For many hundreds of years, blood-letting was an obvious thing to do. As was just giving people leeches for medical ailments. And ingesting mercury. We thought having sex with virgins would cure STDs. We thought doses of radiation was good for us. And tobacco. We thought it was obvious that the sun revolved around Earth.

It is enormously important to scientifically confirm things, even if they do seem obvious.

I didn’t cheat, sir, honest. I merely had the answers to the test written on my arm as a joke.

I have a Fedora Workstation (i.e. Gnome) desktop, a Fedora Workstation laptop, a Windows 10 laptop I’m forced to use for work.

My wife doesn’t have a PC (well I guess she has a Steam Deck, actually, but it only ever goes into desktop mode in order to install/update Stardew Valley mods).

My daughter has my old laptop, with Mint on it.

No issues so far.

My dad did have a laptop with ElementaryOS on it, but since he bought an iPad the laptop has just been gathering dust.

Stop building houses, everybody. We can just force the sale or rent of 260,000 homes, completely and permanently solving the housing crisis. I repeat, stop building new houses!

The number was not small. It was 10+ SKUs… which also happened to be most of the most popular ones.

Intel claimed multiple times to have fixed the issue, only for it to have not been fixed. Maybe it really is fixed this time, but who knows?

Also, stuff is often in warehouses for months. You could very easily still get an affected CPU. And intel has been very clear that they will not replace faulty CPUs. If you get a faulty CPU, you’re on your own.

It’s not worth the risk.

This is all on top of Intel having worse CPUs on a worse platform with zero upgrade path even if you ignore a lot of them being faulty, which you obviously shouldn’t.

Not single-player ones.

Incorrect.

They’ve had DRM in single player games on GOG. Hitman was a DRM game on GOG. Cyberpunk had a lot of DRM-lilocked items in game. They retroactively updated Witcher 3 with the same DRM crap.

because you have access to the game files and can do whatever

So long as the game is DRM free, which it isn’t always on GOG anymore, yes.

Although that doesn’t absolve them of lying about their intent to support Linux or their promise to open source their Galaxy client.

A number of games on GOG have DRM now. They’ve also said they’d work on Linux support and that they’d open source Galaxy, but never did.

Nobody is clean.

The 6900XT/6950XT were great.

They briefly beat Nvidia until Nvidia came out with the 3090 Ti. Even then, it was so close you couldn’t tell them apart with the naked eye.

Both the 6000 and 7000 series have had cards that compete with the 80-class cards, too.

The reality is that people just buy Nvidia no matter what. Even the disastrous GTX 480 outsold ATI/AMD’s cards in most markets.

The $500 R9 290X was faster than the $1000 Titan, with the R9 290 being just 5% slower and $400, and yet AMD lost a huge amount of money on it.

AMD has literally made cards faster than Nvidia’s for half the price and lost money on them.

It’s simply not viable for AMD to spend a fortune creating a top-tier GPU only to have it not sell well because Nvidia’s mindshare is arguably even better than Apple’s.

Nvidia’s market share is over 80%. And it’s not because their cards are the rational choice at the price points most consumers are buying at. It really cannot be stressed enough how much of a marketing win Nvidia is.

I’m just asking you to provide a source for your (obviously untrue) claim.

Yes, exactly. And we don’t have a way to store all that energy. So I’m not sure why you’re lying by saying we do.

Why are you lying?

Tidal power continues to be researched, but it’s proving very difficult, currently completely unviable. It certainly cannot replace all non-renewable energy.

Right, and I replied to a comment where you claimed we can just use batteries to replace everything but renewables.

Put up or shut up. Where’s the data?

You made a tall claim, and still haven’t substantiated it. Why?

Show me this proof that we have the batteries to eliminate all fossil fuels.

You know that’s how it works, right? You make a claim, you need evidence to support it…

Yes, they need heating in winter… for a tiny population. And they have very little in the way of data centres.

Again, these are only suitable depending on the environment you’re in. E.g. pumped water storage is only effective if you have the terrain to allow for it (a large hill or mountain with space for a large body of water).

I never said lithium was an outright requirement. I said batteries can’t currently take the planet off of fossil fuels, then I said that other energy storage systems are very dependent on the location.

E.g. despite there being a lot of rainfall in the UK, there are only 3 places suitable for pumped water energy storage. It can’t be relied upon for powering a country unless you’re phenomenally fortunate with geography.

Nobody will remember or care if he’s wrong.

In situations where that’s feasible, it’s good. But it’s far from feasible all the time.

You certainly couldn’t replace all existing fossil fuels with it, or even scratch the surface really.

Norway can do stuff like this because they have the geography for it, as well as a population that’s like a 15th of the UK or a 60th of the US. They don’t actually need much energy.

Looking through the gitlab, it seems the backport of this hold gesture to GTK3 was rejected for good reason. Seems very unfair to imply it was done out of sheer spite.

It would break a lot, require a new API, and devs reworking a lot of programs.

It’s also completely reasonable just from the POV of not accepting major new features in GTK3 when GTK4 exists.

Devs likely expect GTK3 to be feature-stable, given GTK4 has been out a while and GTK5 work starting soon. It’s at the tail-end of its life.

If somebody wanted a major new feature in Python, for example, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Python team gave it the go-ahead for Python 3 but not Python 2. GTK3 is done, they’re only really doing bug fixes now.

Nobody expects new features to be added to Plasma 5 or Gnome 45.

It’s 100% the right decision not to keep adding features to an old widget toolkit that has been superceded by GTK4 and is almost EoL.

That issue aside… good. Seems like a nice feature.

Can you back up your original claim - that we can sufficiently power all of our grids with current batteries, and that current battery manufacturing is enough to do so?

With reputable sources.

You will never convince an Nvidia fan that Nvidia has ever done anything badly.

This court case has been going on for a long time, and the writing was on the wall for how the case was going to go long ago.

Google has had more than enough time to prepare, they just chose not to.

Them having to implement this relatively quickly is a problem entirely of their own making.