Such a crazy title. Should say “Longer device lifetimes reduce waste”.

One reason I use Linux. My workstation was puchased back in 1998 and I do a partial but fairly major update about every 10 years.

Same reason I have a Pixel with Graphene. Should get 6 years maybe a bit more.

Yes humans are terible at multitasking.

Not at all. The Volt is great. No major issues. Not sure why your loosing your shit over something you seem to know nothing about.

Over bloan. Software does not age but security does. Other things that do not age well is specialty tech hardware components. Batteries are a question too.

I know my volt at 10 years does not have a viable oem battery replacement (back ordered and nutty price). I can get a reasonable after market battery though.

I agree. The Chinese are the most interesting. Trying to integrate a more flexible market economy into their social system is a huge accomplishment and what is needed.

The reverse is needed in the US. The other big challenge in the US is quality of leadership. Democracy requires an educated and engaged electorate, access to true information, honest fact based debate, good decision making, and a willingness to make it work. All in short supply these days.

I absolutely agree. Have we ever seen that in the wild though especially at scale?

It may be in fact mutually exclusive in that it may conflict with human nature and most cultures. US is of couse extremely individualistic for example though not uniformly so.

Yes I agree that these guys are not fully socialist and what they can accomplish is limited. The more interesting point is first how the capatalists loose their shit over it on one hand and on the other I do not think socialist as an attribute is considered negative these days in general.

Then you come up with better word.

In my definition, any system where the general public cannot throw out the bums without violence is authoritarian.

The is the fundamental reason communism is not viable. It just swaps distributed power for the even bigger problem of bigger concentrated power.

Just look at happyness indexes. We know the solutions that tend yield best results. They tend to be democracies with a fairly homogenious population and a socialist bent. Capitalists hate this and I assume communists do too because it shows neither is the way.

Actually in the US socialism is more popular then you might think. Bernie Sanders was very popular a few years ago and showed significant support in the presidential race. Mamdani just won the NY mayors race.

What we do not care for in the US is authoritarianism which seems to be the result of any extreme either libertarianism or communism, and we are too damed independent for our own good. I makes me both laugh and cry when the current situation is not good for 80% of people but with minor exceptions they still vote for it.

No. People do what they do.

What I find more laughable is people complaining profusely about windows but doing nothing about it.

Using something different is hard too. Most people are somewhere between cows and idiots. I have been using Python since the late 90s even on Windows and at work too. I got some strange reactions and push back over the years. You just have to not care. We see now how that turned out. Now everyone agrees Python is useful.

Yes, I have wondered about the partial support too.

Might be true. However never under estimate the indecisiveness and incompetence of US leadership and take it as a plan. Russian propaganda and the MAGA crowd too have had big effects also. By in large too the west wants Russia stable. Besides Ukraine is not a core issue in the US.

Nuclear weapons are useless. No one can use them.

I have no idea how all this will end. However you might want to consider that west has put very little effort into helping Ukraine. Both Russia and the US have not lived up to their obligations. Both guaranteed the intergity of Ukraine by treaty. Russia invaded and the US and the west did not stop it though we could have at any time.

So there is no way the Taliban beat both Russia and the US in Afghanistan?

However when many apps have a permission it becomes meaningless.

The thing about most default configs of any OS is that user storage is largely accessable to all apps. True of Linux, Android. Windows, …

Graphene has options to restrict that but you have to set it up that way. Android also has App sandboxing for app data.

Thinking through the threat model of course is always good as is hardening. All security is porous. Linux is fine generally. If one is exposing services on the public net it is not clear that any OS or software is sufficiently secure, that takes constant effort in terms of monitoring and management.

Frankly I can be convinced of a lot of things and there are a lot of reasonable solutions. A rigid system the is a bad deal for 80% the people is however not reasonable. Nor is one that divides rather then unifies. The current system has big issues with both.

This is why IRV and other systems that allow for more then 2 parties are important.

I know for me, neither party represents me very well.

Thanks.

However UCare was entirely nonprofit and local. They had some great plans for great prices. Obviously too good for too little price.

Not sure but Medica might be largely nonprofit but it is not local. Health Partners might be too and local but it is a doctors and clinics network too. As far as I know most of the others are generally profit making entities acting narrowly as a nonprofit.

More tornadoes too I think. More intense rain at times.

Hail. Yes and constant stream of questionable roofers coming to your door.