throwaway023421

> On every distro uninstalling packages never really reverts the system to its previous state, always leaves some junk behind.

Not at all. Apt has been able to remove everything for the last 20 years.

Over the years I've seen "hacker" news become more of an echo chamber and instantly downvote anything against doctrine...

I'll be downvoted for saying this.

Not so simple. If the clone gains significant market share it can enforce compatibility.

"some sort of virtue thing" sounds like cynical way to describe ethical values.

Yes, most people I know don't want to waste electricity on driers even when it's cheap.

You are comparing CO2 emission and use of metal and completely ignore the catastrophic systemic risk of nuclear power.

There has been many events where nuclear waste has been dumped in the ocean, misplaced, lost, improperly buried, leaked in rivers, caught fire and even deliberately used in projectiles and dispersed in the environment.

And this is nothing compared to the risk of exposing large amounts of waste during a war or terrorist attack.

The statistics on the amount of cocaine show an appalling pattern of lying and false evidence from the police.

It's even more appalling that people hardly acknowledge such bias.

Lesson (not?) learnt: choose your audience. Choose what crowd you want to hang out with.

I studied engineering in a country with a non-idiotic university program.

Books (in b/w), pencil and paper. Lessons using a whiteboard or blackboard with chalk. Desks and chairs.

Some of the rooms where exactly the same used a century ago.

You learn theory, not how some "new technology of the year" works.

> I would point out that universal public education is a recent thing.

"recent" as in french revolution.

> Sure, maybe classroom education should focus on "the good, the true, and the beautiful" but then why should we expect everyone to do it?

Yes.