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Fought over since before most "commodities" existed , and maybe most religions -at many scales from the world, to countries, to a sopt by the river bank, or the comfy chair in the living room - including by various human and non-human species.
Pursuit of economic and political power though control/acquisition of land just has so much glorious and colourful heritage; it's no mere pleb of a commodity .
Something most everyone could use just a little bit more of.

Not everyone could use more cars and tangerines.
cars and tangerines have a generally more competetive market of sustitutes.
Land doesn't really have substitues.

If i could build a house/farm out of tangerines without any land needed, i'd get your point,

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rtfarchwiki

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yeah in europe (obviosly it varies a lot cross-country and rural/urban) but lots of places with high safety standards , and high emissions taxes. Still lots of small cars around .
Mostly due to parking in big-dense-cities though probably.

US does come out badly on deaths per billion pax-km: 8 ish vs 3-5 for most euro countries

So on the face of it small cars dont sem to correlate - but these data look a bit hodge podge, so not sure to read too much into it without knowing the underlying sources.

Other factors like the "stroad" thing might be an issue.
And a lot of European municipalities give the elderly free public transport, and have ok bus service, so many doddery old coots have a viable option.

I remember that southpark episode about senior drivers, with the jaws music . . .
Maybe not as funny when you look at that US death rate. To quoe Father Maxi: "No god needs complex irony and subtle farcical twists that seem macabre to you and me, all that we can hope for is that god got his laughs . . ."

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Schroedinger's polecat

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skynet

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Yep, capitalism is at direct odds with competetive markets almost by definition.
"free" is the non-specific term tht they use rhetorically. "Competition" is the market feature that might theoretically benefit consumers in some circumstances - and they don't often include that word in their rhetoric.

It's always been about acquisition of market power, this is sort of opposite of a free market.
If any threat of consumer rights / anti-trust / labour rights or balancing of market power arises, their incentive is to acquire political power and influence to defend their power.

It was the same story in western Europe before industry and "capitalism", just the landed class monopolising land vs peasantry (and/or enslaved/indentured labour). Landowners monopolised all the votes and even when suffrage expanded it was usually top down. Until maybe 1789 when something else happened to the top.

Unfortunately I think many of the major progressive changes of the past (that benefit people in general rather than the elites - again in "the West") have mostly followed catastrophic events or political upheaval, or martyrdom.
Peasants revolts, black death, aftermath/stress of major wars, civil war, workers uprisings, race riots, 1929, ww2.

I guess the 1929 and all the FDR stuff and strengthened social policies in western Europe was all widely democratically backed (honourable mention to the banks' major incompetence , to hitler for being such a massive c*nt and a decent 50-or-so years of European imperial decline) .

So maybe there's some hope for the democratic or the MLK/Gandhi type approach - not that it worked out too well for those two individuals.

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I'd gladly remove every car from the roads that is not carrying a sofa, table or desk.

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OBGYNU/Linux

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"micro soft pp"

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Sandwich is built entirely out of sauce?

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"It just works"

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That's how you actually remove edge.
step 1: download bootable linux usb image . . .

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People need to stop being such noobs, getting software from repo.
It's crazy to trust precompiled software force fed to people by evil-big-foss corporations.
Real pros check every line for malware each time there's an update and compile from source.

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it's in a solid state

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D-pkg

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widdows 2000 was the pinnacle for me, beat XP until i wanted to go to 64 bit.

Apart from having 64-bit, XP was a step back; even if I don't count the fucking dog thing.
XP was a fair bit harder to de-bloat than win 2000 and they were hell-bent on forcing internet exploder on the world.

XP was also at a time when Linux was becoming pretty easily usable and mac osx was impressive too - I remember using those imac coloured egg things at university in 2000. They were good apart from the mouse, and ran MS office pretty well.
StarOffice was already better than MS-Word at dealing with .doc format across versions.
and ancient version of Wordperfect were miles better for WP anyway ("reveal codes").

windows XP was already down to gaming, adobe and CAD/other specialist apps, plus maybe MS Excel that just weren't as good or not available on linux.

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In rural Scotland (at least in Fife , Perth +Kinross) I noticed a lot of
60mph-40mph - 20mph - 40mph-60
sort of slow down buffer zone type things around villages.

Much better than 60 - 30-60 we normally have in England.
And noticeably quieter too.

I hope they carry on with that.
I think Wales did 20mph in all rural villages.

Fuck England.

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Is this the plot from "mongodb is webscale" . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

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Does it also handle key and mouse inputs to make sure they're interpretted by the right programme in the right context?

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I use "4cab".
They'll never guess that.

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I wonder about raspberry pi - it's the image you download that has the known user and password.
It might mean that you can't sell one with a pre-imaged, pre-installed sdcard unless you customised the image.

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https://superuser.com/questions/12943/how-do-i-replace-the-stupid-windows-xp-dog-assistance-search-with-the-classic-wi

/s

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I'm not sure i rate this particular article.
They seem to sort of hint at the importance of power and energy efficiency
But why did they then "ask about TDP" ? Surely they they need to know the actual input power(or energy) to achieve the benchmark, not TDP which is itself a wierd thing for chips that self regulate temperature by throttling.

I'm not inclined to pay attention to this journo.

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did they ever start actually doing anything useful?

between sharepoint and microflop dynamics-CRM, azure and windows (whatever the fuck version)
and mother-fucking oracle, I can often go days after booting up before I can do anything useful.

Sometimes I think the only people who can do any work are the procurement team and the only work they can do is issue MS purchase orders.

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I thought Disney was "nearly a requirement" . . . sounds to like those precious few who can manage without might have some useful information.
Typically this is what happens in a free competitive market, when a price goes up people look for substitutes.
And if they face constraints in moving to the substitute, they will benefit from help in loosening those constraints.

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some of them might even have these papery things with brothers grimm or hans christian andersen stories in them.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IAj7UxMqiU

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do google also provide all the data on clickthroughs thorough which the success of campaigns might be measured?
And i mean "Measured" by extremely dumb people whose best hope in life is probably to bullshit their way into becoming a director of sales and ma . . .

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"are you still watching?"

5,4,3,2,1 Auto-pause

"MONEY ME MONEY NOW.
ME A MONEY NEEDING A LOT NOW"

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Arch beat the wheat

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penguins aren't real

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yeah.
proprietary birds, open source birds - all fakers.

Even the command great awk is not real.
There's some pretty strong evidence that the command great awk did actually exist until version 1840 but after that a couple of crazy scots implanted a wyrm into the kernel to kill it off because they thought it was a windows executable.

Since then, nope, not real.

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Develop own software or support indepndent sw development however you can.

If you really need something, think about your personal dependencies and try to build some resilience / backups , one way or another.
Whatever your craft, a pathway towards ownership and control of tools and maintenance should be a traditional part of mastering the craft.
So that you can eventually do things like extend the toolset, or adapt tools to niche circumstances and advance things along.

If you don't have that pathway, then you might end up trapped as an apprentice or journeyperson and will continue to be exploited by those who control the things you depend on.
If there's no freedom and no way to develop competition in the supply chain, then you probably would benefit from - collective organisations such as trades-guilds, or professional associations or trade-unions to counter the power imbalance, and represent your needs - but they can also get captured/bribed so those probably need a bit of effective democracy / transparency/accountability or something. I'm not going to suggest govt regulation, becasuse that's super easy to capture and national-election democracy is a weak control, but you might get some progressive govts like some European ones that'd think about doing something suppoting foss projects, maybe.

It might not be easy, but you have to look for and support those types of features for the good of your industry.
Corps will eat their industry for a quick $, it's the workers, tradespeople and masters of the craft and some small businesses who care about the long term. And maybe any enlightened customers if you're lucky enough to have them.

As an example, for physical 3d cad, personally I don't like freecad much it's complex and not very intuitive; but it lets me do all the maths I want in python, with my own made up data structures / object model. So i'll use and support freecad 100% over all the other more user friendly CAD that i've seen - it really is the freedom, and not being so dependant.

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That's what the win XP search dog was for.
They'd send it out hunting for frogs so that they can boil them all.

Bill Gates first programme was a reverse frogger game, he'd get to drive the cars and score get points for squishing frogs.
I think it was called Grand Theft Amphibian or something. The dude just really hates frogs.

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Things like freetube seems to be basically a simple yt front-end.

I don't know what happens if a significant amount of yt users used freetube. but that probably won't happen.

I find it a lot more pleasant to use than yt.

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I don't do anything if it's not shiny and made by apple

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windows is simple, all configs are keys accesible via reddit

oo1 , (edited )

Sorry, that was my lame joke about the simlar sound of the windows essential tool "regedit".

My only surviving knowledge from when I used to be able to do things on windows was that it was always a bucket of shite until you "regedit" a bunch of things. These edits were arcane secrets known only to mystical internet guru's like some bloke called "Fred Vorck" and impossible to figure out by logic, reason or even through mundane hard work. I assumed that's what the lower panel in the OP is getting at.

But on reflection, I'd be sad if there's not a forum on reddit called "regedit" will all the advice on what registry keys to fix - so unintentionally it might not be the worst advice - apart from the word "simple".

edit: reddit isshit
https://www.reddit.com/r/regedit/

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I'd forgotten about "dog destroyer for windows XP"
That's how bad it used to be.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120722030506/http://www.vorck.com/windows/index.html

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install that rm -rf theme

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https://youtu.be/DSVD97i-1Sc?t=210

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kentish town

graffiti on top of the building.

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Is it that wierd little box thing that you have to take out of your smoke alarm to stop it beeping?

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.

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If I pray to you will I be able to get my printer to work?

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"stable" release of Arch?

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Yeah, screw em. I use mine to produce lots of stuff.
I try to avoid producing too much manure though.

I think lots of IT people have an extremely limited experience of what it is to produce something.
I mean if opening a ssh hole to the whole world to fuck with is an important part of what they consider "production" - well I'm not really into those types of websites.

‘Mamma Mia!’ Stage Star Sara Poyzer Replaced By AI On BBC Show To Recreate Voice Of Dying Person — Update (deadline.com)

The BBC has issued a statement that offers important context to Sara Poyzer’s viral social media posts. The British broadcaster said it is using AI technology in a “highly sensitive documentary” to represent the voice of a person who is nearing the end of their life....

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careful now.

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I use cloister by the way.
It's like arch but you reinstall it at least 10 times in a row before you get anywhere.

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