this misses the fact that petroleum is incredibly useful outside of the burn it to make electricity and burn it to make car move use cases.

All the more reason to not squander a finite, precious resource to generate electricity.

Not really. If we only need it for petrochemical products, like medical plastics etc, losing 20% of available crude globally is a non-issue.

We can probably stand to use a lot less plastics too. Outside of medicine it's mostly replaceable, and reducing our usage to less than 80% of current usage would be trivial if we didn't burn it for energy.

In that scenario Iran can keep their strait. We won't need them.

So don't use it for cars. It's strictly optional these days.

Not really. Needing 1MM barrels gives you a lot more independence than needing 100MM.

the only two things that would make linux unstoppable would be affinity being first class and having something like fusion360 or solidworks work. there are web based versions of solidworks and another option that escapes me atm that would work but that's the web and it's not the same as native imo. i know there are some opensource projects out there but the ones i've seen have been not as good.

I think AI will help with some of this. We already have an 18-year-old building a Lightroom replacement with Gemini (RapidRAW). We just need to get past the phase of everyone abusing AI and spreading crap all over the place.

I was a programmer at a small company that had their programmers field tech support calls and there is a good reason they do this... most of the people calling in are dumb as rocks when it comes to whatever they needed help with... some called while driving for help that required you to be in front of a computer.

to put this to numbers... the exports are just about 0.5% of california's GDP. so yeah pretty much a rounding error.

0.5% is a far cry from a rounding error..

0.5% is like the literal definition of a rounding error.

they just agreed to move forward on the protocol to do that thing.

I wasnt wrong. It took them 17 years to come to an agreement. Just because they “just decided” this year or last year or whatever doesn’t make me wrong. And my point about them not caring about timely decisions was in my original comment so I didn’t write some garbage hopping from one idea to another.

Seek help over your anger issues.

The cadence of decisions being made and problems being solved on Wayland has massively increased over the last 5 years and being ignorant to that and implying that the project is still spinning it's wheels is delusional.

Calling your posts garbage isn't an expression of anger. You should try being a little less sensitive when people mock you for saying dumb shit.

The cadence is still too slow and pathetic but clearly your dip shit brain is involved with Wayland as you’re getting defensive about it. These things should have been established 10 years ago at the very least, as the article says, computers and display servers aren’t a new puzzle to figure out. You should lay yourself down on some railroad tracks so you can remove your dumb shit self from this world.

The irony of telling someone they have anger issues because they were told something they said was garbage, then literally responding later in the thread with a "kill yourself". A reminder, doing this is a criminal offense in many jurisdictions, something you're liable to forget if you have anger issues that prevent you from thinking about what you say.

You're the one who needs help, bucko. That, or the people in your social circle (if there are any).

i don't find the luddite comparison accurate. they were against looms and anti-ai people or ai skeptical people are against the wholesale strip mining of intellectual property as it exists... both public domain and non-public domain. it's used to enrich the capital class at the expense of the workers. sure it's similar but it certainly didn't have the copyright and wholesale theft of all of the human ideas behind it. it just feels quite different.

they were not against the loom itself, but the resulting widescale changes for the worse in the way society was organized

using a linux with toshy to get the best of both worlds wrt keybindings. linux and kde is amazing nowadays... I don't miss macos but would be hating linux without mac style keybindings.

Yeah, I use Kinto (which seems to be what Toshy is originally based on). A recent Ubuntu update broke it though, and I accidentally deleted my config file while trying to fix it, so maybe now's a good time to try out Toshy. Looks like Toshy creates a python virtualenv instead of relying on system packages, which should make it a little more resilient to system package changes.

yeah... it's good stuff and if python breaks something after a package update reinstalling toshy is quick and easy and the config is safe if you only write your modifications inside the areas where they tell you to. (though backup of the folder is a good idea when doing that)

my non-command line gui version of doom emacs with a bunch of packages enabled loads up fully for me in 0.45s which is hardly slow. sure it's slower than neovim but also not slow in the absolute sense and i don't have the emacs daemon running which would make that even faster.

I don't know what I've done to have a small right click menu but mine is only a handful of options and I even tried selecting an image and a link and some text to get all the options.

there is a middle ground where you could do something like about:mouse (about:keyboard for keyboard shortcuts already exists) for the power users. doesn't need to be fancy but it would be easy enough to do.