Debian offers both things, but I am using nvidia so Wayland won't work even as well as it can work, which is not as well as X11.

I expect to get an error explaining something about why a program failed, even if it's not very informative. Any program which cannot manage that is crap, and I should not have to go out of my way to get some kind of error either.

I will just keep using zoom in the browser when I have to use it, which is thankfully infrequent.

That's literally the whole idea behind all of this software, though. They just forgot somehow.

If they are signing contracts that don't let them service the equipment when they can't get a tech, and if the equipment is so fragile and complicated that you can't use it without fucking it up, then multiple people fucked up badly and at multiple points. And just to head it off, I don't want to hear any ignorant fiddle-faddle about "these are complicated devices" blah blah blah which is all over this thread. No they fucking are not. They are ovens. There is no fucking oven used for food rather than aerospace grade carbon fiber that needs more intelligence than you can get for two fiddy from aliexpress. It doesn't matter how many timers it has, how many fans it has to operate, how many zones it has, or how many energy sources it can run on, an oven is basic fucking shit compared to other systems on the ship that they can service. There is no excuse for the level of incompetence and/or malfeasance that created this situation and it is absolutely incomprehensible why anyone would want to invent one solely to juggle the balls of some corporation not even named in the article.

How can you possibly defend such an indefensible and most likely born of corruption type of decision with some completely irrelevant horseshit about the vendor can blame you for things? The military doesn't give one tenth of one fuck, it's not their money and they never pass an audit and congress just keeps giving them more, they can be told that because they worked on it when they needed to get some meals out that they will need an entire oven and they will shrug and sign the PO.

Nobody is going to reward you

poor wittwe baby doesn't wike facts

Unless they have done some very basic mathematics and figured out that they're going to need more power in the future, that is.

As we have just established, you are a fursuit kind of guy.

When did you start learning English anyway, Ivan?

You cannot change the facts with denialism, clowns.

Modding me down might hide my comment so you don't have to look at it, but you could just look away like you do from everything else you find uncomfortable.

Everywhere I've lived, cops are generally utterly disinterested in property crime unless the victim is connected, the loss is huge or the media gets interested.

Less than 10% are cleared in California now, and yes, they used to be better at it.

I'd say "demand better politicians who will demand better cops", but, hey, we're speedrunning the authoritarian shithole path (we are on to political assassinations as of today), so, uh, that ship has sailed.

Please don't think of me when you fap again

DROP YOUR WEAPON, YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO COMPLY

I want to know how they fucked up with the first disk image. That's why you have no idea why I would want to know something I didn't want to know.

It was obvious to everyone else. This is a you problem.

"There are plenty of places trying"

It cannot be "plenty" when 1.5 C is now a foregone conclusion.

Eight years and hundreds of millions or more devices running it? What are you looking for?

I *dont* understand why universities would tolerate this sort of corporate bullying from Oracle, when alternative JVMs and DBMS are *right there*.

I can take a stab at this.

First, it is surprisingly difficult to verifiably eliminate a piece of software from a large environment. We went through this exact exercise a couple years back because we didn't want to pay Oraclegeld. The first 90% is easy. But then you're dealing with Java running on weird devices that are difficult, expensive, or both to replace. And employees who for strange reasons try to keep a copy. And vended applications where swapping the JVM voids your support contract. And all sorts of other weird situations.

And second, these are universities. Schools in general are not exactly famous for having an iron grip on their computing resources. Their IT capabilities in general are different than businesses because their focus is different. And structurally, there are frequently organizational silos and redundant departments with their own budgets for historical reasons, so I imagine even trying to inventory all the computers a school "owns" is can be a challenge in some places. (This is certainly true in the US, I'm guessing English schools are subject to similar pressures.)

So it doesn't surprise me at all if they just couldn't pull it together. Even with centralized administrative control of our machines, it was a multi-month and surprisingly costly effort for us.