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Simple: Exfat does not support symbolic links. So every file that's just a symbolic link on your btrfs filesystem is getting copied in full (the link is being resolved) to your Exfat drive.

Solution: Don't use Exfat. For backups from btrfs, I recommend using btrfs with compression enabled.

Also don't forget to rebalance your btrfs partitions regularly to reclaim lost space! Also, delete old snapshots!

Articles like this are really just propaganda (wishful thinking) trying to soften the blow of Baumol's Cost Disease:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

Industries that benefit heavily from automation reduce costs over time. Industries that rely heavily on services (that require people to perform them) increase costs over time.

If you can somehow convert a big chunk of your economy into services from automated production, you can smooth out the difference in that economic curve. In theory, that means the rich (capitalists) can continue to get richer while everyone else's salaries flatten out.

It's total bullshit. The only logical end result of such a situation is the rich getting eaten sooner rather than later.

Smart rich people are (right now) lobbying to get their taxes increased to pay for a better social safety net. Stupid rich people are lobbying for bullshit like converting everything into a subscription economy.

Folks here jest, but this business model is coming to PCs next. Bookmark my words!

(Literally, you can right-click the perma-link to this message and have quick access to it later so you can reply, "Damn, you were right!" And post the link to big PC vendors suddenly offering a similar services because DRAM and GPUs have become so expensive, normal people can't afford to buy PCs anymore)

It's also pig-headed!

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You apparently missed the fact that I put that in both sections 😁

There's tons of regulations that are absolutely necessary and others that are bad and lock people in to bad things.

Example: It's impossible for someone to start their own competitor to Visa/MasterCard due to the regulations!

Of all the things to object to... This?

It's so silly! No matter what the panel concludes, the current Trump regime will just ignore it anyway. Just like they ignore the IPCC or polling or basic economics.

It'd be like the administration objecting to a panel being formed about vaccines, pollution, corruption, or authoritarianism. Clearly, they don't care so why bother? It just draws attention to their incompetence.

Just another loud demonstration of their incompetence, actually. Otherwise they wouldn't have objected.

She got the instructions wrong: Obviously, the Trump administration wanted her to torch the building after the immigrants were inside.

There would need to be a stupid complex network of regulations and inspectors to do it right.

This is how all regulations work (for the most part). Also note that there's no such thing as "too much" or "too little" regulation. There's just bad regulations and good regulations.

Examples of good regulation:

• Car emissions standards
• Appliance energy efficiency requirements
• Safety regulations (all kinds)
• Loads of regulations related to banking

Examples of bad regulation:

• Requiring certification for things that don't need it (e.g. braiding hair)
• Requiring drug tests in order to receive government benefits
• Banning necessary medical procedures and medications based on religious beliefs
• Loads of regulations related to banking

Note: I work for a huge bank and our executives bitch about the cost of compliance all the time. Make them bitch more. Of all the things that need regulation, banking is of the greatest need. Never trust any financial system or transaction that isn't heavily regulated! There's an infinite number of ways to get screwed via banking and if it weren't for regulations they would screw you and everyone else as much as they possibly could. History is full of examples.

This is why web browsers like Firefox need their own AI. Local AI for not only creating summaries but for detecting bullshit like this.

Yes, creating summaries is kinda lame but without local AI you're at the mercy of big corporations. It's a new arms race. Not some bullshit feature that no one needs.

I'm all for it... As long as they get paid as much as their adult peers!

It's a bad idea to get kids socialized, thinking low pay is ever acceptable.

There should also be mandatory training about wage theft and how serious a crime it is for an employer to expect anyone to show up early or stay late without paying for that extra time. Have a great big award ceremony for the kids that reported employers who were caught pulling that shit! Make the employer pay them an amount equivalent to all the lost wages times three.

You want people to have more kids? Have the state give parents tax benefits (or just checks!) for each child's earnings until they're 25 or so.

We do already have poop emoji gas.