Her endorsement of the stupid Krauss book is the most damning thing she did objectively, but she went off the rails earlier than that with her transphobic videos. She presents "science without the gobbledygook" except when it's trans people, then she pulls out random junk studies that make her feel justified in her disgust reaction, apparently. Now of course she openly aligns with Physics cranks like Eric Weinstein and the Trump administration so there's absolutely no doubt left about what she's doing even if you ignore her non-Physics videos.

The Krauss book is funny in a morbid way too, it keeps talking about how Biden will do this or that while releasing while Trump was (is?) doing unprecedented budget cuts for everything even vaguely resembling a scientific institution. Oh and most of the other guest writers for the book are former Professors who were fired for sexually harrassing their students, that must be this "Cancel Culture" thing Hossenfelder is talking about.

All of the 5 people who use (non-ESR) Firefox on their 2002 Pentium 4s will certainly be very unhappy about this.

In defense of the author and their education... They're Brazilian so English probably isn't their native language, and their history education was almost certainly in Portuguese. I don't think it's necessarily an indictment of their education that they weren't taught about the English translation of a German phrase, and I don't think it's reasonable to apply the same standards of subtext awareness to native and non-native speakers either.

FN keys are usually handled at a firmware, sometimes BIOS or driver level. This makes them completely inaccessible to keyboard remappers (they have no idea when it is pressed), which is why none of them can do this.

This Stackexchange answer looks like it should contain the information you need, but I don't have a 2014 MacBook to test it.

Nu's find builtin isn't a GNU find repacement. I think what you actually want is ls piped into where:

ls **/* | where type == file

I do question the choice to alias a well-known program with a builtin that does something entirely different. You can also use ^find to avoid calling the builtin. I would've expected \find (bash-like) or command find (fish-like) to work as well, but alas...

Many people who don't know what they're talking about in this thread. No, used memory does not include cached memory. You can confirm this trivially by running free -m and adding up the numbers (used + cached + free = total). Used memory can not be reclaimed until the process holding it frees it or dies. Not all cached memory can be reclaimed either, which is why the kernel reports an estimate of available memory. That's the number that really matters, because aside from some edges cases that's the number that determines whether you're out of memory or not.

Anyway the fact that you can't run Linux with 16GB is weird and indicates that some software you are using has a RAM leak (a Firefox extension perhaps?). Firefox will use memory if it's there but it's designed to cope with low memory as well, it just unloads tabs quicker so you have to reload often. There are also extensions that make tab unloading more aggressive, maybe that would help - especially if there's memory pressure from other processes too.

Insightful article. I have to confess I never realized the accessibility situation was this bad.

I also want to highlight this excerpt from the comments:

Making things accessible isn't hard technically. But it requires coordination and people to care about it enough to work on it at the expense of other features. If [I] developed an application on a team and said I had 'one security guy that works on that stuff as long as it doesn't interfere with the rest of our work' I'd be dragged over the coals and have my project forked by the public.

But with accessibility? There's really no sense of priority or urgency despite it being broken for years and not putting much effort in to fixing it.

It's prettier than a TTY and you can pick whether you want a Wayland or an X11 session without having to know the correct startup commands. You can pick between different desktops too. And a Display Manager can offer on-screen keyboard and touchscreen support while a TTY can't (at least GDM does, I'm not sure about SDDM off the top of my head).

Aside from that whatever command you are using in the TTY to launch Plasma might or might not be the same commands SDDM uses, which might or might not lead to issues in setting up the environment. If your environment is fine and you don't care about having to use a physical keyboard then of course you can remove it. It's not exactly load bearing.

Try launching Steam from the terminal so you have a chance at seeing an actual error message, at least for the crashing games.

It might be the kernel as the other comment says since the 9070 is pretty new. If it works without issues on something like Fedora or OpenSUSE TW then that was probably the issue.

I am very sorry to remind everyone about the existence of Visual Basic, but it has:

• VbCrLf
• VbNewLine
• ControlChars.CrLf
• ControlChars.NewLine
• Environment.NewLine
• Chr(13) & Chr(10)

And I know what you're asking: Yes, of course all of them have subtly different behavior, and some of them only work in VB.NET and not in classic VB or VBA.

The only thing you can rely on is that "\r\n" doesn't work.

To be fair this also happened to Eagle Dynamics, developer of DCS, the other "realistic" flight sim that players take far too seriously. Except there it was a Dev that got arrested in Georgia and extradited to the US...

While unfortunate, not shipping these standard Google apps is not really an option for any Android manufacturer due to Google requirements. Including them is required if you want to use anything from the GSM, which includes things like the Play Store and everything it touches. You can technically ship a different Android distribution like Lineage or /e/, but that's not really what most people will be expecting of an "Android" phone and will narrow the viable target demographic even more than the value proposition already does.