NOT the person you’re replying to.

You, rightly imnsho, got a snarky response because you weren’t just asking a question.

This (below) is fine

What exactly is the risk to the ecosystem?

This (below) earned you the snark.

Since you’re okay with it, you should know what it is, right?

That reads very clearly as “I don’t think you know shit, prove it, and unless you do, you don’t have a right to an opinion”

You didn’t know whether OP did or did not have a handle on the ecological impact. Either stop at the first bit, or word the second less aggressively.

Feedback is being provided here because you are taking an overt “I was just asking a question why are you snarking stance”. If that’s fake then I’ll just block and move on.

I’ll look forward to hearing that the program has been cancelled for no apparent reason in a couple of years after successfully delivering all of its objectives

california doesnt seem to have an endemic mosquito borne disease problem, florida does though.

I’m not American so excuse my ignorance, but I was under the impression that Florida was full of swamps and low lying (fresh-ish) water whereas California was significantly drier, with most water in rivers.

The former is an ideal breeding ground for mosquitos (still or stagnant fresh or brackish water), whereas running water and oceans are extremely poor for mosquito breeding.

Seems pretty clear why Florida (and Mississipi etc) have a bigger mosquito problem to me - what am I missing ?

Cynicism about anything evil corp does is well founded, but this has actually has a solid basis.

I assume they do it for reputation-washing -> look at this one good thing we do and ignore all the other evil stuff

The ecosystem risk is that a reduction in A. Aegpyti population causes a collapse of the insectivores that depend on consuming it and thus starve, with a knock on effect up the food chain.

While this may happen, a) predation is not currently any real constraint on the population, and b) other insects have been shown to be able to take up part of the niche and c) this already an ecosystem which been rebalanced - they are not naturally occurring in the US they have travelled over with humans

Google is thoroughly evil, and I upvoted the cynical parent comment, but on this one subject they are on the right side of the ledger.

Other non disease carrying mosquitos can take over the ecological niche for a net benefit to humanity.

True. But the app makes it easier for noobs to configure. Anyone with basic CLI skills wouldnt be trying to infer Mullvad doesnt work on Mint anyway.

To use mullvad on mint, download the .deb file. Double click on it. Click ok to installing it.

Done.

Edit (Download it off mullvad website if not clear)

I predict China is going to feel the same car dependence pain in a few decades if they continue to ramp production and climb the cars-per-capita leader board. It’s crazy expensive to keep millions of people puttering around in multi-ton metal boxes.

Ahh I don’t think they’re going the way of the US in that regards:

Wikipedia data is a little old, but…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_China

"China’s railways are the busiest in the world. In 2019, railways in China delivered 3.660 billion passenger trips, generating 1,470.66 billion passenger-kilometres and carried 4.389 billion tonnes of freight, generating 3,018 billion cargo tonne-kilometres.[1] Freight traffic turnover has increased more than fivefold over the period 1980–2013 and passenger traffic turnover has increased more than sevenfold over the same period.[10] During the five years 2016–2020, China’s railway network handled 14.9 billion passenger trips, 9 billion of which were completed by bullet trains, the remaining 5.9 billion by conventional rail. "

This is the Chinese govt site

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202506/06/content_WS6842d8f6c6d0868f4e8f31d9.html

"China’s railway system transported more than 4.31 billion passengers in 2024, up 11.9 percent year on year, according to the National Railway Administration.

Railway cargo transportation volume approached 5.18 billion tonnes last year, reflecting a 2.8-percent growth compared to the previous year.

In terms of investment, China’s railway sector saw fixed-asset investment amount to 850.6 billion yuan (around 118.39 billion U.S. dollars) in 2024. During the same period, 3,113 km of new railway lines were inaugurated, about 79 percent of which are high-speed railways.

As the modern railway network continued to expand, China’s total operational length of lines reached 162,000 km in 2024, including over 48,000 km of high-speed railway lines.

Furthermore, railway transportation remained safe, stable, and orderly throughout 2024, with no severe railway traffic accidents in China, the administration added."

TL;DR They’re doing plenty of rail

I have some wooden shoes, will they do ?

EDIT

As this disappointingly seems to have gone through to slips:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabot_(shoe)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage#Etymology

“An alleged etymology [of sabotage] describes the actions of disgruntled workers who willfully damaged workplace machinery by throwing their sabots into the works”

Into looms…

There are plenty of Chinese ICE vehicles, what on earth are you talking about ? MG got rolling here in the UK with ICE before releasing hybrids and EVs, Chery only have ICE and hybrids here etc etc Same in Australia with BYD and the rest.

You’re poorly informed.

Colleges haven’t been training people how to read for centuries;

Yes but that is exactly the timeframe the person you replied to is discussing.

It has been quite a while since nobles were generally illiterate and needed clergy to read and write for them…centuries in fact

Employment law differs outside the US.

Being forced to sign an indemnity clause of that type is illegal and/or unenforceable in most western countries, and discovery of IT records is quite sophisticated.

Having said that, your general thrust of “it is highly unlikely” is certainly true. Someone has to have some basis for starting a suit, fishing expeditions are rarely allowed.

The C suite are rarely stupid enough to put that sort of thing in writing. It’s a conversation, no record.

Although the irony is with wfh that might be a vid conv that could get an AI auto transcript if they forget to turn it off

Iirc but cant be arsed to check, 3 models - base (rwd) mid range (awd) and premium (awd with a bigger battery)

Oh lord, don’t make me start cheering for Muskrat. Based on that article he’s on the better side of this one.

Thank you so much for the quick reply, I have somehow managed to totally break the installation altogether (it’s now bootlooping), so I’ll kill it recreate and try the above and report back.

Much appreciated

It can be considered slightly inferior depending on your viewpoint. Debian tends to have older versions of software components than Ubuntu, and there’s some Ubuntu tools that are quite handy (the graphics driver management tool is one I believe).

So, in my understanding there are good reasons they don’t just pivot to Debian. I am not on the Mint team so you’d have to talk to them, but my recollection of a press realease or interview from a few years ago was that bringing all the ubuntu stuff into LMDE and maintaining it would be a massive effort

LMDE exists as the DR plan for if Ubuntu loses the plot again and Mint can no longer rely on Ubuntu as the upstream. Yes it does create extra work, which is one of the reasons why LMDE releases tend to lag behind the primary Mint Cinnamon, but it’s worth it from the Mint perspective to have an alternative route immediately to hand.

You do realise that the Linux Kernel has Rust in it, right ?

You’ll need to go to BSD if you want to be Rust-less

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-7-features-changes

" Linux 7.0 also declares the Rust for Linux effort as “here to stay”"

Errm read the article and don’t see any mention of Bambu - what did they do ?