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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • Our city has had a fleet of electric BYD buses for the past year and a half and they’re great! Whenever I have to ride one of the old diesel buses still operating on the less-traveled lines, it feels like a downgrade.

    But their range isn’t all that great. I asked a driver, and he said that yes, in theory, they can drive 300 to 400 km on a charge. But the reality is, because of heating in the winter (and we have VERY cold winters here) and A/C during our short summers, the buses do 150 to 200 km at the most, and the city basically had to purchase an extra bus for every one on the road, the other being charged at the depot.










  • poettering is an absolute good guy here

    Agreed. But he’s also an abrasive know-it-all. A modicum of social skills and respect goes a long way towards making others accept your pet projects.

    pulesaudio protocol is used within pipewire and it works just fine.

    I wasn’t talking about the protocol, I was talking about the implementation: PulseAudio is a crashy, unstable POS. I can’t count the number of hours this turd made me waste, until PipeWire came along.


  • I wish we still had some living memory to whoop these fascists in line.

    I’m not old enough to have lived through WW2, but my parents and my grandparents did. And quite a few members of my family went to the camps. Some didn’t come back.

    They told us kids what happened. They lived it, and they passed their memories onto us.

    And so as a result, fascism is very much a living memory to me. It’s the memory of seeing those dear to us weep when they told us kids what they saw and what they had to endure.

    Sadly, those of us for whom fascism is a living memory - directly or indirectly - are too old to whoop anybody’s ass. But I have a burning desire to. I can’t stand fucking fascists, and they’re running the country right now! I’m so fucking mad!




  • I totally agree. I used to hate systemd for breaking the traditional Unix philosophy, but the reality is that a tight init and service-tracking integration tool really was required. I work with and appreciate systemd every day now. It certainly didn’t make things simplier and easier to debug, but it goes a long way towards making a Linux system predictable and consistent.

    Poettering can go fuck himself though - and for PulseAudio too. I suspect half of the hate systemd attracted over the years was really because of this idiot.


  • Of all things that could lead to his downfall.

    Too late for that.

    And then what if he was impeached (and that’s clearly not gonna happen, but for the sake of argument…)? The next Nazi in line is JD Vance, and he’s much more dangerous than the senile orange buffoon.

    And then let’s say President Vance dies in a freak sofa-humping accident: the next Nazi in line is Mike “I sucked Trump’s dick for this job” Johnson.

    The American Reich is here to stay. And ICE will make sure people vote the right way at the next election.