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It's a real KDE Plasma desktop too, not some joke that is just there to check a box!

They send everything to archive.org and the data is eventually included in the Wayback Machine.

ArchiveTeam (https://wiki.archiveteam.org/) fairly routinely makes archival blitzes on dying forums. If there's any forewarning of such on a forum you frequent, let them know.

In my case I tried to work on Windows with some ThinkPad 5ish years ago when I got annoyed of unrealiable docking behaviour on Linux. It turned out it was flaky hardware of firmware on the Lenovo dock and it didn't work appreciably better on Windows.

I went through the list of open source licences in my VW ID and was pleasantly surprised that bash-completion is included. So when I gain shell in my car, I should be able to use tab completion! These lists are often quite interesting.

Seconded. 1.44 megabytes is not that much, DSL was very impressive on that storage budget. I wonder how small a Linux system is possible these days, even without any GUI functionality.

Intel connection was not the sole reason for Nokia's demise in phones, but it contributed on the failure of their effort to recover from the tailspin. Symbian their old mobile platform was clearly due to be replaced and they had a pretty viable in-house Linux platform, Maemo, that already shipped with N900 in 2009. Instead of iterating on that, they decided to "join forces" with Intel and merged Maemo with Intel MobLin to create MeeGo. They wasted at least a year on that and not with a lot to show for it as the Intel chips they planned for never materialized.

Obviously it was going to be very difficult to compete as a third platform with the behemoths iOS and Android become during those years. At least the MeeGo and Windows Phone cards were not the winning ones.

I would imagine OpenTTD also has a number of similar "rule tweaks". The OpenTTD engine AFAIK started as a direct reimplementation, but I think that too has evolved quite a bit.

OpenRA – which is open source reimplementation of Red Alert, Dune 2000 and C&C Tiberian Dawn - has solved this by offering to fetch the shareware game and extracting the assets from there. Fully libre distributable assets would offer even better experience, but this is one pretty neat way to handle the seamless start.

Is that true though? I think a bit part of the algorithm evolution is to combat undesirable forms of SEO. I would rolling back the algorithm to some older generation would make the results quite spammy.

https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/ here's another one that's more integrated

That's right, though deduplication feature is not the way to do it. The VM template would be a zvol, which is a block device backed by the lower levels of ZFS, and it would be cloned to a new zvol for each VM. Alternatively, if image files were used, the image file could be a reflinked copy. In both cases, new data would be stored only when changes accumulate.

Compare this to the deduplication approach: the filesystem would need to keep tabs on the data that's already on disk, identify the case where the same data is being written and then make that a reference to the existing data instead. Very inefficient if on application level you already know that it is just a copy being made.

In both of these cases, you could say that the data ends up being deduplicated. But the second approach is what the deduplication feature does. The first one is "just" copy-on-write.

Certainly it makes sense to not have deep copies of VM base images, but the deduplication is not the right way to do it in ZFS. Instead, you can clone the base image and before changes it will take almost no space at all. This is thanks to the copy-on-write nature of ZFS.

ZFS deduplication instead tries to find existing copies of data that is being written to the volume. For some use cases it could make a lot of sense (container image storage maybe?), but it's very inefficient if you already know some datasets to be clones of the others, at least initially.

And certainly it would require active cooling. TV with audible fans could be a hard sell!

Yes, yes it is. My understanding is that it used to be spoken in a way closer to the written form, but it has drifted. And then there are all the loan words that retain at least some of their original pronunciation.

Here's a fun clip about it, focusing on British place names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNzqgU7na4

Element X is a totally new implementation, done in Rust. It's fast and nice but for now some features are missing compared to the old one.

Thank you for the correction.

You double the voltage and halve the resistance. With longer cables you can invest more in more expensive stuff at the ends to deal with the high voltage.

With Spotify subcription hikes, one could buy a lot of music. Does a decent MP3 or FLAC store exists nowadays? For some specific albums it's nice to have the physical object of a CD, but in general I'd rather not buy the plastic discs just to rip and store indefinitely.

The electric motor is at least four times more economical in converting the stored energy into motion, so make it four battery swaps. Still bad for many uses, but not quite 16-fold.

While that's technically correct (the best kind of correct!), I doubt a lot of natgas heatpumps are being installed in homes at the moment.

I suppose the real economics are going to be better, as you probably need to make gas more expensive by carbon trade or something in order to decarbonise. And electrical power should be very cheap.

Are heat pumps economical heating sources in Germany? Power there seems very expensive and natgas cheap. No wonder if there's pushback if you have to do expensive renovation and you don't even end up with lower operational expenses.

For some fringe use cases one could drop a readily installed (and defragmented!) OS image to the tape and boot it up. I've only had some floppy tape drives and parallel-port attached Ditto. They didn't support random access, or at least I never had a driver that could do that.

Even if we decided to stop all these and curtail datacenter power usage in other ways, decarbonising is certainly going to require increased electricity generation. Most oil and gas usage will be replaced with electrical alternatives. As the oil and gas burning applications are mostly quite inefficient, luckily we don't need to do 1:1 replacement of the chemical energy of fossil fuels. Still it seems unavoidable that in the future there will be more electricity generation rather than less.

How long did it take? Seek times for tapes can be minutes, so fragmentation matters a great deal here.

Those are impressive numbers. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_commercial_batte...), NMC goes up to 205Wh/kg and NCA up to 220Wh/kg. It's the same ballpark as LCO, the original "Li-Ion" chemistry which seems to go up to 195Wh/kg.

The batteries shouldn't be taken apart without proper equipment and processes. Disconnecting them from the vehicle though is not that complicated. I think the decommissioned batteries are going to be sent to specialized facilities while the rest of the vehicles will go through the same recycling process as the ICE cars do now. Most of the battery material is going to recyclable and thus fairly valuable, so there's some economic incentive in there too.

Windows on ARM is a direct descendant of Windows RT, so I wouldn't say it has nothing to do with the latter. But it's a good to hear that the bootloader lock is no longer mandated.

In Windows RT (Win8 for Arm) times, the "Designed for Windows" label specification had a requirement for locked down UEFI firmware, that only booted Microsoft signed kernels. That made Surface RTs Windows-only. I wonder if this is still required, or can you boot Linux on these machines. I'm sure there's a hardware exploit possibility to make this a reality, but it's not going to be a mainstream thing to do.

And we did, half a century earlier!