These days, perhaps. But who do you think has been forced to run Windows?

Whether they do that is up to them and their laws, not us and ours. And yes, of course they should do that, and they should have their own UNIX implementation, or Linux fork or whatever. Why would you trust someone else to supply you with an OS when you are so large as a national government? It used to be that there were dozens of companies which had "their own" BSD or System V port (which was just a port to their platform, with maybe some platform-specific utilities to set nvram values or what have you) and governments should be able to at least get that accomplished. It's bad enough having to use commodity hardware, but it's obviously not practical for most nations to build all their own computers.

Running your government on Windows is bananas for lots of reasons, but having it be American is a good one if you're not the USA.

If it was so very trivial, it seems like it would have been done by now. It's not trivial to build a car which is stable at those speeds, no matter what your powertrain looks like. On the other hand, a high voltage motor-per-wheel system with a high motor RPM can react to undesired yaw about as quickly as you can sense it, so the car can pretty much drive itself under human direction. Some of the old coots that can afford these things might pass out from the forces involved, though.

Going this fast in a street legal car is impressive, period. I prefer handling to speed myself, but that doesn't make this not an achievement. That these cars are so crazy cheap for what they can do is a real paradigm shift. The big down sides to hypercars have always been sales price and maintenance costs, but EVs have far less maintenance. If these unprecedentedly high-speed motors don't explode or something, this is not only the fastest but probably also the lowest TCO hypercar ever.

I ignored it because it's not relevant to my argument. If they're going to make the device more expensive, whether it's worth it or not, then the least they can do is care about getting you some decent switches. Had the same experience with an ajazz keyboard, boy their switches suck. Just ship it without 'em FFS.

I've written about this before, and now I will write about it again, because I don't save links to my old posts — when they scroll off the history, the fart smelling stops. I read several papers about this subject specifically because the "question" comes up here frequently, usually in the form of someone insisting that young trees sequester more carbon than mature ones. This sounds perfectly logical, but in fact it is mostly false.

The trees of most species can use considerably more carbon in their old age than when they are young. There are multiple reasons for this, but the two most important ones are as follows: Photosynthesis is what's driving the use of carbon, and larger trees can do more of it; and all growth occurs in a thin layer below the bark called the cambium, which is larger in mature trees.

The other major factor in forest carbon sequestration is whether decomposition is aerobic or anaerobic. When it is the latter, most of the carbon is lost into the air during the decomposition process. When it is the former, most of it goes into the soil. This in turn is based on the presence of water and the rate of growth. Rainforests tend to have both lots of water and high growth rates, so they build deep layers that tend to decompose anaerobically.

Forests are not closed systems, so they don't have to be in equilibrium. And in fact, they generally are not. Because the byproducts of their decomposition tend to produce arable soil, and trees have evolved mechanisms for surviving or regrowing after fires, they tend to grow until something happens to them. Usually, that's us.

I don't know what hardware security features you mean. If you do, maybe you could spell them out, because it's not immediately obvious and I'd rather not go hunting.

There's been several Linux distributions which you could do all that stuff with.

I didn't say they didn't. Read the comment again, if you like.

You know what really has terrible color? Your average theater. They also have shitty black levels.

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Eh, not really. You can already remove pieces of Android if you want when you're making a device. The thing it's going to lose presumably is the ability to run Android apps, which means that new apps will have to be made for all the services, and the support will be poorer than Android. I got a Google TV specifically because it has the best app support.

The American fascist state + corporations are working with China. The reiprocal tariffs on goods from China were delayed until 11/10/2025 and may be delayed again, and the de minimis exception ending is not being enforced against China. I have made several small orders since it was supposedly ended and none of them had any additional customs fees applied. If you think American corporations and the government aren't simply buying information on American citizens from China, you aren't thinking. They're all in the same fascist club.

He's an Israeli tool who believes criticizing genocide is antisemitism. That's not leftist. He made socialist pledges to get elected, he did not keep most of them (including his proposal to increase taxes on top earners) and he has removed them from his website. That's not leftist. One of his current central principles is reducing immigration. That's not leftist. He's walked back his statements that utilities should be nationalized, except for transportation when he was proposing it for mail, water, and energy. That's mostly not leftist.

At best, Keir is clearly mostly not leftist.

When I was choosing keyswitches to upgrade my Redragon keyboards (which came with Redragon switches which are OK but meh) I bought a switch tester assortment from aliexpress. It included Gateron, Kailh, Outemu, and Cherry switches. Add in the Redragon switches I had already, and the Ajazz switches I've had since, and Outemu is by far the best of these aside from Cherry switches, which are only slightly better. Outemu has much better tolerances than the other knockoffs, that is to say they are much less sloppy and more consistent from switch to switch. Their prelubed switches are also smoother than the other brands.

Somehow Gateron has got a reputation for quality which comes up in discussions about keyswitch brands online, but it's nonsense. Gateron switches are sloppy AF. They are a mark of mediocrity. More than doubling the price and then specifying those is an insult to the customer base. Better switches cost no more than they do.

Rainforests are in general net zero when it comes to carbon, because decomposition is mostly anaerobic and that results in most of the carbon being released.