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As always with plastic recycling. The whole concept of plastic recycling is only a "don't think about it, just buy it".

OSS on the other side has the downside of being free.

That means it's:

• massively underfunded because nobody donates
• no SLA-style contracts to hold anyone accountable
• most of the time no 3rd party security audits because free software (especially libraries or system tools) don't go through procurement and thus don't require them
• everyone expects that "someone" will have already reviewed it becouse the code is open and used by millions of projects, while in reality they are maintained by some solitary hero hacking away in his basement

If stuff like OpenSSL was CSS, it would be at least a mid-sized company making lots of revenue (because it's used everywhere, even small license fees would rack up lots of revenue), with dozens of specialists working there, and since it would go through procurement there would be SLAs and 3rd party security audits.

But since it's FOSS, nobody cares, nobody donates and it was a singular developer working at it until heartbleed. Then some of the large corporations which based their whole internet security on this singular dude's work realized that more funding was necessary and now it is a company with multiple people working there.

But there are hundreds of other similarly important FOSS projects that are still maintained by a solitary hero not even making minimum wage from it. Like as shown with the .xz near miss.

Just imagine that: nobody in their right mind would run a random company's web app with just one developer working in their spare time. That would be stupid to do, even though really nothing depends on that app.

But most of our core infrastructure for FOSS OSes and internet security depends on hundreds of projects maintained by just a single person in their free time.

Looks really nice! I'll check that out!

Could be the AMD CPU (had a few kernel issues with that CPU, for example on anything newer than 6.10 the laptop doesn't wake from sleep, that's a well-documented issue either with the CPU or the chipset), could be the mobile 4070, could be because I'm using Fedora (some of the issues I have like the one with performance randomly dropping to single-digit FPS and that not clearing up with a reboot are reported quite often on Fedora), could be something entirely different.

I'm on a budget gaming laptop (Lenovo LOQ), could be that they messed up something there, don't know.

I haven't even touched HDR so far, because the base function isn't there.

Games on Steam don't tend to give me trouble, for some reason it works better there, but I don't have 300 or so free games on Steam.

So sad he stopped doing his regular videos. (Though I totally understand his reasoning.)

That's good to hear. The former is big news, the second option would be not nearly as relevant.

HTML5 + CSS3 seems to be Turing complete too: https://lemire.me/blog/2011/03/08/breaking-news-htmlcss-is-turing-complete/

Yeah, but the wording is weird. "34% of cruise missile bombers in key Russian airbases"

Does that mean "34% of all Russian cruise missile bombers were destroyed by hitting those sitting in key Russian airbases" or does that mean "34% of the Russian cruise missile bombers that were currently present in these specific key Russian airbases were destroyed"?

That's two very different statements with very different meanings.

They aren't wrong. Tariffs could help bring the upcoming Samsung A17 to $1000-1200.

At least not coke and buthane. That would have been worse.

If the teacher was so wrong, explain to me how a majority of the students would have understood that question and been able to figure out the correct answer and provided the correct format?

But did they? How do you know? Have you seen the other students' assignments?

Most likely, this specific task wasn't actually a homework task at all but created just for this meme.

But teachers like this exist, and I stand by that that these teachers are wrong. Understanding and actually thinking about a problem are much more important skills than to obey blindly and follow pre-set directions without even reading what the question actually says.

I'd say, a student that answers the question as expected is failing in regards to reading comprehension.

And from my experience, if a question is worded as wrongly as the one in the meme, then half the class will have it wrong and there will be a group of parents at the next parent-teacher conference complaining about it.

Sad that you don't read replies, because what you are saying makes a ton of sense, and I have questions.

I don't really have the time to try out 20 distros. I used Kubuntu quite a lot before, but I had issues with it, so I wanted to switch away. I tried out Mint, PopOS and Fedora, due to common recommendations and Fedora is the only one that really caught my fancy.

But "tried out" means "installed it, ran one game on steam, done". Don't really have time for more. Since then I have regretted choosing Fedora.

What would be a good distro if I want to game, but I also need it as a general purpose distro? I don't want to have to dual-boot between a gaming distro and my regular distro where I code and run all my regular stuff on.

I'd also like to have something that doesn't update the kernel all that fast, since my laptop doesn't wake from sleep on a kernel newer than 6.10 (at least on Fedora 41). It's a documented bug that doesn't have a fix yet, apparently.