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I would gladly use only one package manager, but different applications offer different types of downloads. Do this for 30 applications, and you will probably need 3-4 package managers or install methods that do not auto update. Example:

• Firefox: ppa, because that has always been the fastest and most convenient
• Krita: flatpak, since the others suck
• Qbittorrent: only AppImage
• Godot: native executable

I have the exact same problems with overheating, fans and sleep/awake on Windows. It's crazy that this even happens on a clean install. You would think that after 40 years of OS experience they would get something as basic as this right.

Desktop Linux solved keeping applications updated decades ago. Microsoft seems to be making it worse every time they add another different application delivery and management framework.

True, Linux did solve this decades ago. And then made it significantly worse in the last decade with multiple package managers (apt-get, AppImage, Flatpak, Snap, brew, random .sh install scripts etc.). Remembering how a Linux application was installed and calling its update command is a chore, and updating will probably pull in some other 500MB+ dependency that's not shared with other apps because of a minor version change.

Would still use Linux any time of day over Windows, since I can actually use my laptop, but the state of package managers on Linux today is hot garbage, and in a worse state than 10 years ago.

I was thinking of the exact same meme, but I thought it would get a lot of backlash from the "progressive" opportunists who will now pretend to have always been against Platner, or that this accusation somehow changes his general character.

Is the test actually taken by 60 year olds, or are the results from when that generation became adults? Because in the former case, it's expected that their results would be worse. Your cognitive skills decline as you get older, and many people don't actually use the skills they've learned at their jobs, so there is also skill decay due to lack of usage. My mom would have probably been more literate than me when when we were both 20, but probably is not right now.

My point is, you can only make inter-generational comparisons by normalizing for age, say in the 20-30 peak range.

We need some research into how effective drone strikes against refineries are to stop climate change. Are they a net gain in carbon emissions, considering the cost of manufacture and the prevented emissions?

Climate damage related to AI workloads could exceed $50 billion by 2030

It's a sad state of affairs that even when talking of extinction level threat, it is still quantified in monetary terms. Unsurprising, considering it's written by Allianz.

"Do you know how much money our investors will lose if the human race goes extinct???"

He should be glitching and stuttering for the full Windows experience

This is the way I feel when Feedback Hub process (which I never opened) is using 15% CPU

Perennial victims... I wonder why the countries you attacked might shoot back, DICKson?? (typical indigenous name of the Levant)

AI is bad, but it's bizarre to point to its energy usage, out of all things. It's really missing the forest for the trees. As top commenter's data shows, even gaming on a gaming PC is so much worse (considering a 650W PSU, which is 6.5 times the TV example).

Not sure who called it "Netanyahu's wars", but I hope Mamdani has more sense than that. We can't allow for Netanyahu to become the fall guy for what is a genocidal ethnic supremacist state, and just pretend that it will all be better when some former terrorist becomes PM.

Good comparison and data, but I'd like to point out that the leading stats are actually 16k civilians killed in Ukraine (and 46k injured), as per the source. While in Gaza there are 72k direct deaths and 172k injured (mostly civilians and 50% women and children)

It's disgusting how Western governments still approach one country with all possible sanctions, and the other is just business as usual (and finger wagging if we're "lucky").