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> From almost every other dimension Linux is inferior and therefore from an Overall perspective it is inferior.

That's just preposterous. Linux user friendliness has not been slow or fragmented, it has come really far just in the last five years. Windows on the other hand has gotten relatively worse since the 'high' periods of early NT kernel OSes.

> The most important dimensions for an operating system are usability and compatibility.

Incorrect. It is only "one" of the important dimensions, but to call it "the most" important one is at -at the very least- misguided and absurd.

> The most important dimensions for an operating system are usability and compatibility. Average users are like this while hard core masochist programmers are willing to spend years decoding an interface

Your inability to use many of the user friendly distros available (like Mint or Elementary) cannot be generalized to the wider public.

Do some research.

> I'm coming to the realisation that open source projects will always provide a lower quality than commercial ones

That's demonstrably wrong. Examples are so abundant and obvious that I'm not sure I need to mention any, but for the sake of argument. In software: Linux, Gimp, Firefox, VLC, Blender, OpenOffice, ... In hardware: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagleboard, UltiMaker, Adafruit products, Sparkfun Electronics products, etc...

This is possibly a perfect example of a faulty/unwarranted generalization.

Everyone has a little bias. It's not necessarily bad or wrong.

It’s so sad that a website that is supposedly advocating open source and freedom is infected with 11 trackers.

I have no idea what you mean or what your example is all about. You basically couldn't have given a worse analogy or example.

This kind of article is mostly clickbait at this point. There's a lot of "interest" in these kinds of topics and they attract a lot of attention on -funny enough- the same social media platforms.

I believe the main problem with those social media apps is not an issue of time, but of productivity and determination/will-power. Think of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, etc... These are not social networks exactly, but all contain elements from it. I've deleted my Facebook account about 6 years ago now and slowly got off all the other ones after. Now I only use RSS to follow websites I care about. At first I felt like I'm out of a lot of loops and circles of friends, but I later realized that it was all useless anyway, people who I care about and who cared about me still text or call me. I didn't need to know about every little random thing that happens in the world unless I specifically choose to know about it. It later felt really liberating. People were taking about who marked who safe and I just managed with a text message. People talk endlessly about how good/bad social media is and I'm totally out of the entire conversation. Still to this day I meet people who find it very weird that I'm not on Facebook, or if they are as well not on Facebook then probably because they have Reddit/Tiktok/etc.

I can't stress this enough, but I really felt like my productivity was fading away about 6 years ago, after quitting I find the energy to work on the most random stuff that take weeks of work, I don't get interrupted and my interest doesn't fade away from over exposure to random stuff (even if interesting). I've asked friends who felt the same way to try to delete Tiktok (and video games from their PCs) for a month to try to work on something and they all reported great results. Every single one said that they wouldn't have been able to do it if they didn't delete app X.

My point is this; it's not about time, it's about what you get exposed to. If you feel unproductive (compared to what you were before) or think "what could 10 minutes on Tiktok do", try deleting these apps one by one. The difficulty won't be the same for all people, but it'll be manageable for EVERYONE. It's not about being on your phone all the time, it's about being on your phone because you want to do something, not just for mindless scrolling.

(I intentionally did not mention tracking or privacy reasons from this because that's whole other beast of a topic.)

I love this quote from Stephen Fry:

> Jacking out of the matrix would cast one as a hero of the kind of dystopian film that proved popular in the 70s, Logan’s Run, Zardoz, Soylent Green, Fahrenheit 451 … on the run from The Corporation, with the foot soldiers of The System hard on your heels. We really are starting to live in that kind of movie, mutatis mutandis, so surely it’s time to join the Rebels, the Outliers, the Others who live beyond the Wall and read forbidden books, sing forbidden songs and think forbidden thoughts in defiance of The One.

https://www.stephenfry.com/2016/04/off-the-grid/

While I disagree with Apple's policies (and really hate their behavior as a company), there's nothing anticompetitive about this.

Vote with your money and don't buy an iPhone.

As Rand would put it:

> “Free competition enforced by law” is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

No it's not.

Yeah sure, like that's gonna make advertisers want to advertise more. Seems like reddit and twitter are competing in who can drive their company to the ground faster...

The correct tagline for this is 10x more susceptible to hacking.

Quick ps: gets stuck on "Entering world"

The title of this should be changed to match the article: "How an Unproven Alzheimer’s Drug Got Approved".

If you think government regulation of food and drugs is a good thing and decisions about drug approvals can never be politically motivated, think again.

While I appreciate the sentiment, I don't think PDF is the way, at least in the way you're currently doing it. PDF maybe supported by browsers, but they're not intended for it, it's secondary feature. Same for search engines. Same for mobile.

Most browsers have Print to PDF. If you want people to be able to download an immutable version of your content, then just have a simple static version of your page with a valid print css, better yet, leave everything default.

If you want to fight churn with PDF, just have a simple HTML website with a link to download a versioned PDF of your issue. Your website can be as simple as https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ or https://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com.

They already have the advantage, American military is stretched too thin because politicization think they're running an empire. The pentagon is a corrupt institute. They made triple-digit trillions in "accounting adjustments" over the years.

That's an empty argument. Criticizing American military and government doesn't mean you can't criticize others.

Israel uses "AI" controlled drones with no human contact to terrorize people in Gaza. Palestinians absolutely already manufacturer and deploy simple drones against Israeli military targets. Israeli terrorist army force (in a euphemistic doublespeak manner called defense force) does way more damage against civilians while Palestinians resist against an occupier.

We shouldn't allow anyone to do this, not just the police. Although it already happens, and the American military already does this internationally. Drone attacks flourished under Obama's administration basically, look up the incident around 2013 when US military drone fired at a wedding convoy in Yemen and killed 10+ people.

That's what I'm saying. The CDC says fully vaccinated people don't need to wear masks or keep physical distancing, yet you're not convinced https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vac....

> Finally, if I’m somewhere where talking loudly or yelling is required, it keeps the spittle under control. Watch any concert video up close….

Question: did you wear a mask before this whole thing?

> Vaccines aren’t perfect.

You can say that again!

I think assassinating ideas is similar to how assassinating characters works; the resolution of the matter is about 1% as important as creating the commotion. People who have had Covid and are fully vaccinated are _still_ wearing masks. When asked why they just don't know. If you tell them it's safe now to go out without a mask, then just don't buy it. I believe no matter who tells them, they won't listen until a few years. People are not sheep, but they really really like to be.

Thanks for the detailed response.

I personally don't mind the semi-daily tinkering with my config, but if even plugging in a USB might break things then it does sound petty unreliable.

> I can sort of tell you haven't really read up on one of these setups because you seem incredulous that running Windows inside Linux is somehow finicky.

Ouf. You have a great imagination, but I think you'd do better to put it into writing fiction or something like that. I asked you to provide details on your comment, didn't make any statements on whether it is indeed finicky or not, I run many Windows vms on linux but never with VFIO. Your snide remarks reflect nothing more than your lack of self-esteem.

Can you elaborate on the finickiness of it? What kind of "fixes" you needed to do, and how often really, and with a cause or just random with no precursors?

Have you thought to yourself that the Climate Change movement seems more and more like a religious movement?

https://medium.com/@hwater84/climate-change-and-the-ten-warn...

Thanks for the link! Didn't know about the background of it. I sort of suspect this though, it seemed to me that journalists who use a term like glitch are basically glancing over the details that they either can't or don't want to try to understand, which is a failure in both cases imo. I mean I somewhat accept it from a random TV presenter, but it's truly sad to see this from so called "technology" journalists, or even "Science’s senior correspondent in the United Kingdom, covering astronomy, physics, and energy stories as well as European policy."

To summarize, it's hypocrisy and cronyism.

I find the constant use of the term "glitch" in the title and the lack of actual details of what happened extremely infuriating.

Here's some actual details:

The problem:

> NASA has identified the possible cause of the payload computer problem that suspended Hubble Space Telescope science operations on June 13. The telescope itself and science instruments remain healthy and in a safe configuration.

The payload computer resides in the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling (SI C&DH) unit. It controls, coordinates, and monitors Hubble’s science instruments. When the payload computer halted, Hubble’s science instruments were automatically placed into a safe configuration. A series of multi-day tests, which included attempts to restart and reconfigure the computer and the backup computer, were not successful, but the information gathered from those activities has led the Hubble team to determine that the possible cause of the problem is in the Power Control Unit (PCU).

The PCU also resides on the SI C&DH unit. It ensures a steady voltage supply to the payload computer’s hardware. The PCU contains a power regulator that provides a constant five volts of electricity to the payload computer and its memory. A secondary protection circuit senses the voltage levels leaving the power regulator. If the voltage falls below or exceeds allowable levels, this secondary circuit tells the payload computer that it should cease operations. The team’s analysis suggests that either the voltage level from the regulator is outside of acceptable levels (thereby tripping the secondary protection circuit), or the secondary protection circuit has degraded over time and is stuck in this inhibit state.

Because no ground commands were able to reset the PCU, the Hubble team will be switching over to the backup side of the SI C&DH unit that contains the backup PCU. All testing of procedures for the switch and associated reviews have been completed, and NASA management has given approval to proceed. The switch will begin Thursday, July 15, and, if successful, it will take several days to completely return the observatory to normal science operations.

The team performed a similar switch in 2008, which allowed Hubble to continue normal science operations after a Command Unit/Science Data Formatter (CU/SDF) module, another part of the SI C&DH, failed. A servicing mission in 2009 then replaced the entire SI C&DH unit, including the faulty CU/SDF module, with the SI C&DH unit currently in use.

Launched in 1990, Hubble has been observing the universe for over 31 years. It has taken over 1.5 million observations of the universe, and over 18,000 scientific papers have been published with its data. It has contributed to some of the most significant discoveries of our cosmos, including the accelerating expansion of the universe, the evolution of galaxies over time, and the first atmospheric studies of planets beyond our solar system. Read more about some of Hubble’s greatest scientific discoveries.

And the fix:

> The switch included bringing online the backup Power Control Unit (PCU) and the backup Command Unit/Science Data Formatter (CU/SDF) on the other side of the Science Instrument and Command & Data Handling (SI C&DH) unit. The PCU distributes power to the SI C&DH components, and the CU/SDF sends and formats commands and data. In addition, other pieces of hardware onboard Hubble were switched to their alternate interfaces to connect to this backup side of the SI C&DH. Once these steps were completed, the backup payload computer on this same unit was turned on and loaded with flight software and brought up to normal operations mode.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/operations-underwa...

I think your interpretation is lacking at best. The title does not suggest that vaccinations are not working, but that we don't know if currently available Covid-19 vaccines work (or have acceptable side-effects) or not. This is an ongoing effort. This is not to advocate that people shouldn't get vaccinated (or should).

> For each COVID-19 vaccine authorized under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that vaccine recipients or their caregivers are provided with certain vaccine-specific EUA information to help make an informed decision about vaccination. This is accomplished by providing an EUA Fact Sheet for Recipients and Caregivers. The Fact Sheet is similar in purpose and content to vaccine information statements (VISs) for licensed vaccines but differs in that the EUA Fact Sheet is specific to each authorized COVID-19 vaccine, is developed by the manufacturer of the vaccine, and is authorized by the FDA. There is no VIS for COVID-19 vaccines authorized under an EUA. Instead, the FDA-issued EUA Fact Sheet for Recipients and Caregivers for each COVID-19 vaccine must be used.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/eua/index.html

Also, look at the ongoing trials on (for ex.) https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results

Sure, if you just read headlines, skip the content, and form an opinion, you'll be mislead depending on what bias you have. Just like any other title.

Why are you asking?

People already ask questions like "but why are my feelings less important than your ability to say what you want". If more people fall for this, I believe we will inevitably reach that point.

That's not what people who advocate for absolute free speech think. It is an aspect of our broader right to liberty: the right to take such actions as each of us judges proper, so long as we do not initiate force against others. Defamation laws protect are to protect people who feel have been subject to libel speech in a way that affects their reputation or careers for example.