I had some wonkiness on KDE 6 on Wayland a bit ago, but I think it’s resolved now (I ended up disabling scaling at the time). Basically, my problem was that I had two monitors, and dragging an application from one monitor to the other resulted in really weird scaling, though launching it on that same monitor was totally fine (specific application was LibreOffice, but I’m sure there are others).

I think it’s working better now, but it’s certainly new-ish to Linux, so there could still be hiccups.

Mint is absolutely awesome, I hope you enjoy.

If you ever get annoyed at it and want to try something else, you know where to find us. :)

Yup, and installing the proper driver is usually pretty simple. If you post the hardware (or just the output of lspci) and your distro, we can probably find the package for you.

And the main issue there tends to be anti-cheat, and that’s a chicken-and-egg problem:

• game devs won’t support Linux/macOS because players don’t use Linux/macOS
• players won’t use Linux/macOS because game devs don’t support it

The more people we can convince to use Linux as a daily driver, the more game devs will notice and the more likely they are to support Linux. We’ve seen a lot of game devs make an effort since the Steam Deck became a thing, and it’s always getting better.

It’s totally fine to dual boot, but spending some amount of time gaming on Linux (where possible) helps send the message that Linux support is wanted and is profitable.

Potential solutions:

• move to web-based SW - platform-agnostic, so it’s pretty easy to support other OSes (oh, and you get mobile almost for free)
• start submitting patches to get stuff working on macOS and Linux - once the barrier to supporting other OSes is low enough, they may let you officially support it

Yup, my Linux install is a bit over 10GB, which honestly surprises me and means I probably should clean stuff up, because usually my Linux base install is around 8GB. After a quick look, I have several old versions of compilers and runtimes that can be cleaned up w/o breaking anything.

I can’t imagine thinking that an 8GB cache is fine, and that’s nothing compared to the size of the rest of the OS…

What does this have to do with libertarianism?

I’m a libertarian, and I think honeypots are a fantastic idea! It makes enforcement of the law compatible with individual privacy, since the only data the agency would get is from people who willingly offer it. I may disagree with you on the definition of CSAM (e.g. pictures of actual kids vs AI-gen and human drawn images), but I absolutely think honeypots are the right way for police to enforce the law.

They’re both worthwhile. Agent 2 is more like “We found out your uncle was pumping a security by making fraudulent claims in order to dump it later and screw them all over.”

That’s the SEC’s domain, and I’m sure the FBI helps with catching insider trading and whatnot as well.

Eh, I think their current products are fine (except Cybertruck, that’s ridiculous). Every company has recalls, and Tesla’s are generally pretty mild (again, except Cybertruck).

The main issue is that Elon really likes to overpromise and underdeliver. If he would flip that, I think people would be a lot more excited about this event. But saying “start production in 2025, available in 2026” means nothing when he’s been off by years with previous announcements. IMO, he shouldn’t have had the event until there was a firm delivery date. And that doesn’t just mean build capacity, they should be substantially far into the regulatory process before even presenting it publicly.

So, proposing policy changes makes an ideology “a fairy tale”? How else are we supposed to actually make changes?

I would never support eliminating the minimum wage w/o some kind of replacement. But I also won’t support increasing the minimum wage in lieu of a replacement, because increasing the minimum wage often does more harm than good in the short and medium terms (kills jobs and encourages longer-term replacement of those jobs w/ AI).

Some hardcore libertarians say “no welfare and no minimum wage,” but most serious libertarians take a more moderate approach. So ignore the crazies that say we should radically change the entire economy “because principles” and listen mostly to those who want to make smaller changes to reduce initiation of force.

another four years of peace and quiet

Yes, that would be nice.

That said, for all of the nonsense Trump spewed, his actual changes were pretty mild:

• increased deficit and probably contributed to COVID inflation (cash handouts and whatnot tend to cause inflation)
• capital punishment - US previously had a moratorium on executions, which he lifted
• immigration - reduced number of refugees admitted, increased border security; family separation was pretty awful too
• trade - withdrew and renegotiated some agreements, levied tariffs; trade deficit increased
• Russia - weakened sanctions on Russia
• Afghanistan - negotiated withdrawal of US troops
• Iran - withdrew from nuclear arms agreement and increased sanctions

Most of that doesn’t impact anyone, except maybe the weakened sanctions against Russia encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine. But that’s really hard to say, since the invasion didn’t happen until 2 years into Biden’s presidency, so it probably would have happened regardless. the trade negotiations were mostly directed at Asian trade partners (mostly China).

He was a terrible president, yes, but most of the impact to regular people was him spewing rhetoric on social media. I honestly just ignored that noise and was relatively happy during his presidency (and the tax cuts were nice).

And that’s irrelevant if we have other mechanisms to ensure everyone has a minimum standard of living. If you are above the poverty line regardless, you wouldn’t have to take poorly paying jobs if you didn’t want to, but that shouldn’t restrict others from choosing to take that job.

It’s a lot easier to just share a login…

Just plan ahead. You might need to do it on a full moon or something, you might need to check with your local poltergeist to get specifics.

actually well versed

That’s not me, I mostly searched forums and whatnot. My cars are all old enough that they don’t have this nonsense, and while I am handy with cars (do all my own maintenance), I’m not a mechanic, so I don’t have direct experience.

That said, at recent-ish Chevy cars w/ OnStar seem to have separate power and board for the wwan. I’ve watched a couple of these videos, and they seem pretty legit.

And with a quick check on Mazda, It seems you have two options:

• call customer support to have the TCU disabled - ends data collection and interaction, but the device can still be detected and communicated with
• remove the TCU - need to look up where it is, but for the '23 CX5, it’s below the center console; removal would turn on warning lights since it can’t find the device, but AFAIK it shouldn’t prevent vehicle registration or regular car operation

Again, I haven’t actually done this for any car, but it’s definitely something I’m going to be looking at before deciding on a make and model because I intend to remove whatever tracking BS they put in.

The mean GDP growth rate is ~3%, while the total US market real growth rate is something like 6-7% (S&P 500 since 1960) over that same period.

So it seems the stock market returns roughly double the GDP growth. That seems kind of odd to me. I know the stock market isn’t the economy, but why would stocks grow twice as fast as GDP over the long term? Is it because so many people invest their savings there, pushing up prices? Is this an expected correlation between GDP and stock prices?

GDP is defined by national borders

This is probably it. A lot of companies on US exchanges do a significant amount of business in other countries, so it’s possible international markets are pushing returns up here. But it seems global GDP returns are similar. I think I need to go find a book about how GDP and markets are related.

Fair, but my point is that most of the BS that happens here doesn’t really impact anyone, such as:

• Jan 6 - would’ve mattered if Trump retained power, but he didn’t
• mass shootings - blown out of proportion IMO (lots of misleading statistics), but also doesn’t impact anyone
• LGBT issues - some states have truly terrible policies, but in general, things are pretty okay; I live in a red state too

I’m certainly no fan of Trump and have voted against him every election so far and plan to this election, but I also don’t think he’s nearly as dangerous as the posts that get attention here on Lemmy make him out to be. He’s certainly dangerous, but I think it’s more from a “stupid economic and foreign relations policy” perspective than the “next Hitler” perspective that so many online try to label him as.

The net result of a Trump vs Harris presidency probably won’t impact too many people outside the US. Neither seems particularly keen to start a massive war, and they both are championing policies that will likely make the economy worse (Trump’s tariffs and Harris’ price fixing and corporate tax hikes). Harris will probably be less bad overall for both Americans and non-Americans, but I highly doubt Trump will do anything truly atrocious, he really does want to be seen as “the best President” or whatever.

I certainly won’t convince you, and my post was largely meant to be funny, so take this for whatever it’s worth (probably what you paid for it).

I assume the figure was amortized across typical passenger loads. So if a bus typically carries 10 people, $10/mile to operate becomes $1/mile/passenger. I think that’s what Musk is quoting here. I don’t know where he gets that figure, but if it’s accurate (big doubt) and if he can beat it (again, big doubt), then that’s absolutely amazing!

I tried looking for figures, but most of the numbers I see are revenue per passenger, not operating cost per passenger. Revenue isn’t particularly interesting because so many transit systems heavily subsidize mass transit.

Why? All a minimum wage does is prevent people from taking jobs that would otherwise go to automated systems. If someone wants to work for $5/hr, who am I to say that’s wrong?

The real concern here, I think, is that the minimum wage isn’t enough to sustain an individual or a family. The solution there isn’t to raise the minimum wage, but to ensure everyone has enough, regardless of wage. So hand out cash so everyone has enough, and then let people work for whatever price they want. Cash handouts should only go to citizens or permanent residents IMO, but everyone is free to compete for whatever wage they feel is fair, and wealthy people can pay the difference.