As bad as people are, something like a Tesla is much worse

https://electrek.co/2026/01/29/teslas-own-robotaxi-data-confirms-crash-rate-3x-worse-than-humans-even-with-monitor/

And something like a Waymo costs $250,000+ which is… Hard to swallow

https://sfist.com/2025/04/25/you-might-soon-be-able-to-buy-and-own-your-own-self-driving-waymo-car/

I’ve heard Windows ME bad, but I’ve almost never heard someone call Windows 2000 bad

Why do people keep referencing this like it was merged…

It was specifically rejected

Maybe to help, you can see where you’ve enabled “repositories” that APT can download from in /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d

As long as you haven’t manually installed a .dpkg package, or manually modified it, they should be something like

deb.debian.org security.debian.org

Some things like Slack may try to add their own repositories down there

When you type “sudo apt install” it is allowed to install from any configured repos down there

The current Hegseth administration has also removed the requirements for Right to Repair from DOD contracts, so Lockheed can charge as many millions as they want on repairs

They don’t update the software on the steam deck frequently enough for me to be confident for phone software where security is more of a concern

It’s fine on a game device, but I have much more personal data on my phone

You see it all the time in Disney animations, Pixar animations, you see it with sprites being the same for clouds and bushes in Mario…

I don’t really see an issue with asset reuse, as long as the actions make sense in the new context

Qualcomm and most phone manufacturers try extremely hard to make sure you can’t run your own operating system on their hardware.

A bug in their security preventing you from installing your own operating system has been found on a specific Qualcomm chip - the Snapdragon 8 gen 5, which, at least for some Xiaomi phones, lets programmers load their own versions on the devices

The last time we tried using them, the computer came with Windows 98…

They were horrible back then, not really sure how they are still in business.

I hadn’t noticed how closely Altman resembles Phelps until the side by side in this thread

If I’m leaving for more than 24 hours -> off

After any update where the distro equivalent of needrestart says something is using an old binary, I just reboot instead of restarting individual services

At least for a long time, you had to set up RPMFusion to be able to play media, and having the additional repos tended to break on major upgrades for a bit after release

So, for beginners, it was a bit painful to suggest

To start spreading doubt for when they make the first move

That would be if Hungary chooses to leave. There isn’t a way for other members to kick out a member against their will

It wouldn’t be much of a protection pact if the more powerful countries could just remove the smaller ones at will

That’s what I’m using these days at home

Only thing to keep in mind is that it won’t give you a notification when you need to do a major version update (pretty consistently every 2 years)

Probably less of an issue these days; they relaxed their stance on proprietary drivers:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/debian-linux-accepts-proprietary-firmware-in-major-policy-change/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

I like the option of not acknowledging US copyrights, patents, or trademarks for a minimum of one year

Let’s see how quickly the oligarchs attack Trump

If your motherboard manufacturer releases firmware through LVFS, you can use

sudo fwupdmgr refresh --force sudo fwupdmgr update

But that should normally be offered through the GNOME or KDE update utility.

I’m assuming your motherboard manufacturer doesn’t support updating through the OS (or hasn’t released a new enough AGESA build) based off your issue

I don’t think that’s true.

Look at how he clams up and attacks anyone who asks him about it.

He can’t even just lie and say there’s nothing there, he has to go on the offensive.

He’s extremely scared of people finding out the truth

Cynically, isn’t this just because Debian did it with Trixie, so now Ubuntu’s next version is pulling in the change?