Their estimate is that ten percent of the increase in pedestrian deaths are due to the size of trucks.

I drive a little more than that a month and tbh I’d pay $20 to not have to worry about the calculus of what distance and time would save me an acceptable amount of money with minimal inconvenience.

I can’t speak for you or your budget, but worrying less was worth it for me.

No one is doing what you’re describing. If you would like to verify that for yourself there’s a ton of well documented back and forth on various platforms that indicates a complex and long running effort.

the core of Wayland development, including those directing volunteer work have historically famously been people in the employ of some company directly tied to linux in some way.

There are many, many people contributing to get screensavers working on Wayland and it’s been an uphill battle for at least one decade I’m personally extensively aware of (but according to the discussions it goes all the way back) because it doesn’t matter if you write something that works, the person who maintains whatever moving target of a protocol or api or framework will just drop the part you need after arguing with you for a month that you shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing.

Even if you cleverly hook into a some part that’s too deeply embedded in the Wayland monolith and too widely used by everything else to simply grind off, there’s no standard complement of Wayland components to design for and every major distribution of Wayland bits has enough tiny differences that by the time you’ve convinced, cajoled and wooed the first fiefdom into letting its users do something they’ve expected for forty years you gotta turn your attention to the next one who, rather than seeing the fragile peace you and your former enemy have struck over battle scarred handshakes and leading with diplomacy has barred the gates, manned the towers and released crocodiles into the moat. “You may have deployed the snakelike perfidy needed to get those guys to accept screensavers, but we will never accept your terms!”

Look at screenshots for a phenomenal example of how this goes down. If you have a program that takes a screenshot you don’t want to go fishing around for some indication of what particular method of waylandly accessing a frame buffer is installed and set up on the system or include a new dependency for your at one time simple seeming program, yet those are your options and when the ding dongs at gnome broke it they condescended to the users that they shouldn’t be taking screen shots!

And now I bet you’ll be in here saying “well, they’re right, users shouldn’t be able to take screen shots it’s too dangerous!”

To be happy. The canvas can be more than a blank slate waiting to be transformed into beloved good screen or hated bad screen. Back on x11 the screensaver can also be the locker, so if you need to know it’s not a piece of crap you can pick a locker that works good (like xscreensaver).

People have been complaining that xscreensaver doesn’t work in Wayland for a decade that I’m aware of, the answer has always been “you don’t need that”. Its not that people don’t want it, its that Wayland devs have actively resisted it.

It’s normal wear and tear, it’s in those particular spots because you wear glasses.

The cushions or pads are a wear part and are user replaceable.

lol “The corporate overlords of Wayland don’t owe you feature parity, snowflake and that’s a good thing” is a hell of a take.

Welcome to using Wayland, where no one cares what you want and it’s out of scope and actually you’re out of line for wanting it, get with the times!

You can graft xscreensaver in but the extent to which it will work is wholly dependent on your environment. Wayland provides the protocols, not implementations, so you may be running something that surfaces hooks for making xscreensaver work and you may not.

Lest this just be about showing pretty pictures, there have been numerous times when some desktop environment has decided to staple the pretty pictures part of xscreensaver on to its own locker (most famously to get matching window decorations when the computer asks for a password) and ended up with very funny bugs (most famously the “smash keyboard to bypass lock”).

If you’re doing campaigns or the “serious” multiplayer I think vcmi is still a non starter.

It was a couple of years ago at least. Of course hota has dropped two new towns since then so that may have changed…

Thinkin’ bout those vibes

In the future rather than ripping off glued stuff, alcohol and (if you’re very, very careful and understand what you’re doing) acetone can be used to break down glues. A product called “ca release agent” makes cyanoacrylate glues (superglues) come off.

Heat will also loosen glue that’s thick and rubbery and accelerate the chemical reactions above. Be careful and use ventilation.

You’d have to pull out a lot of stuff to make a system that wouldn’t run on x86 64.

I think what you’ve done is cool and I was not trying to denigrate or minimize your work.

My intent was to help someone who seems like they don’t have 25 years of newsgroup discussion about what constitutes a distribution and why under their belt understand why it was perfectly reasonable and defensible to get all “woah there buddy” about it.

My Regarding the Kidnapping of My Husband article is raising a lot of questions answered by my article.

Keep reading.

Oswald’s branch of the fair play for Cuba committee had only one member, him. Some of his leaflets were stamped with the offices of a cia asset. His defection to the ussr raised flags by the people processing his entrance but their concern was overruled.

When the story of the loner, directed by outside forces and manipulated into action, is referenced in media they’re using our understanding of Oswald as a baseline to tell that story.

Go listen to the blowback episode about Oswald. It’s one of their Cuba ones.

Debian and install the “unattended-upgrades” package.

You set it up with an email address to complain to when something fucks up and it just works.

E: no matter what you end up going with, some kind of reverse proxy or vpn will be helpful for when you need to remote in and fix something.

If you end up needing Remote Desktop and can do it, stay away from Wayland. The screen sharing situation there is confusing and annoying for seasoned users, let alone in a tech support situation.

What might be a better bet is either a windows (robust screen sharing setup) or mac (simpler interface and reliability) computer. You’re gonna be on the other end of it, so make sure to pick what you know the most deeply when it comes to remote support.

E2: another note in the vein of hated non linux oses: Those might be good because other people in the users life may be familiar with them and it won’t be such a pain when they wanna open a file or something.

It’s messaggio!

Everyone, messaggio has come to see us!

Yeah you gotta specifically prompt for that in great detail though.

The only consistent way I’ve gotten ai disagreement is as part of an agent or harness or with some moe models.

I got u.

You wrote:

I don’t know… did he achieve anything lasting? Are we better off? Is he? He tried something, it didn’t work. I’m not convinced he did it out of the goodness of his heart amd I’m fairly certain he did not envision a life sucking off the Kremlin just to remain safe. Don’t get me wrong, this could and should have crippled our trust in all governments… but it didn’t.

The problem is that you don’t know what you’re talking about and are a homophobic liberal.

I don’t mean that as a set of insults. It’s easy to see yourself through your own eyes and hard to see yourself through the eyes of others.

Snowdens leaks had direct results that have shaped the law, media and our understanding of government. They have been extensively reported on, written about outside of the press, used as a framework for other leaks & revelations and ensured that frameworks for safely revealing damaging information existed in the years to come.

So just in the first sentence you lose everyone millennial or older, they know you’re wrong because they saw it firsthand.

Then you go on to say that he didn’t leak out of the goodness of his heart and was “sucking off the kremlin”. There’s a human development hurdle that has to do with recognizing others act for their own reasons and their actions have consequences. I can’t remember the name of it but you’re writing literal baby brained stuff that assumes your reader will look at real events that actually happened in the world with the same level of seriousness and understanding as a Star Wars movie or bioware game. It’s all capped off with using fellatio as a pejorative in the context of a man.

Idk if it’s just latent or you consciously hate gay people. That’s on you to figure out.

You cap it all off by saying snowdens leaks should have crippled our trust in all governments, but Snowden didn’t leak something about all governments, he leaked extensive proof that the US government was illegally spying.

Again, you’re losing everyone who saw it happen and most of the people who know anything about it.

Taken as a whole a reader can’t help but either think “this person doesn’t know what they’re talking about and is a homophobic liberal” or “this person is a fed”. The second comes from the realization most people have that someone saying what you’re saying credulously might be doing it on purpose to shape discussion or gauge acceptance.

It’s 4:02 utc, do you know what your smart fridge is up to?

Business cards with your website on em the looooong way