[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 13 points 3 weeks ago

He should also get rid of FPTP now. If he doesn't, the sane vote will be split Lab, Green, Lib and maybe Plaid, SNP and maybe Con. While the nutty vote all goes to Reform and they get in with like less than a third of the vote.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is no "both sides" here. Russia invaded Ukraine, repeatedly since 2014, salami slicing it. It interfered in elections. It killed multiple people on foreign soil, using highly dangerous, banded methods, that could easily have killed many others than the target. Putin has completely destroyed any democracy in Russia and murders his opponents.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 12 points 4 months ago

Oh we know. If Russia wins, Poland is next. Russia salami slicing started in 2014 with its first annexation of part of Ukrainian.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As a Brit, we just had riots due to a rightwing posh dickhead "just asking questions". Look for "Farage riots". (Something Elon made worse)

Some questions aren't questions but dog whistles and conspiracy theories.

Of course owning stock in one Elon company compromises you judging another Elon company. You don't even have to look hard to see how he leverages one for another. Or could if he hadn't already. Not seeing it is done willfully.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 13 points 5 months ago

Gimp is intuitive to me. I grew up on RISC OS, not Windows, and only later learned Photoshop. Switching was easy for me, and that was before I got into FOSS. It was just free and legal.

I've seen lots of people from a Windows only background struggle with it. I agree it's not like a normal Windows app. Maybe single window mode helps, but I'm not in a place to judge.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 12 points 7 months ago

Too late. Somewhere so sunny can get a lot of solor quickly. Building nuclear power plants takes time and releases a lot of CO2. Batteries and solor now now. Cheapest power too.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 13 points 8 months ago

They are "too big to fail now". If they pop now, the ruins will be bought quickly. The car won't be allowed to brick. But it is good to highlight the issue that modern car need to be independ of the existence of manufacturers servers. I'd go further and regulate that it must be documented protocols and you must able to change the servers used if you choose.

Same with any computer, if you don't have admin, you don't own it.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 13 points 9 months ago

He is is OK with OOP. The Linux kernel is full of OPP C, but he doesn't like C++

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 12 points 9 months ago

Storing offline is great and all, but I hope everyone is storing on multiple disks at multiple locations....

Yer didn't think so, I'm sure photos are being lost.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 13 points 10 months ago

Not under 50MB but there is: https://organicmaps.app/

And

https://osmand.net/

I find Organic Maps best for driving and OSMAnd+ best for walks.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago

Yes the energy density is less, but the efficiency is better. ICE wastes like 2/3 of that extra energy. Still has more, but 1/3 that you might think.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been happily running Debian for over a decade. Stable for servers, Testing or SID for laptops and desktops. The original installs not still running and upgrading are ones on hardware too obsolete to be useful (SheevaPlug). Still probably supported by Debian though!

Including one install that started as Mint Debian Edition, was upgrading to Testing, then cross graded from 32bit to 64bit, been through 3 motherboards and is now Stable for it's final days before the disk is scrapped.

I love the pacakaging, the philosophy and all the platforms supported (including really old ones).

I literally count it among the proof humans are not irredeemable.

Edit: Expand about "obsolete".

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