unwarlikeExtortion

Bigger is always better. *For hardware*.

On the other hand, less is always more for software.

Might as well bump it to 64 GB and an LLM chip since in 5 years' time people might like Copilot & Friends spying a bit less on them.

I mean, if someone is responsible enough to brethalyze themselves, they should also be responsible enough to not drive. Hooking the brethalyzer up to the car to disable it seems like a terrible idea.


Deoending on the way it’s implemented, a bad one could brick a car for hours if someone drunk tries it, but there are perfectly sober people who could drive. Or y’know, this shit with someone coming on and remotely disabling things all willy-nilly.

Wait, are you telling me…


…that a device meant to disable a vehicle…


…was used to disable a vehicle?


Whould’ve thought?

All (well, almost all) the “App Store” apps like Discover are merely frontends for your system’s underlying package manager (apt for Debian and derivatives, dnf for Fedora and its derivatives).


The underlying package manager does the updating of packages: if you’ve installed it through the package manager (which is usually most stuff on an install) - it’ll get updated. Discover just gives you a nice, user-friendly way of interfacing with the package manager(s) on your system so you don’t need to bither with the CLI if you don’t want to.


And yes, you can have multiple - for example apt and Flatpak. Discover and friends should update all.

What OP explained isn’t arbitration. When you don’t pay off your bills, they go through a shortened court process in which you haven’t got any representation.


The claimant merely submits their records of the claimee owing them. Then the case is either upheld and the claimee gets 10 days to fight the case or pay before their accounts get impounded, or the case gets thrown out.


The claimee doesn’t have any say in the entire process - they can only raise issues after they get the stern letter to pay.


Since there’s no representation for one side, it’s not arbitration.

My recommendations are Firefox, Okular, Inkscape and Draw, depending on usecase.


Firefox is perfect for text-based markup (so higlighting, defacing with text, etc.)


Okular is a bit worse on the text front (doesn’t support editing the markup - for most stuff your only option is to undo so you have to be strategic abput catching mistakes early), but it does more stuff (boxes, arrows, lines, transparency, custom colors).


Draw is better if you actually want to make changes to many pages at once and don’t care if it messes up formatting a bit.


Inkscape is ideal if you want to rearrange stuff on a few pages and change things like colors or stamp on some text. It doesn’t have a nice way for highlighting text, but highlighting stuff like drawings, etc. is easier (just draw a recrangle with 30% opacity). Unlike Okular, changes aren’t baked in and unlike Draw, it’s easier to play around with colors and opacity.

2nd this. It is by no means a “PDF Editor”, but works better than any I’ve tried, since most jank up text (or at least gives you options).

Since when is Graphene’s logo a football and Motorola’s the Super Mario M?

Why’d he have to sign the book when it’s Bibi’s guestbook?

An AI can easily start nuclear war, as can a human.


The only thing preventing a nuclear disaster are all the institutional measures limiting its accessiblity.


If you gave a single human (or a single AI) access to a magic no-strings-attached ‘Send a Nuke’ button, either the human/AI is the second coming of Jesus Christ, or a nuke will befall some unlucky portion of the population sooner or later. Bonus points if people can talk to the AI or if access to the button is hereditary.

Love how all of the ones labeled as "tie" have a bowtie, yet the only one with an "actual" tie is not a "tie" one

Honestly, advertising is very dystopian. Online tracking being the obvious first example.


But that’s not all. How should I block physical ads in the city? Not only does it ruin the view, but roadside billboards surely caused at least one death by distracting a driver, and ads can get quite distasteful.


Also, it’s not just roadside - they’re plastered everywhere! Buildings, bus stops, right in the middle of the sidewalk. Some are classic paper, some are of the TV screen type. Some are quite small and inconspicuous, but a lot are huge enough to be seen from at least half a mile away.


Physical ads don’t finance anything. They’re just obnoxious. I don’t know how succeptible to ads other people are, but for me it takes an actually good offer to entice me - and usually that’s heard on radio or seen on TV (as far as ads go).

Some economist please corrcxt me if I’m wrong, but: Trickle down may not work. However, trickle up should.


If you do say, UBI, people will spend the stuff. And the money will go to the big players. They’ll buy their food at Walmart. Or meds at Target Pharmacy. Or get a loan at JP Morgan.


Unlike, say Walmart, who won’t buy their huge private jet collection from the swathes of less-than-well-off people across all of America.


So even if UBI made people lazy, even if it made people less productive, the money will still disproportionately end up in the hands of the rich.

Equally serious (and just a bit more deranged of an answer):


Humans are not meant to do work. Physical or otherwise. This slavery thing we have going on is just degrading and nonsensical.


Humans should live in tightly-knit families and tribes. Of course, the woman should do the simpler housework like cleaning, cooking and tidying, while the father should do the more manual stuff like fixing things, growing plants, keeping animals and hunting.


Women should likewise be seperated from books because they are more likely ro succumb to the words of the devil. I’m sorry, but that’s just how it is. Therefore men must educate their heirs (male, of course), while the wife should teach her daughters how to domthe chores.


If you can’t see how exposing a frail woman to the harsh reality of being the man of the house, try thinking of your own daughter.

Because historically (and for the most part today as well), it costs money.


Sure, today stuff like ChatGPT and the somewhat older Google Translate exists, but that doesn’t solve the cost issue.


There’s a huge chance someone paid a good chunk of money for all the books you find dirt-cheap at a flea market, check out at a library or happen to find in your own house.


Printing physical books is expensive. Publishers also want a margin, and a lot of authors want royalties.


In the end, someone needs to foot the cost of printing, and you’d need to go through non-trivial talks with most authors’ publishers (sometimes just the authors themselves).


Then you need to arange for translation, typesetting and printing if you’re not doing it yourself. That takes both time and money.


And if you were to do all that yourself, it’d be a huge time investment, with a potential lawsuit if you don’t do those damn talks. So most just don’t bother.


Businesses are incredibly inefficient, even though dome are “successful” and have a lot of cash to burn. It’s usually such a publisher that has a manager eho wants to get his section’s metrics up to go cry to his own manager about how good he is that chooses to publish a new book. Usually such actions are guided by things like bestseller lists rather than reviews. Simetimes the publisher hires an agency to try to approximate the demand for such a book (even more money spent). Then they do the talks. This also costs money, and the result is also a cost of money (the royalties to be paid). Then comes translation, then printing, then distribution to bookstores, then advertising.


These are just the steps that come to mind. All cost money, and all the books you see when you enter a bookstore went through all of these steps. For a library, not as much did, but the vast majority did.


Sure, not every situation is the same, so there are companies that specialize in providing translations of well-known works or companies whose manager at one point said they need to publish 25 translations yearly (instead of one individual one), so they kind of “flood” the market.


That’s the long answer.


The short one is: 90% the economy and 10% human laziness.