People that can rub two neurons together have figured out they can get their 10yr old nephew to install something for them… so the included OS means nothing besides how it affects the final price. They’ll buy a laptop with Windows/Linux/no OS or whatever on it. In markets that don’t allow computing devices to be sold without an OS it doesn’t even have to be Linux, the vendors and manufacturers will happily slap FreeDOS on it to bypass the regulation.

No need, you can just use an IR spotlight to blind the camera. Unlike the military you’re not trying to hide the vehicle.

But either way you’re actively trying to avoid being picked up by speed cameras so you get a fine.

Let’s be honest… people who can’t figure out how to deal with Windows licenses wouldn’t be able to deal with a switch to Linux either.

Usenet actually has a very similar design to Lemmy. In fact I sometimes wonder why Lemmy didn’t evolve the Usenet protocol rather than invent one from scratch.

It’s a big discussion forum organized into a tree-like topic structure, replicated across multiple servers, and any participant can contribute via any of the servers.

Yeah but as long as the manufacturers keep selling all their production for real money, everybody else is screwed and prices are going up.

Yes but then 50% would not be the correct answer.

Is the current state of the AUR, despite the previous waves of attacks, and its troubled history, not evidence enough? The Arch team has never made the AUR a priority and I don’t see why they would start now.

The way I see it there are three possibilities:

• They do nothing.
• They shut it down.
• They give it up for adoption.

What is not going to happen is the Arch team putting time and effort into overhauling the AUR.

Because they’re sponsored by the US, who is also behind this?

And you’re gonna see the Arch team wash their hands of the whole thing, like they did in the past whenever the AUR was in trouble.

That’s not real ownership.

The orphan package criteria is misleading. If you look at the infobox you’ll see that there are only 69 package “maintainers” for 100k+ packages.

I see. I’m in Europe and it’s not very common there so that’s why.

They should find a better solution

Who’s “they”? Because it’s not Arch. Arch doesn’t want to have anything to do with AUR, and neither does any of the Arch-derived distros. They’re all perfectly happy taking advantage of it, of course, but not the responsibility.

Remove unmaintained packages and block the name for several months.

Alright, but that would mean most of AUR. Have a look at the package statistics box on the AUR homepage. Most packages fall under that definition in one way or another. The vast majority of the AUR is package some random person added once then never bothered with ever again.

Frankly I’m surprised that the AUR has survived for so long in its current form, for what is basically a shell script distribution system with zero supervision and zero safety guards.

Not sure about american plates, but in most jurisdictions licence plates are optimized for easy OCR:

Are they? Off the top of my head Germany is the only country I can think of that uses such a font (FE-Schrift).

They can also look for older R models, used. I have an R2 Arc Mini that can do 6 drives and it’s not too big.

If you think you might need more, get one with more slots up-front. Trying to add more HDD to a case that wasn’t designed for them sucks.

This kind of detail only matters if due process is still being observed.

There’s a scene that comes to mind from “The Yellow Tie” (2025) where a street patrol in Nazi Germany makes the protagonist strip naked just to have a laugh, then as they leave they wonder if they should’ve shot him anyway, despite not doing anything wrong.

Unfortunately most companies don’t have a software culture or even understand it. Heck there are entire nations (like Japan) that are culturally at odds with software. It doesn’t stop them from making software (you can’t NOT make software in today’s day and age), they just go about it in furtive, roundabout and ultimately very inefficient ways.

It’s weird because modern software development borrows heavily from industrial process optimizations (some of which were invented and perfected in Japan, ironically) and there are clear, proven benefits to cooperation upstream in projects like Linux… and yet they still fight it every step of the way in the name of “IP”.

It doesn’t help either that there are countries (US, Japan, what do you know) that nurture the concept of software patents that have a chilling effect on sharing.

Literally all knowledge and understanding requires memorization of some sort and the understanding of reality and prior information.

But is that what schools are teaching? When’s the last time you heard of a school that prioritizes the way its students think and focuses on improving their reasoning and cognitive skills?

I’m not knocking memorization but it shouldn’t be the main or only token by which learning is evaluated.

I would say try Manjaro with the KDE desktop. It’s based on Arch so it will update indefinitely, it’s one of the few distros out there that has system recovery snapshots enabled by default, and it was designed to work best the less you tinker with it (it really wants you to leave it alone so it can manage things for you).