5 Mbps is slow enough that it should be considered a free tier, like, basic service for being alive tier.

It’s also just not at all the same thing.

An aircraft mechanic can’t just go out on his five minute break and smoke a j and go back to it.

Genuine question, since the code itself doesn’t infringe on IP (I think) wouldn’t the user executing the code be responsible for accepting the tos, not the repo.

The repo is just static non-compiled text files, it afaik isn’t actually communicating with their servers and therefore wouldn’t be able to accept any tos (implied or otherwise) (I don’t know if there are any actions, ci/cd pipelines, or deployments that would be in violation though)

Well, the total user base here is in the tens of thousands, even assuming there was even 100% agreement on that, that still amounts to less Netflix subscribers cancelling than they have in a single small town in the us.

I think people here (and reddit and other social media) forget that most people just kind of do their thing and don’t make posts online about this stuff.

But live/real time text communication with relatively informal conversations is new.

Going back 100 years, if you were writing text to have a conversation you were likely sending a letter, this asynchronous communication method means that you were putting more time and effort into each message as it was a lot of effort to get the message to another person (even if that is just hand delivering it to your neighbor)

You also weren’t expecting immediate responses. The expectation is that a decent amount of time is going to pass before the next phase of the conversation.

Instant messaging is basically brand new as far as the history of written language goes. So with it comes new paradigms in discussion.

Emojis offer a great way to express emotions that succinctly convey a lot of information. Great for back and forth conversations.

Being able to react to a message with 👍 is awesome and really not much different from all of the other initialisms that have been developed on the Internet over the years.

Good thing they weren’t talking about c.

How many words on the page though? I bet I could squeeze it down to 50 pages with the right font.

Plus one for shoehorn, underrated and my friends always make fun of me for using one for some reason. Meanwhile I’m standing with my shoes on comfy while they tear their fingers up trying to slide their shoes on

Safety technology absolutely has not regressed, new cars are safer than ever, and generally make the roads safer by A) having more assists and alerts for drivers and B) having better crash structure resulting in less fatal accidents.

Or leasing.

You should still check, as the tpms may only warn you when it gets too low but generally driving even just a couple psi off can have a big effect on fuel economy and tire life.

I’m not doubting you, but like, what r&d firm is gonna go, welp, this $50 core charge is too much for us, guess we won’t do it.

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I write software. I am legally bound to not release source code for the things I do for work.

However all of the software that I write that is not required to be closed source, is not.

A house is 1/5th of your annual income and you can’t save up a down payment?

A 20% down payment for you is only 2 weeks of your salary.

You could save income of about 6 hours worth of work each week to have a 20% down payment in a year

With an FHA loan, a down payment is 0.6% of your annual income.

Bad advice!

There is plenty of malware that targets Linux due to its prevalence in mission critical architecture! Also, someone who is recently returning to desktops and likely new to Linux as a whole will be more likely to blindly run windows executables with a compatibility layer like wine, which can still infect the system.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/05/19/rise-in-xorddos-a-deeper-look-at-the-stealthy-ddos-malware-targeting-linux-devices/

If you are using Linux, I recommend clamAV.

Edit: to add, recommending Linux to someone as the end all be all to an unrelated question is just needless proselytizing and generally unhelpful.

Forever audits of free software are unsustainable in my opinion.

To truly audit every piece of software, you need an independent party to spend time (often more than the development) to look through the code, that person needs to be equally or more experienced than the developers of the software, and have specific knowledge for vulnerabilities and malicious techniques.

They then need to audit and monitor all of the channels of distribution for that software, including various websites and repositories. This needs to be done constantly.

You effectively need to double or more the total level of effort for all software.

Yes, high profile software (sometimes) gets audited regularly, but the assumption that anything you grab from your package manager has been truly audited leads to a false sense of security, additionally the assumption that an audit being performed means there are no issues with the code also leads to problems.

The reality is that most open source software doesn’t get audited because it is too much work.

The closest bus to me is about a 1.5 hour walk, with the path options either being, the side of a 70 mph highway, or the side of 45 mph side roads (no sidewalks).

The bus pass would just take up space in my wallet and nothing more.

I work from home to reduce my car usage dramatically, and already pay annual taxes on the car itself as well as every gallon of gas (in top of standard sales tax) that goes into it. The car is 15 years old and gets over 30mpg.

Your ‘easy’ solution requires uprooting people’s lives dramatically and is, dare I say it, an incredibly naive take on the real problems that the planet, nations, and individual people actually have.

And before you say ‘move somewhere with people’ I do live where people are, I live in between two of the biggest cities in my state, moving closer to those cities requires a) a huge sum of liquid cash, and b) a huge increase in my cost of living.

Think critically about the world you are in, have perspective about other people’s living situations, and have respect for your peers. Blanket solutions are historically ineffective.

It’s more to do with gearing and wind resistance.

Wind resistance increases dramatically as you go faster, (coefficient * frontal area) squared.

The rolling resistance from your tires is trivial in comparison.

The work is still remote, they just have to drive to the remote location :)

In all seriousness, most people just commute to the nearest town or city.