You know what? A young Fassbender would have been a great Feyd-Rautha.

I mean, McAvoy was the God Emperor…

Oh, Canada!

I can’t catch quite the drift what x86/x64 chips are good for anymore, other than gaming, nostalgia and spec boasting.

Probably two things:

• Cost- and power-no-object performance, which isn’t necessarily a positive as it encourages bad behaviour.
• The platform is much more open, courtesy of some quirks of how IBM spec’ed BIOS back before the dawn of time. Yes, you can get ARM and RISC-V licenses (openPOWER is kind of a non-entity these days) and design your own SBC, but every single ARM and RISC-V machine boots differently, while x86 and amd64 have a standard boot process.

All those fancy “CoPilot ready” Qualcomm machines? They’re following the same path as ARM-based smartphones have, where every single machine is bespoke and you’re looking for specific boot images on whatever the equivalent of xda-developers is, or (and this is more likely) just scrapping them when they’re used up, which will probably happen a lot faster, given Qualcomm’s history with support.

I’d love to see a replacement for x86/amd64 that isn’t a power suck, but has an open interface to BIOS.

The Econoline (and maybe the Transit) seems to be the vehicle of choice for people who actually work.

No, it’s because enforcement is a joke, not licensing.

One of the things that’s hard for a European to understand is how shoddy and capricious law enforcement in North America can be. You know those lovely conditional speed limits that Germany has? No way that works in North America because the police won’t do anything except sit in their interceptors on the last two days of they month doing speed traps.

Swerve, fail to signal, brake-check, basically drive like you’re Bumblebee in Michael Bay’s Transformers 2, that’s fine. Just stay below the speed limit on the last two days of the month.

Aren’t most trucks equipped with interlocks that prevent travelling at speed when the bed isn’t fully lowered?

“Liberal” doesn’t mean what many people think it means.

It doesn’t mean “leftist” or “progressive” or “humane”. There might be some overlap, but these are not the same things, despite conservatives trying to define them as such.

Yes it is.

You might not wish it to be, but fact-checking absolutely does amplify fake news, especially if you give details.

A simple “this story is bullshit” is all that’s needed

And now you, the mainstream media, are amplifying it and giving it oxygen.

It’s like y’all never learned the old Usenet adage: “don’t feed (quote) the trolls”.

macOS seems to handle this pretty well, honestly. About the only issue I have is XQuartz and even it’s pretty good.

What’s the issue you’re seeing?

“Beaver Fever” is the occasional Canadianism I’ve heard, although its specifically for giardiasis.

FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE!

Wow, that’s a high-wattage discount on the Intel i9.

There’s a few things going on, here

• A lot of leaders are using layoffs as a flex on workers that got raises post-2020. There’s a lot of “they need to know their place” language in boardrooms, and not just in this industry.
• I’m assuming this gets them out of paying company-performance-based bonuses, as well as PTO and leave for people who were looking forward to a post-crunch break.
• AI. Executives, especially in creative fields, are salivating over the kinds of headcount reductions AI can provide.
• There are some relatively forward-thinking leaders who are looking at the economic landscape and figuring they need to conserve cash. Not say that’s the case here, but it’s a reason that some companies that aren’t run by utter assholes are citing.

As someone who’s been a Bungie fan since Pathways into Darkness (yeah, I’m that old) this makes me sad in a way that only the sale to Microsoft had managed.

Yes.

They got significantly worse after they were acquired in 2016, and they’re effectively another dropshipper, albeit with a better search function.

• OpenLook
• OpenMotif
• OpenTransport on MacOS
• SCO OpenServer
• HP OpenMail
• HP OpenView

You couldn’t throw a ball without hitting something branded as “Open” in that era.

Stable means different things in different contexts.

Debian being stable is like RHEL being stable. You’re not jury talking about “doesn’t crash”, you’re talking about APIS, behaviours, features and such being assured not to change.

That’s not necessarily a good thing for a general purpose desktop, but for an enterprise workstation or server, yes.

So it’s not so much that Debian would replace Fedora, it’s the Debian would replace RHEL or CentOS. For a Fedora equivalent, there’s Ubuntu and the like.

Debian Stable.

It’s always the answer to "what distro do I want to use when I care about stability and support-ability.

I’m going to say Win8 & 8.1.

Say what you will about the UI, they did great work on the underlying kernel, file system and APIs. If they’d continued to refine it, it’d be damn near perfect.

They really started to lose the plot with 10; it kept a lot of what made 8 good (and steals a lot of goodwill from 8) but you can see the adware and telemetry start to creep in.

The next best I’d have to give to Vista, which also did some much needed revitalization, only to see 7 get the glory because Microsoft flubbed the hardware requirements and vendors were sloppy with drivers.

My favourite is NT3.5: full microkernel, no GDI in kernel space, no printer drivers in the kernel, less registry issues. We’d have skipped a lot of pain from the 90s and 2000s had Microsoft not went backwards with 9x and NT4.

NT 3.5 was the last version I’d consider “good” without reservation.