We already are performing our own unintentional form of geo-engineering with our relentless pumping of CO2 into the air. That said, not sure blocking the sun is our best plan right now for avoiding the worst of climate change. Instead of trying to have our cake and eat it too, we need to accelerate our focus on reducing carbon output, decarbonize electricity and transportation, and invest in massive amounts of energy production to the point where energy is so cheap we can use it to pull carbon from the air.
Agree on the last point, but the net zero strategy is a losing game. We can't reduce fast enough to avoid the multiplier effects (slowing heat exchanges in atmosphere and ocean currents, loss of polar reflectance, thawing of sea floor and boreal methane deposits, etc.).
The only way out at this point is fusion/fission and using excess power to decarbonize.
Population reductions in the developing world would help too, since that's where the majority of global carbon will be emitted over the next 50 years.
Working at Microsoft back in the early 00s I spent a lot of unfriendly hours with windbg. On one particular project we hunted for a terrible crash for months until it was uncovered that we were compiling against the single thread CRT when using threads extensively...whoops
fair point. I think I've just been burned too many times by dependabot looking to update single ts packages with single line changes. it's default configuration is overly aggresive
Dependabot doesn't try to guess what's in the changes. It can't really tell anyway. A trivial 1 line change may be either "this box is now 1px further to the right", or "a critical bug which will delete all your data tomorrow is fixed". It's up to dependabot to report any change available.
The security breaches be damned - the UI was terrible / constantly prompted me to store credit card info in LastPass and I was just not interested...but couldn't get it to stop this. deleted and moved to Dashlane.
I think a lot of the app currently in a phone make more sense on a heads up display. The main problem is the clumsyness of touching your glass to interact with it. And I think Meta neural wristband solves it.
This is amazing. Not interested in growing vampire teeth - but the ability to regrow teeth when lost - or get a new set of chompers without coffee stains sounds super cool :)
I love the land's end cliff walk starting from here: https://goo.gl/maps/oUNxNPBDhWFhKUeM7. Accessible by bus. You can extend it by going down the coast, through Golden Gate Park and then end up at Haight St for food and lots of interesting stores. Not sure if that's considered touristy.
I still like visiting Chinatown when I get back that way. When I was a kid, dad always took me to the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, and I still stop there every time. Haven't lived in the Bay Area for almost 10 years now, though.
Devil's advocate...how much do we really care about these different distros at this point. The world lives out of the browser. As long as I have chrome and VS Code I'm pretty good to go.
When your browser is shipped via a snap and is 2 versions out of date because the update mechanism sucks and has been failing silently for over a month, it makes a difference.
Firefox through snap has been the last straw for me as well. Not quite enough to ragequit on the spot, but next time I have to install a new OS, it won't be Ubuntu.
I like the security/privacy promises of options like snaps. It seems like other issues, like file sizes, aren’t the worst. And getting it to match your os options seems like a solvable problem. Could somebody explain why they hate these systems?
I dislike snaps because they introduce inefficiencies and I don't want want applications to each bundle their own copies of the shared libraries they depend on. I also don't want automatic sandboxing.
Yup, and installing Firefox via apt installs a snap as well. I manually had to add a separate apt repo for Firefox alone. I seem to have to do this more and more for things that just can't be slow on my machine.
Yep, I did the same. But I don't want to mess around with hacks like that any more, so my next distro isn't going to be Ubuntu, even though I've used some Ubuntu variant for over a decade now. I'm looking at Tumbleweed for my next distro.
Good for you I guess, but most features I need aren't offered by web apps. Paradoxically, Linux is the only platform where desktop apps are the default.
Imo package managers/repos, update cycles, and installation process can still be a reasonable differentiator between distros. Admittedly these decisions are fairly minor -- most popular packages are available on the major repos and you probably aren't installing your distro every day. But even though most the time I'm just living in nvim and Firefox, if adding or changing something becomes a chore it can really expand quickly as I might avoid making a positive change to my system just because I can't overcome the initial inertia from having to bend my distro to my will. Then again, that's probably a sign that I should swallow my pride and switch from Arch to Manjaro at some point.
I didn't care much about one distro vs another until I found a lot of packages I wanted were packaged for Arch Linux and not Ubuntu Linux, and the Arch Wiki was better than Ubuntu's docs. And also, yes "Snaps" were annoying.
Your world does, and I know that it does for many. But mine absolutely doesn't -- there isn't anything critical I use that is browser-based. And many are like me.
Agree. OSes are practically irrelevant. The only thing I need is a web browser and a terminal with posix like commands. I can (almost) get that on Windows these days.
I’ve run Mac for 20 years now, and before that Linux for almost 10. I can’t think of anything I lost when switching beyond focus follows mouse.
One of the downfalls of Linux Desktop, besides the fragmentation, was Apple and Microsoft figuring out that a large majority wants a POSIX like experience, and aren't that deep onto GNU/Linux anyway.
There is a certain irony when the Linux Desktop is on minority when looking around laptops at FOSDEM.
