You completely missed the point. OP made a claim “EV cars have lots of gimmicks”, this comment is saying “so do non EV cars”.

You seem to have already tried something and didn’t liked it, what was it and why?

I feel most newcomers often overthink this question. You should pick something aimed at newcomers that’s meant to be user friendly, that’s the main idea behind most Ubuntu based distros, and why I have been recommending people to use Mint for almost two decades, and that’s still my recommendation for new users.

There are lots of things to learn when migrating to Linux. The main one is to not expect it to be Windows. But most distros are essentially the same, their differences are mostly philosophical rather than technical, but philosophical differences can have technical impacts. For example, a distro with the philosophy that things need to be tested before given to users will have a smoother but outdated experience than one with the philosophy of latest is best, or for a more extreme example, a distro with the philosophy that your system should be declared as a configuration will require much more different kind of maintenance than one where it’s more install things around to build your system.

Finally there’s one thing that I think most new users don’t realize, any distro can look like any other distro very easily. The difference between distros is not cosmetic, it’s much more engrained into the core of how to use the distro, but most day-to-day stuff is identical. The graphical part of a Linux system is called a Desktop Environment (DE) or a Window Manager (WM), technically a DE is a full set of programs that includes a WM. I would strongly recommend you start with a DE, installing multiple DEs and playing around to figure out what you like is an excellent idea, personally I like Plasma even though I don’t use it daily because I prefer tiling window managers (possibly not something to worry about now), but other people prefer Gnome, Cinnamon, etc, play around and figure out what you like, this will have a much larger impact in your experience than changing distro.

There are some advantages, batteries require more pollution to be created and have a larger environmental impact if not dealt with properly. A hydrogen car has the potential to be 100% clean. That being said I don’t think it’s that big of an advantage considering some of the difficulties involved in it.

Yes, when there’s a causation link between things there’s also a correlation between them. But correlation does not imply causation means the link doesn’t go the other way. It’s like, every dog is an animal, but not every animal is a dog.

Correlations might be useful to figure out common causes, for example the correlation between student height and reading skills, could mean taller people are more educated, or, more likely, that your students are young enough that age is an important factor at play.

And finally, correlation might be just a fluke of chance, for example the amount of automotive recalls related to AirBags correlates almost perfectly with the popularity of the first name Killian: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/2599_popularity-of-the-first-name-killian_correlates-with_automotive-recalls-for-issues-with-the-air-bags that site has other similar examples.

So yeah, correlation might be important, but they might be nothing at all, so don’t just assume that a correlation implies causation.

I spent a while getting Ansible to be able to setup and maintain my server(s). And ended up not using it as much as I should, mostly because the computer I used to run Ansible from became a “Steam Machine” so I’m rarely sitting on it with a keyboard now and I don’t want to have personal info and keys on my work computer.

But it was a good learning, and useful while I used it. Now I just use ssh and compose files directly.

The zeroth law does not come into play here. The first law is not being bypassed, the rule states:

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

The movie asks the question “what happens when a robot realizes that both action and inaction will cause harm”? And the logical conclusion is that the robot will choose the path that causes less harm, this is foreshadowed by the fact that a robot tore Will Smith’s arm while rescuing him, because even though action caused harm, inaction would have caused more harm. The same logic applied to society as a whole is what makes the mainframe decide to take control of humans, because inaction would have caused more harm.

No, you clearly missed the point of the movie, the mainframe follows the 3 laws. But because the first law states that a robot cannot by inaction allow a human to be harmed, and human governed societies cause harm to humans, a robot smart enough to understand our full system of government and how harmful it is to humans would be forced to take control of humanity to prevent us from harming one another, and that there’s nothing you can do because rule 1 comes before rule 2 so you can’t order it to stop. It’s very similar to all of the other stories in the “I robot” book where the 3 laws cause issues not because they’re broken, but because robots follow them to the letter.

Might have been, but it’s not one I have read and it’s not in the “I, Robot” book. I would be interested in reading it if someone knows which one it is.

All art is political, because it depends on the politics of the society it was created.

First we need to agree on a definition of political, in general I think a good definition is “dealing with the structure, organization, and administration of the state”.

So, a cave painting, just like any art that shows you how people live in a society is exposing the structure, organization and possibly administration of the state, which is the very definition of politics.

Here’s the thing, any art is either based on reality or fictitious. Art based on reality like portraits or biographies are political because they show you the society as it is. On the other hand fictitious art shows you failures or limitations of the society they were written in, or sometimes they offer metaphors to draw parallels or point at stuff in the society they were written.

If you think art is not political I ask you to find me some piece of art that does not deal with the structure, organization or administration of the state.

Right? I was just talking today about how “I, Robot” the movie is not based on any Asimov book I have read, yet it’s one of the best Asimov stories I’ve seen in film. And how I was kinda surprised that in all of the ways Asimov thought the Laws could be missused he didn’t consider that one.

PiGallery is what you’re asking for, but you should consider Immich, it’s very simple to setup and you’ll get tons of features more that are extremely useful. I get you want something simple, but I don’t feel Immich is hard to setup or maintain, and it’s the difference between a simple photo gallery and google photos.

Is an elephant involved? I think I know this one but had completely forgotten about it until I read this.

If they say yes you can then continue with “I meant besides yourself”

A similar one to the plant is “somewhere in the world there’s a tree working hard to create the oxygen you just wasted, you should find it and apologize”

The first thing that comes to mind is this episode from the Simpsons, which is essentially that, the episode starts normally and follows what homer does in the day, at some point it goes back to breakfast and starts following Lisa instead then it goes back again and follows Bart. It’s an interesting episode from a narrative perspective.

I thought they had confirmed that they intended it to be a 40k movie but never got the rights to the name so they made it a “generic” future but kept the script essentially the same.

Interesting, how are you dealing with pacnew/pacsave files? From your explanation it seems that they would go into the read only filesystem and would need to be resolved manually and preserved there until some old version cleanup is ran.

And while I find the idea of a writable overlay filesystem for the /etc fascinating, I think that could have issues with some rollbacks and backwards incompatible config changes.

At the end of the day seems like a fascinating project, but I wonder if Arch+snapper wouldn’t be better overall.

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That’s an interesting idea, but if you make Arch’s root read only you’re leaving behind pacman/AUR (and to a good extent the Arch wiki) which are usually the main advantages of Arch based distros.

SteamOS solves the stability issue by providing runtimes for games, I didn’t read anything there about anything similar on your distro. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems you’re not solving the stability issue, or in other words you will still be unstable as this will be a rolling release. In short I don’t see what would be the advantage of this over base Arch + Snapper (or timeshift).

In that regard, how is this different from Bazzite? I know it will be a different kernel and package versions but in principle the philosophy seems to be exactly the same, and I don’t expect the kernel/packages to be that different either.

I forgot the name in English, but ceramic once cooked is very porous and rough, but usually you apply a layer of varnish to make it smooth and waterproof. I read somewhere that the interior of a salt pig is meant to not have that coating of varnish because then the ceramic can absorb the humidity from the salt and prevent it from clumping up.

All of that being said, I might be overthinking a simple storage for salt.