I use atomic distros on my server and a media centre, but don't see any reason to do it on my main systems. Stability is fine, and atomic distros make said tinkering more difficult.

On the one hand, I don't doubt it's gotten worse. On the other hand, I've always heard stories about US immigrations being unreasonable, entirely humourless, and possibly detaing you or sending you back for the smallest mistake or omission.

Apartment person here. I use electric. An electric train, that is.

I mean, I get all that, but even if we leave out the conditions that might or might not be present in the prison, and how many of the inmates might be innocent (how would we know, without the possibility of due process), I don't see how anyone could justify rounding up people from the US, who where in many cases in the immigration system (meaning not "illegal immigrants" in the classical sense) in the streets and sending them to a prison in a different country, with no legal representation, no contact, and no knowledge of what will happen to them long term.

It's practically government sanctioned kidnapping.

What is "zero idleness" but forced prison labour, and what is forced prison labour if not slavery?

Also, while I don't disagree that it used to be worse for many El Salvadorians, that doesn't mean one should be silent about the total lack of any process with which alleged gang members are being imprisoned there, seemingly for life. If you want to claim that's worth it, that's your prerogative, and as someone who's never been to El Salvador, neither before nor after the crackdown, I don't think I can judge it. Still, you can't ignore the issue.

In my experience in Germany it's just available. Only for the business focused models, but still.

I'm pretty sure they've been doing that for a long time. The other more business focused OEMs too.

Graphene doesn't. The way I see it is like buying a laptop with pre-installed Windows, and replacing the OS.

First SanDisk, then Samsung. The Samsung ones usually lasted a bit longer.

I think the Card that has held up the longest (still in use, currently in some Raspberry Pi) is one from SiliconPower. Also, some Samsung 128 and 256 cards (from their Endurance Series I think) that I gave away to a friend who uses them in her camera.

I gotta admit I don't really care. Back when I used MicroSD Cards in my phone, they kept dying, and even midrange phones now have more internal storage then I need.

I can see why people want the option, but I personally haven't missed it.

They usually do it in the late evening, though. To make sure the tyre is sufficiently drained to be unmissable when the car is likely to next be used.

Yeah, uh, that looks like a chain. I never had chain coffee that wasn't at best mid.

Recently needed to set up a Win11 VM. It worked after removing the network adaptor from the VM setup, and then using the bypassnro command.

Fucking Microsoft.

Yeah, I suppose you're right. Might not want to get too familiar with having collateral damage in our vocabulary.

Lol, ML image recognition is also AI. Don't think they want drones that talk shit.

Dunno, your decision. The last person he offered one to after sexually harassing her didn't take it either. Horses are expensive to look after, and all that.

He might offer you a horse in return, though.

Well, they've been selectively bred over thousands of years, but mass farming has really sped it up.

https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/how-chickens-tripled-in-size/

I don't see why today's chicken would necessarily be more stable than a chicken precursor. If you look at the way chickens changed in the last few decades, you'll probably find that it happened much faster than ever before, making them less stable, I'd argue.

OK, as a result of this, I went on a bit of a research trip, and found out that

a) Setzer is apparently just what you people call carbonated water, and, b) that that is because of fucking Selters, a brand of mineral water I could go out and buy in any random-ass supermarket. (Sure, if you wanna go into it, it's because that source has a kinda funky mineral mix, and because water from there has been bottled forever, but whatever.)

There isn't really any point or punchline here, I just think our world is very silly.