WSL2 is essentially just.. Windows + Linux. I tried it and it is awesome. Cannot wait to see further progress that comes out of this. I really cannot leave Windows to be honest. The network effect is too strong. Coupled with recent Microsoft effort such as Visual Code, its looking like they are doing nothing but going towards the better direction than the old days. Who would have thought. Would you believe it if anyone said this to be the case, 10 years ago?
> I really cannot leave Windows to be honest. The network effect is too strong.
I suspect whatever's keeping you on Windows isn't really the network effect. It's usually: comfort level/personal preference, or a set of software that vendor(s) can't/won't port to another non-Windows platform.
The fact that so many applications have been rewritten as browser-accessible services has liberated me. I haven't owned a system with a Microsoft OS since ~2004 or so.
I was also amazed with WSL, it genuinely made me think I didn't have to leave Windows anymore. It is honestly one of the best products Microsoft has launched recently. The development tools division of Microsoft is on fire and should be commended.
The Windows division is another story though. With all the Windows 11 news I decided to give desktop Linux a spin for the nth time in 20 years. Installed Manjaro and I'm extremely impressed. Even though I have Nvidia graphics everything is buttery smooth, all my productivity tools are there, setting up my VPN was far easier than Windows, and even more amazingly most of my games work well thanks to the recent push by Valve and the steam deck.
I will probably stick with it this time, so maybe for me 2021 finally is the year of the Linux desktop.
Anecdata, but I used to dual boot, until Windows mucked up the Linux boot more than once. Didn't play nice. So I run Windows in a VM now, it's not getting near the boot sector again.
How much of that effect do you think is due to recent Windows versions not playing nicely so you still get some hassle anyway and/or to improving options to run Windows virtually on a Linux host with close to native performance and compatibility?
What do you mean by "not playing nicely". With UEFI boot you can dual boot all day. There is no need to modify MBR. So nothing gets overwritten on updates.
I didn't say dual booting was itself the source of the danger (though it is true that in days gone by that was also a source of problems).
The issue I had in mind was the unrestricted hardware access that Windows has if it is running natively. This is an operating system that has literally pushed updates that inadvertently deleted user data, among other severe problems, and that will deploy its updates automatically to many users. Dual booting won't ensure the integrity of your system against that kind of threat. Running Windows in a virtual environment means it can't damage the rest of your system even if it deploys a seriously broken update without warning. And that kind of virtualisation is getting more practical all the time even if for now it remains the preserve of serious Linux hackers.
Same situation here. Dual-booting Linux and Windows 10, and I figured I'd boot into Windows often enough for it to get obnoxious. But I only ever get on there to play a few demanding games (which I already don't play often anymore), or make music with an A+ DAW for making music that doesn't run super effectively on Wine. Linux handles everything else I do like a champ.
A friend of mine has been complaining that a DAW is the only thing keeping him stuck in Windows at this point as well. In his case, he specifically said that VST's were the problem. Was your experience the same?
Bitwig is a very good DAW with native Linux support. It's made by former Ableton devs so it definitely leans in that direction, but it works pretty well for other types of workflows too, especially with the recently released version 4.
VSTs are definitely an issue; most high quality commercial plugins are still only released for mac/windows. However there are a few projects for running them in wine and it generally works pretty well.
I do think we'll see more and more Linux in studios going forward, but it would help if Linux got its pro audio story together. Pipewire is a big step in the right direction but not yet mature.
Yep, for me it's the DAW and VSTs that keep me needing Windows for now. You can try to make them work with Wine or whatever, but it's not worth the hassle.
I think hes referring to how you can run the VSCode GUI in Windows but develop on WSL because they built an integration. It's pretty neat. And most people are using Windows for other reasons (drivers, gaming ,etc), this just makes development not a pain anymore.
It's about the culture. Windows doesn't respect your privacy and you are treated like a child, because most people who run Windows wants Microsoft to make all decisions for them, just like a parent.
> What doesn't currently exist (should be released in next few months) is the code that lets you copy/paste your current L1 code into an L2 code with almost no effort
Why does that sounded like its already being solved by Matic? From my understanding, Polygon Matic do exactly that.
It isn't hard. Fresh fruit and vegetables don't even have labels because it isn't needed. Meats, and eggs, spices, flour, sugar, oils, and all the other staples might have a label but I don't need to read the fine print to know what is inside because the answer is always the same: whatever is on big print on front.
When buying processed food it is impossible though. Just learn to cook and you will typically have much healthier meals. It takes more time, but there isn't an other reasonable option to be healthy in first world society.
The only really safe bet is to avoid purchasing pre-made items, and make your own sauces/treats/cakes etc. We cook all our own meals at home, but buy shampoo + cookies + cakes + chocolate bars (as normal people do). We try to stick to brands we _know_ don't have any palm oil, but I'd wager that almost all our produce doesn't have any in it.
Except I just checked and my peanut butter (whole earth) _does_ contain it, even though I thought it didn't... You might have a point.
I have been checking every time for several years now.
If, for instance, the jar that says "peanut butter" on the front does not say "Ingredients: peanuts" on the side, I put it back on the shelf and pick up the next one.
You can't trust brands any more, and it makes shopping an arduous and time-wasting chore. Not to mention the stupid little games manufacturers play with the ingredient list for obfuscation's sake, like adding three distinct kinds of sugar so "sugar" doesn't show up as the first ingredient. Or adding 12 different kinds of filler to a crab cake, so that "crab" shows up as the first ingredient.
If you're looking for an alternative to your known goods on occasion (not at home, store stopped stocking it or even just not necessarily knowing that peanut butter can be made from just peanuts), it's easy to get stuck looking for options.
It's easy to be dismissive of the problem and say "just get X", buy you need to know that exists, but you can make the argument for cookies, chips, sauces, dips, soaps...
Before checking every time, I only read the ingredient list occasionally, usually at home when eating it. I started to notice things, like this progression:
Ingredients: peanuts.
Ingredients: peanuts, peanut oil, salt.
Ingredients: peanuts, hydrogenated vegetable oil (one or more of: peanut oil, palm oil, rapeseed oil, soybean oil, cottonseed oil), salt.
The company might run up against a supply problem, where they have to choose between a bad batch of peanuts or nothing at all, and they choose to remain in business by "remediating" that bad batch. But maybe their sales actually go up, so instead of going back to basics, they keep doing the same thing, but with cheaper oil. I get it. I don't like it, but I get it. You can make more money by trying to eat Jif's or Skippy's lunch than by catering to purity snobs.
Repeat similar scenarios for other brands of other products, every year, across the whole grocery store. Products try to stay competitive by masking inferior base ingredients with added fat, salt, and sugar, then go on to game the ingredients list, to obfuscate the fact that they replaced expensive ingredients with cheaper ones, while simultaneously reducing the package weight and upping the unit price. Those oil palm farmers don't need to worry; peak capitalism has their back. Palm oil use will continue to increase, because the marginal cost of production currently makes it the cheapest of all plant-based oils, at least until oil-algae farming technology matures.
all this got me curious and looked it up. here are a few things that often contain palm oil: bread, margarine, some cheese, ice cream, soap & shampoo, chocolate, pre-made pizza etc.
looks to me like you might want to go back to making everything yourself or know every single brand around...
What breads and cheeses contain palm oil? Don't buy them, bread should have salt water yeast flour and cheese definitely should not have oil. Don't buy margarine either, prefer butter, olive oil, or vegetable oil.
There are loads of kinds of chocolate, including very affordable labels, that do not contain palm oil. Oil is an additive chocolate to cut down on the actual chocolate ingredients. Real chocolate shouldn't have it. Chocolate flavored candy has it.
You don't have to make everything from scratch you just have to avoid the worst of the worst processed junk.
Unfortunately it will require you to become very familiar with what you put in your body. Blindly consuming, especially food, in 2020 is a bad idea for the health of yourself and the community. This is a pretty difficult task, but I also think it's insane to trust corporations in this day and age to have your health as a priority when sourcing ingredients.
> environmental health and the well-being of poor and marginalized communities in pursuit of profits
Heh. Isn't that too dramatic. So SEA countries are suppose to sit down and not able to sell anything? How bad is this too bad of a situation? The article failed to highlight this.
To me it feels like someone just doesn't like someone else getting too much money at selling palm oil for some reason. I wonder which other industry that benefits from boycotting palm oil.
The problem is that different food and environmental causes are fashionable (and funded) at different times in different ways, and analysts make decisions via spreadsheets while being pretty clueless about what is happening on a broader scope. When a direction is choosen, the long term impacts are rarely understood by the advocates.
You see it in the HN comments. Right now, everything here is discussed in terms of carbon outputs. All carbon, all of the time. Analysts with this bent will make an argument that palm oil is good because you get more oil density per acre.
For food, transfat was the boogeyman driving adoption in commercial food production to replace hydrogenated oils. You can't use transfat, because heart disease. Alternatives like butter or lard generate pushback, as the carbon crowd claims that cow/pig operations produce too much carbon/greenhouse gasses.
For enviromentalists who aren't carbon focused, the real horror of palm oil is the irreversible destruction of forests and the eradication of orangutans.
They’re against something but provide no suitable alternatives. Even if they provided an acceptable alternative to them, someone else would pipe up and mention a lot of problems with the alternative. On the end we’re supposed to somehow achieve the impossible.
These things are lose-lose.
The only real answer is to lower ave standard of living (in other words a western lifestyle needs to be recalibrated downward) and to lower total population via slowed growth -at least in high growth areas... but none of that is palatable to anyone.
>The only real answer is to lower ave standard of living (in other words a western lifestyle needs to be recalibrated downward)
This is palm oil we're talking about. The ones whose standard of living that this will reduce are the people not in the West. This is all part of international relations. Just like forest fires in the Amazon were a convenient excuse to attack Brazil politically, but forest fires in Australia are about showing sympathy.
Probably something akin to the ex-Yugoslavia with less repression. Though I suspect some repression would be necessary to achieve that. I don’t say that in a positive way —but I don’t think people would volunteer for such a state.
Carbon-positive ways we could lower SoL: no more individual vehicles, no more single family housing, massive increase in taxes on electronics and fuels.
> The only real answer is to lower ave standard of living
Or we could stop wasting our resources in idiotic ways. How many people spend hours every day commuting to a job that produces no actual value to society? How much of our resources do we spend propping up the health insurance industry instead of just giving everyone healthcare?
Restructuring the economy to provide for human needs instead of profits for the bankers (who ultimately own the companies that own the companies that run the spreadsheet farm that you're commuting to every day) would go a long way towards fixing these problems without having to lower anyone's standard of living.
In Asia there are a lot of serious vendor. Sometimes B&M prices and stock availability here is very competitive with online offering.
B&M is still good for me when I can't wait for shipping or risk postal damage. It's also convenient to have a face I can look at whenever I would like to dispute something FAST. Especially disk storage products.
I would totally use it. (I'm such an instagram haters)
I have 1 suggestion, If you're planning to rework the UI/UX, don't go way off than current theme too much. I love the older webs vibe. As bonus point it could keep idiots away and maintain quality content.
I am very open to whatever will make this useful to others. I would love to hear your suggestions. Feel free to share them here if it makes sense or if you want to message me directly, @internetVin on Twitter.
> "When I looked at the Earth itself... I started to wonder why I was here, what's my purpose here… it sort of dawned me," he said.
> "And my perspective is that God has given mankind a stage on which to perform. How the play turns out, is up to us."
I think they are saying; that there's nothing out there that humans are capable of taking advantage of. If going to the Moon has any benefit, then it is to point out clearly that we shouldn't explore more and stay right here on earth, and taking care of whatever we mere human can take care of. If going to the moon is that hard and costly, then how does this compare going to the mars? Even if we did managed to, which few selected population can reap the benefit? Is it worth it for us to pay so much civilian money only for it to be a special planet for very few selected capitalist from earth?
At some point, we just had to lose our interest in space exploration. Just because there's too much of this world to keep us busy with.
I use domain.com and had TONS of problem. I've never had any problem when buying from anything that is not domain.com (even if i had any, it wasn't as fucked up as domain.com's issues)
