TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)

Not a boomer, but was in Uni in '99. The '99/00 new year was a wild time because everyone waited to see if something had its update missed that would cause mass chaos.

In the end nothing of consequence happened.

Double check that math. 😜 It feels like only a few years ago, and it being a quarter century seems impossible.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is narrowing the capabilities and reducing the number of next-generation weather and climate satellites it plans to build and launch in the coming decades …

And just like that, the US bows out of another scientific segment we could have been leaders in. It also would be cool if an asshole with a 4 year term wasn’t able to screw us all for generations so easily.

Indeed. It is somewhat similar to when man messes up an ecosystem either by introducing an invasive species, or decimating a species in an area. It doesn’t affect everything, everywhere, but can severely change a local ecosystem in ways that may not be obvious.

A great example of this is how the wolves in Yellowstone changed the whole ecosystem of the park, both with the wolves removal, and again with their reintroduction.

I’ll also note that land in general has warmed much more than sea surface temperatures. Unless you’re living on a not-too-big island in a temperate location (eg: where The Guardian writers live) you’re encountering this.

Land will heat faster than water, but will also lose that heat faster than water. That part makes the warming ocean a real big issue, as those warmer oceans will allow more destructive weather and eventually reshape climates. As well as the melting of polar ice raising sea level, humans better buckle up as we seem to have chosen the rough route to self extinction.

They need to do more racking of their forests! /s

This is one of those things that the climate deniers are just unable to comprehend. They see “a few degrees” as nothing, but like most things in nature, a small change in the environment can radically change things. They never think of the ramifications of an abnormal amount of rain (well Texas does now) that causes flooding/mudslides. Then on the other end of the spectrum, when you don’t have enough rain anymore and now you’re surrounded by kindling waiting for a spark, or have places running out of water for ppl/crops/animals.

Ubuntu (and also Debian that it derives from) are always behind on the software release cycles and contain “stale” packages. This is desirable if you’re running a server, but if you’re wanting a modem day desktop experience a non-rolling release distro is just leaving performance/usability of your hardware on the table.

Think of Ubuntu/Debian and all their derivatives as the Jitterbug of the phone industry. They work perfectly fine, but if you want a real phone you’re probably going to be happier with an iPhone or Android phone just because they make use of newer technology and get updates constantly.

Obviously more testing is required! I used to walk to school up hill both ways and got the switch if I complained! Kids just don’t want to learn anymore! /s

Also I remember how much it sucked in a building w/out AC, so with these new spring/fall heat waves I’d be dead. Lucky in the US we have a party undoing education for the mid-class/poor so that only the rich that do fuck all will get an education. Part of their “keep the work force dumb and working” agenda.

It’s absolutely heartbreaking that someone could be such a monster and spend all their time on this rock just fucking over people and the planet, and make bank doing so!

That “article” is painful to try and read, it’s like a run on thought that bounces all over the place. The author really should make a clear outline and could probably cut out half by not saying the same thing over and over and over again. I stopped after the third time I read about Fedora flatpaks are different from flathub flatpaks, and users like flathub more, but the author is apparently eventually going to explain why that’s an issue after 2K words of nonsense.

Your generic “barcode” for something like a UPC is considered a 1D barcode and uses things like the spacing of the lines and thickness to encode data. Although some 1D barcodes can detect the barcode is damaged they cannot do error recovery.

Your 2D barcodes, like QR or Data Matrix, store data in both directions and depending on format can have varying levels of error correction (duplicate data) built into the barcode. They also obviously can take up less room and hold the same or more data as well. You do need a scanner that can do 2D barcodes though, as not all scanners will read them.

They are not at all the same thing.

A QR code is just a 2D barcode that can be used to hold a certain amount of alphanumeric data (and amount is limited by size).

While pkpass is an Apple format used in its wallet app to store data.

Love that as soon as his name got attached to Epstein, that he’s shifted to damage control and trying to push this narrative that it’s been a “radical Left” issue this whole time. And trying to get all his conspiracy people to move on to an election that at this point doesn’t matter either way is just full panic.

They filled lawsuits all over the country that they had to withdraw because they had no evidence, yet continue to claim to be ready to release all the “evidence” they have anytime now for years. I think even his Supreme Court is going to find it hard to invent constitution law to back up their conspiracy theories. I would love to see them try though, make it televised, since they are just pissing away tax dollars anyway.

I think his administration has a 2 prong approach to their attack on weather science:

1. It’s an attack on all science that they look to replace with “thoughts and prayers”
2. If you suppress the science showing how you’re making everyone less safe and putting millions of lives at risk, that’s good “damage control”. Then you double down on “owning the libs” at the same time making crazy corrupt deals with the fossil fuel industry.

Have you tried the default Fedora kernel? Also you didn’t install TLP did you?

True, and as long as expense ratios are the same or lower than your US index/mutual fund then your only real issue is if the US market rebounds and outperforms your portfolio if you had diversified more.

And the expense ratio’s can vary a lot. For example Fidelity shows the exp. ratio of ($0.08 per $1,000) 0.008% for their Index Equity Fund, where their International Equity Fund has an exp. ratio of ($4.02 per $1,000) 0.402%.

Even small differences in fees can have a huge effect over time. Say you’ve invested $100,000 at a 7% annual return: A fund with a 0.80% expense ratio could eat up $70,000 more of your returns over 30 years than a fund with a 0.40% expense ratio.

Source: How to Invest Your 401(k) and Best 401(k) Investments

All good! The internet makes it even harder to tell because I can’t “read” anyone over the ether.

By 2035 we could be under water, or all living in a radioactive hellscape. And the argument of paying people to use a free service breaks logic.

All these left of fascist, but still love some good old fashioned racism and misogyny shitheads, will hopefully leave some room for more progressives on the left, and the Right will continue in just more dysfunction.

Vance has the respect and following of nobody. No way the GOP stand behind Vance fucking a couch if something happens to Trump.