That’s part of the issue. In my case though, I easily spend more than $5500Aud on petrol a year. And especially due to all the new battery tech being released like sodium ion, and an increased number of second hand cars, prices will likely rapidly drop and range will rapidly increase too.

It’s really a tradeoff between upfront cost (EV), and long term cost (Cars)… And the upfront cost keeps dropping, and long term cost of cars will keep growing (rightfully, as there should be environmental and health taxes on it)

Egh. Clickbait.

Screw the movie theatres anyway… Here in Australia, there are two big ones (Hoyts and Village), and both screw patrons by doing things like charging patrons extra money for booking online.

In fact, they ruined every joke in the simpsons movie for me (except one) by allowing ads to use clips from the movie. By 45mins of ads, every joke was ruined.

I really wish the big theatres here would f off, and get replaced entirely by small ones. I don’t pay for 40mins of sh***y coca cola ads.

I no longer go at all. It’s not a good experience, and its not even a good place to take a date

Honestly, the only thing keeping X relevant, is news articles at this time.

Can I ask why? What are the benefits you’re hoping to get?

Also, just in case you want some targets to work on:

1. Mobile phone app integration with Android. Waydroid works, but has some fairly big deficiencies compared to the Windows / OSX Mobile app integration. I feel a lot more polish and integration is required (it would be awesome if you added integration into the standard app “stores” like Discover). But even stuff like the keyboard entry popup doesn’t work well.
2. I’m sure there is lots of Wayland related stuff you can assist with
3. Improved window tiling for KDE / Gnome
4. Hit the various bounties pages and feature requests in Bug trackers for the main projects
5. Assist with Auditing Systemd
6. Hardware support
   • Assist with Asahi for Apple silicon to allow Apple users to use Linux instead. Like it or not, their computers are popular, and they might be a good ARM target for many “mainstream” users. Things like DP ALT Mode still aren’t working
   • Fix NUC 12 Enthusiast
   • Streamdeck needs to be better supported (and is even more limited in wayland)
   • And I’m sure there’s many other hardware targets too
7. Improved Self Healing and recovery mechanisms for Linux. Windows actually does an awesome job with this, where if things break, it can auto-rollback
8. Forks for Redhat projects. Feel free to fork all the major Redhat Projects if you are concerned about them closing the source code. I don’t think its fair for people to be dissing RHEL, if they’ve never touched the source code…
9. Or finally, sponsorship or help donation drives to fund these projects. I’m willing to bet developers want to work on their projects full time, but unless you’re hired by a company like Redhat, it won’t happen. Firefox was incredibly effective at this

And I’m sure there are lots of other targest too

That’s an understatement.

If OP had their way, Gnome would just be a terminal window with applications listed, because it compiles quickly, and no features is better security You’d need to manually install the features you need.

I used to use Gentoo and roll my own kernel. Total waste of time

I disagree with a lot of this. Some of it is assumption, some is just wrong.

1. Why is that a bad thing? They should try to use the full thing for standardisation purposes
2. So don’t add features to anything? It also has features which improve security… Splitting all these features up into different projects just means a similar number of bugs spread over many projects, and worse integration
3. So developers need to now also think about compilation speed, for people who don’t really gain anything by compiling everything themselves anyway? Maybe you can assist by assisting with GCC and other compilers then?
4. Why are we catering for FreeBSD or OpenBSD?
   • They have negligible market share (even worse so if you ignore TrueNAS).
   • They can port SystemD to their own platforms if they want and improve their compatibility layers with Linux.
   • Theo de Raadt from OpenBSD is a total d*** I respect the work he’s done, but who would want to work with him.
   • There is nothing stopping you from porting SystemD stuff to FreeBSD and enhancing their compatibility layers
5. You’re making assumptions. RHEL likely won’t do that lol, and if they did, other distros would fork and take over (its LGPL).

if its easy to find a “serious vulnerability”, show us how its done. In fact, show us more than one… There’s literally nothing stopping from assisting with auditing Systemd code either… Or forking it.

In fact, I find it literally insane the amount of attention a small number of people are focusing on attacking systemd. Literally, there are so many targets in Linux that are lacking, or not ideal… But, you guys are focusing so much attention on this. It’s like all the complainers about Pulseaudio, who are likely the main people complaining about RHEL now (who released Pipewire, which fixes the last major audio issue in Linux because nobody in the community did something similar).

Funny you say that… Because, for the first half, I genuinely thought you were my housemate

Doesn’t make sense at all.

I keep seeing Redhat used an example, but they contribute a HUGE amount a source code and projects… Pipewire, systemd, rpm, DBUS and even the main XML addon for VSCode, etc.

I don’t think people realise how much poop linux would be swimming in if they went bankrupt…

Redhat are literally one of the big reasons why Linux is so seamless these days, and they’re solving a lot of the big problems. And from my understanding, they still contribute the code seperately anyway.

That being said, I agree money needs to go towards developers. However, a lot of them end up hired at major companies. And I don’t think this is the way to approach it

X11 has it’s own issues (and there are a lot of them, including security)

What features exactly?

Sure because the things Apple has done has totally screwed over non Apple users too…

Also, Apple’s success basically depended on deceiving the public. The perfect example was the Mac vs PC ads which were designed to mislead people into believing Mac’s can’t crash and can’t get viruses

Another more recent example is iMessage which is designed to lock Apple users into their OS.

The only reason they dropped lightning for USBC even was because of laws

They’re boasting about privacy, when literally earning billions from Google for making them the default search (so they’re selling your details to Google basically)

Even now, developers are forced to buy Mac’s to develop for iOS. So of course many of them will be annoyed.

I even had a apple sales manager scold me publicly when I sold macs (a week before bootcamp was released) that nobody would want to run windows on a mac, and basically implied I was an idiot for doing it. Two weeks later he returned and boasted about how macs could now run Windows. No apology.

Apple is a toxic company (even Steve Jobs was a TERRIBLE person who apparently used to park in the disabled parking every day). There’s plenty of reasons not to like them. And thats only a tiny list…

The technical team there I met were awesome… But the sales side stinks from the top down…

They took way too long unfortunately , but totally agree. thedonald, femaledatingstrategy and fatpeoplehate should have been banned a lot quicker

It feels like they’ve let it degrade again too now. Last I was on it, lots of subs had gone really toxic and weird

The wrong kind of users though… The people on Facebook likely to use Threads, are the ones who I’d hate to federate with. Discussions would quickly change to low effort karma grabs and inside jokes.

You’re also likely to get a lot more people doing stealth/viral marketing, more bots, etc

That’s why I use Beehaw honestly… It actually feels like I’m talking to people

Someone I know was actually included in one of these reports and was on the news here in Australia

Really nice guy

Anyone who thinks this isn’t serious are kidding themselves, last I heard, he’d lost a huge amount of lung function. Hopefully pink Batts are next. They can’t be healthy

The crap thing are the people still arguing that should keep doing them, because they care too much what people think about their houses.

There is literally no good reason risking yourself for some rich asshole, and I regret a lot of things I did as a tradie now installing cables like climbing in potentially asbestos contaminated dirt under houses

Where do I go to buy a list of your location history off Google if it’s not true?

I feel like they should be labeling their content as NO AI generation… Then actually do that

Can you make it skip ads? That would be the real time saver

Tried tidal and didn’t work well for me with Android auto. You can actually use something like tune my music to copy your playlists to every main service for testing.

I used apple music. I don’t like Apple in particular, but they pay artists, and don’t pay Joe rogan

I actually found the music suggestions were way better than Spotify which mostly just repeated stuff I heard

Why is anyone still using Spotify?

They have money to pay Joe Rogan an absolutely obscene amount of money which could have made hundreds of artists life awesome apparently (which feels more like a bribe). So it is clear, they have the cash to pay others too. They just choose not to