I see, thank you!

Thanks! What do you mean by switching to open-source kernel modules? I’ve heard of people having to lock packages with tumbleweed before. I’m glad that I haven’t run into these issues so far.

It seems that nvidia drivers are a common cause of issues in many distros. I had heard of Fedora being a difficult one to work with nvidia drivers, but then if I search the web for <distro name> nvidia issues, a bunch of message threads about exactly that come up for each distro. I would love to switch to AMD GPUs, but apparently they don’t work as well as or aren’t as widely supported as nvidia ones for graphics and video applications. The whole thing is a pain.

SCO was a UNIX company that tried to destroy Linux through lawsuits in the early 2000s. This was a huge saga in the tech world for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group

Can you tell us more about this? I’ve been running tumbleweed with an nvidia GPU for a few months and the only issue I’ve run into was once recently, when the key for the nvidia repo had expired, preventing me from updating at all. I tried again the next day or two and it had been resolved. I would like to know what else to expect. I’ve heard of occasional issues with tumbleweed and nvidia driver versions before, but didn’t know if it was something that had been resolved.

I don’t know, the map doesn’t display that.

The article with that map claims 2/3 of the population. I think it could go to 90% if you included waterways and international airports.

I’ve heard the rumors about the new Apple TV waiting for the new Siri AI to be integrated too. I really hope it doesn’t take much longer for it to come out, although with the new price it may take another while before I buy it. I know about the price. I had been keeping an eye on it for a while, so it was quite disheartening to see the increase. Good points on the prices of all these devices. I can’t wait for the AI bubble to blow up, although on the other hand that’s most likely going to be a disaster of its own.

I saw someone also mention “waterways” in another thread as being subject to this. If that means navigable rivers like the Mississippi, etc., then between coasts, land borders, airports, and waterways, it’s probably most of the US.

Regarding the 100 mile zone around the border:

Two-thirds of the U.S. population lives within this 100-mile border enforcement zone, including cities like Washington D.C., San Francisco CA, Chicago IL, New Orleans LA, Boston MA, & more.

I’m just waiting for the new Apple TV to be released (when, Apple???) to get one. Unfortunately, they recently cranked up the prices even for the current model: $199 and $249. That means that it’s no longer significantly cheaper than nvidia shield pro ($200).

I’m still going to get the Apple TV eventually, but wanted to let you know. The price increase caught me by surprise. If I had known about it and that Apple would delay the new one so much, I would have bought the current model at the old price.

Much like, for example, Richard III from Shakespeare’s play and the actual person.

Good insight and analogy, thanks!

Can anyone really know one way or another? Isn’t much of the bible fanfic written by dozens or people over hundreds of years? Like, one of the most widely known Jesus stories, about letting the person who is without sin cast the first stone, is from what I understand widely acknowledged by experts to have been grafted on to the bible hundreds of years later.

Ah, yes, that makes sense, thanks! Totally agreed on those old school engineers being insanely competent and creative.

Cool, thanks! No problem. I understand it was analog electronics and using an ultrasonic signal makes sense, but what I wondered about was how did the receiving end (the TV) differentiate between the signals for the different buttons and then decide to execute different procedures based on that. Still pretty interesting in any case.

That’s wild. How did the TVs identify the distinctive sound? That seems like it would be a pretty interesting engineering trick.

Good to know, thanks!

Thanks for the links with additional information!

Thanks.

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Haha, that’s great! I hadn’t seen it before.

Have agents sit outside polling places with facial recognition technology that flags anyone on that database that is likely to vote Democrat and detain a number of them until the polling ends then release them without charge.

I learned something interesting about the upcoming Brazilian elections the other day that seems intended to counter exactly this kind of thing: there’s a law (and perhaps it’s in the constitution, I don’t recall exactly) that says that no one shall be arrested for a couple of days around the election date, unless someone is caught in the act of a crime or if it’s for a major crime.