We measure geological epochs in millions of years. We just barely started the Holocene 12k years ago. While speaking about human impact makes sense in shorter timescale fields like sociology, I'm not sure we need to start a new geological timescale. Humanity is just a brief blip in the holocene that may not even survive to another epoch if whatever intelligence that follows us continues to use the same systems we developed.
The POSIX standard is more portable. If you are writing scripts for your system, you can use the full features in the main man pages. If you are writing code that you want to run on other Linux systems, maybe with reduced feature sets like a tiny embedded computer or alternates to gnu tools like alpine linux, or even other unixes like the BSDs, you will have a better time if you limit yourself to POSIX-compatible features and options -- any POSIX-compatible Unix-like implementation should be able to run POSIX-compliant code.
This is also why many shell scripts will call #!/bin/sh instead of #!/bin/bash -- sh is more likely to be available on tinier systems than bash.
If you are just writing scripts and commands for your own purposes, or you know they will only be used on full-feature distributions, it's often simpler and more comfortable to use all of the advanced features available on your system.
Ooh, I moved to hyprland a few months ago and fell in love, but sway will give me static layouts? My singular gripe with hyprland is I want to keep my RDP app fixed to a size and never resized for anything, because when that window resizes inadvertently, I have to MFA half a dozen connections. I mostly like the dynamic tiling, but I'd like to fix one window on one workspace and never have it resize.
Democrat-leaning states are already working towards that.. The idea is that if they have 270 electoral votes worth of states signed up, they will all agree to change their electoral delegates to follow the national popular vote, effectively ending the electoral college. It's not really a democratic push, but it's an idea that would only be popular with the party that aligns with the national majority. They currently have 205 EVs committed.
I stand with Palestine, and I'll be voting in the US. Yes, I'm voting for Biden as the lesser of two evils, but I'm also voting for a whole lot of other really good people who are going up against some truly evil people. I've got people attacking my schools and libraries at the local level. Not voting to spite Biden will hurt my town a whole lot more than it would hurt Biden.
Honestly, I just self-host. I download my ebooks, use Calibre to clean them, convert them to my favorite format (ePub), and tag the shit out of them with metadata. My Calibre library lives in a folder that gets synced to all my devices (I'm currently using a commercial cloud storage platform from one of the big providers, but working on spinning up a Nextcloud instance). Then I just open my ebooks in Moon+ Reader Pro on my phone and read away.
I think that's a cool idea, but I don't like it for unixporn. I always feel the *porn communities are just what you're seeing -- people sharing their pretty thing. Maybe they give details, maybe not. Maybe they interact and chat with the community, maybe not.
Is the open driver more stable in Wayland now? 535, I couldn't use Wayland at all. 545, the open driver was still giving me all kinds of problems, but proprietary driver was flawless. Just upgraded and nothing broke, so I guess I'll try flipping back to open again and giving it a try, but the point of the proprietary driver has been stability, at least for some of us. [Arch/Wayland/hyprland/rtx3060]
Yes, driving trains is becoming more and more important as we find out how terrible cars are for the environment. We should protect the profession fiercely!
I love Linux, but you got some weird shit going on with your PC. I've got 3 4K monitors hooked up to a moderate-spec PC (Ryzen 9 3900X, 64GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB) and I never saw white flashes when adjusting windows. Also it only rebooted when I told it to and never made much noise (quiet fans and all solid-state storage). Can't say I ever used the super-D thing intentionally (I launched programs from the start menu, never used desktop shortcuts).
I run Linux now because it's sick as tits and it's the principle of the thing, but windows has been pretty fuckin' rock-solid since 10. Shit, I had more graphical instability with Linux a few months ago, but that's just because I insist on using Wayland, and Nvidia drivers had a rough year last year.
Erm, did you miss the part where the Russians were running "whites-only" businesses that turned away the native population? Yeah, you gotta care about the refugees, but they also gotta meet you halfway.
acronym Race inpired car enchantment or something like that
Backronym. It was a racist term in the car community for decades before somebody came up with that in an attempt to whitewash it.
and the intent very much does matter
Citation needed, because every single utterance of "redskins" was racist af, even if the majority of the team's fans never had a racist thought in their heads about native americans.