Coincidentally, last night I watched Waterloo (1970) which is now free to watch. It has literally 15,000 costumed extras in its battle scene. Supposedly the largest such reenactment in any movie. Very impressive indeed.

Sure. That theory is covered in the article. It’s particularly well-written and clear.

Spend a few weeks camping or hostelling. Then you’ll see how many of your possessions you really need.

Exact opposite here. Missed almost none of it and wondered why I had wasted so much money buying it.

It’s a valid point. But electrification always has a huge efficiency advantage at the point of energy use, i.e. electric motors are far more energy-efficient than the best combustion engines. And, of course, it allows for the upstream energy source to be swapped out later. See the kind of thing that India has been building recently.

PS: article that has impressive photo of said solar park.

Apt, never noticed that parallel

It sounds like such hard work to be a member of Gen Z.

As others have said, there are two discrete threat models.

Turning off all the radios (pull out the SIM for good measure) is enough to block any proof of your geographic whereabouts. That absolutely includes wifi. Cell towers are yesterday’s news, geolocation is also done by wifi and GPS and your device will be sharing that with a bunch of third parties if you let it connect.

But there’s a separate issue about what happens if you have to surrender the device. For this scenario, your choice will be between fighting the authorities over the encryption key or presenting a dummy device as your only one.

This radical dualism is partly an American thing. Here on the other side of the pond, most people believe (IMO) that one can be simultaneously a “piece of shit posing as a human being” and a great actor.

Leonardo DiCaprio. I get huge, cringy ‘imposter syndrome’ vibes from him

Exact opposite feelings here, and I generally have a hard time suspending disbelief. I remember seeing The Basketball Diaries (this was before Titanic) and being blown away by his acting. I’d say this is a rare example of an actor being held back by good looks. A lot of folks have just not wanted to admit that this particular heartthrob has genuine talent. To contrast with, for example, Keanu, or Clooney.

Even in a genuine authoritarian state there’s no need to “discard” anything. For these occasions just keep a separate device with plausible data on it, or don’t take one at all.

This discussion breaks community rules, not server rules. The breakage is so flagrant that I don’t know why you’re bothering to argue. Just say you don’t want rules.

In fairness your capital city hardly even reaches triple digits

I want Lemmy to succeed, do ye not?

Breaks community rule #6 about as flagrantly as is possible.

Intriguing stuff! And surprisingly affordable. I guess I should have got away from the expensive north coast (lined with billionaire villas apparently) before judging.

Post more whenever you like! I’m genuinely interested but also it might help encourage others and so (with time!) bring this community to life.

This is philosophy, not history or even historiography.

its not difficult to pipe a file of packages into a shell loop to get the behavior as described

It’s possible, but “not difficult” is a bit of a stretch. FWIW I’ve used this in the past, among other hacky solutions that don’t always work as expected:

# Print packages installed from different origins.
# Exclude standard Ubuntu repositories.

grep -H '^Origin:' /var/lib/apt/lists/*Release | grep -v ' Ubuntu$' | sort -u \
| while read -r line; do
    origin=${line#* }
    echo $origin:
    list=${line%%:*}
    sed -rn 's/^Package: (.*)$/\1/p' ${list%_*Release}*Packages | sort -u \
    | xargs -r dpkg -l 2>/dev/null | grep '^.i '
    echo
done

As a non-Nixer I completely share your frustration. Immutability, i.e. tracking of config changes, is so obviously a good idea. It’s high time it became universal.

Fair enough. I Just see downvoting as so juvenile and petty. We don’t jeer people at every turn in person, we have manners.