AV1. Netvc didn’t happen, and parts of Daala and Thor were integrated into AV1. Google has the only relevant patents and gave the world an irrevocable license to use it freely.

This is as close as you can get. The sisvel patent trolls will put their grubby fingers onto everything you can call “video codec”, and make up ways they can milk people stupid enough to pay them.

Yeah. Rowling actively pumps her money into lobbyism aimed at hurting trans people. That’s so directly malicious that I wouldn’t want to give her a penny for it.

Because they always do, not because they have a legitimate claim.

It really sucks for non-developers. I can easily afford to walk out the door laughing when a place I’m interviewing for tells me I’d have to use Windows, but clearly that’s not a privilege all professions have

Yeah, as long as it made any sense to browse the web without JS. These days you need at least an allow list.

And also neither cloud-based nor LLMs

That’s what their actions felt like for decades yet somehow they’ve always kept chugging along.

You missed the point: I quoted and linked to contemporary decision making because it illustrates that there’s no “strongarming” necessary if something is the only game in town.

Sysvinit was no longer doing the trick, Upstart wasn’t architecturally sound, OpenRC wasn’t a serious contender at that point either: they could adopt systemd or wait for a few years in case some alternative would come along.

That’s why your framing doesn’t make sense to me: it implies that there was some sort of choice that Big Init was trying to stack the cards for, but there wasn’t at that point.

No, see the reasoning why distros switched, e.g. Debian or Arch. TL;DR: technical merit, no good alternatives existed at the time, as evidence by how the Arch maintainer paraphrased the average systemd critic:

I think there might be this other project that possibly is doing something similar. I don’t really know anything about it, but I’m pretty sure it is better than systemd.

Would the landscape be more diverse if other people would have built someone when Poettering first announced systemd? Probably! Did anyone do it? No! OpenRC wasn’t a fully fledged alternative back then, Upstart had fundamental design flaws.

But does anyone regret adopting systemd? Also no! Everybody is happy. It’s robust, it works, it makes admin lives easier. Users no longer have to deal with zombies, slow boots, and unnecessary services running.

Here we go again with the conspiracy bullshit

Radioactive waste storage.

I do think that goal power plants need to be turned off before nuclear ones, but neither is sustainable.

Analog, and what really matters for analog signal is if the wire carries load or not.

Like a phono cable from a record player or a analog signal cable from an old sound card matters, but it doesn’t matter how you send the amplified signal to the passive speakers.

This means if you have a HDMI cable going into a decent AVR and speaker cables coming out, you basically can’t do anything wrong.

Probably just people trying to buy in early to the new meme meta

Numbing kind of, but it more feels like vibration or “buzzing”, it’s hard to describe

There’s also menthol and whatever compound is in Szechuan pepper.

OMG, now I’m craving Mapo Tofu.

Probably more like it automatically installs is when you install the system but yeah.

This isn’t Debian. It has a live image that comes with Nvidia drivers so you can have these from the start too.

Well, Bazzite has it pre-installed, but that’s the experience for other stuff lol.

I don’t recommend mint for newbies because it comes with X11 even still.

Same for my partner’s old gaming PC: she used Windows 10 until recently, and Bluetooth as well as the steam overlay didn’t work properly.

Now on Bazzite they do.

Ooo what an amazing idea!

A homeless person freezing to death on the winter streets in the US is as poor as a homeless person starving in Lebanon. Who cares if one of them has a banged-up smartphone. They’re both dying.