Being a lazy piece of shit who steals labor from workers is not mutually exclusive with being miserable. In fact I suspect they are interlinked, a lot of rich assholes also seem to be in constant mental anguish even though they don’t do anything useful. This is not to provoke pity for them, rather to clarify that I think a certain amount of labor is required for a person to live a complete and happy life.

They do, definitionally. They perform a service in exchange for a wage. This service is of net-negative use value for the society, but it’s a service nonetheless. Otherwise we could be arguing that people in advertisement or gambling industries don’t perform any labor.

I think the depiction of the landlord is not exactly correct.

Landlords are usually miserable, constantly worried about missing payments and mortgages and property values and blaming apartment dilapidation on the tenant. I’m yet to interact with a happy and fully mentally stable landlord.

Yes, exactly, I mention it in my comment. It almost did the right thing and blundered in one detail.

This is what the California law requires BTW (except it makes the field mandatory which is shit). IMO in this case the EU solution is overcomplicated, it just feels like they needed an excuse to get more out of the COVID certificate investments…

Most applications for batteries care about their size and weight

Actually, one of main applications for batteries in the near-to-medium future is gonna be grid storage to supplement the explosive growth of renewables, and home backups to make the grid more distributed and replace diesel/gas generators during blackouts. For those purposes you don’t really care about the size, really don’t care about the weight, and a cheaper, more stable, less fire-prone chemistry suddenly becomes very appealing.

I agree with you that lithium is not going anywhere for a while, it’s the best fit for many applications like EVs, drones, etc. But I wouldn’t be surprised if its share in the battery market drops significantly over the next 10-15 years.

Many labor movements throughout history started out due to advances in automation resulting in unemployment and rising inequality. This time around there’s also a huge cost of living crisis too, so things are lining up (you might hear “contradictions are sharpening” in marxist circles). If anything I’d have expected violence to start sooner and be more widespread, if someone gets laid off due to AI in this job market they literally have nothing to lose at this point.

It’s still super fucked up that you’re basically gifting some other person a sizeable chunk of your income just because they were able to put up a down payment and secure a mortgage. Landlords are rentseeking middlemen leaches that should not exist even by capitalist standards, see Adam Smith.

The actual answer is “stop supporting US/israeli war effort”. The strait is already open for everyone who’s not helping the empire bomb Iranian schoolgirls

US was built on rail, and it was way less dense and urban back then. The problem is not how “compact” a country is, it’s simply a question of priorities and budgets. China and EU are investing in rail (to varying degrees), so they get rail with all its benefits. US is wasting more and more money on financially unsustainable car infrastructure, so it is getting failing car infrastructure.

Alternatively, if you’re overweight, just be happy that she’s helping you reduce calorie intake

And then maaybe stop defaming her? Like, this post should be ban worthy by any reasonable instance and community rules?

This is a shitpost community, I’m pretty sure it is implied that everything posted here is satirical and/or ironic and/or made up for fun. You wouldn’t sue The Onion for defamation either (or maybe you would, IDK)

None, sadly.

The requirement to check age is on the provider.

Well, if you’re going that route, there are a whole bunch of other issues (apart from absolving parents from responsibility for their kids digital wellbeing). Either the provider just asks the user for their age (which is what we’re doing now, and it’s just 100% useless), or there would have to be some way to prove one’s age. Presumably it would be via a government-issued token of some kind, ideally as a ZK proof. While there are some european countries where this is somewhat feasible, for most of the world issuing every resident a smartcard which can attest if one is an adult or not is just not possible. So, you’d be forced to either give out gov-signed certificates of age as files (which will be easily reused by kids to access stuff which they shouldn’t), or you have a centralized server which can issue time-limited certificates on the fly based on some ID (which will tell the government that you wanna watch adult stuff), or you just have to upload your ID to the provider directly (I hope I don’t need to explain why this is bad).

Meanwhile, what we are discussing right now is just a basic extension to parental controls. Notice how the field is not mandatory, you can just leave it empty, and I’d argue everyone who doesn’t have kids should just do that. As it is implemented right now, the machine administrator decides if they want to use this or not and what to set the date to. Even if some distro complies with the stupid law and make it mandatory in california (which I’d argue they shouldn’t), you can just enter 1970-01-01 and be done with it, because you decide what to put in that field during account creation.

This means any website can ask for your birth date. Then they store it, and use it for tracking. Private browser? HAH! Not your birth date!

Well, first of all, for now browsers don’t even support reading userdb at all, and there’s no way for website to request it. Then, I hope when it is implemented it will be hidden behind a website permission so that kids can decide if they want to share it or not (i.e. “this website wants to know you age: allow/deny”). For adults (if the california law gets implemented), I hope that “privacy” browsers will have a feature to return a random date (more than 18 years ago) every time if the field is not set in userdb, or you can just write a cronjob/systemd-timer that changes the date randomly every hour.

There is a question of random apps now having unfettered access to your child’s birthday. This is indeed an issue, and poettering’s approach of “just containerize it” is not very cool. It would be nice to have a way to gate userdb access behind a user prompt, similar to what I’m describing for browsers. I guess for now flatpaking everything you don’t 100% trust not to read userdb is the only option.

Eh, this would make it 100% useless though.

I think it’s fairly reasonable for adults to want to ensure a 10-year-old doesn’t get mental health issues by being served hardcore BDSM porn unsupervised, or get scammed by a pig butcher on social media. Of course a curious 10-year-old can’t be trusted to enter their real birth date. So, adding this info to a root-managed userdb kinda makes sense. At this point there’s nothing to suggest that this age will be verified in any way, other than “the person entering it has write access to userdb”. So in the current form it’s just another tool for parents to control what their child sees (provided any apps actually use this field in the future).

However, I’d argue just the birth date is the wrong approach to this and it needs to be more granular.

Europe is SO small

Depends on what you count as Europe. If you include Turkey, Caucasus and/or the western part of Russia, it is fucking huge (~7500 km drive from Vorkuta to Cabo da Roca). Even if you only count EU countries, it’s still not that small (~5000 km drive north-to-south). And it’s also way denser than the US so there’s more to see overall, you can’t even explore any single country comprehensively in two weeks time (apart from microstates, of course)

NixOS is definitely not as corporate as MacOS or ChromeOS. It’s also not as mainstream as RHEL. I’d say RHEL should be one square to the right, NixOS should go where RHEL is now, and Guix should share the square with Gentoo.

Most expensive military in the world, 50x military budget of your enemy

Advantageous position of a surprise backstabbing attack during negotiations

Kills enemy head of state on the first day in his own house

Commits uncountable war crimes

Still loses in just 3 weeks

It takes a special breed of a fucked up system to suck this bad, they can’t even do imperialist forever wars now.

The MIC is redirecting every cent it can toward profits, and so there’s nothing left for the actual military hardware. The pedophiles in charge can barely think anymore and are high on their own AI-generated propaganda. Truly the century of humiliation hallucination for the USA

TBH I’m very happy with the state of Linux desktop as it has been for the past 3-5 years or so. If things enshittify I’m just gradually freezing the versions that I like for most things, except stuff that directly interfaces with the internet (kernel, nftables, browser, nix, git, ssh, rclone). My main hope is that LibreWolf keeps updating and doesn’t let in too much AI slop from firefox, and I’m reasonably sure everything else on that list is quite difficult to enshittify.