Th4tGuyII

Not to be facious, but in simply asking this question you’re already beyond the scope of the people most GUI tools are designed for (I.e. novices who either don’t need this tool often enough to learn the CLI, or don’t need the advanced features you’d get from doing so).

I agree on CLI text editors. I get why they exist, but for most users they should be a last resort, not the primary instruction.

Instead of telling people to use Nano, just tell people to edit the .conf in a text editor and let them choose!

Many users won’t understand that what they’re being told to do with Nano is literally just edit a text document with a funky file extension, and that they don’t actually have to that it in CLI (in-fact it might even be easier not to if you’re not familiar with them).

Exactly. The current “peace deal” is essentially give Russia everything it wants and ask no questions.

That’s just a total surrender by a different name, and Ukraine has every right not to agree to that, given they’re the ones being attacked completely unprovoked.

Just hours earlier, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov insisted Moscow was not interested in agreeing to a ceasefire, instead holding out for a peace agreement that would end the conflict on its terms.

As far as I can tell, Russia’s terms are, and always have been, that they want the land they stole and nothing less.

Maybe someone should tell Russia that trying to strongarm terms that nobody would agree to (short of putting a gun to their head) is obviously going to hold up talks.

Yeah. I think this is the likely answer.

Amongst the sheer number of initiatives and councils being pulled out of, concerningly many of them relate to the enforcement of international law, and to human rights in general.

If the US was planning on violating international law (again) anytime soon, this would certainly be a good indicator for it.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Donny J make good on his threats. Question is how will that play out when both parties have nukes and might be willing to use them.

Looks like the US is intent on starting this year with a bang.

The list is HUGE and spans across so many agencies and so many disciplines it’s absurd.

I mean FFS does Donny J actually mean to tell us that the “Science and Technology Center in Ukraine” runs contrary to US interests?

If that’s actually true - that doesn’t spell good things for the US’s future intentions for Ukraine.

Also a few of these are rather telling of the current trajectory of the US’s policies:

• Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;

• Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• International Renewable Energy Agency;

• International Union for Conservation of Nature;

• UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;

For starters this is a metric fuck tonne of environmental initiatives to pull out of, and shows the Republican-led US is going to be making a generational push towards screwing over the environment.

… And then some other notable initiatives:

• Freedom Online Coalition;

• Global Forum on Migration and Development;

• Global Counterterrorism Forum;

• International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;

• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance;

• International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law;

• UN International Law Commission;

• UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;

• UN International Trade Centre;

• UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict; Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict; and Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;

• UN Democracy Fund;

• UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;

It’s rather concerning how many of the councils the US is pulling out from relate to international law, upholding democracy, and to human rights in general.

Sounds like a great idea. Meet our popation’s power demand by helping to weaken the Earth’s magnetic field - which is currently busy protecting us from hostile-to-life electromagnetic radiation.

Honestly, I think consumers allowing manufacturers to start integrating screens into cars was a mistake.

Knobs and dials are way easier to nevigate blind (whilst focusing on the road like we’re meant to), and none of that stops you plugging in your own third party device for other features, or replacing the headboard yourself.

Giant tablets with complex menus are dangerous to drivers, and only serve to milk the consumer for things they already had access to in their car as standard not 10 years ago.

I’m worried how many people answered the odd numbers for an equation where it is only possible to end up with an even numbered answer.

Valve could’ve legitimately done nothing and still be winning in comparison to the big three, but instead they’ve slowly and steadily been helping the gaming community to give Windows the middle finger by making huge contributions to Linux gaming.

Honestly, its downright shameful how many companies have forgotten that a good way to make money from customers is simply to treat them nicely while they’re buying your goods.

Edit: Changed basically the whole comment, as you’re right. I looked at the Blog, and it does state in his FAQ that he had a backup. Which frankly makes a significant part of the article completely BS - as it makes multiple heavy implications that he didn’t have any backup.

This apparently happened with “no explanation and no recourse,” putting “terabytes of family photos” and their entire message history out of reach, as well as preventing the ability to sync work across devices.

He has copies elsewhere, so why would he be worried about losing access to this data.

Also, the end of the article discusses not storing all your data in one place…

If you store your photos and files in a single place, it’s a good idea to back them up to multiple locations to protect against something going wrong. But with how integrated devices are these days, it’s hard to avoid having all your apps, purchases and media within a single ecosystem. In cases like that, there’s not a lot you can do.

So it wouldn’t be wrong of most people to walk away from this article with the assumption that he didn’t have a proper backup strategy.

Everyone always learns the hard way, just the same as I did - one copy is usually as good as no copies at all.

For data you can’t afford to lose, the 3-2-1 rule is king. Original, cold local, and remote.

All I can do is pray that my current RAM survives long enough for this stupid AI bubble to burst, like with the Crypto-Bro GPUs.

But it is kind of horrifying how easily consumers have been priced out of the RAM market - at least for newer stuff anyways

Considering everyone I know with a folding phone has had a fault with the folding part of it - I don’t think its the best idea from a durability standpoint to add yet another folding part.

If one screen or fold point breaks, you’re now left with two unusable (but perfectly functioning) screens. Seems like an expensive gimmick to me.

Fair and Balanced trade deal my backside. A cursory look through this seems like a really one-sided agreement favouring the US - with the EU making considerable trade-offs to the US, without much promise of stuff in return.

I mean you only need to read point number 1 and 2 to get a considerable idea of this. The EU commits to eliminating all tarifs on US industrial goods, while the US commits to no more or less than 15% tariff on certain goods only. That’s an insanely one-sided commitment

What’s the point in making something illegal to patent if you can just side-step it by a technicality and enforce a patent anyway?

If the point was to protect food security, then make it illegal to patent regardless of how the breed was created - sorry if you spent more breeding them artificially, food security for the people should be more important than money.

Could the Russians stop invading another country’s sovereign land?