That’s what pacman -Syyu is for. The occasional life support failure and forced bug hunting is part of the experience.

“It never happened before, therefore it will never be.”

That’s what people keep saying. And then shit happens, because it always does.

I see. I mean, there’s always a way how you decide what you want to buy without any hard, arduous research.

Does the same happen in ONLYOFFICE or Collabora? The documents I sometimes interact with might be too “basic” to notice problems. The worst issue I had was LibreOffice Draw freaking out over a PDF, which arguably it wasn’t made for anyway.

Sucks if they still keep protecting their monopoly through software / document manipulation.

Never had the opportunity to use or see one since they don’t cover the European market. Pop!_OS was fine though when I used it, it’s unfortunate you had such problems.

Luckily there are a lot of other vendors as well. Star Labs, Ubuntushop, NovaCustom, even Lenovo and I think HP by now (although their laptops are almost always shit). So there are options.

The potential pain with setups is a reason I like to point people at vendors like Slimbook, Tuxedo Computers or System76. Avoids a lot of possible problems for those who can afford it.

there’s no good DAW on Linux

Now that’s not true though. Bitwig Studio and Reaper f.e. support all the common plugins APIs and are excellent professional DAWs. And then of course you also got Ardour if you prefer FOSS.

Things like Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects have no solid alternative to this day for Linux

I’m not perfectly familiar with Adobe products, but I’m very positive that DaVinci Resolve, Lightworks (literally used by Hollywood), Blender and Natron offer all the functionality those two do. And most likely with less crashes, as far as I heard about Premiere Pro. 🙃

Office uses proprietary file format constraints to lock down their ecosystem.

Didn’t hear about issues with Office Suites in more than a decade. Microsoft famously manipulated their docs to hamper third-party apps in implementing docx support, that’s quite a time ago though.

Unreal Engine, lots games, my audio interface, drivers for obscure small devices I need? I just don’t know and I have to dedicate time to researching all of it.

Yeah, hardware is always a thing especially during a switch. Once you made it of course you can pick new gear that’s known to be supported on Linux by their company. At least with Unreal Engine it’s known to work, and Games by now basically always do except for those with the most vile Anti-Cheat.

I bought a notebook and will try to go CachyOS x KDE Plasma on that

May I suggest to use a more general-use, Ubuntu-based distro? Those often offer way better hardware support for more devices out of the box. That’s one reason they’re called bloated, but damn is it comfy sometimes.

I always realize how bad this is when I go to the hardware store. Other than any other place I go to, it got a HUGE parking lot in front that’s just an asphalt wasteland with no tree in sight. The increased heat is immediately noticeable.

Given fascism currently focuses on trans and black/non-white people and actively tries to separare them from the community: Yes. Yes it did.

There’s also an additional middleground between them, Slowroll. Still a rolling distro but slower with feature updates for additional stability.

Leap tends to be rather outdated as it keeps binary-compatibility to SLES. Of course makes it as stable as possible, but also more often than not uncomfortably lacking behind.

To be fair, OpenSuse is an umbrella of multiple distros other than Debian and Arch. There are

• Leap (Stable, binary-compatible to SLES)
• Tumbleweed (Rolling)
• Slowroll (Rolling but slower, duh)
• Aeon (Immutable w/ Gnome)
• Kalpa (Immutable w/ KDE)
• Factory (unstable)
• MicroOS (Immutable for Server)
• Leap Micro (Immutable, binary-compatible to SLES)

And then of course the whole Enterprise stuff around SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server). There’s definitely a need to specify what “OpenSuse” actually means in any given context. 😅

I agree though, it’s god damn great. The bootable btrfs snapshots that are set up by default in particular.

Would’ve been nice for them, wouldn’t it? Given they are also the authority for who gets those god damm keys.

Always the same with the corposcum.

We can also solve the risk of Kessler syndrome. Send catgirls / -boys to space, they’ll push every object out of orbit.

To be clear, nuclear isn’t inherently bad. Indeed it will most likely be very important to massively reduce CO² emissions quickly and cover bigger chunks of the base-load of our energy infrastructures. However to argue that nuclear could be cheaper or even a replacement for renewables is just completely and utterly wrong. Neither can it be less expensive in any universe, nor is it able to replace renewables since nuclear reactors are very slow regulators (indeed the slowest - they’re best at delivering a lot of power constantly). Meanwhile solar can literally be simply switched off, and “rotating” renewables be turned into or out of wind / water flow / whatever else.

To quote some studies, this one from the Deutsche Bank has the following to say:

For nuclear power plants, different statements on the LCOE can be found in the existing literature. The U.S. investment bank Lazard estimates it at about 14 to 21 US cents per kWh for new nuclear power plants (in the US; for comparison, onshore wind power: 2.4 to 7.5 US cents per kWh). The cost of treating radioactive waste is explicitly not included here. In its latest Word Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency (IEA) put the LCOE for nuclear power plants in 2030 at 10 US cents per kWh in the US, 12 US cents per kWh in the EU, and 6.5 US cents per kWh in China. Wind and solar power are cheaper in all three countries/regions. For the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant that is under construction in the UK, the operator has agreed a guaranteed power purchase price of 10.7 pence per kWh. The LCOE of investments in extending the operating lives of existing nuclear power plants is significantly lower than that for new nuclear power plants. According to an IEA study from 2020, they ranged from less than 3 to less than 5 US cents per kWh.

Meanwhile the World Nuclear Report focuses on the LCOE which might be better suited for comparison (and even that says nuclear is 2 to 3 times more expensive) and points out massive delays and problems with nuclear reactor projects.

All of this doesn’t include the dependency problems (only very few countries can produce refined uranium rods), and even specifically excludes the long-term costs. And “It’s cheaper if you remove lots of the regulation on the most powerful and dangerous technology humanity ever developed” is probably the worst take one can have. Just as a reminder, the very reason for the almost total blackout on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain & Portugal) recently was due to miscommunication and a lack of proper regulation. It wasn’t the renewables (the power stations that started the cascade were mostly fossils, and the energy companies didn’t care enough to keep sufficient reserves that day), no matter how much right-wing media wants you to believe that. Enormous, continental grids would become unstable if we build it upon badly regulated nuclear reactors.

Still far away from commercial viability though, nothing we can count on right now.

Personally I see this rift in the trans community rather often (although not as much right now anymore, there isn’t much room for controversial arguments when being threatened from ‘outside’). On one hand the absolute majority will tell you that they “wished to be born in the right body”. On the other hand many dislike or even reject science into how being trans happens (like this study) out of the very reasonable fear that it will be used to, again, pathologize our existence or outright eradicate us. I’ve heard similar hard questions and controversial discussions from other communities over the years as well. They usually somewhat reach academic circles at best but are never really discussed in public.

In the end it boils down to what the ulterior motive behind the science or technology is; care for- or eradication of humans (or their natural expression). And of course where we out the line between the definition of diversity and illness, something society has a really bad track record for.

Hate to break it to you, but nuclear power isn’t cheap, that crown goes to the renewables (unfortunately even fossils are cheaper than nuclear). Arguably rather reliable and ‘acceptably’ clean though (if used in good locations with sufficient cold water and with modern technology & proper recycling concept).

Edit: After looking up the most current studies regarding nuclear power I found out that by now fossils are indeed more expensive than nuclear (although nuclear usually gets calculated without the costs of permanent waste storage, so… who knows). So disregard what I said about that. 🙃

Your argumentation doesn’t make much sense; indeed your last sentence even reinforces my argument that, hopefully, the process is as clean as possible. Also don’t you think you’re a little bit quick in assessing my priorities based on a single comment? 😉

I think 3D printing, as many things, is a net positive if used responsibly. It’s so easy to repair or upycle stuff with it. I’m also really interested in that pure PHA filament (which is actually compostable, unlike PLA), haven’t gotten around to trying it. Of course also using PETG; got two huge bins for PLA and PETG to collect and send it to Recyclingfabrik (getting cheaper rPLA & rPETG in their shop in return). It’s awesome how easy it is with 3D printing to have a full recyling circle. I think awareness for both environmental impact as well as basic safety concerns are really falling short in the community though. The amount of people sanding their prints without any particle extraction system, printing ABS and stuff without air filtration or even work with resin without proper respirator is concerning. And so many people just clean their sanded pieces under water, unaware of the consequences (it’s impossible for huge filtration plants to fully filter them out). On the other side it isn’t too hard for any 3D printing hobbyist to run their dirtwater through something like a coffee filter.

So yeah, I like 3D printing and the environment and am optimistic we can have a cake and eat it too. 🥧

[…] Polymaker’s HT-PLA-GF, a glass fiber high temp PLA that can be annealed in boiling water without deformation to withstand temps like 150º.

That sounds like a microplastic water risk. I hope Polymaker did at least give a little shit about the environmental aspect and made sure the material doesn’t leak into the water during the process. Probably still advisable to pour the waste water through a filter afterwards, just like after sanding & cleaning.

More rare than an i5-8600 and probably becomes rather rare as time moves on.

I’d rather have awesome music from healthy artists than legendary music from suffering artists.

Damn, now I have to think about Chester… ;__;