mholiv
@mholiv@lemmy.world
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
The point is, that the answer is 0% by any reasonable metric. I don’t think any more is to be gained here given the question dodge.
So I will say good bye and best of luck again.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
Ok. I have one question then. I think we can come to a clear resolution with it.
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, what percentage is it Linux?
It includes 100% the apps, system tools, GUIs, and libraries that you associate with Linux. It also has 0 lines of Linux code in it.
If you can justify that it is above >0% Linux I will use your definition of operating system going forward.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
But we can agree that there are upper and lower limits though. And I believe that we can now agree that system utilities and system libraries are outside of that limit. Just because the edge are fuzzy, don’t mean we can’t come to any conclusions at all.
Any now stepping way way back. I think we can now agree that Fedora, Ubuntu and other distros run the same operating system. That operating system being Linux.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
That’s ok! I was just trying to help you see the difference. You do know. It’s a win/win. There was a reason why I kept on brining up Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. It really highlights the difference.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
You’re gunna do you and I respect that. But the first line from the page is
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the GNU C library on top of FreeBSD’s kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set.
It is literally GNU userland using the GNU C library on top of FreeBSD’s kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set
You can say is BSD system tools with a Linux kernel but you would be evidently and clearly wrong.
Anyways. I wish you well. Best of luck.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
If you define it that way you are right. Yah. But the common understanding is a bit different than yours.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
Really great read.
I urge you to take a look at www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ It’s the exact same utilities and everything but a completely different kernel. It really highlights the difference here. How would your definition avoid d for this?
Would Debian GNU/kFreeBSD be 50% Linux, 50% FreeBSD under your definition even though it has no Linux code? It has all the system libraries and system utilities that you associate with Linux.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
But it literally is the same. The only difference is the user space. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD shows this. Different operating system same user space.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
I mean they are all literally the same operating system yah! They all use the same kernel APIs.
The main difference is package management.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
Hot take. Under semantic versioning everything after vista has been in essence a new version of vista.
Going from NT 5.x to 6.x was a major jump.
The reason why Vista had no/terrible drivers was because they went from an insecure one driver bug crashed the whole system model to more secure isolated drivers that don’t crash the whole system. Developers had to learn how to write new drivers and none of the cap drivers worked.
They went from a single user OS with a multi user skin on top, to a full role based access control user system.
They went from global admin/non-admin permissions to scoped UAC permissions for apps.
Remember on Vista when apps constantly had that “asking for permissions” popup? That was then not using the 6.x UAC APIs.
Given the underlying architectural situation everything since Vista has been vista with polish added (or removed depending on how you look at it)
Things will go beyond vista when a new major release with new mandatory APIs shows up. Probably under NT 7.x.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 week ago:
After you edited it, it is more clear now. You should have phrased it that way to begin with.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 week ago:
Because saving video games and stopping the killing of children are mutually exclusive???
- Comment on Yes, in my back yard: people who live near large-scale solar projects are happy to have more built nearby 4 weeks ago:
Ohh. Yah. I wonder if it’s few degrees cooler. It would be cool to see some data.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think overprovisioning is a thing that is realistically is a problem in the U.S. or in Germany. I know that modern homes tend to have 300amp mains. Older homes 100amps. You would have to have a house that was wired in 1920 in order to have a 20amp mains available. In that case you have bigger issues safety wise.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 4 weeks ago:
Ohh! I spent some time in the U.S. and there are 230v mains available. They just have special plugs. All homes have 230v. It’s just not available through the happy face plug.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 4 weeks ago:
The way that it works in most countries is that the breakers are per circuit in your wall. The breakers trip in order to prevent that single circuit from overheating and starting a fire in your walls.
Let’s say you have a wire that’s rated for 16amps. More than that and it becomes a fire risk just threw overheating. @230v that gives you 3680w per circuit.
If you have your industrial microwave, water heater, and car charger all going at the same time on that same circuit that will draw way more than 3680w and thus would go over that 16a limit.
The breakers trips once you go over that 16a limit for safety. It’s a good thing. This all being said no sane electrician would put those three things on the same circuit. lol.
I know it works this way in the U.S. and Germany at least.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 2 months ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 2 months ago:
No problem. I just thought I had covered that when I said:
That’s some incredible stuff. Now days you can use things like XCP-ng to do the same but VMware was ahead of the pack for a decade.
They started dying when they were squeezed between cloud hyper scalars and the cheaper alternative hypervisors that finally had caught up.
This being said I don’t think even in 2025 proxmox and things like vsphere are comparable. XCP-ng I do think is though. It’s open source and matches features.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong in 2025. But VMware was able do it in 2003.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 2 months ago:
There is a major difference between running a vm on your desktop and orchestrating a fleet of highly available virtual machines. Just one example might be vmotion. You can move a virtual machine from one physical host to another in real time with 0 interruption to services running on that host.
That’s some incredible stuff. Now days you can use things like XCP-ng to do the same but VMware was ahead of the pack for a decade.
They started dying when they were squeezed between cloud hyper scalars and the cheaper alternative hypervisors that finally had caught up.
Then the corpse was bought by Broadcom who is currently trying to milk it before the body completely rots.
- Comment on Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’ 2 months ago:
I don’t think he’s a troll. And he’s not doxing you. I don’t think you know what doxing means.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 2 months ago:
I mean if you use the Marxist/Leninist definition of left then obviously not. But I mean left leaning in terms of the societal understanding.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 2 months ago:
But the fact that the majority (or perhaps less than half now) of the responses literally prove the point I am trying to make proves my point downvotes or not.
You have to remember the people who would literally unironically make such a post that proves my post are the densest of the dense.
Most sexists, while dense, are less dense than a black hole and would not prove my point for me under my post.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 2 months ago:
You are extremely dense.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 2 months ago:
Alas I have been show to be wrong! If not for my womanly ways I would have been the wiser!
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 2 months ago:
Sooooppp you’re giving me old school internet sexism nostalgia. 😂 That 2008 energy.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 2 months ago:
THIS. EXACTY THIS RIGHT HERE. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN.
Me: talks about issue disproportionately affecting women.
Lemmy User: It’s not really about women. Everyone suffers from this.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 2 months ago:
100%
It’s really bad and lemmy is really in denial.
Sexism here is much worse than it was on Reddit.
It feels like 2008 Reddit here sexism wise, except instead of Ron Paul libertarians tooting their horns everywhere we have heavy teacher vehicle enthusiasts.
I did hope lemmy having a left leaning culture would help but it does not.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 2 months ago:
Secular person who was formally catholic, so I will come from that perspective, and will for this post assume that the Christian view is correct. (In reality I do t think it is)
Theologians have realized that people, even before Jesus have been good and have shown wisdom. Even those who were way outside of the Jewish tradition. For example, Aristotle showed prudence, wisdom, and ethics that are in accordance with the will of God.
The question at hand is how and why, if they did not know God?
The answer is that they acted in accordance with the natural law as given by god. Even without knowing god via the sacrifice of Jesus, they approached god in the best way they knew how, by doing their best to realize the natural law which was written by god.
More information on this at this link. I would read the section on Aquinas’ natural law theory.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-law-ethics/#Na…
How does this apply to watching content about historic godly figures? The answer is that in so much as the content approaches those divine values through seeking to understand and act in accordance with the natural law it is good and just to watch.
This being said these historic figures did not have the true understanding of god brought through the sacrifice of Jesus so that must be kept in mind. So as long as you understand this and the content does not draw you from god it should be good to go.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 3 months ago:
Yah. Like I said. Lack of prudence with plenty of unpredictability on top.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 3 months ago:
That was more than a day ago though. Trump’s lack of prudence ensures that companies can’t plan ahead. That includes the Taiwan based framework.