That’s not quite accurate. The community can still upload fixed packages to universe, just as the community runs universe in the first place.

Does mint ship with a fixed version of ffmpeg?

Kernel updates can require it, but even then you can often get away with replacing the specific module.

I’d much rather see RISC-V take over.

Yeah… Harris was an OK option for president given the state of national politics. But California can do far better.

There’s no reason why some sort of augmentation system couldn’t improve the navigation situation with the big dig. Stick some low power beacons that provide GPS-like signal in the tunnel based on their predetermined location and we’ll have GPS accounting for special relativity, general relativity and continental drift.

Do you live in Michigan or is there somewhere else that was this idiotic too?

Correct. But that means 512 GB is not half a tebibyte.

512 GiB is half a tebibyte. 512 GB is just under 477 GiB.

Man you must have some unhappy house cats. My cat went out onto the patio, realised he could get the same smells from the open window, and went back inside.

Cat tax before you animals demand it.

I don’t support that path - I just recognise that the only alternative also includes all of that and the subjugation of American women, further endangerment of LGBT folks, etc.

I’m not trying to justify anything. I’m saying that more people dying is worse, so I’m choosing the path that has the least death.

Pretending more people dying is somehow not worse, however, is attempting to justify the unjustifiable.

Nor are things like “strategic voting.” It’s really unfortunate

And voting third party is saying “I don’t care whether we get a bit of genocide or a lot of genocide,” which itself is legitimizing genocide.