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Right, but it's a minor annoyance, get rid of it with:

    sudo apt-get remove --purge unattended-upgrades

(doesn't trigger removal of anything else, and you'll enjoy 420kb of additional disk space).

OTOH the real issue with Ubuntu is snap(d). Snap packages definitely do auto-update. You may want to uninstall the whole snap system - it's (still?) perfectly possible, if a little bit convoluted, due to some infamous snaps like firefox, thunderbird, chromium, or eg. certbot on servers

Or just use Debian or any snap-free fork for the matter.

Edit: fixed

Microsoft had to move their local headquarters to Munich to have their municipality revert the change...

Now, if two or more municipalities managed to migrate to Linux at the same time...

I'm pretty sure you can do the same with Windows apps in Linux, since you can basically do the same with VirtualBox seamless mode too. It only requires installing the "guest additions" drivers - there's no container involved. The only major issues I see there are precisely with alt-tab - you cycle through your host windows, then suddenly ALL guest ones (and you're stuck in the guest until you press right Ctrl) - why is it so difficult to make alt-tab flow inside and outside the VM - at least in seamless mode?

> Wildly ironic that an EU company doesn't ship to the EU.

Switzerland is not part of the EU in this timeline... But their rant sounds very much like an excuse, the WEEE is in effect at least since 2021:

"All EU Member States are required to adopt the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive 2012/19/EU, which sets rules for the collection, treatment, and recycling of electronic waste. However, some countries were granted an extension until August 2021 to meet the collection targets due to infrastructure limitations, including Bulgaria, Czechia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, and Slovakia" - courtesy Google AI overview

It seems things are improving for Christians in Indonesia in 2025 - or is the data missing?

https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/

> it oversaturate reds out of the box on Linux, which I corrected using hyprshade

Another option would be Redshift, which has a nice widget (Redshift Control plasmoid) for KDE Plasma. It doesn't affect grabbed screenshots or stuff like simplescreenrecorder, BTW

This. Where are "Linux evangelists" in 2025? GNU/Linux as a whole has never been in better shape to catch users fleeing from Windows, it surely looks like a much easier task than it was 15 years ago (even despite UEFI's additional complexity burden).

Spot on the +17% in lenovo shipments, but shouldn't we also care about the huge number of computers they're replacing - just because they're incapable of running Windows 11?

This dodgy GenAI calculator is funny... You can only add, multiply and divide. No subtractions allowed!

I was somewhat suspicious that a probe could perform such a feat, but the article mentioned Avi Loeb, an award winning Harvard scientist [1], the author of the proposal, even went as far as computing required trajectory, ignition etc. so I assumed he had all the necessary data, and it was possible.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Loeb

I don't think considering his proposal might have damaged NASA's reputation. I also don't think the interstellar object is an alien probe, I just was excited we got a chance at looking at an interstellar object, that may be totally unlike Solar System objects, and possibly far older. Crap?

Aren't NASA considering the proposal to rendez-vous with 3I/ATLAS (aka C/2025 N1 ATLAS)??? [1]

1: https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-probe-could-intercept-inte...

I used a Neem based shampoo for a short period, but my wife complained that it had an atrocious smell. Guess Neem based oral hygiene would take this to the next level...

Who knows? Deprecate manual code writing someday? 'You're trying to commit some code, sir, but Microsoft Defender©, Git Edition™ has determined it wasn't generated by any of our tools, as reported by telemetry, so changes have been blocked for your own convenience, safety and ultimately, wellbeing. Starting september, 2029 we're only accepting commands from Microsoft products such as Visual Studio Autocode©, Cortana AGI Edition™ and Microsoft Office 2028 Clippy©. Please ask Microsoft James Bond® to take action and he'll solve the issue for you [Charges may apply]. We're also deprecating git push, pull, etc. since Microsoft Tools are so much more secure, optimized and convenient that nobody wants to use those ancient commands anymore.'

In other hands, I have seen Excel spreadsheet hundred-products pricelists become a freaking tangle of merged cells, multiple rows for products, spelling mistakes, multiple spaces everywhere, and price cells hand-formatted. And I had to export the contents to machine readable .csv...

IE6 forced us to do crazy stupid stuff, like <div>&nbsp;</div> - and don't even start talking about <!-- ie "preprocessor like directives" -->

See also: "Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515125

Based on Debian, but does not use apt. I'm impressed by the effort, but not fully convinced.

Maybe the famous Chronovisor by Father Ernetti?

https://archive.org/details/fatherernettisch0000kras

You're right, it was probably summer 1987.

My experience mirrors yours, I got my first Amiga 500 in 1986, and besides gaming, it was my home programming rig until 1994. I was studying informatics and while everybody was stuck on monochrome 640Kb MS-DOS equipped PS/2 programming a few hundred lines of Turbo Pascal at most, I had the joy of venturing into a modern OS with multitasking, GUI, a complex file system, writing stuff in AmigaBASIC, compiling my first programs with AC-Basic. Then I started learning C and Intuition, and built several GUI programs. I finally spent a couple years writing like, 300K SLOC of Motorola 68000 assembly, which resulted in a basic, but very fast text editor, and two fractal generators capable of almost matching the performance of FractInt on a PC. My knowledge of C and GUIs finally landed me my very first job as junior developer in august 1994, thanks to my Amiga! Literally a dream come true in Italy. My very first paycheck was spent buying an A4000, but by then I realized the Amiga had lost, and sadly returned it to the seller in exchange for an ugly stupid Pentium PC with Microsoft Windows 3.1, which had far superior graphics, sound, memory, disk and computing power, though it was soulless. The Commodore Amiga OTOH will always have a little place in my heart.

This thread is looking more and more as if it were written by Douglas Adams.

> This is an unfortunate piece of propaganda popularized by foes of the Church

As is/was at least in part, with the Inquisition's tools:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_maiden

BTW beware of snoozing or coughing while you're holding yourself.

This is hat speech and should be prosecuted! Only tinfoil hats are allowed here.

Google Pixel 4 or 5 was (and still is!!!) peak Android, it seems. It's becoming more and more difficult to get your hands on a refurbished one, though.

The only other brand still producing reasonably sized phones is Samsung - but modern Samsung phones are drowning in bloatware, and rooting them is unnecessarily complicated.

Or replace bone with glass, ending up like those famous crystal skulls from Mexico. But algae might then bloom and grow in uncontrolled fashion. You'd need plancton then, and maybe krill or even fish too - enter skull aquariums.

Perhaps we have unrealistic expectations. There may be just no definitive solution for space radiation - only limited mitigation.

And yet Mars is the next logical step - not the Moon. The Moon's total lack of atmosphere, lower gravity and extremely long day, coupled with its pesky regolith make it an environment far harsher than Mars IMHO. Worried about the cold on Mars? Think again - lunar night is equally cold, and it lasts two weeks. During that period, human survival depends on two weeks of continuous heating power.

A night out watching some meteor shower in August? Think again - by staying outside on the Moon, you're taking a gamble with meteorites, and it's not just "at night" - it's all the time.

https://mooncampchallenge.org/meteors-on-the-moon-sunny-with...

You forgot a fourth LLM will be the one using the site.

Oops, you're right. I forgot stuff like `MOVE.L #0,Dn` is restricted to data registers. So this must be the way to go, every time a NULL pointer is needed...

I miss the assembly. It was so clear and logical, like great engineering should always be. You could browse through it and comprehend at a glance what was happening. By contrast x86 assembly looks like pure rubbish, with stuff that most of the time looks like clever hacks coming from a bad night's sleep, like subtracting a register from itself to get zero... c'mon!

Edit: as others have noted, the HTTP referer is not really useful most of the time - if at all (though legitimate, known good referrers may exist).

So what's left is 1) filing a DMCA request with their registrar and 2) hosting provider, 3) checking offending inbound links and using Google’s Disavow Links tool. And if they're plagiarizing some contents, also 4) asking Google to remove infringing pages from their index. I had to do the latter a few years ago.