You use it to write programs.

It is. But I doubt they are used by 3 combined people.

The Debian project needs to keep the machines for compiling and testing. And there’s probably no other machine of those architectures available for the enthusiasts to actually use.

That’s what a chemist looks like nowadays. Including the physics undergrad course.

You can push electrons into a capacitor if you don’t connect the other side. A few of them, but more than zero.

There are electrostatic generators that work by pushing electrons on one side and pulling from the other of some insulator that moves between those two. But you can’t sustain a steady state of only one of those actions.

Yes, and maybe we should ban chihuahuas too. But pitbulls chew random people in public spaces all the damn time.

The danger is not they biting you.

they smell bad IRL

They smell about as bad as a feral cat. What they do is they make you smell bad if you scare them.

You don’t have a home remedy for removing skunk smell, removing gum from hair or curing a hangover?

Building a train is a lot of work. But if the last guy is willing to loan it, it would be great.

I think some snakes are known to be poisonous. Snakes are prey to several animals.

Don’t feel demotivated. AI can’t replace developers now, and this current crop of them are just unable to.

The thing is, when you don’t know what you are doing, vibecoding looks like it works. This is either one case of this, or it’s some of the last 30 billion OpenAI raised this week at work.

Yes. It’s newby-friendly, what is great for the time every 2 or 3 years that it opens in my face and there’s no alternative editor installed.

Copy and paste are there too, but there’s no reason to use them instead of the terminal buffer, so I can edit things in an editor I like. I just wish it made it easier to delete several lines at the same time.

Yes. The only times I’ve had any problem with pipewire were when pulse decided to run for some reason and disrupted everything.

Also, I can open a pipewire device, write data there, and not run into C assert faults. I can do this with oss and alsa too, of course, but AFAIK, it’s impossible with pulse and all the Linux DEs ran on pure magic for a decade.

Technology does empower or disempower those people depending on the details it has.

We are in a moment when it seems to be doing both. So those people are working very hard for their power. It’s up to us to change it to only disempower them.

Even better. If you set it to -20°C, it was already done 5 hours ago.

Help! I’ve looked at the Sun and it’s white instead of yellow. What does that mean?

I imagine Linux can run most of those. Odds are the OP just didn’t try hard enough.

What is completely understandable.

“More scroll” is downwards.

The overall goals of mind-controlling a computer and not aging are quite ok.

They just can’t do anything good because of who they are. If those people set out to cure cancer, they will do that through a subscription service that require complete subservience.

Soul