. . . that everyone hates so hard they give them loads of money.

I wish they all hated me like that.

tldr Sudden Death card

dd

I think you might be missing the part where memes are not real. aur is useful. arch wiki is useful.

going to surpass ‘unknown’ any year now. it’s happening.

https://invidious.reallyaweso.me/watch?v=qK5nqmHz0UA

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yeah, studies like that need to do a lot of work - if they’re any good - and look at a a lot of different angles… The news articles usually do a terrible job of explaining such studies and the strengths and weaknesses - so it is hard to see the real evidence base or assess how much weight to put on it.

Unfortunately, in my opinion - the best way to know if such studies are any good is to ignore the news article completely , find the the full paper and spend a bit of time trawling through it.

did you read crash by JG Ballard?

They did present the data on the measured* levels and changes over the period, tables 43 and 44. And table 45 shows the observed trend and the counterfactual that they estimated in order to estimate the impact. (as womble pointed you can’t measure an impact outside of a laboratory on something with complex influences, because you can’t measure the counterfactual).

They don’t want to attribute the whole meaasured improvement in air quality to ULEZ, as some of the change should attributed to other influences or pre-existing trends.

• of course you just can’t measure 100% of the air in a place accurately without asphyxiating the people in it, so they use data from an array of detectors sampling the air at regular intervals.

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does that make it a disintegrated IDE?

I love programs like freecad despite the really hard/unintuitive gui. 95% of all the modelling i need to do (as an amateur) can be done easily in a python script.

The finishing touches like adding filets and chamfers are the annoying part were gui is easier, due to the way edges are referenced.

Likewise at work, we have to produce a lot of regular reports in excel. All done via python / sql.

replace HDD with SSD, number one thing to do if possible.

lxde or lxqt are quite a bit lighter then xfce.

you could try tiny core linux. it really depends what programs you want to run.

OpenGNU/SE

something like raspi-config ( i know that’s console based GUI, but it’s gui to me), or even the endevourOS launcher screen?

My opinion is pretty much based on their manifesto. I don’t see how they can do anything progressive when their mandate is based on that bag of shite.

Britain left of centre ? . . . these are blairites, “labour” in name only , they literally propped up the second homes buy to let market through the 2000s. and they’d gladly privatise every public service we have left if they can. I’ve already heard shit like “individualised healthcare” being mentioned in their “think tanks”.

They’re probably not worse than the tories, and they probably will fuck it up less, that’s about all you can hope for them.

They aren’t going to tackle anything fundamental like bank regulation, promoting domestic investment, industrial strategy or developing public services.

I hope France gets a lot better.

the year of the unknown desktop!

what do you think about:. “you don’t need to choose one” and “you don’t need other people to choose for you” and “distro isn’t that important in many cases”

I can agree 100% on what distros I use for what types of computer. And I can agree 100% on what I’d have used now, if i were a beginner again.

But all i can recommend to a stranger is, backup all your stuff properly,

try a few out (v.m. or liveCD/Ventoy) and be prepared to change.
make sure to check application versions in the base software repository - for any programs where that matters to you. and ease of updating - if that matters to you. and check out some flatpak if you think that might be a useful way to get extra applications or in some cases up to date.

if in doubt, choose gentoo /s

it might’ve been ssh i can’t really remeber. The library catalog was maybe the telnet one. IIRC don’t think either service was accesible via the internet though.