And in the same period, how many people died as a result of pollution from ordinary gasoline automotive emissions? Smog is a huge problem in the world but it's not all diesel engines. Removing diesels may help the problem but people are still going to die from health complications because of smog even if everyone just ran gasoline engines. So the deaths are tragic, but at the same time I'm not convinced they are statistically significant as a sole driver of public policy.
Reminds me of the classic scene from Yes Prime Minister where Humphries argues that preventing smoking would just cost the NHS more money and that it's far cheaper for smokers to continue to die at about the present rate. Morally Humphries is wrong of course, but economically he was absolutely correct.
Just interesting how we react to safety issues and recalls and have no real concept of statistics and risk evaluation. So of the 1.3 million Ram trucks on the road covered by this recall, many of which have been safely driven for several years, only 1 death has occurred because of this and 10 injuries confirmed. So that's a reliability rating of some five 9s, which fro a purely capitalistic point of view is actually well within reason and a perfectly acceptable death rate (unless of course it affects you!). Your odds of dying in a car crash despite working safety features are orders of magnitude greater than dying in a crash in a vehicle with this flaw where this flaw caused your death. So how do we evaluate the true risk and true cost?
So on the one hand a correctable flaw probably should be corrected, but on the other hand, if the odds of it happening are near zero, from a completely economic point of view it'd be far better for the companies and the economy to do nothing and let people die at the present rate. Is the latter action morally wrong? It may be. Depends on how you evaluate the risks. Forced recalls seem like a great idea because a company is forced to foot the bill and learn from it, but in reality the costs will be passed on to consumers down the road. I do wonder where this continual threat of litigation, particularly by the NTSB, is going to lead us. Might make us safer, might just make us spend more money.
Think you're confused about the "win32" moniker. When people say "win32" that's shorthand for traditional Windows apps, using the traditional Win32 API, be they 64-bit or 32-bit, written in C++, compiled to a PE executable. The term has nothing to do with being only 32-bit. There is no Win64. It's just Win32, and there are 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. I'm sure many games probably are full 64-bit now.
Chrome is now 64-bit only, but it's a traditional app built on the Win32 api.
I'm not sure if this emulation layer will emulate just the 32-bit version of Win32, or if it will also do 64-bit emulation.
Depends on what you mean by scared of being voted out. Thanks to decades of gerrymandering, nearly all seats in the house and most on congress are now "safe" seats that will never change, and the only threat to the individual congress person comes from competition in the primaries from other members of their own party. It would take a lot of public dissatisfaction to get these members voted out. Especially since voting them out depends on voting for the wrong color.
If you mean scared of losing the majority, yes that has a lot more sway, and the party holds a lot of power over the individual congresscritters. As a team, they do want to appear to being the right things, even if they are exactly the wrong things.
I don't always share their view. Perhaps not even mostly.
I'm sure I agree that Dennis Miller is intelligent and his humor is erudite. I can recognize that and agree with you on that while disagreeing with his point of view. His humor, along with the humor of many others still helps to dispel fear, which is good. I haven't watched much TV in ages, so I'm unfamiliar with Miller but I will watch out for his clips on youtube. If one has a good sense of humor you can like a person without agreeing with him or her.
I don't see very much true humor coming out the current administration, I must confess, which worries me. Just a lot of thin-skinned people, which is increasingly becoming the norm in public discourse.
I didn't agree with much of what Bush did during his administration, but he did have a fairly warm sense of humor, even if he sometimes lacked nuance and maybe even competence. I found Obama's humor to be very good also and worked to his benefit. I really enjoyed watching the interview he did with Destin on Smarter Every Day (who is certainly not a liberal). I digress.
Rather than attack the words and ideas someone says, you attack the person with a label and call them stupid. Do you deny that we have been marching toward authoritarianism since 9/11 (perhaps before)?
Except that comedy news shows actually tend to be rather intelligent and their humor is often quite smart. And the shows I watch seem to make fun of politicians on all sides. It's entertaining as well as thought-provoking. Anything that can shed light on the dark places using humor (as in actual humor) is a very good thing indeed.
I think, though, that some powerful figures in this world really don't like humor. Maybe because humor itself dispels fear, and fear is what some are trying to pedal for whatever reason.
Using Palemoon here and all I see when I go to the new url is a page advertising Google Chrome and saying my browser isn't supported. Apparently I'm not allowed to even see the new youtube site, which suits me fine. Google Voice's material design makeover turned it into a steaming pile that's ridiculously slow and javascript heavy. Sigh. Good thing I never actually use the youtube web site. I do all my youtube viewing through mpv or youtube-dl. Such a better experience!
I use gReader every day. I have RSS feeds from news sites, tech blogs, and some forums. I even manually browse to the RSS feed of a few forums I use, just to more conveniently see all the new posts. I find forums to be cumbersome and clumsy for discussions. I much prefer email lists or nntp. But RSS feeds make it a tiny bit more usable for me, at least for lower volume forums with lots of little subforums that I'd rather not visit individually.
Google has a long history of taking useful things and then just ending them. Any time I find a google service useful to me, I start planning what i'll do when they yank the rug out from under me. They've been slowly destroying Google Voice (the new web interface is slow and awful compared now)...not sure what to replace that with just yet.
Fedex hands off to Canada Post where I live as well. What I've taken to doing is to put my physical address on line 1 and my PO Box on line 2, just for this sort of situation. Keeps Fedex happy, since they claim they can't deliver to PO Boxes, even though they hand off to Canada Post, and allows Canada Post to have a box number to ship it to.
And yet the so-called conservatives and right wing are marching us as fast towards this nanny state as any other political faction, if not faster. There's a slow and steady drive towards authoritarianism that seems to be accelerating.
All regulations have unintended consequences. And the best intentions sometimes backfire. For example, take the new European standard for electrical consumption of vacuum cleaners. In essence they've now banned the larger models. But it's not going to save any electricity. Now with smaller models that can't create as much vacuum and thus induce a much smaller CFM of air flow. Hence they work less efficiently and more slowly. So any electrical efficiency gains are offset by the poorer performance overall, requiring longer use and just as much electricity. Besides that, even if all things were equal, the greater electrical use (and subsequent CO2 generation) from the bigger vacuums probably can't even be quantified for most people since vacuum cleaners are used so infrequently compared to computers, lights, heating, and other electrical devices.
This is, in my mind, a clear example of well-intentioned Energy Star -like programs and regulations that just don't apply well to many things and shouldn't. And this is why people, including trump supporters, get so upset with government interference in their lives. Most people I know aren't stupid. If they buy a new freezer, they do want to save money and energy by buying the newer, more efficient models. I think this would continue even without Energy Star, should it ever disappear entirely.
Besides that, if you really want to change things, a carbon tax is better than efficiency regulations. If the true cost of energy is passed on to consumers you can bet they'll make different choices and drive demand for energy-efficient devices. Rather than set fuel efficiency targets, tax a vehicle's registration based on its fuel consumption. Lets people have the freedom to drive an old, less-efficient vehicle if they wish, as long as they are willing to pay for it.
Sure direct regulation is easier for the government, but it's not always the best way. And it always has unintended consequences and leads to regulatory capture of the market by a few large companies.
To be fair, your average Linux distro is pretty fat too. A basic installation of, say Linux Mint, can still run several GB. Granted the default installs of most Linux distros include a fair amount of utility programs and full-blown applications, such as LibreOffice, that Windows does not include.
It is pretty embarrassing for MS to have 40% of an EXE consist of this unnecessary XML code.
Taking an old PC and repurposing it with Linux, or even an older version of MS Windows (say 7) is much easier than working with Macs. Apple's software ecosystem is designed around planned obsolescence. Old computers simply can't run the latest versions of macOS yet the ecosystem pretty much requires it. Much Mac software won't run on versions of OS X prior to 10.8 these days. This combined with Apple's apparently heavy-handed tactics with recyclers really make Macs poor in the recycling department as compared to Windows and Linux. It is possible to run either Windows or Linux on an older Mac, of course. Maybe that's an option for recyclers.
I read a while back that the tests the CBC had performed have been discredited. In other words, CBC's method of determining the percentage of chicken is not the usual way one goes about it. It's not that the test results are wrong, but rather the test is not the right test. At least that's what I read. Could be wrong, though.
Shrug. I guess if you can't take issue with his points you can always stoop to mocking him for forgetting cables.
The context of the talk I posted was not about about tablets, phones, etc, if I recall correctly. He was talking about X11 in general, though certainly X11's use is limited on tablets and other increasingly common devices.
And the limitations of X11 are very much present on desktops. X11 *is* slow. Compositing helped out to make things smooth. But we still have problems with synchronization of framerates. Expanding a window, for example, isn't nearly as smooth as just about any other OS because the redraws of the window decorations isn't synced to the redraw of the widgets in the app. Furthermore X11 remoting is unusable over anything other than LAN. *Especially* on modern apps like gedit that use client-drawn widgets. And no one is willing to go back to putting the widgets on the server. There's a reason why everyone who needs to remote X11 across a WAN uses kludges like X2Go and NX.
Anyone who claims that an X11 desktop is as smooth and silky as Windows or Mac hasn't used either recently, especially the latter.
All I care about is a way to remote individual applications over ssh. I don't care at all about the protocol or keeping X11. RDP will get us there, better than X11 in the long run.
I use Wunderlist all the time as well. It's an invaluable tool for sharing lists between people. I have no interest in buying into Outlook or any of MS's other products. So I will be looking for a new shared to-do list solution. Any suggestions that can replace everything Wunderlist currently is, which isn't really that complicated?
- shared lists - sub tasks - progress indication - notes - attachments (photos mainly) - ability to review and re-enable previously marked off items (some lists I use again each year)
Years ago most people began using FreeNX which used some open source parts of NX under the hood. Lately I have found that X2Go is the direct descendant and replacement for NX and FreeNX. Give it a try.
Nothing about RDP limits it to full desktops. RDP can remote a single window as well as a full desktop. MS doesn't normally use it that way, but it can be done.
Furthermore, Xrdp can run in rootless mode, if I'm not mistaken. A single X11 apps could connect to it.
How this will be solved in the long run remains to be seen. In the short run, toolkits that support Wayland still support X11. Mainly I'm talking about GTK and Qt. Thus KDE, Gnome, GTK, and Qt apps will all run either on Wayland or X11 without recompiling. So for many people, remoting needs can be accomplished by simply using X11 on Wayland and tunneling X11 over SSH. Simply ssh into your remote machine and run the apps. Locally on wayland things are silky smooth, remotely they still work, though a bit choppier (X11 over ssh isn't fast enough for anything but LAN anyway... I use X2Go for WAN remote X11 stuff.
Of course in the long run if Wayland is successfull the X11 backend bits will languish in the toolkits and this will not be a sustainable future. I think essentially RDP will be adopted as the standard remoting protocol for wayland desktops. This will be used to forward individual apps or whole desktops. RDP is already a lot faster than X11 over ssh, due to the way X11 works and the fact that all modern toolkits essentially just push bitmaps these days anyway.
Before criticizing Wayland and extolling X11's virtues, consider watching this talk by Daniel Stone who was formerly intimately involved with X.org and seems to know hist stuff. He makes a good case for Wayland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It amuses me how all these SBCs advertize decoding high definition video. Of all the things I can think of to do with a Pi--robotics, remote sensing, UAVs, etc--decoding video is just not on my radar. Besides that I tried using a Pi once for a XBMC/Kodi box and found the experience to be lacking. 1080p video did play just fine most of the time until something crashed.
These devices can be used for amazingly cool projects. But I suspect 90% of them end up in the bottoms of drawers. I've got 4 in a drawer myself, waiting for time to use them in some cool project some day. In the meantime another more powerful one comes along.
Can anyone tell me if this board or any board (BBB maybe?) contains power management, such as suspend and resume, power on or wake on a schedule, etc? For remote sensing that is really what I need.
Hmm, what mouse wheel problems do you have? The mouse wheel has worked for many years for me. Ever since the mouse wheel was invented. I use the mouse wheel every day on Linux. I can't tell any difference from Windows or OS X (other than the backwards scrolling OS X defaults to).
Frankly, who cares how difficult it is for the ISPs. This is just a fact of life about how the US is set up and runs. Companies already have to navigate state-specific regulations. And if the states can and should regulate and enforce privacy, why not let them do it and assume the burden?
So while I disagree with almost everything the Republican Party stands for, on this I can certainly see their point. Why not let the local government, who theoretically has a better handle on the needs of its citizens than the federal government, decide what privacy is needed and enforce it on companies?
It's actually a similar thing things like car fuel economy regs. Why does the federal government need to concern itself when California already sets high standards? It's not like car companies are going to make two cars, one dirty and fuel-guzzling for the rest of the US, and another clean, lean one for California. But I digress.
The pic he posted on the thread looks like he used an old N64 powerbrick as a chassis, not the N64 itself. Also it appears he just stuck the innards of a real Switch dock into this, perhaps because it's a more convenient form factor or something. Does not appear to be anywhere as interesting as the/. summary indicated. He's not modding N64 hardware to somehow be used by the Switch. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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And in the same period, how many people died as a result of pollution from ordinary gasoline automotive emissions? Smog is a huge problem in the world but it's not all diesel engines. Removing diesels may help the problem but people are still going to die from health complications because of smog even if everyone just ran gasoline engines. So the deaths are tragic, but at the same time I'm not convinced they are statistically significant as a sole driver of public policy.
Reminds me of the classic scene from Yes Prime Minister where Humphries argues that preventing smoking would just cost the NHS more money and that it's far cheaper for smokers to continue to die at about the present rate. Morally Humphries is wrong of course, but economically he was absolutely correct.
Just interesting how we react to safety issues and recalls and have no real concept of statistics and risk evaluation. So of the 1.3 million Ram trucks on the road covered by this recall, many of which have been safely driven for several years, only 1 death has occurred because of this and 10 injuries confirmed. So that's a reliability rating of some five 9s, which fro a purely capitalistic point of view is actually well within reason and a perfectly acceptable death rate (unless of course it affects you!). Your odds of dying in a car crash despite working safety features are orders of magnitude greater than dying in a crash in a vehicle with this flaw where this flaw caused your death. So how do we evaluate the true risk and true cost?
So on the one hand a correctable flaw probably should be corrected, but on the other hand, if the odds of it happening are near zero, from a completely economic point of view it'd be far better for the companies and the economy to do nothing and let people die at the present rate. Is the latter action morally wrong? It may be. Depends on how you evaluate the risks. Forced recalls seem like a great idea because a company is forced to foot the bill and learn from it, but in reality the costs will be passed on to consumers down the road. I do wonder where this continual threat of litigation, particularly by the NTSB, is going to lead us. Might make us safer, might just make us spend more money.
Think you're confused about the "win32" moniker. When people say "win32" that's shorthand for traditional Windows apps, using the traditional Win32 API, be they 64-bit or 32-bit, written in C++, compiled to a PE executable. The term has nothing to do with being only 32-bit. There is no Win64. It's just Win32, and there are 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. I'm sure many games probably are full 64-bit now.
Chrome is now 64-bit only, but it's a traditional app built on the Win32 api.
I'm not sure if this emulation layer will emulate just the 32-bit version of Win32, or if it will also do 64-bit emulation.
Depends on what you mean by scared of being voted out. Thanks to decades of gerrymandering, nearly all seats in the house and most on congress are now "safe" seats that will never change, and the only threat to the individual congress person comes from competition in the primaries from other members of their own party. It would take a lot of public dissatisfaction to get these members voted out. Especially since voting them out depends on voting for the wrong color.
If you mean scared of losing the majority, yes that has a lot more sway, and the party holds a lot of power over the individual congresscritters. As a team, they do want to appear to being the right things, even if they are exactly the wrong things.
I don't always share their view. Perhaps not even mostly.
I'm sure I agree that Dennis Miller is intelligent and his humor is erudite. I can recognize that and agree with you on that while disagreeing with his point of view. His humor, along with the humor of many others still helps to dispel fear, which is good. I haven't watched much TV in ages, so I'm unfamiliar with Miller but I will watch out for his clips on youtube. If one has a good sense of humor you can like a person without agreeing with him or her.
I don't see very much true humor coming out the current administration, I must confess, which worries me. Just a lot of thin-skinned people, which is increasingly becoming the norm in public discourse.
I didn't agree with much of what Bush did during his administration, but he did have a fairly warm sense of humor, even if he sometimes lacked nuance and maybe even competence. I found Obama's humor to be very good also and worked to his benefit. I really enjoyed watching the interview he did with Destin on Smarter Every Day (who is certainly not a liberal). I digress.
Rather than attack the words and ideas someone says, you attack the person with a label and call them stupid. Do you deny that we have been marching toward authoritarianism since 9/11 (perhaps before)?
Except that comedy news shows actually tend to be rather intelligent and their humor is often quite smart. And the shows I watch seem to make fun of politicians on all sides. It's entertaining as well as thought-provoking. Anything that can shed light on the dark places using humor (as in actual humor) is a very good thing indeed.
I think, though, that some powerful figures in this world really don't like humor. Maybe because humor itself dispels fear, and fear is what some are trying to pedal for whatever reason.
Using Palemoon here and all I see when I go to the new url is a page advertising Google Chrome and saying my browser isn't supported. Apparently I'm not allowed to even see the new youtube site, which suits me fine. Google Voice's material design makeover turned it into a steaming pile that's ridiculously slow and javascript heavy. Sigh. Good thing I never actually use the youtube web site. I do all my youtube viewing through mpv or youtube-dl. Such a better experience!
I use gReader every day. I have RSS feeds from news sites, tech blogs, and some forums. I even manually browse to the RSS feed of a few forums I use, just to more conveniently see all the new posts. I find forums to be cumbersome and clumsy for discussions. I much prefer email lists or nntp. But RSS feeds make it a tiny bit more usable for me, at least for lower volume forums with lots of little subforums that I'd rather not visit individually.
Google has a long history of taking useful things and then just ending them. Any time I find a google service useful to me, I start planning what i'll do when they yank the rug out from under me. They've been slowly destroying Google Voice (the new web interface is slow and awful compared now)...not sure what to replace that with just yet.
Fedex hands off to Canada Post where I live as well. What I've taken to doing is to put my physical address on line 1 and my PO Box on line 2, just for this sort of situation. Keeps Fedex happy, since they claim they can't deliver to PO Boxes, even though they hand off to Canada Post, and allows Canada Post to have a box number to ship it to.
And yet the so-called conservatives and right wing are marching us as fast towards this nanny state as any other political faction, if not faster. There's a slow and steady drive towards authoritarianism that seems to be accelerating.
All regulations have unintended consequences. And the best intentions sometimes backfire. For example, take the new European standard for electrical consumption of vacuum cleaners. In essence they've now banned the larger models. But it's not going to save any electricity. Now with smaller models that can't create as much vacuum and thus induce a much smaller CFM of air flow. Hence they work less efficiently and more slowly. So any electrical efficiency gains are offset by the poorer performance overall, requiring longer use and just as much electricity. Besides that, even if all things were equal, the greater electrical use (and subsequent CO2 generation) from the bigger vacuums probably can't even be quantified for most people since vacuum cleaners are used so infrequently compared to computers, lights, heating, and other electrical devices.
This is, in my mind, a clear example of well-intentioned Energy Star -like programs and regulations that just don't apply well to many things and shouldn't. And this is why people, including trump supporters, get so upset with government interference in their lives. Most people I know aren't stupid. If they buy a new freezer, they do want to save money and energy by buying the newer, more efficient models. I think this would continue even without Energy Star, should it ever disappear entirely.
Besides that, if you really want to change things, a carbon tax is better than efficiency regulations. If the true cost of energy is passed on to consumers you can bet they'll make different choices and drive demand for energy-efficient devices. Rather than set fuel efficiency targets, tax a vehicle's registration based on its fuel consumption. Lets people have the freedom to drive an old, less-efficient vehicle if they wish, as long as they are willing to pay for it.
Sure direct regulation is easier for the government, but it's not always the best way. And it always has unintended consequences and leads to regulatory capture of the market by a few large companies.
To be fair, your average Linux distro is pretty fat too. A basic installation of, say Linux Mint, can still run several GB. Granted the default installs of most Linux distros include a fair amount of utility programs and full-blown applications, such as LibreOffice, that Windows does not include.
It is pretty embarrassing for MS to have 40% of an EXE consist of this unnecessary XML code.
Flamebait, really? The Apple fanbois must be trolling tonight.
I should have added the disclaimer, "in my experience."
Taking an old PC and repurposing it with Linux, or even an older version of MS Windows (say 7) is much easier than working with Macs. Apple's software ecosystem is designed around planned obsolescence. Old computers simply can't run the latest versions of macOS yet the ecosystem pretty much requires it. Much Mac software won't run on versions of OS X prior to 10.8 these days. This combined with Apple's apparently heavy-handed tactics with recyclers really make Macs poor in the recycling department as compared to Windows and Linux. It is possible to run either Windows or Linux on an older Mac, of course. Maybe that's an option for recyclers.
I read a while back that the tests the CBC had performed have been discredited. In other words, CBC's method of determining the percentage of chicken is not the usual way one goes about it. It's not that the test results are wrong, but rather the test is not the right test. At least that's what I read. Could be wrong, though.
Shrug. I guess if you can't take issue with his points you can always stoop to mocking him for forgetting cables.
The context of the talk I posted was not about about tablets, phones, etc, if I recall correctly. He was talking about X11 in general, though certainly X11's use is limited on tablets and other increasingly common devices.
And the limitations of X11 are very much present on desktops. X11 *is* slow. Compositing helped out to make things smooth. But we still have problems with synchronization of framerates. Expanding a window, for example, isn't nearly as smooth as just about any other OS because the redraws of the window decorations isn't synced to the redraw of the widgets in the app. Furthermore X11 remoting is unusable over anything other than LAN. *Especially* on modern apps like gedit that use client-drawn widgets. And no one is willing to go back to putting the widgets on the server. There's a reason why everyone who needs to remote X11 across a WAN uses kludges like X2Go and NX.
Anyone who claims that an X11 desktop is as smooth and silky as Windows or Mac hasn't used either recently, especially the latter.
All I care about is a way to remote individual applications over ssh. I don't care at all about the protocol or keeping X11. RDP will get us there, better than X11 in the long run.
I use Wunderlist all the time as well. It's an invaluable tool for sharing lists between people. I have no interest in buying into Outlook or any of MS's other products. So I will be looking for a new shared to-do list solution. Any suggestions that can replace everything Wunderlist currently is, which isn't really that complicated?
- shared lists
- sub tasks
- progress indication
- notes
- attachments (photos mainly)
- ability to review and re-enable previously marked off items (some lists I use again each year)
Years ago most people began using FreeNX which used some open source parts of NX under the hood. Lately I have found that X2Go is the direct descendant and replacement for NX and FreeNX. Give it a try.
Nothing about RDP limits it to full desktops. RDP can remote a single window as well as a full desktop. MS doesn't normally use it that way, but it can be done.
Furthermore, Xrdp can run in rootless mode, if I'm not mistaken. A single X11 apps could connect to it.
How this will be solved in the long run remains to be seen. In the short run, toolkits that support Wayland still support X11. Mainly I'm talking about GTK and Qt. Thus KDE, Gnome, GTK, and Qt apps will all run either on Wayland or X11 without recompiling. So for many people, remoting needs can be accomplished by simply using X11 on Wayland and tunneling X11 over SSH. Simply ssh into your remote machine and run the apps. Locally on wayland things are silky smooth, remotely they still work, though a bit choppier (X11 over ssh isn't fast enough for anything but LAN anyway... I use X2Go for WAN remote X11 stuff.
Of course in the long run if Wayland is successfull the X11 backend bits will languish in the toolkits and this will not be a sustainable future. I think essentially RDP will be adopted as the standard remoting protocol for wayland desktops. This will be used to forward individual apps or whole desktops. RDP is already a lot faster than X11 over ssh, due to the way X11 works and the fact that all modern toolkits essentially just push bitmaps these days anyway.
Before criticizing Wayland and extolling X11's virtues, consider watching this talk by Daniel Stone who was formerly intimately involved with X.org and seems to know hist stuff. He makes a good case for Wayland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It amuses me how all these SBCs advertize decoding high definition video. Of all the things I can think of to do with a Pi--robotics, remote sensing, UAVs, etc--decoding video is just not on my radar. Besides that I tried using a Pi once for a XBMC/Kodi box and found the experience to be lacking. 1080p video did play just fine most of the time until something crashed.
These devices can be used for amazingly cool projects. But I suspect 90% of them end up in the bottoms of drawers. I've got 4 in a drawer myself, waiting for time to use them in some cool project some day. In the meantime another more powerful one comes along.
Can anyone tell me if this board or any board (BBB maybe?) contains power management, such as suspend and resume, power on or wake on a schedule, etc? For remote sensing that is really what I need.
Hmm, what mouse wheel problems do you have? The mouse wheel has worked for many years for me. Ever since the mouse wheel was invented. I use the mouse wheel every day on Linux. I can't tell any difference from Windows or OS X (other than the backwards scrolling OS X defaults to).
Frankly, who cares how difficult it is for the ISPs. This is just a fact of life about how the US is set up and runs. Companies already have to navigate state-specific regulations. And if the states can and should regulate and enforce privacy, why not let them do it and assume the burden?
So while I disagree with almost everything the Republican Party stands for, on this I can certainly see their point. Why not let the local government, who theoretically has a better handle on the needs of its citizens than the federal government, decide what privacy is needed and enforce it on companies?
It's actually a similar thing things like car fuel economy regs. Why does the federal government need to concern itself when California already sets high standards? It's not like car companies are going to make two cars, one dirty and fuel-guzzling for the rest of the US, and another clean, lean one for California. But I digress.
The pic he posted on the thread looks like he used an old N64 powerbrick as a chassis, not the N64 itself. Also it appears he just stuck the innards of a real Switch dock into this, perhaps because it's a more convenient form factor or something. Does not appear to be anywhere as interesting as the /. summary indicated. He's not modding N64 hardware to somehow be used by the Switch. Correct me if I'm wrong.