That’s why I commented on you including it in what I could only read as a list of objectionable things.

You’re not wrong about the rest, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the processor benchmarks really well.

https://www.dark.netflix.io/

Absolutely not, Iranians were cheering when the guy died. Bombs fall and they cheer. There’s no way people who do that will suddenly ally with the regime again.

Reminder that you can use the website to keep all the characters and events straight!

• Dark – perfect if you like internal consistency and thinking along. Use the website and talk about it with a friend or partner between episodes
• True Detective season 1 – just dripping vibes, absolutely perfect cinema
• The Good Place – a philosophy crash course that’s really fun. Absolutely lovable characters and great twists
• Andor – a gritty depiction of life under fascism. Tense, heart wrenching, powerful. Nobody’s safe (except the titular character I guess)

That’s not an issue, IP addresses allow localization to some degree

The Californian law only affects California.

Individual OS vendors might decide to implement it in a way that affects other places as well, e.g. in the past, Valve decided they’d rather not implement age verification for Germany and just stopped selling all porn / super violent games in Germany. Maybe they’ll now implement it for Germany and California.

And Germany.

Oof, that’s probably almost a full reinstall when you upgrade, depending on how stable your stack is. A lot of services will will have breaking config changes in that time frame.

It’s what Debian and similar distributions use to switch from one stable release to the next. This happens every half year for Ubuntu and every blue moon for Debian, which makes it a significantly more error-prone process than updating Arch every week in my experience.

That doesn’t happen. When it breaks, it’s always recoverable, and it very very very rarely breaks (>10 years Arch user here, never lost sleep about it)

Around 10 years here. Some issues, but much less time wasted in total than if I had done “dist-upgrade”s the whole time.

I have no idea what you’re talking about. The Iran? USA? Israel?

And why is it fascism? Like a lot of what has happened in the USA was pretty fascist, but starting a war isn’t part of the list. There are a few definitions of fascism (e.g. by Adorno), so which one are you using here?

What do you mean, I’m really confused here.

It really sucks for non-developers. I can easily afford to walk out the door laughing when a place I’m interviewing for tells me I’d have to use Windows, but clearly that’s not a privilege all professions have

Yeah, as long as it made any sense to browse the web without JS. These days you need at least an allow list.

And also neither cloud-based nor LLMs

That’s what their actions felt like for decades yet somehow they’ve always kept chugging along.

That’s why they make sense in code and config files. JSON is neither, despite the insistence of far too many people to write configuration in it.

You missed the point: I quoted and linked to contemporary decision making because it illustrates that there’s no “strongarming” necessary if something is the only game in town.

Sysvinit was no longer doing the trick, Upstart wasn’t architecturally sound, OpenRC wasn’t a serious contender at that point either: they could adopt systemd or wait for a few years in case some alternative would come along.

That’s why your framing doesn’t make sense to me: it implies that there was some sort of choice that Big Init was trying to stack the cards for, but there wasn’t at that point.