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>Taking the contrarian view, how much of that is just bad spending habits vs using it to live/augment income?

How much of it is trying to maintain a standard of living they've had their whole life in the face of rampant inflation and insane housing costs?

This is very simple:

1) Apple should be able to charge as much as they want to use their app store. Even 100%!!

2) You should be allowed to install other app stores on the device you own, over which Apple has no control.

Anything else is a half measure.

None, which is my point. I'm trying to say I suspect it's ground clearance, not locking differentials that matters on these roads.

While there are rare situations where locking differentials are meaningful, having been in many hair raising off-road situations, including a real life or death one, I'd much rather have AWD and clearance, than 4WD and no clearance.

That is to say, I'm not convinced by the article's hypothesis about locking diffs. It's extremely rare to need to deploy those: beached, or slow starts up vertical surfaces like boulders. An AWD vehicle with good tires and good clearance is really quite good. Bonus points if you don't care about wrecking it.

It's distrobox, so an LXC container per app.

User filesystem is totally transparent.

I've recently moved my laptop over to openSUSE MicroOS (specifically Kalpa, the KDE variant). It shares a bit of philosophy with Vanilla OS. However, in many ways it's almost unrecognizable as a Linux/Unix system.

The way it works (in my incomplete understanding) is that the root filesystem (running on Btfrs), specifically /usr and /var, are actually a read-only image. You can write changes to it, but each time you do, you have to rewrite the image. Each time you boot, you boot that immutable image.

This allows for easy automatic updates. And if it fails to boot after an update, it merely rolls back to the previous working image (crowdstrike take note). This seems to work well provided you don't have to modify the image too much. I installed fprintd, kdeconnect, and wine, and it's still doing OK.

The user applications are almost all Flatpaks. This works well most of the time, but not always. I was a heavy flatpak user before, and I will say that a number of Flatpsk bugs I've run into on other systems, I've not had on Kalpa, so perhaps its Flatpak implementation is better. The biggest issues I have are Flatpaks not being able to communicate with each other as easily as native binaries can.

If you don't have a Flatpak, you can always try to run it in DistroBox. This works..... OK....provided it's a userspace app. But if it's a userspace app, why not run the binary directly? Where distrobox really shines is for running .debs or .rpms on a non-native system. But those are gradually going away thanks to Flatpak anyways. Distrobox does have a fake root mode. I consistently run into boubdary issues with it on Kalpa. I was able to run software in distrobox that required root, and it technically ran, but it couldn't use any audio devices.

Overall, I find Kalpa (and MicroOS) very interesting. There are still edge cases where they break, but I was easily able to work around everything.

The US has been embargoing industries since its Independence. I doubt TikTok will be a remotely meaningful event in the history of the nation.

The article doesn't list much in the way of tech. LLMs, social media, and advertising hegemons leaving Europe is hardly a tech flight. In fact, it sounds like a best case scenario. Someone call me when Zeiss moves out because they can't compete in Europe, and I'll be concerned Europe is actually losing something of value.

There are working 96 GB kits. Check the Framework forum and also reddit.

We need more local expertise is really the only answer. Any organization that just outsources everything is prone to this. Not that organizations that don't outsource aren't prone to other things, but at least their failures will be asynchronous.

Yeah, it's partly a tradeoff for convenience. The carpet helps capture dust which makes everything more breathable in the lab as well. I'm sure bigger labs have more sophisticated facilities, but he's just one guy in his attic.

My father (makes fake teeth) rips up his carpet every decade and has it burned and the metal dust in it melted down. Usually gets $10k-$15k.