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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd recommend avoiding aliases that conflict with regular commands, and there's a standard Linux command called install. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/install.1.html

If you're going to always pass the -y flag then I'd add --no-install-recommends too.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

mostly supersedes apt-get/apt-cache/etc tools,

Except for in scripts. Debian guarantee that the output format of apt-get will never change and thus it's safe to use in scripts that parse the output, whereas they don't have the same guarantee for apt, which can change between releases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, car mats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

There's a standard way to describe search engines, including the correct URL to use to perform searches, in a machine readable way (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XML/Guides/OpenSearch), so I'm surprised that I haven't seen any launchers that use that metadata. It's how web browsers detect search engines. A launcher could let you type the domain/URL for your search engine and pull the OpenSource XML to configure it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Trunk/boot mats. Those are usually pretty similar across brands - they don't differ as much as the floor mats do.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

I'm pretty sure this (a broken unsubscribe flow) is against the CAN-SPAM act in the USA. If you can't get it working, email legal@ and complain.

To be honest, Weathertech's floor mats aren't even that good. They're okay, but I much prefer Tuxmat, which are a similar price but feel higher quality and usually have much better coverage. Lasfit is also good, if you want something a bit cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Due to how expensive electricity is in California, a lot of people have solar, so savings are likely higher than illustrated here. I'm charging my EV using excess solar power I wasn't using, so it's effectively $0.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Most modern Linux distros do use secure boot and TPM, but you're right that they're optional.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"I'm having fish tonight!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A few basic steps can keep Arch just as stable as anything else.

"stable" in this case means "doesn't change often". Is that actually doable with Arch?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Debian testing is usually good enough. Packages have to be in unstable for ~10 days with no major bugs to migrate to testing. Of course, you can run unstable if you really want to live on the edge.

If you do run testing, you'll want to install security updates from unstable, since testing isn't officially supported by the security team. https://github.com/khimaros/debian-hybrid

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think they're pretty different cases.

Amazon's one was essentially a side project for them, likely fully funded in-house using their R&D (research and development) budget.

In Nate's case, it was their entire product. They received funding from investors purely for the AI functionality that didn't actually exist or work. They specifically claimed that it did work, which is how they got the money. They spent all the investor money and had essentially nothing to show for it.

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