This seems unfairly targeted at China at first, but they are unique in their combination of the middle-class population and their national carbon goals

Weird, I’ve been using 1.2, 1.5 and 2.0 scale with sway (wlroots) for a while now

So, is this announcement for something new? Or this standardizing/stabilising something that has already been working (in potentially a different / non-standard way) so far?

I think the point being made here is not against you, but against the privilege that professional athletes in Western countries enjoy

It is normal for them to exist in a space where they can say very basic things about human rights

And yet, it is normal for others (e.g. citizens of Qatar, but also billions of other humans on earth) to exist in spaces where human rights are not allowed to be discussed

I’ve been using https://github.com/TrackerControl/tracker-control-android which is effectively the same thing, just open-source (there’s an F-Droid link there if you don’t like Google Play)

I think Poettering’s assumption here, which I agree with, is that it’s difficult to produce software without bugs, and it’s even difficult to patch those bugs without ever introducing new bugs

But, let’s pretend that we’ve accomplished this and never have to fix any bugs: we’ll still have to update firmware and other software components when a new CPU or other device needs to be supported

Although, admittedly, a user might not decide to install a hardware-enablement update if they know in-advance that they’ll never upgrade their hardware or plug in a new device

For me, the ideal situation is where we see autnentic stories about the LGBTQIA+ community, and the money made from telling/selling those stories actually goes to members of that community

None of that requires all queer roles to be only played by publicly-queer actors, and yet here we are :S

It’s mostly a certification thing (which is performed by Intel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)#Royalty_situation

According to that, anyone can make the standalone chips now regardless of CPU (although most of them are still made by Intel, I think)

Thunderbolt 4 is not exclusive to Intel, only 1-3

I’ve just ordered parts for a new AMD system with Thunderbolt 4 (transferring some parts from an older machine): https://pcpartpicker.com/user/jokeyrhyme/saved/dLCRVn

Perhaps? https://github.com/mozilla/TTS

Microsoft posses a vast corpus of code that they unambiguously own the copyright over: their own private code for Windows, Office, Visual Studio, etc, plus all of their open-source stuff

It’s pretty telling that the models were not trained using Microsoft’s own code, but everyone else’s instead

They can’t even get their own staff to use it: https://www.thestreet.com/investing/meta-employees-kind-of-hate-facebooks-metaverse

I expect an upcoming patch will check during boot whether the fix is needed and only apply it for those old systems

Garage leverages the theory of distributed systems, and in particular Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs in short), a set of mathematical tools that help us write distributed software that runs faster, by avoiding some kinds of unnecessary chit-chat between servers.

Huh, “avoiding some kinds of unnecessary chit-chat” is the weirdest benefit of CRDTs to mention here (and I’m not sure it actually is a benefit)

I would have pointed out that they help multiple devices safely synchronise copies of data, or something 🤷

The word “efficient” doesn’t even appear in the main part of the Wikipedia page (just once in the footnotes): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type

Ought to be some useful links here: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux

If the USA and it’s allies were truly enthusiastic about human rights and democracy, then they should find out how much a company saves by having supply chains with worse human rights protections, and tax them some portion (I’d say at least half) of that saving

To encourage them to employ more expensive staff in countries with decent democracy and human rights laws

(And encourage other countries to transition to better human rights frameworks)

I wonder if the monitor for an output/sink is enabled as an input/source? Using a pulseaudio control panel like pavucontrol might show you more information? Most distributions provide pulseaudio/pipewire as a useful layer on top of ALSA, so pure-ALSA tools like alsamixer might not be showing you the whole picture

Might be worth trying a bunch of different live USBs to find a distribution with a working sound setup, and then seeing what it’s doing differently compared to Zorin

Really odd that it doesn’t use the recommended credential storage APIs on Windows at least

never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

Yeah, I was toying with the hypothetical of needing a licence to eat beef

That way, only people who actually need and use all that protein can get it (e.g. body builders, people with specific medical needs)

That would solve the demand side, at least