chaosCruiser

That’s a nice way to ask if I’m a bastard. No, not the insult. Literally, someone born out of wedlock.

Sorry, I was distracted be the profits.

Textbook example is quid pro quo.

Similar sort of scattering happens in northern Scandinavia too, but I guess it's to a lesser extent. Most people in the region prefer to live within a 1 h drive to the nearest town, even if they are scattered. Proper hospital services might not be within that radius, but at least you can do basic shopping without driving the whole day. If the town isn't conveniently between two cities, you can forget about trains, and maybe even busses too. Having a driving license is absolutely necessary, because providing public transport in remote areas just isn't cost effective. Same goes for various public services too.

Just took a look at some population density maps, and I must say that the kind of density you have between Boston and Washington DC is approximately what most of Central Europe looks like. Other parts of USA are pretty sparsely populated.

Apart from the large cities, you could say that anywhere east of Dallas looks a lot like northern Scandinavia in terms of population density. Even Poland has a higher density than the gaps between major cities such as Phoenix and Denver. To me, it seems like nearly everyone lives in one of the big cities, and there's hardly anything in between them.

Not too long ago, I saw a map showing where each train is in USA. Someone also posted a similar maps from Switzerland. Can you guess which one had more trains?

Isn't that a pretty sunny place? How about trying to power those servers with solar?

Many of these piracy analogies are kinda weird. IMO the best analogy to pirating a movie is watching a football match from behind the fence. The stadium company isn't getting your ticket money, but you're not even the kind of person who would pay for that ticket anyway, so did anyone really lose anything? When watching the match from outside the fence, you're not taking any seats, or bothering the paying customers. Where's the harm in that?

!leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

I've heard this "year of the Linux desktop" thing for 20 years in a row, to the point that it has become a meme. Even if the recent events bump Linux market share up by just a single percent, I'm still happy.

So 2025 is the year of the Linux desktop?

According to the diagram, I'm usually neutral evil, occasionally chaotic neutral. IMO, these are the most cost effective solutions. Takes little time to do, and it's still good enough.