This is especially handy on immutable Linux distros like Bazzite in cases where your provider’s client is only officially available as a .deb or .rpm and you don’t want to get in to layering.

CBC’s article brings up another questionable aspect of this:

NoJetsTO, a citizen group that opposes the province’s plans to take over Billy Bishop airport from the city’s jurisdiction to allow jets to land at the island airport, alleged in a statement the province’s move coinciding with the Challenger 650’s purchase isn’t “a coincidence.”

“For eight years Premier Ford has not said a single word about the island airport, and suddenly he’s hell bent on expand the airport to allow him to fly Gravy Plane jet from there," Chair Norm Di Pasquale said in the statement.

“Ford continues to make decisions affecting Torontonians with the sole focus of him being able to get to work and his fundraisers across Ontario faster.”

It might have been nice to have Mint 23 out closer to the totally-for-real-this-time end of Windows 10 updates in October, but it takes as long as it takes, I suppose.

The articles says Mint 23 will include “Cinnamon 6.7-unstable”, and I hope that’s just what it currently is, and not that it’s expected to still be unstable in December.

Wikipedia has Zardoz in 2293. I’d say it got mixed up with Star Trek for 2263, except there isn’t quite anything set then yet, with TOS starting in 2266 and SNW only up to 2261 or 62 so far.

ArcelorMittal donated European steel for Trump’s ballroom

According to a report by the New York Times from earlier this week, two people familiar with the White House ballroom plans said the steel was made in Europe by ArcelorMittal, a Luxembourg-based steel manufacturer.

Last October, the president said he received a “generous” offer of steel worth $37 million—but did not mention where the steel was coming from. According to the same Times report, shortly after the donation, the White House agreed to revise its tariffs in a manner “that could benefit ArcelorMittal, by cutting in half the tariffs applied to exports of automotive steel from its Canadian plant.”

“Effective immediately, the ​United States Navy, the Finest in ​the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING ‌any ⁠and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” said Trump, who is strongly opposed to the ​idea of ​Iran charging ⁠ships a toll to pass through the strait.

“I have also ​instructed our Navy to seek and ​interdict ⁠every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one ⁠who ​pays an illegal toll ​will have safe passage on the high seas,” he ​said.

Pretty sure what Trump is opposed to is him not getting a cut of the toll.

Why are you even in a Star Trek community right now? The pressing issues are being discussed elsewhere and surely you wouldn’t want to miss it.

And when the shields get bypassed, the crew is only as smart as the plot requires (see: Generations).

The Daily Show did a segment on him a couple months ago.

If anything it should be a joint venture between Iran and Oman, the country on the other side of the strait that’s mostly getting ignored in all this.

Israel: We’re not included in the ceasefire
Iran: You sure about that?

And yet somehow the part where there are active MLB players who share names with Cold Play’s lead singer and Carlos Santana is not wrong.

Elections Canada says election day for all three is Monday next week.

Gladu’s defection brings the Liberals up to 171 seats, short of the 172 needed for a slim majority.

Not sure if it’s up-to-date, but the Wikipedia page for the House of Commons says 3 seats are vacant out of 343 total, so the Liberals actually have a majority of the 340 seats that are occupied.

Accounting for patches will also be interesting, especially for newer games that are still working their way towards a decent state.

In February 2024, Disney invested $1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, as part of a multi-year project to build a new games and entertainment universe.

An outright acquisition of Epic would be a second attempt at the same ambition, only this time with a company Disney has already paid $1.5 billion to understand.

The article’s headline is wrong or misleading. Disney isn’t looking at buying Epic for $1.5b, that’s what they’ve already invested in Epic. There is no mention of a proposed acquisition price in the article.

I think a better example of generative AI is Geordi trying to prompt the holodeck into making a new Sherlock Holmes story in “Elementary, Dear Data”. And he powered up Moriarty by messing up a prompt.

Apparently it was just Gmail:

Reuters was ​not able to ⁠independently authenticate the Patel emails, but the personal Gmail address that Handala claims to have broken into ​matches the address linked to Patel in previous ​data breaches ⁠preserved by the dark web intelligence firm District 4 Labs. Alphabet-owned Google, which runs Gmail, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

I’ve claims they use eMMC, which is flash memory. Closer to SD card grade than SSD, but SD card prices are up too.

An opmist would say that it is $70 game and they are adding a $10 discount for buying it digitally. A pessimist would say that it is a $60 game and there is a $10 fee for the plastic cartridge.

With the price of flash memory going up, they’re definitely charging a fee for the cartridge.