Laptops specifically have been such an Achilles heel for Linux due to driver issues and battery issues. I honestly would just rather stick with OSX and containerize. The thing that might test that is X86 support lapsing at least for some of my MBPs.

lol. This is my story as well, except I wrecked my XP MBR and the CD was in Dr. Dobbs that my dad had a sub thru his work from. I was too impatient to wait for him to bring home an XP install CD.

2002, I was 11. My dad had bunch of Linux install CDs that came with Dr. Dobbs. I fucked up my XP MBR and asked him to bring home a XP install disk cause i lost all mine.

By the time he got home I had installed Mandrake Dolphin Linux on my PC.

Why not just run a hypervisor and use containers?

Right, but what I’m saying the design to need these things was likely based on Deepin running their own distro. They don’t have to consider the security guidelines of other distros like KDE or Gnome, XFCE or Enlightenment would.

CapEVs are almost nowhere on the American tech radar. It’s entirely an industry dominated by China. Ironically the industry started out in the US. Foton America was a subsidiary of Foton. China’s first trials in Shangai in 2006 were done with Foton vehicles made in America. Foton America folded because America was not investing in the tech or public transport. Foton reshored the tech in China and continued development.

Almost every major European metro is doing a field test. Belgrade installed Chinese Higer busses for a lot of its’ routes. Graz is running 2 lines from an American manufacturer (with no presence in America lmao) called Chariot Motors (how much longer until we see the Foton America story play out again). Paris is running tests with busses made by German manufacturer MAN, but they’re hybrids because Westoids can’t stop relying on fossil fuels “just in case”.

I fully see China dominating Eastern Europe with these things because the value proposition is so good, Foton and Higer are miles ahead in testing, deployment and development than any other manufacturer. Since China is generally hotter than Europe and America they have a lot more practical experience with keeping the capacitors from overheating which has been a problem for this type of tech esp. ~15 years ago.

Either way it’s essentially a trolley that doesn’t require continuous lines which is why it’s so hated in the US, ever since GM bought up a bunch of lines and left them to rot.

This is what vertical integration between distros and GUIs often leads to. This could be completely innocuous from Deepin’s end, because that’s just how they made it work in Deepin because they have vertical integration on their own stack. However, It’s completely bad form.

In general Deepin seems to adopt a lot of commercial software industry practices in building its tools, which I’m sympathetic to on some level, but it’s very obvious that the Linux community is not going to accept default-on telemetry. They should have known better after the CNZZ incident.

Vaxry is not a very smart guy. He originally got a wrist slap by FDO saying don’t do your toxic shit here. Then he followed it up by going postal on the FDO mailing list. Then he put up a blog post where he was like like “SJWs are coming for me”.

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-inclusiveActivists

The entire argument is that you can’t make an exclusionary space for people (no definition of what that means) but you should be able to call them slurs. Who would want anything to do with him? He should have gone full tilt and made a list of slurs you should be allowed to say beyond just arguing for the R-slur. That would have really convinced people he’s not an extremely toxic right wing weirdo.

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandsCommunity

This was his non-apology where he says “lets be real” a lot which is a common way of just ignoring a criticism and then he follows it up with, I should have banned that user instead of doing what I did.

Asking for professionalism in the OSS community is not a huge deal. It’s also quite literally not even about the code AFAIR Drew Devault is still taking Vaxry’s patches. He just doesn’t want him in the community starting shit with people.

come around on social programs.

Wat.

Anarchists are the ones who are consistently making social programs from scratch. Direct action is and has always been about feeding people as well as sabotaging bulldozers.

https://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/