I’m in Europe, but latitude is about the same as Anchorage, Alaska.

For winter it’s not uncommon to have auxiliary heating that starts off a remote or app. Plus you wear clothes to make up for it

Summer is like 4-5 minutes of idling and then it’s not TOO bad to get inside. Unless you parked straight in the sun and your first drive of the day is in the afternoon.

Best car I’ve ever owned was a rusty 2003 MB E-class. 4 zone climate went down to 12C, seats were heated and ventilated, and you could set it to run the interior fan for 30 min with ignition off. 1000 miles to a tank of diesel.

Cost me a whopping 3k. They’re available as diesels in the US too (2005 MY only) and last about a million miles, but US did not get the diesel in the wagon body style I had, which made it the ultimate do-anything car

35C/100% is literal death for humans. I would literally kill myself whereever you live.

Also we have diesel cars here. Half a gallon gets you like 2-3 hours of idling lol

Or just don’t get in the car before it’s cold lol, wouldn’t do that with cloth seats either plus I wouldn’t want to sweat into those anyway, they absorb the sweat

Never seen windows cool a car down enough in the summer. I also cool my car to about 15C in the summer. What sweat?

Lmao

It’s a very different fabric from seats, which need to last way longer and use tougher fabrics.

I can’t even stand clothes that rub against my skin the wrong way, let alone car seats lol. Maybe some sort of sensory overload issue for me.

Where I live, it gets so cold you can’t drive away right after starting the engine anyway, you won’t see through your windows. You start the engine and heated seats and heated rear window (and front if you have a Ford) and then start clearing the ice off your windows.

In the summer, hot car is hot regardless of seats. Start the car and AC, have a cigarette or finish your chat, then get in the car.

Estonia. I’ve seen 1980s or 90s heaps of junk with heated seats. It’s kind of a requirement when it gets to -33C in the winter. It’s also very cheap for manufacturers to add, so a lot of them include it as standard equipment in northern countries.

It was more common than AC here until AC became standard equipment in cars.

Fabric isn’t superior in comfort, it has way too much friction. Definitely the cheaper and greener option though.

Leather feels much nicer than cloth. I prefer my seating surface smooth.

I don’t remember the last time I had a car without heated seats. I’ve had a car as old as 2003 (bought for 3k) that had ventilated seats. The are also ways to make sure your car is the right temperature by the time you get in it.

I’ll have you know, I’ve started several projects in Rust!

Only to realize I don’t have time to do unpaid work even if it IS fun.

What’s wrong with using SUSE if you want to avoid the other 2?

Rocky and Alma aim to give you the same software as RHEL, but no support unfortunately.

If you can’t trust Canonical or SUSE, I don’t think there’s any enterprise option left for you, gotta use one of dem free distros

I happen to agree on most or your points.

By the way, you can still get the fancy desktop effects by installing Compiz. Probably only supports X but I haven’t really looked into it. Must’ve been 2009 or 10 when I used it lol

Oh yeah I wasn’t really confused, I just meant to make the point that simulation theory != Matrix. Matrix is A simulation, but simulation theory doesn’t necessitate that we all have real bodies in a “real world”. In fact, I think the matrix version of the simulation is less likely, as it would be more complex to achieve, at least in our reality. In simulation theory, if the simulation stops and is deleted, there may well be literally nothing left of us. That’s not a trans allegory, that’s an existential crisis

I know that The Matrix is a trans allegory but simulation theory isn’t necessarily the same as being imprisoned in a simulation. It means we might not exist at all. Simulation goes away, we go away. Or maybe it’s like The Matrix and we’re all trans eggs. There’s no way to know which version it is or how many people are real vs simulated.

Simulation theory doesn’t equal The Matrix.

Huh?

Engineer here, I can definitely count to 10 tho

0 1 10

When people complain about software being monetized and closed instead of everything being FOSS and I say people want to put food on their tables… This is exactly why. Most of the projects that have a good deal of recurring donations are some form of productivity software. Companies or freelancers use them to make money on a daily basis and decide to give back a bit, to ensure that their software continues being developed (large corporate donors sometimes also get a say in what features are prioritized).

Nobody sets up a recurring donation for a neat bit of software that makes life easier, but isn’t making the user any money.

It’s GPL, just like the Fediverse prefers it. Single most recommended launcher in the Linux gaming community in recent years. And the owner makes €100 a month off it. AND there are people in this very thread saying people shouldn’t donate to it because you could instead fund Wine development by buying a Crossover license (yay, proprietary software). Then another unrelated comment pointing out you can donate directly to Wine too. Then another comment saying they don’t like how FOSS projects often don’t disclose where the money’s going.

Well guess what, open source devs want money so they’d no longer be dependent on their soul-sucking corporate day jobs and have more time to develop neat open source software. Open source devs are often overworked and some receive a lot of abuse for not spending more time on their open source projects. Orchestrated abuse for not spending enough time on his open source project is how the author of xz was pressured to give maintainer status to what turned out to be a nation state level actor trying to integrate a backdoor into everyone’s Linux systems.

The open source community is abusive towards open source maintainers, really. I’m honestly glad I only have some small contributions to my name, and no large projects to maintain.

To be clear: No, I’m not any better when it comes to donations. I’m more likely to pay for proprietary software than to donate to an open source project I use. Same goes for most people I reckon. That’s why, while open source is awesome, actually being an open source dev sucks.

See also: car adas systems making drivers less skillful.

But also making traffic safer

Think we need to introduce a mandatory period where you need to drive an old car with no ABS when you’ve just gotten your license. I mean for me that was called being a broke-ass student, but nowadays cars with no ABS are starting to cost more than cars with ABS, traction control and even ESP, because the 80s and early 90s cars where these things were optional, are now classics, whereas you can get a BMW or Audi that was made this century for like 500-800 euros if you’re brave or just want to move in to your garage full time.