of course but it doesn’t help the “this isn’t that hard” case.

yeah but that’s a step removed. if i’m helping someone set up a machine i will usually make the media beforehand, but they need to be present to set up their name and password.

idk if you’ve ever tried to guide people unfamiliar with computers through troubleshooting over the phone, but my experience is that the more explanations are given the more they despair, and the more choices are given the more confused they get.

reading the manual is sort of compulsory if you want to do stuff like changing DEs, and for most people (read: the 99% that don’t know what “operating system” means) the mere existence of a choice is enough to cause paralysis.

i really do like the new wave of “opinionated” distros like kalpa, cachy and aeon where the system takes care of most issues rather than the user having to deal with them. shows maturity. but this selector screen sort of runs contrary to that. either be opinionated or be fully free, imo.

i think that’s calamares, so any distro that uses it can technically do this. the reason most don’t is that you can just add more DE’s after install. i know endeavourOS and openSUSE do this, and i think fedora has something like this too?

but the main reason is to keep install size to a minimum. if you want your system to be installable without an internet connection you can’t just ship every DE known to man.

a eu petition usually also offers a tenable solution, if not necessarily a fully fleshed-out one. in this case the solution is obvious: domestic production of components for domestic use. we’re already working towards this as part of the CRA, so if the petition presents the obvious solution the response will be to do nothing.

don’t eat the eggs

does this count as cuckolding

yeah that’s not useful. there are eobvious upsides to wfh in some areas so it should be used there. it would benefit everyone.

does it work at all on 5v?

there’s a reason i don’t work there anymore.

i spent all of 2020 and 2021 stuck in traffic since my boss thought we “needed a presence on the worksite”. not that we didn’t, mind, because i needed to troubleshoot actual physical devices that could not be connected to the internet. still do.

sure that’s nice but i usually work with an actual team where fast changes to hardware is needed. can’t really do that through github issues.

i really do prefer working in an office but i need a reason. if you don’t need me there, why should i be there?

granted, i work with hardware which i need access to in order to do my work, but that’s a reason right there. if i’m having an algorithm day, why be in office?

fourth pin is an output i think.

https://glkinst.com/cables/cable_pics/4_Wire_PWM_Spec.pdf

if you bypass it you don’t get a signal from the rotation speed sensor and the fan should run at 100% given 12v.

easiest solution is probably one of those 12v inverters for cars but that seems overkill. 5v fans are most likely cheaper.

chains are worse for the road and can also come loose at high speed. they’re for getting unstuck, not for general driving.

70% of cars here use studded tires. they’re very useful in wet ice or black ice conditions, which happen a lot here.

here the main takeaway from studies is that the fewer cars have studded tires, the smoother the road surface becomes, which increases the amount of accidents in bad weather. if less than 50% of cars use studded tires the roads become too smooth in winter.

https://www.tidningendacksnack.se/teknik/e/1272/dubbdackens-roll-och-paverkan-en-balansgang-mellan-sakerhet-och-miljo/

probably because they do it wrong

studded tires are a legal requirement here in some parts of the country and the roads are no worse for it

get studded tires