For one specific guy's case. The only problem I've ever had with Ubuntu/Mint audio before I started halfassedly tinkering with it was that Ubuntu didn't disable the speakers when you plugged in headphones for like 6 releases in a row. Other than that, smooth sailing.
Does Ubuntu do it any better? (I'm not even going to ask about Debian.) When I tried to upgrade my last Xubuntu install, it hosed my graphics driver somehow. I was rather surprised as before that I can't remember having any trouble with dist-upgrades.
Oh, and apparently they still have that bug where if I launch Firefox from the LiveCD, it kills my graphics, too. When I was putting the fresh (Mint) install on after the above, that happened. And for some brilliant reason the bootloader gets written at the END of the installation. Oh, and they redesigned GRUB a few years back to make it basically impossible to boot from outside as far as I can tell.
Personally, I dislike them because my normal instinct to look in straight lines in front of, behind, and to either side laterally of me doesn't work in them. All the roundabouts I've been in have a tight enough diameter that it's not possible to see any appreciable distance in front of or behind you to give you time to react to all the drivers who often don't know how to handle them (we should have a PSA or something...). God knows what speed anybody in a roundabout will be going.
And dual-lanes make it twice as bad because add to that people who might be treating the lanes erratically. I was sideswiped once while completely minding my own business in my lane and everyone where I live seems to love to keep one tire on the lane markings, so I'm very jumpy about lane issues.
Supposedly there's research that shows traffic circles are safer, but everyone I've ever talked to hates them. And I'm especially suspicious of dual-lane circles as they seem like an accident waiting to happen as most drivers don't know what the rules of them are.
I guess you're supposed to take the inner lane if you're skipping exits? Which only really works if the circle is a minimum diameter that you're staying in it for an appreciable amount of time.
Read a sampling of the comments on literally any SystemD-related article to find out the details. It blows my mind that people are still posting "lol i have no idea u open sourc guys r dum" when all they have to do is scroll up or down like one screenlength.
What is with the SystemD bashing anyway? It's written entirely for the Linux API for the better, why should Linux stick with the old init which runs in Unix System V and BSD. Isn't this why Linux is moving away from the old xorg to wayland.
Because especially in programming, "old" does not necessarily equal "broken." "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." And especially don't fix it with something that breaks half the rest of the product as a whole...while kind of failing to actually provide any benefits.
It will take some time to fully optimize SystemD for Linux and it will be the same thing with Wayland.
Except Wayland is still optional. You don't ram the new software into the working ecosystem and then fix it.
So where do you fill up? Not sure if you're talking about "dedicated" gas stations...with your use of the word "petrol" I'm guessing you're British. In the U.S. anyway, most gas stations have a convenience store attached anyway so it seems like splitting hairs unless you're right and there is an appreciable quality difference.
Technically those 2 things are mutually exclusive. You can usually put a bit more gas in after it clicks; the click is just to prevent you from easily overfilling.
I know a guy who keeps jiggering it after the click but don't remember why offhand.
I was just going to mention that "gallons/mile" instead of "miles/gallon" struck me as fairly similar to standard vs. metric, i.e., mostly a matter of preference in daily life.
It's already a simple mathematical operation to transform from mpg to gpm, and with the wall of numbers he throws at us which I feel that a car owner is only going to actually do when they're in the market for a new car, the annoyance of transitioning over outweighs the benefits. And I'm definitely against further translation by dividing everything by 100 or 1000 or some other arbitrary scalar, which he also pushes.
Also, I thought it was a bit disingenuous when the guy said "it's obvious that gpm gives better information in regards to efficiency...here, just let me divide everything by 1000 and you'll see..." Well no shit when you divide by 1000 the numbers get more dramatic!
As a closing thought, maybe the logic is that mpg is more oriented towards U.S. consumers who just want to know if they have enough gas to get there, rather than caring about their fuel efficiency all the time. Case in point, the Hummer.
P.S: Wait, this is in the EU? So who uses liters/100 km? The U.K.?
Cared for defeating Hitler and the Nazis? Stopping the atrocities? Cared for your allies?
The U.S. wasn't officially allied with anyone. Up through WWI the U.S. had a fairly consistent policy of neutrality in European wars. If the U.S. intervened in every European war, it would've been bled dry(er) a long time before. If you can show me an official document the U.S. signed with any European powers pledging military aid in war before the Atlantic Charter (Aug 1941) I'm all ears.
And as the GP implied, Lend-Lease was March 1941. It might be the common viewpoint to say that WWII was a thing where it was "obviously" right to join the Allies and "obviously" known that Germany was doing all sorts of evil things, but there was plenty of uncertainty at the time. We now rest comfortably in our armchairs with 20/20 hindsight. I suppose you think us going in and finding those WMDs in Iraq was justified, too? After all, we "knew" they had them!
Hopefully they'll raise the whole total and then donate it to some kid's ass cancer charity at the last moment. Then they get arrested for the reasons you gave.
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Man who shoots self in foot is doer, not hater.
Man who talks about shooting self in foot but doesn't comes away happier.
For one specific guy's case. The only problem I've ever had with Ubuntu/Mint audio before I started halfassedly tinkering with it was that Ubuntu didn't disable the speakers when you plugged in headphones for like 6 releases in a row. Other than that, smooth sailing.
Random data point is random
Does Ubuntu do it any better? (I'm not even going to ask about Debian.) When I tried to upgrade my last Xubuntu install, it hosed my graphics driver somehow. I was rather surprised as before that I can't remember having any trouble with dist-upgrades.
Oh, and apparently they still have that bug where if I launch Firefox from the LiveCD, it kills my graphics, too. When I was putting the fresh (Mint) install on after the above, that happened. And for some brilliant reason the bootloader gets written at the END of the installation. Oh, and they redesigned GRUB a few years back to make it basically impossible to boot from outside as far as I can tell.
*goes off and bangs head against the wall*
Being able to successfully boot your machine tends to be important to being productive.
I haven't seen this much hate since OOP started getting popular
I seem to remember quite a lot of shouting when OOXML was being pushed out, at least around here.
"Those who do not know UNIX are doomed to reimplement it, poorly."
Yeah, I'm an XFCE guy myself ever since Unity, but anything that depends on GNOME (e.g. GIMP) may be problematic.
Yeah, and then GNOME (and anything else that depends on it) won't work. Try to keep up.
Personally, I dislike them because my normal instinct to look in straight lines in front of, behind, and to either side laterally of me doesn't work in them. All the roundabouts I've been in have a tight enough diameter that it's not possible to see any appreciable distance in front of or behind you to give you time to react to all the drivers who often don't know how to handle them (we should have a PSA or something...). God knows what speed anybody in a roundabout will be going.
And dual-lanes make it twice as bad because add to that people who might be treating the lanes erratically. I was sideswiped once while completely minding my own business in my lane and everyone where I live seems to love to keep one tire on the lane markings, so I'm very jumpy about lane issues.
Supposedly there's research that shows traffic circles are safer, but everyone I've ever talked to hates them. And I'm especially suspicious of dual-lane circles as they seem like an accident waiting to happen as most drivers don't know what the rules of them are.
I guess you're supposed to take the inner lane if you're skipping exits? Which only really works if the circle is a minimum diameter that you're staying in it for an appreciable amount of time.
Read a sampling of the comments on literally any SystemD-related article to find out the details. It blows my mind that people are still posting "lol i have no idea u open sourc guys r dum" when all they have to do is scroll up or down like one screenlength.
What is with the SystemD bashing anyway? It's written entirely for the Linux API for the better, why should Linux stick with the old init which runs in Unix System V and BSD. Isn't this why Linux is moving away from the old xorg to wayland.
Because especially in programming, "old" does not necessarily equal "broken." "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." And especially don't fix it with something that breaks half the rest of the product as a whole...while kind of failing to actually provide any benefits.
It will take some time to fully optimize SystemD for Linux and it will be the same thing with Wayland.
Except Wayland is still optional. You don't ram the new software into the working ecosystem and then fix it.
Joke's on you--next they'll merge vi into systemd.
OH GOD IT BURNSSSS
Ah. Thanks for the information; I was trying to figure out how hot-swapping a CPU made any sense and failing.
I now avoid all supermarket fuel
So where do you fill up? Not sure if you're talking about "dedicated" gas stations...with your use of the word "petrol" I'm guessing you're British. In the U.S. anyway, most gas stations have a convenience store attached anyway so it seems like splitting hairs unless you're right and there is an appreciable quality difference.
Half the stop signs at 4-way stops could be replaced by yields.
FTFY. It would be interesting to see what happened at a 4-way yield.
(until it click, until no more drop can get it)
Technically those 2 things are mutually exclusive. You can usually put a bit more gas in after it clicks; the click is just to prevent you from easily overfilling.
I know a guy who keeps jiggering it after the click but don't remember why offhand.
The only way to get more reliable distance measurement is by GPS
Umm...GPS is a good way to get reliable *location* measurement. Is it really more accurate than an odometer for *distance traveled*?
I was just going to mention that "gallons/mile" instead of "miles/gallon" struck me as fairly similar to standard vs. metric, i.e., mostly a matter of preference in daily life.
It's already a simple mathematical operation to transform from mpg to gpm, and with the wall of numbers he throws at us which I feel that a car owner is only going to actually do when they're in the market for a new car, the annoyance of transitioning over outweighs the benefits. And I'm definitely against further translation by dividing everything by 100 or 1000 or some other arbitrary scalar, which he also pushes.
Also, I thought it was a bit disingenuous when the guy said "it's obvious that gpm gives better information in regards to efficiency...here, just let me divide everything by 1000 and you'll see..." Well no shit when you divide by 1000 the numbers get more dramatic!
As a closing thought, maybe the logic is that mpg is more oriented towards U.S. consumers who just want to know if they have enough gas to get there, rather than caring about their fuel efficiency all the time. Case in point, the Hummer.
P.S: Wait, this is in the EU? So who uses liters/100 km? The U.K.?
Cared for defeating Hitler and the Nazis? Stopping the atrocities? Cared for your allies?
The U.S. wasn't officially allied with anyone. Up through WWI the U.S. had a fairly consistent policy of neutrality in European wars. If the U.S. intervened in every European war, it would've been bled dry(er) a long time before. If you can show me an official document the U.S. signed with any European powers pledging military aid in war before the Atlantic Charter (Aug 1941) I'm all ears.
And as the GP implied, Lend-Lease was March 1941. It might be the common viewpoint to say that WWII was a thing where it was "obviously" right to join the Allies and "obviously" known that Germany was doing all sorts of evil things, but there was plenty of uncertainty at the time. We now rest comfortably in our armchairs with 20/20 hindsight. I suppose you think us going in and finding those WMDs in Iraq was justified, too? After all, we "knew" they had them!
You don't take the individual machine out of the active pool and then add the hardware? You just jam in the hot-swap and cross your fingers?
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Hopefully they'll raise the whole total and then donate it to some kid's ass cancer charity at the last moment. Then they get arrested for the reasons you gave.
Hail Eris
When the entire software ecosystem is adopting it, yes.
How would you like it if the top 20 automakers in the world all suddenly decided to stop putting cupholders in vehicles?
Gah. Just totally shot my point in the foot.
*A | B | C.
If (the software was actually good) or (it was opt-in) or (he listened to people) this wouldn't be a problem.
It sounds like the reason for the furor is that A ^ B ^ C = false.