Pretty sure it was snapd that drove this decision. It's truly horrible for real daily desktop usage, causing many seconds lag for app startup and certain operations like selecting files to attach to email in Thunderbird.

Snap / snapd is pretty much like Windows Vista when the world was so used to Windows XP.

FWIW, I've used various Linux distros for my main desktop machine since 1994. Never in all these years have I seen anything like snapd which makes a high end desktop feel so sluggish.

People who financially benefit from a Ponzi scheme before it implodes tend to believe they are involved in legitimate work.

Whether Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, I don't know. But one thing I do know for certain is people who are making money almost always believe they are doing good, even with plenty of evidence is contrary.

One constant of stock market bubbles is people riding the euphoria always say "it's different this time".

The real champagne celebration is still days away, and who will be celebrating remains to be seen.

Trump receives a huge number of additional bonus shares if the stock's price stays above $17.50 for 20 trading days, and lesser amounts at $15.00 and $12.50 thresholds.

I believe were at 14 or 15 trading days so far, though which day officially counts as the start isn't clear (at least to me).

That's be some pretty impressive overclocking, as the lowest energy wavelength considered X-ray band is 3nm, which is approx 100 PHz. Or 100,000,000 GHz.

They can't even remember whatever boogeyman Fox News was scaring them about 6 months ago, so how are they ever going to consider anything from all the way back in elementary school contradicts the latest compelling political talk show drama?

If you do streaming or video recording, nVidia's 2000 series (Turing) made significant visual quality improvement in nvenc's real-time video encoding. Apparently nvenc is exactly the same in 3000 and 4000 series cards.

Makes me happy to see cryptocurrency called "market" and not use the word "industry".

Words matter.

Believing vaccine risks outweigh their benefits probably mean you have consumed a lot of misinformation about both the risks and the benefits.

Vaccine risk is extremely low. Any death which occurs within 3 months of the vaccine is counted by VAERS, regardless of the cause. That number is currently 17,392, which gives a worst possible case of 0.0027% of all people who received the vaccine. But every death even if not possibly related is counted in that total. Actual investigation of side effects has found incidents of Myocarditis, TTS, GBS are extremely rare (measured in parts per million), and usually even the serious cases are rarely fatal if treated.

Source:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronaviru...

Benefits are substantial. It's been well established that the vaccines greatly reduce severity of the disease and change of death, especially if boosted within last several months. That's a huge benefit.

Source:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scientificamerican...

Anti-vax misinformation tries to say the vaccine has no benefit because you can still get COVID. Plenty of studies show recent vaccination does reduce the odds, so there probably is some benefit (only needs to be tiny to outweigh the extremely low risk) but the benefit of less severe disease when you do get it is a huge benefit.

What is dangerous is misinformation! The results are clear. Before vaccines, the densely populated states suffered badly and the more rural areas were much less affected. Now the situation is largely reversed, where populations more inclined to accept vaccination have lower per-capita death, and those following right-wing misinformation mostly have higher death rates despite having a natural advantage of less dense population to spread the virus.

Sources:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statista.com%2Fstati...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.texastribune.org%2F2...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fhealth...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewresearch.org%2Fpo...

You said you'd be willing to hear out any plausible explanation. I'm afraid the only plausible explanation is you're terribly misinformed about the risks and benefits. If you really are willing to hear (seems unlikely) just read a few of those sources for truthful information about the vaccine risks and benefits and the real world results of the misinformation you're probably consuming.

Perhaps by "in a year" you mean since the massive Omicron outbreak in January-March of *this* year? You know, the wave where an estimated 60% of the US population got infected.

Integrated circuits were co-invented in the late 1950s by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor. While it could be argued modern electronics would still exist as they do today without Kilby, it is a fact the process of fabricating multiple transistors was co-invented in Texas and California.

While Sunnyvale "silicon valley" in California gets the most attention, a pretty substantial number of ICs are also designed in Austin "silicon hills" in Texas with good portion of the US-based IC fabs in located Dallas. Many of those chips (especially Texas Instruments) are "analog" types which have fairly mundane functions like controlling the special signals to pixels on displays and localized power supplies like the ones which convert your PC's 12 volt power to much lower voltage and higher current in close proximity to power hungry chips like CPUs & GPUs.

Hopefully his extraordinarily bad faith "media circus" behavior ends up with liability to shareholders far exceeding the $1B cancel fee.

NTFs were never an "industry", which means manufacturing of goods or materials.

Impressive patience you have. Patents surrounding H.265 are expected to expire around 2027 to 2028.

But if pretty much everyone has moved on to AV1 by then, or even whatever comes after AV1, whether the browser makers who don't wish to be patent encumbered will reward your patience with support for a then-obsolete codec remains to be seen.

Look for the other messages about using DFU update to initialize. Seems Apple did indeed provide a way for the storage to be changed.