There’s lots of ways to make existing hardware more efficient at the cost of performance. Under-volting the CPU and RAM (or just putting them in “efficiency” mode) can probably save more electricity than you lose in generational improvements. Considering how much more powerful PCs are compared to SBCs, you’d probably still have better performance than an SBC. Also, a more powerful CPU that takes double the power but as a result can idle for more than 50% of the time would be more efficient than a less powerful CPU never idling.

There’s a lot of other variables (like idle power draw, efficiency at various power levels, idle latency, etc), but in general I think your statement would be inaccurate at least 60% of the time.

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If I can’t kill the child process, I kill its parent and go on with my life.

It’s a distro that only cool people know about. I’m sorry you had to find out this way.

As a kid I went from botany, to chemistry, to pneumatics, to rocketry, and then finally landed (heh) on IT. Now I work at a research firm supporting scientists doing (almost) all of the former.

You’re just mad your distro hasn’t MOONED

Nothing personnel, kid.

It’s not ethical to irresponsibly create children, but it’s also not ethical to prevent people from doing so. The most you can do is make that information easily available to people and encourage them to act responsibly.

One of the biggest problems would be enforcement of that license. With driving, cops are everywhere and regularly pull people over to check their license. With hunting, there are game wardens that patrol hunting areas and check the licenses of hunters.

With procreation, people can have unprotected sex anywhere and typically in private. You’d either need to give some group of people permanent access to enter any private space at any time (to randomly check for unlicensed sex), or force everyone without a license to take birth control or be sterilized. Unfortunately, none of those options are ethical.

I meant outed as being queer. OP said that if you do queerphobic things as a way to hide that you’re queer, you deserve to be outed. I’m asking if a queer person who does queerphobic things–not with the intention of hiding that they’re queer, but because they genuinely believe that god gave everyone “queer desires” as a morality test–should be outed as queer.

For example, I’ve seen the argument that some gay priests are homophobic because they have “gay desires” and they assume that everyone else has them too. One of those priests said something to the effect of “all men want to have sex with other men, but it’s our job not to”. Of course, most men actually don’t want to have sex with other men–if you do, you’re just gay–but those priests might now know that. I’m conflicted as to whether that’s a reasonable justification for homophobia, but I’m curious what OP thinks about it.

It’s “losers”, but yes. I’d phrase it as “not every poor and uneducated person deserves sympathy; it’s not necessarily victim-blaming to refuse to accommodate such a person.”

Disabled people should have to ask for a seat on public transit if one isn’t available; other people shouldn’t immediately get up when a clearly disabled person boards, nor should anyone expect them to without being asked. Similarly, you have no right to criticize someone (who doesn’t appear to be disabled) if they’re sitting in a seat designated for disabled people and they don’t get up when a visibly disabled person gets on.

First of all, the disabled person might not even want the seat. If they do, it’s reasonable to expect them (as an adult) to advocate for their own needs (i.e. ask). It’s actually more offensive to assume that every elderly or otherwise visibly-disabled person is incapable of that.

Second of all, not all disabilities are easily visible. I’m a mid-twenties guy and I was born with an auto-immune disorder that sometimes makes it very difficult or painful to stand/walk. It’s happened multiple times that strangers on the bus have chewed me out for not giving up my seat, even though (statistically) there were probably other people sitting in disability-designated seats that needed that seat less than me and the visibly disable person who just boarded. I can’t fucking believe I have arthritis in my twenties, either. I’m just trying to cope with the shitty circumstances I was given and the last thing I need is to constantly have to justify myself to ignorantly self-righteous strangers.

That’s mostly because men, on average, negotiate for higher wages; if the women in such positions asked for higher wages, the disparity would be much lower.

Do you think that people who act queerphobic for reasons other than hiding their true identity also deserve to be outed?

OP is saying that of the people who are poor and uneducated, there is a small percentage that are fuckwits. Your description could be true for 95% of such people and it still wouldn’t be inconsistent with OP’s comment.

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Yes and no. It would solve some problems, but because it has no (non-hacky) graphics acceleration, most DEs wouldn’t use it anyway. The biggest benefit would be from not having to use a DE in some circumstances where it’s currently required.

Each monitor should have its own framebuffer device rather than only one app controlling all monitors at any time and needing each app to implement its own multi-monitor support. I know fbdev is an inefficient, un-accelerated wrapper of the DRI, but it’s so easy to use!

Want to draw something on a particular monitor? Write to its framebuffer file. Want to run multiple apps on multiple screens without needing your DE to launch everything? Give each app write access to a single fbdev. Want multi-seat support without needing multiple GPUs? Same thing.

Right now, each GPU only gets 1 fbdev and it has the resolution of the smallest monitor plugged into that GPU. Its contents are then mirrored to every monitor, even though they all have their own framebuffers on a hardware level.

My high school English teacher still has night terrors about me starting sentences with conjunctions. And that was the least of their problems.

Edit: kind of unrelated, but that song about conjunctions is now stuck in my head. 🎶Conjunction junction, what’s your function? 🎶

The trick is to round everything. Pi? Basically 3.