Profile pic is from Jason Box, depicting a projection of Arctic warming to the year 2100 based on current trends.
The early ones were easier. The one I had needed to do some mess with a grounding screw and some other stuff that I forgot (there are websites dedicated to the procedure guidelines and which requires what), and like you say, it’s not going to be able to do much anyway. Such a contrast with throwing Kubuntu on an old MacBook, and 10 minutes later it was better than new.
It’s true that most people just want instant on functionality with no need for major changes beyond colors and backgrounds. Totally fine too, for many that’s all they need. But as a “power user”, which would mean anyone that needs more than a portable browser, I was very disappointed to find that’s all that ChromeOS is (twas a used one in the family). And then when I researched putting actual Linux on it so it could do more… good god they locked that shit down hard. Not even worth that rabbit hole. And that was the intent of Google.
It also means the OS is in total control of the things it’s running. This goes for running programs, shutting down, and crashing. The only crashes I have on my Linux are when I use up memory, and I’m still convinced that even though everything looks seized up, if I left it for hours or days it would probably end up resolving itself. I’ve had some cases where the OS saw the program wasn’t going in a good direction fast enough and killed it.
Good analogy by using cars. You can test drive a car. Since a lot (all?) distros have a way to run off a USB, so you can get the general “feel” of it. Then you can go from there. Or if you have room to work with, setting up dual boot isn’t that hard (outside of how Windows acts sometimes about it). Asking a lot of people what flavor ice cream they prefer isn’t going to help you decide your own.
No, the heat exchangers were fine, the design just sucked. I had seen aftermarket electric fan boosters to try and push more air through the vent pipes and help things. I mean, it had a long way to go! But even the squirrel cage fan in the blower assembly in the truck wasn’t all that big or strong, so the air it pushed up onto the window was far too little to do much. I loved my Beetle though, despite all its issues.
I loved the wing window on my first car, a VW Beetle. It really did great air movement, both for hot days and for helping defog the windshield (the blower for that was terribly underpowered).
I always called it a vent window, maybe it’s a regional thing like tyre/tire.
It’s sad that I read this and the first thought was not about how similar we can be but more, “well…I suppose if you were gentle…”
And also - yeah, it’s usually dumb. There are rabbit holes EVERYWHERE.
Maybe a bit niche, and I haven’t played in a while, but the piped in bar music at stations for Elite Dangerous was incredible. It did not have to be that diverse and immersive, but their sound team doesn’t do anything less than 100%.
The vacuum problems kill the Hyperloop design just like they kill any major mass launcher ideas from Earth. On the Moon both will work great.
Mass rail transit itself is something that ought to be more wide spread. Just not like that.
The world’s first panorama. Da Vinci was just setting up a scene like in That 70’s Show, but people didn’t get it so he redid the bottom as a full table.
Kokoro was the one I was going to mention. I played around with it a bit, was very impressed with the speed and quality. And then I realized I had been using it in CPU mode. GPU is incredible.
Power. At some point money stops being what it is to most people and becomes leverage to do things. The truly wealthy don’t have to worry about having the ability to buy things, they shift to being able to influence and control stuff. Now, that can certainly be used for good, so there’s the difference between the perceived good and bad billionaire.
I didn’t fuck the chassis up. That’s all I’m saying.
Sure, let’s keep going towards the goal of better solutions. Even this meme doesn’t say or imply that it has to be all green, and it simply can’t. Some things need a high energy density or other features that unfortunately only petroleum has. It really is an amazing substance. That causes problems. Everything has a cost.
That’s what holds US gas prices down, subsidies. Helping large scale things be possible is what a government should do. There’s many things that wouldn’t have happened without the government paying for it.
The kicker is that if they switched to green and took away paying for petroleum, things would collapse, as green alone isn’t going to support our society. That’s the dead end we’ve walked ourselves into. It’s not one or the other, it’s what can we supplement or phase out with a better solution. And that kind of work needs government support, from subsidies to regulations to a supervisor that directs the change vs. relying only on free market.
Never considered that Europeans don’t know the wonderful sensation of 110v. It can vary from a slight tingle (it’s not even tingle, but I can’t describe it) to a “holy shit” moment that throws you back, depending on how and where you touched it and how much current flows. The great thing about A/C is the cycle, unlike a DC current which can lock your muscles and keep you from letting go.
There’s a Mac version labeled (horrific). So many levels to unpack there.
You’re too late. The rebellion has flown away.
I’ve found the only long-term, totally happy dual boot system is where you autoboot into Linux. And never boot into Windows. Every now and then I have to go back into my Win10 to do something (much rarer now, almost ready to reclaim some space). Boy, Windows hates having any signs you’ve been somewhere else.