I want to start seeing electric-converted 1959 Chevrolets.

That’s because they do intend to depopulate the US by force.

(Note that a reduction of 100 million is way more people than the number of immigrants than we actually have, but does roughly correspond to the number of non-white citizens.)

I’ve opted out of the school Chromebooks for my kids because they have computers running real GNU at home. We should all be outraged that schools are pushing a locked-down surveillance/content consumption-only platform, as opposed to something like a Raspberry Pi that actually empowers kids to have real computer literacy.

The mobile-focused development cycle and its consequences have been a disaster for user agency.

Could you repeat that louder for the folks at the back?

(Also, it’s a statement that’s generally true in ways completely unreleated to AI.)

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He was, like, some kinda crazy person though.

Where’re ya gonna get sprocket-feed fanfold paper these days, though, let alone in the apocalypse?

Unless We the People take matters into our own hands.

<sigh>… And here I am, expecting “shuffle” to be a random ordering without repetition at all, like a silly person apparently.

I’m not so sure. I could believe their entire productivity has been consumed by failing AI slop in code reviews.

In Windows, every program is usually packaged with all of its dependencies (except really basic ones that are part of the OS, or very common extra ones like the Java or .NET libraries). They don’t get installed separately; you just get a fuckton of extra copies, of various assorted versions, because every program you install has its own.

They would also be .deb files. If you wanted to install package A.deb that depended on B.deb and C.deb, with C.deb itself depending on D.deb and E.deb, you would work down the dependency tree to figure that out, obtaining the .deb file for each package as you went (presumably manually downloading from each project website itself, since we’re doing this in hard mode), then run dpkg install E.deb, dpkg install D.deb, dpkg install C.deb, dpkg install B.deb, and finally dpkg install A.deb in that order. You also have to make sure each of those packages is the correct version compatible with the others, BTW.

This is what apt is designed to do for you, automatically. This is why you use it instead of dpkg.

(Side note: I sure would love to find out how to control syntax highlighting in Lemmy inline code markup.)

“I didn’t use the main standard way of installing software, and am complaining because all the weird alternative ways I did try didn’t work.”

I understand that you claim apt has never worked for you, but, frankly, I don’t believe you.

Just FYI, the entire point of using apt instead of working with dpkg (the utility used to install .deb files) directly is that apt handles the dependency resolution. You deliberately used the lower-level tool instead of the higher-level one and then complained that it didn’t do the higher-level things.

I have this weird suspicion that they use a shitload of open source software, and I’m not just talking about their Android OS or Chromebooks, but for their most core businesses.

“Open source for me, but not for thee.”

That’s also why they bait-and-switched us with AOSP.

Is that the second time this sort of thing has happened to you (where you were able to give us status updates, but not physically access your server), or was the previous incident I’m thinking of with a different admin?

Either way, I appreciate you, but I think your ‘bus factor’ is too high.

Does lemmy.world have a warrant canary? Being hosted in Germany, will it respond to American subpoenas? And what about other prominent instances?

It was always projection. They accuse their enemies of what they themselves wanted to do.

Edit: I have no idea why I said Portland… I meant Minnesota, referring to Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Because the same kind of gestapo shit is happening there, with the only difference being that (as far as we know) no white citizens have been blatantly murdered yet.

It pisses me off that my first thought upon reading this was to wonder if he got disappeared by ICE.

I think your other big problem would’ve been that attempting to “productize” it (beyond asking for donations to help with costs), would immediately make everybody else on the fediverse hate you.