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Fuck this.

The state of the web, and software in general, is fucking abysmal. And it is in no small part due to this kind of shit. You want this recipe/news/whatever? Here is a hundred mbs of frameworks, trackers, spyware…

What’s even the point nowadays when every website, sorry, ‘wEb ApP’ is going to make me install their crappy app to give me full functionality? Then the app is just a web view (when not a wrapped full fledged web browser) to present their shitty web but with more privileges.

If you have some fos licensed software it will be foss forever, that licence is a contract and doesn’t go away. Now the author(s) of that code can license it to other people or release the newer versions with a different non-foss licence.

Knitting and crocheting? eMacs does have a package for everything…

Ive done it with dozens of boards (not pc boards tho, but basically the same: processors, memories, capacitors and transistors… just less expandable and much more expensive), but I’ve used an ultrasonic cleaner, I’m not sure just letting it soak is going to do the trick. It could even make it worse, the ipa can dissolve the liquid-ish part of the gunk (oils) and leave the solid residue once dried. If you don’t have such a machine, they’re not that pricy but you’d need a fairly big one so not cheap either, my advise would be to use a toothbrush.

Some precautions: use 99.9% IPA, not any other alcohols and definitely not acetone. Take the whole thing apart. Take out any batteries off the boards. Most glues will be dissolved, which hasn’t been a problem for me ever but if some of your parts aren’t soldered, screwed, or fastened any other way they’ll fall off. Let it dry very well, even help it a bit putting it in some warm place or using a hairdryer. As other have said thermal paste and pads will have to be replaced most likely. About the fans, I’m not sure, I’ve never done it. I’ve cleaned bigger motors, but those fans are cheaper to just replace than to service them unless it’s a quick blowin’ and dustin’.

They know their customers make unwise decisions. They got a bmw in the first place.

Not the commenter you’re asking, but I do consider the MIT licence a bad one for something like a core part of an OS. Not all FOSS licences are created equal, there’re even important differences between the different GPLs (GPL2 is more permissive than GPL3, for example. With AGPL you have to grant the freedoms to the users even if the software is running out of your server, which isn’t a thing with GPL2/3), and even the most permissive ones have a reason to exist, but I’m yet to hear (or read) a good one for these uutils, so I’m not touching any distro or project that uses these mit core utils with a ten foot pole.

As far as I know uutils has always been under an mit licence, hasn’t it?

You are very right. While non-copyleft licences makes sense for some software (a game engine like Godot, for example, released under the MIT licence) it’s absolutely awful for the coreutils.

considerable checks and balances on executive power

Lol. The 'Muricans use to boast about theirs too. Not anymore, do they?

At the end of the day those are only words written in a piece of paper and can’t do anything if the gang of thieves (politicians) with a gang of thugs (forces) decide to wipe their asses with it.

As I said, I’m not an expert in law, but for what I’ve seen when someone tells me their country (or maybe not theirs but one they have idealized) is different, it ends up not being true. Usually it’s just luck they’re wealthy enough and shit hasn’t hit the fan yet.

Which ones are these ‘non-shithole’ countries? I’m not an expert (either in law, or in shitholery) but as far as I’m aware these pardons exist in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, Morocco, Ireland… so I’d bet that places where ‘leaders cannot randomly pardon people’ are, in fact, the exception.

So if someone tells grok it’s April 30th 1945… would it self destruct?

Yeah it’s almost like they don’t care for children at all and the point is the invasion of privacy, control, and oppression…

Yup, that’s what I meant. Thanks!

There exist an archaic law like that, but it doesn’t include all booties, only ‘Royal Fish’, and imho it would be a stretch to consider bananas as whales or sturgeons.

This case would be under maritime law. Iirc the cargo still belongs to the shipping company if it fell, but would be a ‘finders keepers’ if they threw it overboard. But I’m not a lawyer (sea lawyer?), I think this is for recoveries at sea, when it’s already on shore local laws might apply instead, idk…

Consolidating resources to be used for mutual benefit is what government is for

Is it? Since when?

I would rephrase it as ‘consolidating resources, taken from the poor people’s labor, to be used for the benefit of the state and the powerful is what government is for’.

I don’t know what’s up with my fellow millennials in the comments. I do order food once or twice a week.

About the fees, there’s none if you order directly from the restaurant, and the apps/services that apply them (usually just one) take it out above a certain threshold, or looking into your email spam for of their ‘discount offers’, but the prices of the food are higher anyway (which I find more dishonest than simply charging a delivery fee).

Also, I only tip if it’s rainy or super-hot (the weather, not the food or the delivery person), because Europe.

We probably kill insects just by walking, but it’s not reasonable to never move again to avoid that.

There’s this Hindu sect whose adherents wear veils, sweep the floor before them, and/or tread very slowly and carefully to avoid injuring, killing or eating any small insects. As you said, it’s about doing as much as you can, but if it were a competition they’d win for sure.

Who would build those robots? With which materials? No one is going into the mines or into a soul crushing factory production line if their needs are already met. If this survey were made to retail workers, for example, I bet it would be much closer to 100%. We aren’t getting ubi ever, not in our current society, because it literally would collapse in a few days without miserable, desperate fuckers that can’t afford quitting slowly killing ourselves to make the rich richer.

People here saying single handle faucets must have much better ones than what we’ve got where I’m from, no fucking chance of getting the same temperature again after shutting it. And the middle of it is extremely sensitive, it goes from 10% to 90% in like the middle two millimeters, and I think the pressure of the hot water overcomes the cold’s so you have to turn a bit left and then right again to stabilize the temp.

For my shower, which is the one that matters most for me, I got a thermostatic one—you set the temperature on the right handle and the flow on the left one, and that’s it, perfect temperature forever. Even if someone flushes, which only happens when my sister is visiting because she doesn’t understand boundaries, it doesn’t change one whole degree for more than a second, only the flow is be affected.

As a side note my grandma’s bath tube some 30+ years ago (it had probably another 30 or more) had two handles for hot-cold, left and right, and then another two for the shower-faucet flow, up and down. It wasn’t as fine tuned as my modern one, but worked quite well. You would only open or shut without touching the proportion of hot/cold.

No secret at all that the rich are selling Europe piece by piece to the best bidder, with the blessing of our rulers.