You think I’m American because – checks notes – I care about getting names and relationships right and understand that there isn’t necessarily a 1:1 relationship between what a name actually is in its native language and what it looks like written in English?
I am American, but I don’t understand why you apparently think that’s a common characteristic of us or why you want to give me an angry backhanded compliment about it.
Most of mine have already been mentioned, but the biggie that hasn’t is: the Back to the Future trilogy.
Not only are there lots of little details you probably don’t catch on the first viewing, I’m surprised they don’t make more millennial-and-older users’ lists just from them being often the best thing on TV, in the ancient times before streaming.
Creating more mainstream use-cases is how you get people to donate more bandwidth.
Still has a stupid Windows logo on the super key, though.
Are all those actually different names, and not just varying latin alphabet transliterations of the same farsi word?
From AIPAC’s perspective, they’re very effective.
No it’s just a fact you are lying about San Jose.
You spout nothing but bad faith bullshit and you accuse me of being the one who’s lying? That’s rich.
The fact that San Jose’s zoning law got overridden by the state two seconds ago doesn’t somehow magically instantly change the entire built environment of the city that resulted from decades and decades of the previous policy, and you fucking know it.
YIMBYs oppose public housing more often than NIMBYs.
Cite or GTFO.
My point is trying to inject your libretarian housing politics focused on zoning to a discussion about gas reserves is stupid.
THEY WOULDN’T NEED THE GODDAMN GAS RESERVES IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE SO MUCH CAR DEPENDENCY!
How absolutely moronic and dishonest do you have to be to refuse to acknowledge that extremely basic connection?!
There is literally not true: https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/single-family-zoning-reform-highlights-a-breakthrough-in-california-housing-policy/
“The fact that people just now finally made some headway in solving the problem proves the problem never existed in the first place!”
Sure, buddy.
The idea that zoning is why private markets are failing to build supply is delusional, you can look at housing production in the US, tell me when zoning laws changed based on this chart: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST .
They changed before the chart started. Your “gotcha” demand is disingenuous.
Private markets just aren’t good at building sufficient adequate housing, because housing isn’t fungible building luxury flats for landlords to further inflate the housing market isn’t the same as building public housing or affordable housing.
And yet that still has fuck-all to do with windmills and solar panels, so what’s your point? Do you deny that NIMBYs oppose public housing?
The UK doesn’t use US style zoning though.
Maybe not explicitly, but make no mistake: “modernist” American city planners’ terrible ideas were exported to the whole English-speaking world.
Take Milton Keynes, for example.
And zoning on both sides of the Atlantic has very little to do with the under supply of housing.
It has everything to do with it! In most North American cities, something like 75% of all residentially-zoned land is single-family only. In the worst, it approaches 95% (e.g. San Jose, CA). Housing is not fungible: people want to live in or near the city center, not the exurbs, and in these places it is literally illegal to build the dense housing necessary to meet that demand.
I mean, think about it: the entire purpose of restricting density is to create shortages of dense housing; if the demand weren’t there, the restriction wouldn’t need to exist. Shortages are the goal! You might try to rebut that by saying they want single-family housing to be produced as a substitute good, but land is finite so physical reality does not work that way. If you restrict the maximum number of people who are allowed to live per unit area of land, then the rest of the people who want to live there, can’t!
The idea of fixing the undersupply of housing without abolishing zoning density restrictions is just straight-up delusional magical thinking. Geometry and physical reality simply does not permit it.
And getting back to the original point: when you literally enshrine suburban sprawl into law – whether by North American-style Euclidean zoning or whatever the fuck the UK did in New Towns like Milton Keynes – you force car-dependency and make your country vulnerable to oil price shocks. That’s just how it works, and windmills and solar panels have fuck-all to do with it!
I wouldn’t say “especially” renewable electricity. The magnitude of that NIMBYism pales in comparison to opposing zoning dense enough to support walking, biking and transit (which is, in turn, the far bigger contributor to “petroleum supplies cut off” being a problem).
There’s a real easy solution to this: use strong copyleft instead of permissive licensing, and don’t require copyright assignment. You won’t be able to rug-pull even if you wanted to!
When project founders refuse to do that, well, now we know their true intentions.
You’re the one making it personal and lying about my motivations. Regardless of what you think of the merits of my arguments about the actual topic, everyone can see that you’re being an uncivil asshole.
“OOXML” is literally just an XML serialization of MS Office internal data structures that Microsoft bribed the standards body to push through.
Either the person is lying, because MS Office claims compatibility with OpenDocument files, or it isn’t actually compatible and Microsoft itself is lying.
Way to ignore the BIGGEST point in my comment to hyper focus on a secondary point just for ego.
Fuck off with that. I am only participating in this conversation solely because I’m sick and tired of seeing influencers like Other Linus flounder and damage the reremovedtion of Linux because they keep taking trendy bad advice spouted by people like you.
This is your key disconnect. You see the OS as an experience. Most people don’t. They see it as a tool to get want they want.
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Quit reaching, you’re only damaging your credibility even further.
Also, if you’re directing the average joe to use the terminal, it’s too hard. Seriously.
Okay, I admit, that’s one flaw (out of many) with Kubuntu: there are two different entries for Steam in DIscover (the graphical software installer interface) because of Canonical’s obsession with Snaps, so that’s why I wrote an unambiguous console command instead.
To be clear, I don’t actually like Snaps or some of Canonical’s other business practices. I don’t want to be recommending Kubuntu. But I can’t deny that it’s the easiest distro I’ve ever used.
Not fucking hard dude.
Apparently it is, given what happened in the video!
Also, who’s the prick? I’m not the one making personal attacks.
No, it seriously doesn’t! Here are the actual steps, unabridged and in full, that I go through to game on Linux:
sudo apt install steamYou are posting FUD and misinformation. Knock it off.
Except none of that gaming performance value matters if you can’t get it working in the first place!
People, especially ones new to Linux, shouldn’t have to know or care about the tools you mentioned. Hell, I had to DDG them to find out WTF you were talking about, and I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux for damn near a decade! They don’t matter, and they’re especially not worth risking fucking up your entire experience for!
“Ignore” is not the word I would’ve used.