You might notice that your Windows installation is like 30 gigabytes and there is a huge folder somewhere in the system path called WinSXS. Microsoft bends over backwards to provide you with basically all the versions of all the shared libs ever, resulting in a system that can run programs compiled from decades ago just fine.

In Linux-land usually we just recompile all of the software from source. Sometimes it breaks because Glibc changed something. Or sometimes it breaks because (extremely rare) the kernel broke something. Linus considers breaking the userspace API one of the biggest no-nos in kernel development.

Even so, depending on what you’re doing you can have a really old binary run on your Linux computer if the conditions are right. Windows just makes that surface area of “conditions being right” much larger.

As for your phone, all the apps that get built and run for it must target some kind of specific API version (the amount of stuff you’re allowed to do is much more constrained). Android and iOS both basically provide compatibility for that stuff in a similar way that Windows does, but the story is much less chaotic than on Linux and Windows (and even macOS) where your phone app is not allowed to do that much, by comparison.

Marianne Williamson got laughed at about this in the 2020 US primary, but she was the only person who meaningfully advocated for peace among nations, going so far as to propose a Department of Peace.

Good on them for having a conscience. Seems like their minds actually function.

If you bought this e-junk in the first place you’re kind of a moron.

Death cult mentality. Holding the entire planet hostage for their own gain. These people deserve a penalty of a certain kind.

Alternate headline: How one man spammed Wikipedia

I also suspect ArsTechnica of running sponsored AI stories these days.

For people who aren’t American, I can understand it. They rightfully should be mad at us for allowing this to happen.

For people who are American, they need to start thinking fast about how it is even possible that the Democrats failed in their one job which was to ensure Trump would not win in 2024. It’s long past time to stop thinking about individual voters and start thinking about feckless party leadership. Examining this fully would be like a whole textbook’s worth of words, but I think the one microcosm example that’s really worth interrogating is why Nancy Pelosi pressed the lever in favor of Rep. Cuellar in Texas (the most Republican-voting Democrat in the House in one of the most solidly blue districts) over two-time challenger Jessica Cisneros, who came within a stone’s toss of beating him in a primary.

That’s my point. Joe Biden was “the only one” who saw it, because it didn’t happen.

They don’t even have a Steve Mnuchin type character this time who at least has a clue about how things work. This time Trump surrounded himself with all of the dumbest and most loyal kool-aid drinkers.

at least he was trying to talk Netanyahu down and setup a peace deal.

This is fiction, considering all the materiel and money the US sent over. Joe Biden saw 40 beheaded babies. He’s the only one who saw this. He also said, “I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed,” directly downplaying the casualty numbers. Maybe you actually believed it every time Vedant Patel and Matt Miller lied about having difficult conversations with their Israeli counterparts?

thanks for choosing the worst timeline, directly or indirectly it doesn’t matter at this point.

Tell that to the DNC. I don’t make these decisions. My state went for Harris. Putting aside the genocide, if you can possibly do such a thing, people’s economic security got worse while Biden was president. Whether or not you can blame the president for this is beside the point, as we should all know by now that the president gets blamed regardless (particularly by well-funded reactionary media sources). That they couldn’t counter this is, again, not my choice.

To the people who saw my post and downvoted: it was not my choice that the Democrats ran the senile walking dead genocidal maniac in 2024. Then when it became too obvious how senile he was and they couldn’t lie about it anymore, they passed the torch directly to a woman who was so dogshit at campaigning that she had to drop out of the 2020 primaries before a single vote was even cast.

You could blame us for not putting up a more honest candidate there in the first place, but there isn’t a structure in place to even allow such a thing to happen. Consider what happened to Bernie 2020, for example.

The opposition that ‘wasn’t “good” enough’ was funding and supporting a genocide to the hilt. The USA is a fucked, evil state.

It might not be a valid excuse, but it gets that kind of play in the press (and, therefore, public opinion/support) as discussed in this Citations Needed podcast episode A.I. Mysticism as Responsibility-Evasion PR Tactic

good ep of a good pod

Employees should start setting up an AI to prove it can do Tobi Lutke’s extremely difficult job of making a small number of important decisions every once in a while.

Can’t help but think of this book wrt your comment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Hey, when’s the last time you showed remorse to your multi-trillion market cap employer? Next you’re gonna tell me something really outrageous like you didn’t even swear an oath of fealty to them.

The URL you shared has an unnecessary user tracker in it and can be shortened to https://www.threads.net/@wongmjane/post/DIFF_P3B9u2

You should just maintain awareness of how much you’re using. I think 32gb ram + 32gb swap is ridiculous, frankly. Fedora by default sets zram up to 8gb, with no other swap space configured. Works very well that way.

Personally I’d also probably not ever set up more than 16gb of swap space. If I’m somehow hitting that limit it’s because I actually just need to buy more RAM.