Some stuff are just ridiculously tedious to service due to their design.

Asus laptops are notorious for this. I remember having to take apart everything including the mainboard just to replace the RAM module.

On a similar note, in car context, I’ve read about instances where one needed to take out the whole engine just to replace the spark plug. I think it was Mercedes A series, as well as some Wuling.

It’s a good thing they think about this. With that said, the tires can wait. Let’s start with the low hanging fruit. It’s a crime that critical components in home appliances break so easily and are so hard to fix.

Open Source

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Honestly, that already says a lot…

There’s nothing stoping you from gutting your distro and installing new kernel, libc, package manager, toolchain, and all the other components. The GUI should be trivial as people have change back and forth among different ones (within the same distro) anyway, assuming your package manager.

Of course, this begs the question: why the fuck would you do that instead of just installing a new one fresh?

Relax, it’s just turd.

Of course they are!

Oh hell no!

People seem to be unaware that python has bindings for lower-level languages like C. In fact, people have been heavily using resource intensive libraries implemented in C (e.g. numpy, scipy, pandas, uwsgi).

Also, Python interpreter performance has come a long way.

This is my two cents as someone in the industry.

Because, while you don’t want to nitpick on each instruction cycle, sometimes the code runs millions of times and each microsecond adds up.

Keep in mind that people use this kind of things for work, serving real world customers who are doing their work.

Yes, the language itself is not optimal even by design, but its easy to work with, so they are making it worth a while. There’s no shortage of people who can work with it. It is easy to develop and maintain stuff with it, cutting development cost. Yes, we’re talking real businesses with real resource constraints.

I guess this questions also reflect back to the politicians: What the fuck do they think, trying to maintain their status quo? Do they not see that complacency ruined the DNC over there? Do they really think they can survive by maintaining a fascade while patting themselves in the back?

EFF should GTFOutta US and set up shop in a safer region.

If it makes you feel better (or worse), thr NSA has contributed a great deal of work to the Linux kernel. In fact, they created SELinux, which you may be using at this very moment.

imo, imo & tbh can mean different tbh

Karma, I guess.

Even in US, the licenses are issued by the states.

That’s what I thought.

What about the AT protocol? Is it open source? Is it independent of centralized provider?