It’s faster to drag and drop a downloaded ISO and choose the target from a dropdown, than do it on a command line. And get a progress bar. As much as command line is usually faster, it isn’t in this case.
Yes you can also get a progress bar on the command line but it’s more typing again, and realistically you need to look the option up every time if you use dd once every 3 months.
Well nuclear is great, so even “not much better” would be great.
Hmm, mount a network drive, or any drive? On Windows it’s a few clicks in Explorer, but I’m not aware of it being that easy on any distro I used. Always had to go into /etc/fstab manually
Oh? And you’re the authority on that?
Well yes, I am the authority on my opinions, just like anyone else is on theirs.
I do agree though that its not necessarily the same league as the others.
That’s what I mean, I don’t think it belongs next to Matrix or 12 Monkeys. It’s a run of the mill Tom Cruise action film. Very enjoyable, but it doesn’t break any new ground, in my opinion.
Oblivion? It was all right, and I recommend it, but I wouldn’t call it a mandatory watch, it didn’t have any special message
And that’s a much better answer!
“Because it would require changes” doesn’t answer OPs question. They want to know why wasn’t it done like this in the first place, and why aren’t we making the changes to make it happen now. Of course changing things would require changes.
It’s like answering a “why are stop lights red?” question with “It wouldn’t work because stop lights factories uses red bulbs and laws require them to be red”.
If you have to do that in order to access something, then the access is restricted, isn’t it?
By not allowing it to be sold. The antenna is a physical product, that needs to legally enter the country, legally be sold, and Starlink needs to be able to legally charge you monthly subscription fees. If they can’t sell it to you then you are not getting it.
Sure, you can get a fake address and payment details in a neighboring country, get a subscription there, then smuggle the antenna in, but that’s much more difficult, hence the access is restricted.
Last time I checked, it was not mandatory to work for Toyota, so anyone feeling overworked there could leave.
So it’s fine for Musk to abuse Tesla workers and union bust, because they can leave? Is that what’s you are saying? I’m not sure the fact someone can leave is any excuse for a CEO’s behavior.
Unlike those feeling threatened under President felon, who can’t just up and leave the country.
Unlike those at Toyota, a Japanese company where it’s the cultural norm to work at the same corporation your entire life, and it’s unthinkable to leave or complain about your employer?
Anyhow, it was just a made up example, I know nothing about Koji Sato, maybe he’s amazing. My point is that buying a car is not a political statement and not an expression of support for the CEO of the car company. It certainly can be, but it usually isn’t.
People buying a Toyota aren’t expressing support for Koji Sato’s work policies resulting in deaths from overwork. In fact most people buying a car don’t care in the slightest who happens to be the CEO of that car manufacturer.
They might just like the retrofuturistic shape, and aren’t interested in politics.
It’s a thought experiment. Of course such a stick wouldn’t exist. OP’s question is what laws of physics prevent this theoretical scenario from working.
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They didn’t. They moved it from the foreword to the final line.
To be clear, Google is absolutely evil, and the unofficial motto was always worthless. I am just annoyed everyone ate the clickbait reporting about something that never happened and is repeating it to this day. I guess “Google moved Don’t be evil Clause to a less prominent spot” doesn’t click as well.
The person you replied to just said China is not giving support to Uyghurs.
Someone: A is not supporting B. You: A is not bombing and genociding B and everyone saying so is lying!
Sure, but how is that an argument? You have neither argued for or against the claim that China is not supporting them, and comment OP didn’t say they are bombing and genociding them, just that they are not supporting them, so that’s a bit of weird thing to deny unprompted.
/usr/share? How is a random app getting write permissions to that?
To be fair, breadsmasher didn’t ask if it’s the public motto, they asked if they removed it. And they didn’t remove it, as it’s still in the public code of conduct.
Gotta use that Anti-bio Beam
Let me try: Lmao. Uses a computer, still does stuff the slower way because learning new things is too difficult.
To be serious, I am looking for the best solutions for my use cases, not adequate ones. Yes dd works perfectly fine and as you noted doesn’t take long to use anyway. But just because it’s fine doesn’t mean other approaches aren’t better.
A GUI tool can offer or take a list of download URLs for common distros so downloading isn’t a separate step, it can check if the target device is a flash drive and not a hard drive by mistake, it can automatically choose the optimal block size for the device, it can verify the process by reading it back from the device, can show you the current filesystem, label, and usage of the target device to confirm, it can handle flashing to multiple devices at the same time with separate and total progress bars.
If I wanted to do all that on the command line it’d be quite a lot of commands or a sizeable script to write. Or I can use a simple dd command and lose out on all of the above. Either way it’s a worse option. I will only use dd when a GUI tool isn’t installed, or when I’m on a system without a DE.