Chevy Suburban. I volunteered to drive for a university course field trip and it’s what I got stuck with.

• Unresponsive fatass brick of a vehicle. I mean, come on, a minivan has more cargo space and the same passenger capacity without three light aircraft worth of inertia.
• Dashboard sucked. It took me a solid three minutes to find the button shifts. (I know these can be done well - Honda does them right - but the PRNDL was fucking laid out in a thin row at the side of the dashboard. Huh?)
• Overtaking damn near anything would redline the (very new, less than 10k miles) engine.

I understand the sentiment, but… HTML and some light CSS is just as fast and much more accessible. It just strikes me as something that defines itself in opposition to “thing everyone uses” for no good reason.

$0.26/hour is pretty good!

At least five years. Even if the company goes under tomorrow, it’ll be a while before the mainboard is truly obsolete. The main “consumable” would be the battery, which I can probably hack a replacement for if official parts are no longer available.

I’ve had mine (first generation 13" model) for over a year now. I’m very happy with it, and I intend to make it last me through university (3 years) and then some. I would consider it a good investment for me.

You forget that many people live in areas where passenger rail infrastructure is not economically (or practically) viable. I, for one, pity the grain truck that has to drive over an unpaved road.

Most of them, yes. The reddest stars (like Proxima Centauri) are too cool and dim to be visible to the naked eye, but if you go somewhere with no light pollution and let your eyes adjust you should be able to perceive some differences between stars.

Most of the more exotic colors (such as green) are caused by various optical tricks.

Physically speaking, all true stars are roughly one of these colors:

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• White
• Blue

The exact color of a star depends on its size/temperature. Red stars are the coolest, while blue stars are the hottest.

After seeing the various forms of black magic Nintendo devs have pulled off with what is essentially decade-old tablet hardware… yeah, fine by me.

In before one of them starts stripping or firewalling the phone-home code. What’s Unity gonna do? Valve hasn’t signed any contracts with them!

For the sake of your sanity, I hope there’s a resolution to this that doesn’t involve a rewrite.

I can’t decide if they’ll get away with this or if they’re committing corporate suicide.

unless it’s freely available data (like a Linux distro).

Tell that to my university. Got a nasty email because I… downloaded Fedora Silverblue 38 😭

I’m sure that any flagged snippets will be submitted to a human for final review. They definitely won’t just auto-ban-hammer innocent people because the AI misinterpreted something they said!

Sigh.

I mean, my time came around long after the age of hundred-page software manuals. But I’ve spent a good portion of my life knee-deep in man pages and Google searches, which kinda counts?

It’s blockchain garbage. Avoid.

Also, the only good creator on there is Mental Outlaw. And he’s also on YouTube for the foreseeable future, so…

I let FOSS apps collect crash reports and the like. Proprietary stuff though, no chance.

Consider ZRAM/compressed RAM swap, maybe?

This is why I can never get into microblogging/Twitter-type platforms. Character limits and one-click reposting mean that what little discourse you get is shallow, and ragebait is consistently pushed to the top.

I’m not going to say that Lemmy or (especially) Reddit completely avoid this, but you generally get much more insightful conversation and can opt-in to political communities.

There was a thread on [email protected] recently asking people for their unpopular political opinions, and it actually wasn’t a total shitshow!

Firefox and its derivatives. They’re the last free bastion preventing a Chromium monopoly on the browser market, which is hugely important - especially these days with Google’s push for Mv3.