The point is to absolve the human behind the arrest from responsibility. “The system” gets to do the decision making, then the human can’t be responsible for making a mistake and arresting the wrong person.

You seem to be mistaken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_cheese

that even true American cheese sometimes has a fake looking yellow/orange color to it

I recently learned this is true of cheddar cheese too, they add annatto to it for coloring.

The bare minimum would look something like https://employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies-and-activities/rights-work/labour-law/employee-involvement/collective-redundancies_en

Is it childish to think that companies that are profitable should not be able to get rid of their employees for no reason?

I hope someone points that out to you next time you lose your job. Your lack of empathy is gross

you have the emotional capacity of a CEO.

It’s funnier now than it was when it happened

Not the person you replied to, but I’ve had 2 kobos and didn’t have a problem with either. (The screen on the first one broke, but that was my fault for dropping a book on it. I might have been able to fix it if they had this ifixit deal back then)

They haven’t made side loading harder as long as I’ve been using kobo, I only use their software to launch koreader.

Comments like these are super strange to me… Are you suggesting people should go with a different brand, why not mention one specifically? As it reads you won’t like any ereader that is owned by a corporation?

I guess you’re going to be building an open source ereader and release it for free so it can’t be enshitified?

I hope someone asks you that next time you lose your job. It’s only 8,000 people who’s lives have been turned upsidedown, you have the emotional capacity of a CEO.

The company’s whose current safeguards are “please write secure code” will have to improve those safeguards? I’m shocked, absolutely shocked

Ok, let’s flip this around. You made the baseless claim that “Linux development can’t succeed where Microsoft fails” that seems pretty baseless and historically incorrect to me. But if you just want to keep trying to “win” this interaction and don’t want to have a conversation I guess there’s nothing left to say

My argument is they are different groups of people with completely different incentive structures, so of course they will be different. You’re acting like Microsoft is failing because they use AI, not because they have management forcing the use of AI.

I’m definitely not an “AI is going to write all the code” kind of person, but LLMs are definitely a useful tool for prototyping and other development processes. A project with a “No AI” rule is not inherently better than a project that uses AI as a tool.

Sure if you only focus on the desktop market I guess you could make that argument, but IDK why you would ignore servers and phones? There are plenty of examples of Linux kicking Microsoft’s ass. You think Microsoft is happy they don’t sell server licenses for every server on earth? What about android?

If you take a step back, why would Linux development be able to succeed at all when Microsoft has far more money, more maturity, and more employees?

Should have linked this earlier, but adding it now anyways https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity-locations#%2Ffind%2Fnearest%3Ffuel=ELEC There are very few places in the US where you can be an hour away from the nearest charger.

It’s also kind of a strange situation to explain to people who are used to fuling up at gas stations. I almost never use the fast chargers near my house, I can fill up way cheaper, and way more conveniently at home. The only time I start thinking about fast charging is when I’m driving more than 300 miles in a weekend.

Yeah, you should probably mean what you say and say what you mean when having a conversation. You have no idea what the current state of ev charging infrastructure looks like, but you’re still acting like an expert.

You’ll notice I did not argue against that point at all, not having charging at home is a huge downside and would play a big part in if someone should buy an EV or not.

“OuR gRiD cAN’T taKE iT” on the other hand is not a valid argument

There are states without any electric chargers installed

So now you’re just lying, maybe I was wrong and you are getting paid to post this.

By repeating their talking points, you are arguing that we should slow EV adoption. You are literally doing their work for them. At least if you worked for BP you could cash a pay check, you’re out here working for them for free.

Also the electrical infrastructure in this country is not ready for everyone to go electric.

You’re repeating big oil talking points. We improve the grid all the time, we can continue to do it. Sure if all cars were magically converted into EVs tomorrow we would have big problems, but that’s not how the real world works.

If the grid actually was about to fall over because of a few more EVs, these datacenters spinning up all over the place would be even bigger disasters than they already are.