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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nuclear is really the best.
It's not.
Perhaps it's the most efficient, but at what cost?Done correctly, very little cost. So much fuel can be recycled that there is so little waste (this is assuming 100% of power production is switched to nuclear) that a single Falcon9 could launch it all into the sun.
I'm wondering if the reason they don't do this, want to do this is because of the chances of the rocket blowing up, and now we have radioactive material spread over 100's if not 1000's of miles.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 Well yeah, but this is also because the nuclear systems that are in place were designed some decades ago. With relatively little consideration for a melt down.
If new nuclear was built it would be substantially safer to operate.
The issue with this is still the waste, that has to be stored for hundreds of years waiting for the half-lifes to diminish to 0.
Solar, wind and Thermal are the options that any reasonable person should be looking at, not nuclear - due to the waste product, and certainly not gas/oil/coal.
This is the problem our entire infrastructure suffers - we don't continue to pour the trillions into it needs to be updated - forget about maintained.
When we were first building roads/bridges, etc - we had nothing, so the benefit was massive, beyond massive! But updating, the benefits are much less in your face, getting people behind the spending of trillions is significantly harder because those people already see working things. it's not like we are building new floating highways that will provide some massive new function we don't have today, or reduce costs to the public at large with these upgrades.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nuclear is really the best.
It's not.
Perhaps it's the most efficient, but at what cost?Done correctly, very little cost. So much fuel can be recycled that there is so little waste (this is assuming 100% of power production is switched to nuclear) that a single Falcon9 could launch it all into the sun.
I'm wondering if the reason they don't do this, want to do this is because of the chances of the rocket blowing up, and now we have radioactive material spread over 100's if not 1000's of miles.
Nope. Cost is the most important factor. We can safely store all the waste on earth for next to nothing. And it's really hard to get a rocket launched directly into the sun. It involves multiple gravity assist flybys by Venus and Mercury. It would actually be easier to launch it towards Jupiter or Saturn and use their gravity to head into the sun.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
But we need desktop OSes for using apps, not for using UI elements.
Unfortunately, Linux still can't match Windows in number of desktop apps. It is still far more difficult to develop and support desktop app for Linux, then for Windows -
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
I'll agree in principal, but I'm going with @Obsolesce on this one (granted it's been 2+ years since I've looked at Cinnamon and other others). They just don't seem to have the spit and polish that Windows and MacOS have.
Of course, some of you completely disagree and think they look way better than Windows. Personally, the last time I loaded one up, I just hated the icons.
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@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
But we need desktop OSes for using apps, not for using UI elements.
Unfortunately, Linux still can't match Windows in number of desktop apps. It is still far more difficult to develop and support desktop app for Linux, then for WindowsIs that actually true? and if so, what makes it so?
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@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
But we need desktop OSes for using apps, not for using UI elements.
Unfortunately, Linux still can't match Windows in number of desktop apps. It is still far more difficult to develop and support desktop app for Linux, then for WindowsI have to disagree here. The majority of people only need a web browser today.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
But we need desktop OSes for using apps, not for using UI elements.
Unfortunately, Linux still can't match Windows in number of desktop apps. It is still far more difficult to develop and support desktop app for Linux, then for WindowsI have to disagree here. The majority of people only need a web browser today.
You know - I hear that a lot. And for home users, it's probably not far off. Between mobile devices (and their apps) and a browser they get along great.
But in an office - how many offices do you know running zero local apps? How many of those could move to a pure browser based existence?
In my case, 80% of people could move to a browser only existence - oh wait, no they can't because we use Dymo printers, which require the Dymo software to be installed to integrate into our web based EMR.
But - You're making me think about potential replacements for softphones - There might be a completely web based softphone out there, never looked. -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
But we need desktop OSes for using apps, not for using UI elements.
Unfortunately, Linux still can't match Windows in number of desktop apps. It is still far more difficult to develop and support desktop app for Linux, then for WindowsI have to disagree here. The majority of people only need a web browser today.
You know - I hear that a lot. And for home users, it's probably not far off. Between mobile devices (and their apps) and a browser they get along great.
But in an office - how many offices do you know running zero local apps? How many of those could move to a pure browser based existence?
In my case, 80% of people could move to a browser only existence - oh wait, no they can't because we use Dymo printers, which require the Dymo software to be installed to integrate into our web based EMR.
But - You're making me think about potential replacements for softphones - There might be a completely web based softphone out there, never looked./snark To misquote an old Dilbert "Here's $0.05, get yourself a real label printer" /end snark
Yeah, being stuck with something like Dymo sucks, and artificially locks you in.
Every office I deal with could be 100% browser based, and are actually moving that way.
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This greeted me this morning:
Critical Security Bulletin - Mar 15 2021
HPESBNW04083 rev.2 - HPE and Aruba L2/L3 Switches, Remote Memory Corruption (hpesbnw04083en_us)
Products: Fixed Port L3 Managed Ethernet Switches, Modular Ethernet Switches, Fixed Port L2 Managed Ethernet Switches
Description: HPESBNW04083 rev.2 - HPE and Aruba L2/L3 Switches, Remote Memory Corruption
We have a bunch of those HP switches. They should all be on the firmware without issue, but we get to verify today.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
But we need desktop OSes for using apps, not for using UI elements.
Unfortunately, Linux still can't match Windows in number of desktop apps. It is still far more difficult to develop and support desktop app for Linux, then for WindowsIs that actually true? and if so, what makes it so?
Linux have many different distros and developers have trouble in maintaining their apps for them (different dependencies...).
That's why Flatpak and Snap appeared in recent years to try to decrease problem for developers.https://www.fosslinux.com/42410/snap-vs-flatpak-vs-appimage-know-the-differences-which-is-better.htm
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
But we need desktop OSes for using apps, not for using UI elements.
Unfortunately, Linux still can't match Windows in number of desktop apps. It is still far more difficult to develop and support desktop app for Linux, then for WindowsI have to disagree here. The majority of people only need a web browser today.
My comment is for desktop apps, not for web apps (so I don't know what do you disagree about).
Web apps are great trend that is good for Linux.
I installed Linux desktop for many friends to use at home.
But for small buinesses, it' s not yet best desktop solution in many cases (unfortunately). -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
But we need desktop OSes for using apps, not for using UI elements.
Unfortunately, Linux still can't match Windows in number of desktop apps. It is still far more difficult to develop and support desktop app for Linux, then for WindowsIs that actually true? and if so, what makes it so?
Here you can read what Linus Torvalds thinks od Linux Desktop today
https://itsfoss.com/desktop-linux-torvalds/ -
@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
But we need desktop OSes for using apps, not for using UI elements.
Unfortunately, Linux still can't match Windows in number of desktop apps. It is still far more difficult to develop and support desktop app for Linux, then for WindowsIs that actually true? and if so, what makes it so?
Here you can read what Linus Torvalds thinks od Linux Desktop today
https://itsfoss.com/desktop-linux-torvalds/No one cares what a grumpy old man thinks.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
But we need desktop OSes for using apps, not for using UI elements.
Unfortunately, Linux still can't match Windows in number of desktop apps. It is still far more difficult to develop and support desktop app for Linux, then for WindowsIs that actually true? and if so, what makes it so?
Here you can read what Linus Torvalds thinks od Linux Desktop today
https://itsfoss.com/desktop-linux-torvalds/No one cares what a grumpy old man thinks.
Point proven in the quote above.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs
Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.
Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.
But we need desktop OSes for using apps, not for using UI elements.
Unfortunately, Linux still can't match Windows in number of desktop apps. It is still far more difficult to develop and support desktop app for Linux, then for WindowsIs that actually true? and if so, what makes it so?
Here you can read what Linus Torvalds thinks od Linux Desktop today
https://itsfoss.com/desktop-linux-torvalds/No one cares what a grumpy old man thinks.
Point proven in the quote above.
Nice!
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/weleakinfo-leaked-customer-payment-info/
A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo[.]com, a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Day late and a dollar short! Can't imagine anyone vulnerable wouldn't already be compromised by this point.
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Donald Trump plans social media comeback, says adviser
Former US President Donald Trump will soon return to social media "with his own platform", his adviser has said.
"I do think that we're going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months," Jason Miller told Fox News. He said the platform "will be the hottest ticket in social media" and would "completely redefine the game". Mr Trump was suspended from Twitter and Facebook after January's deadly riots at the US Capitol in Washington DC. The attack on 6 January by Trump supporters saw five people including a police officer killed, and shook the foundations of American democracy. Several days later, Twitter said Mr Trump's account - @realDonaldTrump - was "permanently suspended... due to the risk of further incitement of violence".
