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Spotify actually doesn't make that much profit, if any.

But the record labels are major shareholders and definitely influence the pricing structure. Spotify is essentially a marketing frontend for the record industry.

2.4 is the tipping point. Mark my words.

Any day now, it's gonna be the year of the Linux handheld.

Again, that's not what obfuscation means.

Also, what exactly is the difference between cat and journalctl? You can't read a text file without a program either.

Of course, raw text files are more common, but what you're drawing up here is a mixture of old man yells at cloud and tin foil hat territory.

The alternative to nuclear isn't coal....

And if you seriously think regulations are the problem, you're denser than the lead shielding you want to get rid of.

So literally every program on your machine is obfuscated. Linux kernel? Obfuscated. Wayland? Obfuscated. And even VIM: obfuscated.

You're creating problems where there are none.

Are you really sure, you're using "obfuscation" right? Because that implies that someone intentionally makes something harder to read to hide something. That's not the case here. Nothing is hidden, it's all there, the formats are well defined and easy to read.

You can't really bork your system, since you can't always roll back and since the entire system is declared in one file (tree) that should work flawlessly.

In case of servers: the entire config is in one place. That can make maintenance much easier. At least for Homeservers. If you're deploying a fleet, puppet or ansible might be the better tools.

"Base load" is not that much. Off shore wind is almost always blowing, and all the other renewables can be stored via batteries or hydrogen (or tanks, in case of biogas). Yes, that's a whole lot of stuff, but the technology exists, can be produced on large scale and (most importantly) doesn't cause any path dependencies.

Nuclear is extremely expensive, as the article highlighted. And to be cost effective, power has to be produced more or less constantly. Having a nuclear power plant just for the few hours at night when wind and sun don't work is insane - and insanely expensive.

I think you don't quite understand the comment.

Current pharmaceuticals are usually a (life)long prescription. It's not like antibiotics, where you get a dose for a few days or weeks and you're done. Antidepressants have to be taken for years. Every day. That means revenue every day. It's a treatment, not a cure.

MDMA on the other hand is a (potential) cure. You take it a few times under supervision and that's it.

Problem is, this takes away customers from the former group. And that means, far less revenue from "traditional" psychopharmacology products. MDMA cannibalizes other drugs.

I think you are either trolling or you fundamentally don't understand, what you're talking about.

Nothing is obfuscated. You can download each and every code file, audit it, and build the binaries from exactly that code. You can even compare the binaries to the ones provided by major distros thanks to reproducible builds.

Just because you don't understand code, doesn't mean it's obfuscated. Following that logic, even a loaf of bread is "obfuscated" because you don't understand sour dough.

Some people have way too much time and way too disturbing world views to be allowed on the Internet.

And how many people do you think could accurately, or even ballpark, estimate their workload? I couldn't tell you, whether my workload would benefit from more e or p cores and by how much.

What you're implying here is an illusion of accuracy. You want accurate numbers for something that you can't really judge anyway. These numbers don't mean anything to you, they just give you the illusion of knowing what's going on. It's the "close door" button in an elevator.