Linux can be intimidating. And there is going to be a learning curve. Especially if you’re the kind of windows user who’s familiar with gpedit and has custom .bat files.

But what get’s left out is the joy and satisfaction that comes with learning how to Linux. I just re-installed my OS a week ago, and I was able to recognize and resolve dependency and permissions issues without having to look anything up. I also finally learned and started using rsync for backups over SSH/SAMBA. I know it’s not much, but it made me feel like a real hackerman.

The only thing I learned in my last few years of Windows was how to disable features that annoyed me.

Practical power production through nuclear fusion still requires significant developments for it to be realised at scale, though several startups are already planning to deliver it within the next few years.

That is a sentence.

The oil companies don’t want to invest because in 10y when production recovers, who knows what oil prices will be? Even if they could pump it out tomorrow, Oil is cheap, and driving it down would bankrupt American oil production.

The logic of “addiction to foreign oil” is outdated. America is an energy exporter.

The problem is that the oil companies don’t want to. The real timeline for actually producing oil is like ~10y. And who knows what demand will be in 10y. Even if they could magically transport it out of the ground tomorrow, oil is already cheap and pushing it down would bankrupt half of Texas.

America is an energy exporter, the days of “addiction to foreign oil” don’t apply anymore.

This special military operation has been compared to Russia for obvious reasons. But one not obvious thing they have in common is the resource plunder is a bad deal for the conquerors. By the time Putin could tap Ukraine’s coal reserves or Trump Venezuela’s oil, there is an excellent chance these resources will be worth much less than today.

Many people have touted the leverage Venezuelan production could have on Moscow or Tehran. But they always leave out that this would hurt Houston just as much.

M$ has done more to convince people that AI is bullshit than anyone else and I just want to thank them for their hard work.

Scott Bessent looks like he’s trying to do a Will Farrel impression of himself.

The other day, my mother approached me about Office alternatives. Before she retired, she daily drove Office, but feels like it’s changed so much that learning a new program isn’t any more friction than keeping up with AI bullshit.

Your comment is as wrong as two left shoes. Where in the world is more dangerous for Jews than Israel? Did you know that Israeli building codes require a safe room? Does that sound like a safe place to you?

POTTERY BARN RULE!!!

The Zionists love to use antisemitism as a sword against criticism of Israel. (and the Shoah as their shield) Meanwhile the American right is split over the goddamn Jewish question. Who else thinks this strategy is short-sighted?

Debian cut ties in January, so if you quit after that, you’re officially slower to change than Debian.

This comment is braindead bigotry. It’s like saying a paraplegic can’t be a lawyer because they can’t climb the courthouse steps.

There has never existed an astronaut that didn’t need significant accommodation to live in work in space (duh), you’re arguing that disabled people don’t deserve the exact same treatment. Fuck you.

Another way of saying this is that all the dead children are worth it so I can fantasize about violently overthrowing a State.

It’s so disappointing to see fools on the left swallowing brain-dead NRA propaganda.

I’ve a canned response to anyone who supports this kind of behavior. I agree with them and say “anti-racism erases white culture”.

Then sit back and

The TOR project in it’s entirety was created by the CIA for secure communications. It’s public because no matter how secure, if only spies use TOR, then it would be easy to catch them.

I don’t mean to imply that TOR is insecure, it’s open source and the Government has an interest that it be secure. But if you’re going to annoy the US government, you better have good opsec because they understand TOR better than anyone.

Alex Karp’s behavior is much better explained by cocaine. He may be neurodivergent, but he was still high as giraffe pussy.

you need to be able to communicate

Not necessarily. Piloting the weapon into position with internal navigation, then having the thing recognize and engage targets autonomously is becoming common with drones.

Also, you can just trail a very long wire behind the thing to communicate with home base. This is how torpedoes have worked going back to the Cold War.

That keyboard looks really nice, but the placement of the R CTRL would cause me fits.