not sure what tool you’d use for it, since I always just whip up a bash one-liner for it.

You definitely do have to work harder to find more diverse viewpoints here. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem. At least on mastodon you can specifically follow people who talk about things outside your realm of experience.

It’s true, and it’s problematic, but the plastic lining in an aluminium can is super thin, since it doesn’t need to be structural. As far as resource use goes, it’s still way better. It’s best to look for improvements, and not to let the search for perfection block you from a marginal gain.

If you’re going to re-use, use glass, where possible. If you’re not, aluminium is still the better choice.

We should have higher deposits on cans and bottles. Here, it’s been pegged at 5 cents since the 90s - it should be more like 25 cents now for cans, or a dollar for glass bottles.

It goes to show how little they actually care about capitalism. If farmland is more productive (makes more money) producing solar, then capitalism would say turn it into solar.

They’re literally stealing money from the farmers.

Australian slang.

And then you have Terry Pratchett who gave us Mister Teatime.