Subsidizing solar may help with climate change, but a better choice would be taxing carbon dioxide emissions in proportion to the actual damage that they do. If coal and gas were taxed according to their actual harm, the market price of electricity would increase to its fair price, and make solar viable without needing the government to organize it. However, due to battery costs and short battery lifespans, I suspect the free market would pick nuclear over solar.
>not a single balance update since the 8th century
You're just begging AnarchyChess to correct you.
So are you able to view content, but pay to download? If that's the case, I could probably write a scraper for the site.
If you have to pay to even see the content, then you may have a bigger problem. Try pooling resources with some of your fellow students, to have one person download all the content, and then make it available to everyone else.
Another option is to expose your instructors. There's a high probability that they are getting kickbacks, especially if this is at college level. Maybe in the form of 10% of each dollar spent by one of their students. Or, they might be getting free equipment or content from Docsity, in exchange for forcing students to use it, and offloading the costs to students.
When I was in college, one of my instructors used these "clickers" that cost students $40 per semester to rent. They used radio to allow submitting realtime quiz answers during class. Students were scored on how many questions they answered, not whether they were correct. If you didn't pay the clicker fee, you lost that 10% of your final grade.
I was suspicious, so I looked into it. It wasn't hard. The clicker manufacturer advertised kickbacks on their own website.
Seeds shouldn't be covered by patents. When you buy a patented item from a patent holder (or a manufacturer that licensed the patent) then First Sale Doctrine says that you can do whatever you want with it without needing to pay for a patent license. In the case of a seed, that means you could resell it to someone, you could roast and eat it, or you could plant it in the ground. But unlike other inventions, a seed's purpose is to create more of itself. By buying a seed, you are implicitly buying the ability to make more seeds. If First Sale Doctrine allows you to use the patented product how you want, then it allows you to grow more seeds, because that's just what seeds do.
Cloudflare seems to incorrectly classify my Internet connection, which is a residential Internet connection going to my house, as a datacenter connection or VPN or something.
Many websites that use Cloudflare give me endless captcha forms. As soon as I solve one, it demands another, and never lets me access the website.
Sometimes I solve one captcha, and then it says I'm blocked forever for sending automated queries, even though I filled it out correctly. The error message is: "You are blocked."
Sometimes it lets me in after one captcha, but I still resent having to enable Javascript for these assholes just to access a site that doesn't otherwise require Javascript.
Sometimes Cloudflare adds extra security to certain pages, just for me. The developers of the website didn't program it to handle this extra security, so the site fails for just me, and the site developers don't believe me, telling me I have a browser problem (in three different browsers, which I can fix by using a proxy). For example, when the site's javascript has my browser to do a CORS operation, the first step is the browser sending an OPTIONS request. However, the extra security of the proxy introduced by Cloudflare responds slightly differently from the actual website, so the site breaks.
Cloudflare uses a holistic approach to deciding whether you are a legitimate user or a bot. In other words, they use every single possible piece of data they can get on you, including tracking your visits across other Cloudflare sites. They do discriminate against certain user-agent strings.
Cloudflare completely blocks many Tor users, even from having read-only access to a site.
When you ask Cloudflare why your IP address is blocked, they falsely claim that it's a setting created by the website admins. I strongly suspect that this setting is something like "use Cloudflare(tm) Adaptive Security(tm)" and probably doesn't explain to the site admin that they're blocking large quantities of innocent users.
Cloudflare has previously used Google Recaptcha, which has a ton of problems (tracking, accessibility, training AIs that will make my life worse).
This article seems pretty bogus. In the US, I haven't heard a single person voice any support for Hamas, and at least half the people I know are leftwing. They support the Palestinian civilians, not Hamas.
Can anyone provide a citation for even a single one of the "displays of support for Hamas and radical Islamists from young Western leftists"?
In many cases, they will cherrypick security fixes and other major bugfixes from the bleeding edge version, and put those fixes in the old versions of the software.
This is the same thing the PHP folks would do while the old PHP is supported. Once the old PHP is out of support but Ubuntu LTS is still in support, then the Ubuntu folks have to put in the extra work to do the cherrypicking.
The diver would feel the same wind while in the air as while standing on that elevated diving board. He would recognize the strong 70Mph wind, and jump forward to counteract it.
You are correct that the Desktop Environment and Package Manager are the most important part of any distro. Of those, the Desktop Environment is the most important. Switching between Ubuntu with KDE Plasma and Arch with KDE Plasma is less visible of a change than switching from KDE Plasma to Gnome in any distro.
Most distros include all the major Desktop Environments: Mate, Gnome, KDE Plasma, and probably several more.
The biggest missing feature between Mint/Ubuntu/Debian is Container-based package management. This is an additional installation method, for "application"-like programs, usually proprietary. Debian has the infrastructure to run these, but you have to find or make the containers yourself. Mint has more support, in the form of a graphical package manager installed by default.
There's really not much difference in the feature set of distros. Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint have a lot more in common than they have differences.
Desktop environments usually include a full set of these. I just use whichever comes with it.
Linux usually has the drivers already set up right away on first boot. You shouldn't need to install any drivers. There's very little bloat. Any superfluous packages are likely consuming no CPU time, just drive space. Every default installation comes with a media player and file archiver, but you can install VLC or RAR if you like them better.
They probably had a bad experience with one or more qt-based programs, or got a negative response when they filed a bug report to a qt program or library. Or, they were using some weird mix of old and new software, and ended up in a weird dependency loop that blocked a large set of packages on their system.
Probably. The most common distros will have the most community support.
Spend most of your effort choosing a Desktop Environment. Fortunately, this can be changed after installation.
I don't care what Hamas says or admits. Reliable news sources have repeatedly reported that IDF is killing an unreasonably high number of innocent Palestinian civilians, relative to the number of Hamas soldiers that they kill.
When you get to the "Installation Type" page, try selecting "Something Else" instead.
Then, go to "Manual Partitioning". From that point, create a single 1GB partition (unencrypted) for the "/boot" filesystem, and then use the rest of the drive as an encrypted volume. It will ask for a password, and then you will see a new encrypted drive appear. Use that newly created encrypted drive as the "/" filesystem.
I just recently installed a system this way, and it worked well in Ubuntu. I couldn't do it in Kubuntu though, I don't think the Kubuntu installer supports encryption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVkmC1CrpQM