Oh word! I forgot about Signal. I use the snap for that. It works well. I think copy/paste works with it.

I used apt for Firefox, Krita, ffmpeg, Blender and Ksnips

I think the big commercial programs I use were installed with vendor scripts

I’m daily driving Ubuntu and my experience aligns with this.

My only gripe is snaps can break copy/paste and prevent me from saving files where I want. This might make Ubuntu unusable for people using Linux for the first time and makes no sense if you dont understand how snaps are sandboxed and how permissions work. The solution is install with apt.

The installer, system configuration programs and UI experience is really good. I argue it is a much superior experience to Windows and arguably better than OS/X. A lot less garbage being shoved down customers throats.

Very good points.

In my case I just need to for a couple users with maybe a few dozen transactions a day; it’s far from being a bottleneck and there’s little point in optimizing it further.

Containerizing it also has the benefit of boiling all installation and configuration into one very convenient dockercompose file… Actually two. I use one with all the config stuff that’s published to gitea and one that has sensitive data.

good to hear. maybe I should try again

i use it for gitea, nextcloud, redis, postgres, and a few rest servers and love it!, super easy

it can suck for things like homelab stablediffusion and things that require gpu or other hardware.

I agree with you, Maggoty, and that why neither one of us will get very far in National politics.

Bingo! You get the prize :)

Wow! Wonder if Facebook will dissapear as quickly as MySpace

Nah, with hands on the wheel, looking at the road, the driver, who agrees they will pay attention, will have disengaged the system long before it gets to that point.

The system’s super easy to disengage.

It’s also getting better every year.

5 years ago my car could barely change lanes on the highway. Now it navigates lefts at 5 way lighted intersections in big city traffic with idiots blocking the intersection and suicidal cyclists running red lights as well as it was changing lanes on highway… And highway lane changes are extremely reliable. Cant remember my last lane change disengagement. Same car; just better software.

I bet 5 years from now it’ll be statistically safer than humans… Maybe not same car. Hope it’s my car too, but it’s unclear if that processor is sufficient…

Anyway, it’ll keep improving from there.

Ah shit did he really? That fucking turd

Lidar and sonar are way lower resolution.

Sonar has a hard time telling the difference between a manhole cover, large highway sign and a brick wall.

After many brilliant people trying for decades, it seems you can’t get the robot chauffeur without several billion miles of actual driving data, sifted and sorted into what is safe, good driving and what is not.

Bot to be a hard-on about it, but if the cameras hace any problem autopilot ejects gracefully and hands it over to the driver.

I aint no elon dicj rider, but I got FSD andd the radar would see manhole covers and freak the fuck out. It was annoying as hell and pissed my wife off. The optical depth estimation is now far more useful than the radar sensor.

Lidar has severe problems too. I’ve used it many times professionally for mapping spaces. Reflective surfaces fuck it up. It delivers bad data frequently.

Cameras will eventually be great! Really they already are, but they’ll get orders of magnitude better. Yeah 4 years ago the ai failed to recognize a rectagle as a truck, but it aint done learning yet.

That driver really should have been paying attention. Thee car fucking tells you to all the time.

If a camera has a problem the whole system aborts.

In the future this will mean the car will pull over, but it’'s, as it makes totally fucking clear, in beta. So for now it aborts and passes control to the human that is payong attention.

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A person who attempts to gain advantage by flattering influential people or behaving in a servile manner. A tale-bearer or informer in general. A parasite; a mean flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men. 

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I think China sells arms to Russia too.

Did they stutter?

I switched from Win 10 to Ubuntu this year. The Ubuntu installer was easy as hell. I’d argue easier than windows.

It got tricky when I needed the non-latest CUDA drivers for pytorch fun, but most folks won’t be doing development.

Also, most folks don’t install windows. They’ll give it to their nerd nephew or their local Compu-Hut.

My biggest gripe is Snaps can make for confusing permission bullshit when saving files or using the clipboard, but this isnt a debate about snaps… the installer is great

Hell yeah!

Great point. The WTO has been effective at enforcing international trade agreements.

Most of their enforcement has been things like forcing countries to import tuna caught with dolphin- killing nets and other messed up stuff… … but they could totally enforce a carbon & pollution fee system for internationally traded goods.

Being that they are essentially run by international conglomerates, I doubt they will, but they are positioned to.

Agreed! I think your first paragraph was the commentor’s point, though I dunno

It’s pretty sad that actually doing things to help our ecosystem is for the most part very unprofitable.

He didnt ask when companies will shift to making money. He asked when will companies shift to making things we need.

Money is a useful tool, but it is not life sustaining by itself. Our species existed without money for longer than we’ve had money.

What humans really need is a habitable planet where we can feed ourselves, have shelter and cultivate culture with others.

Unfortunately the desire for money has disincentivised taking care of the ecosystem that provides food, protects us from solar radiation and keeps us and our crops from baking or freezing to death.