Onno (VK6FLAB) @ vk6flab @lemmy.radio

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source

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The difference is in having a shower first ..

The consortium clearly has too much money.

Endless pontificating and outrage on social media, numerous late night show skits and several live streaming channels keeping track of the progress, the destruction of history, the nullification of the offices of First Ladies throughout time, not to mention an improved bottom line for the companies who bribed, uh, funded it, a distraction from government caused shutdown and less time spent discussing why the Epstein files still haven't been released.

It means your coffee pod machine just came online and the coffee is currently spewing from the spout .. probably.

In Australia:

https://reebelo.com.au/

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If it's never happened to you, how would you know that it's happening at all?

Does this mean that the reverse is also true?

Tantrums?

I think your notion of tram accidents is flawed and the conclusions you reach are not supported by evidence.

Cars are here and are likely to be for the foreseeable future.

We're experimenting with things like e-scooters, but our current implementation brings speed differences in close contact, ie. pedestrians vs. scooters, and scooters vs. cars.

Some countries are doing this separation better than others, for example, the Netherlands seems to have a better handle on this that many others, but that hasn't always been the case .. for context, I used to live there for many years.

In Perth, more and more areas are enforcing 40 km/h speed zones, but it's too early to know the full impact of these changes.

Fundamentally the difference in speed between modes of transport are what causes conflict.

I also note that distance is not the same in every country, where walking and cycling are viable options in a city like Amsterdam, they're not in a city like Perth in Western Australia.

Perth metropolitan area: 21,436 km² Population: 2.12 million Amsterdam metropolitan area: 2,580 km² Population 2.52 million

Between the clickbait, YouTube "enhancements", exploding AI slop videos and the atrocious search facility, the platform is rapidly becoming completely unusable for finding relevant information when you're looking for answers.

As an entertainment platform it's forcing creators to make long form content and making viewers sit through more and more low quality content.

It's evolving, but I'm pretty sure it's heading towards extinction, rather than greatness.

When cars go "AI", 45% of the time you'll end up at the wrong destination having broken several traffic laws along the way.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

The shoes I've seen look like an orthopaedic horror story.

As a fully functional adult, I've been eyeing off light up shoes for years. So far, all I've seen is gimmick shoes you wouldn't wear for more than an hour, so I make do with fluorescent shoelaces instead.

This seems like fun, though I'm not sure if I'd be game to walk up a set of stairs on them, perhaps I'm not keen on breaking something when I'd invariably trip and fall.

I wonder what the criteria are to define what an artist is, or what requirements are needed to qualify for such assistance.

Unlikely.

You underestimate the size of the Universe. There's 8 billion people on Earth, there's about 200 billion stars in our galaxy, and between 100 billion to 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

Wait until you get your head around awk 😇

The commands man and apropos are your friends to get you started.

Learning how to use specific tools like grep, sed and awk is a case of getting started by using them. Most of the subsequent learning process will focus around how to create regular expressions (regex), for which there's also a manpage.

The "typical example" for a dd command is like saying, "here's a great way to shoot yourself in the foot". A better way is to understand that most of these tools follow the UNIX philosophy:

1. Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".
2. Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don't clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don't insist on interactive input.
3. Design and build software, even operating systems, to be tried early, ideally within weeks. Don't hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and rebuild them.
4. Use tools in preference to unskilled help to lighten a programming task, even if you have to detour to build the tools and expect to throw some of them out after you've finished using them.

Once you "grok" that, you'll be in a much better place.

How would you suggest I respond in the future?

We have a person, claiming that CUPS doesn't work and they now uninstall it on every installation.

There is no context, no data, no information that suggests what the issue is, what they tried, when this occurred, on which platform, under which conditions.

In other words, the user was essentially saying "CUPS sux".

Having used Linux as my main system for over 25 years, that sentiment did not match my own experience, does not help anyone, not me, not the user and not the OP who was trying to solve a problem, let alone anyone else reading along.

I responded accordingly.

This has not been my experience .. at .. all.

Perhaps it would be helpful to discover what exactly doesn't work for you and fix that, rather than remove CUPS because one time it didn't work for you seven years ago.