Yeah this really shouldn’t be that difficult. Pop the old bill reader out and swap a new one in. It seems like there’s a pretty big financial incentive for someone to figure out how to implement that, at least for the most common vending machine models.
Technically the US is using the metric system. Per the Mendenhall Order of 1893, all customary length and mass units were redefined to be based on international metric standards. The Imperial system units commonly used in the US are just conversion factors of metric units.
I understand what you mean, but that’s beside the point really.
Your list above is not actually consistent with conservative politics in the US.
For instance, you said:
The right to vote is fundamental to a democracy
The Republican party says:
Our platform is centered on […] ensuring the integrity of our elections reference
In practice, “ensuring the integrity of our elections” means voter suppression, which is diametrically opposed to the idea that the right to vote is fundamental.
For another example, you said:
Religion must stay out of government
The Republican party keeps doing things like this:
Gilbert was one of the experts consulted in drawing up the NSM-20 report, but she said it was taken out of their hands as it approached completion.
“Sometime at the end of April, the subject matter experts were taken off the report and we were told it would be edited at a higher level. So I did not know what was in the report until it came out,” she said. “But when the report came out, late on the Friday afternoon [on 10 May], I read it and I had to reread it. I had to go back and print out that section and read it, because I could not believe it stated so starkly that we assess that Israel is not blocking humanitarian assistance.
This seems pretty damning…
According to Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen, the NSM-20 report “should have been based on an unvarnished assessment of the facts and law.”
“Stacy Gilbert’s statements further corroborate the concerns I have expressed that the findings of the bureaus and experts most involved with the distribution of aid and compliance with international law were bypassed in favor of political convenience,” said Van Hollen.
Oh sure, but the comic says “most hectic chemical engineer workday”.
In the article Lowe describes a spill incident:
It burned its way through a foot of concrete floor and chewed up another meter of sand and gravel beneath, completing a day that I’m sure no one involved ever forgot. That process, I should add, would necessarily have been accompanied by copious amounts of horribly toxic and corrosive by-products: it’s bad enough when your reagent ignites wet sand, but the clouds of hot hydrofluoric acid are your special door prize if you’re foolhardy enough to hang around and watch the fireworks.
China has begun its second day of military drills targeting Taiwan, in what it says is punishment for “separatist acts” after the inauguration of its new president on Monday....
I understand your point of view and I agree that an invasion of Taiwan doesn’t make a lot of practical sense, but I think you should also keep in mind the brutality China has demonstrated in Hong Kong. I don’t think the PRC is as concerned with consequences as they are with getting what they want, and with appearing to be in control. Continued Taiwanese independence makes them look weak.
Nothing triggers authoritarianism quite like defiance.
The inspections are happening in Cyprus before the trucks are shipped to the pier to be unloaded. The trucks unloading at the pier are already past the inspection point.
Therefore not smoke and mirrors because the potential delay you’re talking about is already past, and the aid is currently being delivered.
You mean between March and May of 2024? None so far as I can tell, though it’s hard to find specific information. HR 8034 passed the House on 20 Apr 2024, if that’s what you’re referring to, but it hasn’t passed the Senate or been signed into law yet, and in any case it is a funds appropriation bill meaning that all it does is earmark some money from the federal budget for the purpose of military aid - no material has been shipped yet based on this bill, nor will be for awhile.
A colonial-era statue honouring a former Australian premier who mutilated the body of an Aboriginal man has been toppled by vandals ahead of its planned removal....
The CEO also claims that users’ Signal messages have popped up in court cases or in the media, and implies that this has happened because the app’s encryption isn’t completely secure. However, Durov cites “important people I’ve spoken to” and doesn’t mention any specific instance of this happening.
[…]
The Register could not find public reports of Signal messages leaking due to faulty encryption.
Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Durov’s entire criticism seems to be based on implications and have no actual evidence of any technical problems with Signal. He’s basically just throwing shade at a competing business, which amounts to whining.
Started my first job, it’s a helpdesk. It looks that I get tickets and try to help people on the other side, have build some PCs and am at first week....
Like it or not, commercial computing is primarily Microsoft environments. Businesses are moving to Azure/O365, but there’s still a lot of on-prem AD out there, and a lot of businesses that are stuck in between with some form of hybrid hodge-podge. It’s definitely more difficult to do admin tasks for individual Windows endpoints vs. Linux, but on the other hand there is no FOSS equivalent for AD forest management. In a corporate environment, the ability to manage large numbers of endpoints at scale is more important.
If you have to manage Windows systems you should learn about Windows-native tools, rather than trying to drag the Linux-native tools you’re used to onto Windows just for the sake of familiarity.
That said, installing (and updating) software on Windows is absolutely a pain compared to the relative simplicity of a Linux package manager and I’m 100% with you on that. I highly recommend chocolatey, which attempts to work as a package manager for Windows. All of the software that you install with chocolatey can be updated with a single command, similar to running updates in a package manager on Linux. If you can implement this on the Windows systems that you have to manage, it will make things easier.
Yeah. It’s another one of these. But! Here me out! So I have some experience using Linux. Run some VMs for services I run in my home, I switched my surface book 3 (funnily enough) to ubuntu for my work computer as I was getting more and more frustrated by windows 11 and it turned out really good. Was able to completely get off...
But whether a few hours or a few days, eventually I start having issues with the displays. Monitors will black out. Not boot. Eventually the whole system just stops working in a way that I can figure out.
This sounds more like a hardware issue than software. Can you provide more detail? Have you done basic troubleshooting steps like trying different power cords and surge protector/power strip? What is the full list of hardware for your system? Have you reseated the RAM? Replaced the CMOS battery? (a dead CMOS battery will prevent system boot)
Huh… and that’s repeatable? How long could you go on Linux before the blackouts, and did you run on Windows for a similar amount of time with no issues? also, when the blackout happens does it recover after a little time, or do you have to reboot to get video back? (is it just a screen blackout, or has the system crashed?) When the screen is black, can you reboot with busier backwards?
One issue that I’ve had on Linux installs is that the system doesn’t recover properly from hibernate. I’ve seen this on laptops and desktops over more than a decade. When this happens the screen goes black and the system doesn’t respond to any keyboard or mouse input, the only way to recover is to force a reboot. Maybe check your power management profile and disable hibernation.
Otherwise there are a lot of reasons that the screen might black out:
power issues - what is your PSU model? Linux installs are frequently not as power efficient as Windows on the same hardware, generally because Windows does a lot more throttling by default.
overheating - Windows (and the Windows hardware drivers) might be configured to throttle the CPU and/or GPU to manage the temperature automatically without telling you, while Linux might be giving you the full unthrottled system power and overheating.
video drivers & multimonitor - as others have said already, this could be an issue with the Linux video drivers. You should verify which driver you’re using as EccTM@lemmy.ml said. Are all your monitors the same resolution? I’ve definitely had trouble with mulitple monitors if they were mismatched.
bad CPU core - this one’s a long shot, but Windows tends to be a lot more single-threaded while Linux is more likely to try to balance operations across all CPU cores. Maybe one of your cores has an issue, and when Linux tries to use it it triggers a system crash, while Windows just never gets around to using that particular core for anything critical (and so never triggers the crash).
SSD/swap file issue - most Linux distros will configure a swap partition on the root hard drive by default, which is used as an extension of the RAM. Windows doesn’t use a swap file. You have plenty of RAM so there’s not really a need for it, so you should try just disabling swap.
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Qubes - an OS that compartmentalizes system functions (including userspace) into separate VMs, with the intent of keeping them secure from each other. Kind of an internal zero-trust approach. Complicated to use.
Alpine Linux - stripped down to create a reduced attack surface, with the intent to provide only packages which have been vetted for security. Fairly straightforward.
Redox OS - a Unix-like OS written in Rust (not actually Linux). Limited, still kind of a prototype.
Damn Small Linux has been revived with a new version recently, which is nice to see.
HoloISO - a community built reimplementation of the Steam Deck OS.
Ok, good? All you can do with Iron Dome is shoot down mortar rounds and slower-moving rockets (and maybe drones?) - it really only works for defense. I don’t see the problem.
“At the end of the day, though, it always comes down to that most important resource of all – people."
You know, like the ones we just fired…
Maybe it’s time for these massive publishers to become irrelevant anyway. They’re only in it for the money. Steam has proven that there’s plenty of market for games made by small, independent publishers.
They were either the most powerful weapon in Star Trek history, able to destroy multiple enemy ships with a single burst, or they were basically a laser pointer. There never seemed to be any middle ground.
It’s only “high” in comparison to the irresponsibly low interest rate we’ve had since 2008. This isn’t “scared”, it’s hopefully a return to stable financial policy. The people who are complaining loudest about this are the financial parasites that have gotten used to getting free money from the government for so long.
I hope the fed keeps it like this for the next 20 years.
I want to highlight the first sentence of this article:
All the incidents involved took place outside of Gaza before the current war.
This is relevant to current events because it shows that Israeli military has a history of such behavior, but it’s not actually directly relevant to the current fighting in Gaza, it’s really only tangential.
A lot of people in the comments seem to be assuming that this represents the US being slow to come to a conclusion about Israel’s conduct in regard to Palestine since last year… but in fact no such judgment has been made, this has nothing to do with the current conflict (still waiting on that).
Well, it’s basically a human rights violator accusing someone else of being a human rights violator.
This is true… but well, do you know of a government that hasn’t committed human rights violations? And I’m not asking that to try to deflect from the US’s complicity in this, but to point out that in basically every case where a government accuses another of human rights violations, the accusing party will also have some such in its past. But it’s still necessary to make the accusations, on a public stage. Nothing will ever change otherwise.
One doesn’t care what the international court of justice says, the other doesn’t even recognize it. While at the same time the one accusing keeps on delivering guns to the accused so they can continue violating human rights.
Politically, the US will ignore the international court, but realistically US foreign policy is absolutely affected by public opinion. If this were not the case, then the weapons deal for Israel would never have been tied to the one for Ukraine in congress. If support for Ukraine were not an issue, then Israel probably wouldn’t have gotten anything.
I will point out that in the past decades there would never have been a question of whether the US would give military support to Israel, it would have just happened. Things have changed substantially over the past 20 years. For the US State Department (the foreign affairs office of the executive branch) to make such a public accusation, in the current situation, is a stronger signal than I think most people realize. As this article says:
The announcement is the first determination of its kind for any Israeli unit by the US government.
It’s basically saying “get your shit together”. I think the reason they made this statement based on events from 2022 and prior (rather than anything since October 2023) is that it’s verifiable and thoroughly investigated - Israel can’t just dismiss it by saying “you have no proof” or otherwise claiming that it was a necessary act of defense.
This is speculative and might go a little too far into reading the tea leaves… but there’s a fair amount of political intrigue here. Biden didn’t make the statement about Israel’s actions himself, which allows him to continue acting friendly with Netanyahu in person (rather than devolve into finger-pointing), but the State Department is directly responsible to him so this still carries the weight of the president’s authority. It’s the political equivalent of a backhand slap. The timing is too coincidental with the passing of the new foreign aid package.
It’s a strange world we live in.
It’s a… complicated world we live in. It always has been, really. Anyone pushing a simplistic take like “the US is evil for continuing to support Israel” or “Palestine is a terrorist state so it’s ok for Israel to do whatever it wants for security” or anything like that is either an idiot or trying to manipulate you. Context matters, and everything is connected. We haven’t even talked about the influence that Iran has over the US’s decision making with regard to Israel - but you know as long as the US-Iran relationship is adversarial, the US won’t completely stop supporting Israel, the strategic position is too important.
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I’m using EndeavourOS with KDE....
Japan Runs on Vending Machines. It’s About to Break Millions of Them. (www.nytimes.com)
controversial rule (lemmy.world)
Everyday, as an American (midwest.social)
Trump Supporters Issue Threats of Violence Online After Guilty Verdict (truthout.org)
Poor sir knight (lemmy.world)
Nocturnal Rufous (lemmy.world)
Less keys = better right?
US state department falsified report absolving Israel on Gaza aid – ex-official (www.theguardian.com)
Sunscreen PSA rule (i.ibb.co)
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Google Maps alternatives you'll wish you tried sooner (www.pocket-lint.com)
Where is the OSM mention?
lego rule (lemmy.ca)
what the hell does this mean
That's COMMANDER This Dude to you, Ensign. (lemmy.world)
Background actors posing in a group shot for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Sisko's confession (lemmy.world)
The Confession - Giuseppe Molteni (1838)
You can pry these high voltage lines from my sizzling dead fingers (lemmy.world)
China testing ability to ‘seize power’ in second day of military drills around Taiwan (www.theguardian.com)
China has begun its second day of military drills targeting Taiwan, in what it says is punishment for “separatist acts” after the inauguration of its new president on Monday....
Why has no one thought of this before?! (lemmy.world)
'Extraordinary' device could let paralysed people regain movement in arms and hands (news.sky.com)
Far Right Billionaires Are Waging a War to Capture State Courts (truthout.org)
US confirms first aid trucks arrive via Gaza pier (www.bbc.com)
The first shipment of humanitarian aid has arrived in Gaza via a temporary floating pier, the US military has confirmed....
Handy baseball guide (lemmy.world)
Star Trek Technobabble - YouTube (youtube.com)
Really enjoyed this one.
William Crowther: Vandals topple Australian colonial-era statue (www.bbc.com)
A colonial-era statue honouring a former Australian premier who mutilated the body of an Aboriginal man has been toppled by vandals ahead of its planned removal....
Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government (www.theregister.com)
How being FOSS fan/advocate annoy you at work/school?
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Little help here linux guys? Trying to figure out what distro to use
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Safety rule (i.ibb.co)
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Suggest unto me a new FOSS operating system (infosec.pub)
I have a 1TB harddrive on my desktop computer that isn’t doing much of anything, so I’d like to dual-boot something “interesting”. Suggestions are greatly appreciated, so let me know what y’all find intriguing/interesting/frustrating/innovative....
Biden says US won't supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally (apnews.com)
Big Video Game Publishers Like Microsoft Are Paving Their Own Path To Irrelevance - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
As a young fan, the space battles were the best part. You might say I was crazy about them. (lemmy.world)
Mystery group announces $5 million fund to pay for reports of election fraud. What could go wrong? (www.motherjones.com)
Video of sun’s surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss (www.theguardian.com)
Pronunciation rule (slrpnk.net)
Playground graffiti rule (slrpnk.net)
Saw this at a park
Fed keeps interest rates at 23-year high (www.npr.org)
House Democratic leaders say they would help save Speaker Mike Johnson's job (www.nbcnews.com)
US says Israeli army units violated human rights (www.bbc.com)