Weird, I've had the opposite experience: stable as fuck. The machine I'm typing this on was 1st installed with Kubuntu in... 2003 I think. It's gone through every non-LTS upgrade. I've changed the system HD several times, cloning it to bigger ones, then cloning it to SSD. I've also changed the machine thrice: from a powerful tower, I've split it to a headless server and a laptop which got updated once more. There were a few hitches (KDE4 to 5 was a pain in the ass for 2 years, Kmail was a bug ridden piece of shit) but never had to reinstall from scratch. I even went Kubuntu -> Neon and then back to Kubuntu for a few years with command line magic.

I wrote the software for the 2 camera testers (one for integration of the CCDs, one for production) but... I don't remember ! I finished the soft 2 years ago. Anyway, it's B&W and probably 16 bits, but I'm not sure, I'd have to dig in the specs I have somewhere. The filter changer is some kind of crazy robot contraption because the filters are 2 meters in diameter, fragile as fuck and so expensive there's no duplicate. The camera CCD took years to assemble from individual CCDs.

Does this affect KDE running on X11 with Kubuntu in any way ? Last I tried Wayland didn't support VNC so that's a complete no-no for me. I don't care much about Gnome (besides liking that there's some competition), but KDE has always been nice on Ubuntu (except for the painful KDE4->KDE5 transition years [decades?] ago).

I both agree and disagree with you. It *is* simple to install. My wife, my 5yo and my 80yo parents (and others in the family) all use Kubuntu because I installed it for them (and provide support, sometimes remotely via ssh+VNC). But if you tell them what you just wrote, they'll abort at the 3rd word.

AI is doing exactly what he attempted doing, except that he was hounded until he took his own life. And now it's somehow all okay.

I just re-read my post and went WTF. It's easy to blame autocorrect, but I normally read back before posting...

How were they storm on the first place? Chicken are stored only locally afaik. So the computer would have to be already compromised, no?

Except that those jobs pay like pure shit.

Seriously, why do we still interconnect with those criminals ? All their packets should go down the bit bucket.

In the movie Transcendence, humans develop a benevolent AI. What the 1st thing they want to do to it ? Kill it. I was like, what a bunch of dumb apes.

Same. I lived in the US a few months a year from the mid 80s to 2000 and then for 3 years. It was the height of the 'freedom fries' psychosis and that's when I figured that 'merkins were not only widely ignorant but also fucking stupid for the most part. Was offered a permanent position but went back to Europe with no regrets. Some things are lovely in the US. Its people, meh...

There are many reasons why people don't want to do surveys anymore:

• Waste of time
• Phishing
• What's in it for you even when it's a valid survey ?
• Etc...

I recently got into hot water at work. I received a request for survey and the link was to some external domain so it went straight to spam. Only when there was some debate on the merit of the questions on the work mailing list did I mention that my filter sent it straight to spam and I wasn't certainly the only one (the boss' boss wasn't happy). If people are lazy and make their surveys with external tools/websites that will phish all your info they shouldn't be surprised at the lack of replies...

Then how do you do the very usual double-buffer method, where one thread fills a buffer while the other one processes buffer2 (faster), and then they switch ?

Maybe a chemist can answer that, but why aren't supercritical fluids used more often when recycling garbage ? Things like water, CO2 and others have astonishing dissolving properties when at their triple-point. Many plastics will dissolve in supercritical CO2, as do most organic matter.

Projecting much ?