Spoken like someone who never accidentally typed something into the wrong terminal or accidentally used the wrong keyboard.

Funny thing about that one, gnuplot is not under GPL and has nothing to do with GNU.

It’s up to Lemmy to safeguard that, not the OP.

Uhm, yes? The discussion was never about anything else?

Reddit changes the stuff to [Deleted] or something like that.

I know, and I think that’s preferable. Gives the OP a way to delete their own stuff while not destroying arbitrary amounts of other people’s conversations and arguments.

This is about data posted by other people, though.

I appreciate what he’s done for VR and retro gaming.

He took money from a lot of donors, used that money to get patents for his company, then sold that company, including the patents, to Facebook (now Meta).

I do not appreciate what he did there.

It’s not like Putin hasn’t tried that…

Honestly, this is a major weakness of Lemmy. The OP of a thread can destroy a lot of content by other people, and they often do. I really don’t get the reasoning behind allowing them that power.

It’s hard to believe how insanely long it took, and still is taking to get a production-ready, solid ntfs driver in linux.

The emergence of a deadly new disease

Wishy-washy question. New diseases emerge all the time, and what do you mean by “deadly”? Almost all diseases can be deadly some of the time, almost none of them are always deadly. We’ve had several “new” diseases that are deadly often enough to be worrying, but no wide spread new ones that are as deadly as rabies. Also, what does it mean for a disease to be “new”? Because of a lack of sexual procreation, and therefore lateral gene transfer, neither viruses nor bacteria are species-forming. Every new individual ever is a new diverging point for a line of successors, and that line will never, can never merge back with the rest of the population. The point at which a strain has mutated enough to be called a new disease is basically a matter of opinion.

Gay marriages will be commonplace

Again, wishy-washy question. What is commonplace? I don’t know a lot of people who would still object to gay people’s right to marry, but I personally don’t know a single married gay couple. Is it commonplace? I can’t tell.

Country will have elected a black president

Clear yes. A big part of the country had a very dangerous and still going meltdown over it, but still, the answer is a clear yes.

Country will have elected a woman president

Clear no, if by a small margin on two occasions.

Illicit drug use, such as marijuana and cocaine, will be commonplace

Again with the “commonplace”. It’s hard to define. I’m going by “illicit drugs” meaning drugs that were illegal on a federal level in 1998 (not that this will make that much difference). By my gut feeling, I would say this was already “commonplace” in the eighties and nineties. Though it does seem to have increased since then.

AIDS will be cured

There have been a small number of cases where it actually worked, but to my knowledge nothing universally applicable. AIDS treatments, however, have become so good that the disease is no longer seen as a major problem of our times.

Cancer will be cured

That was always a non-starter, and even people in 1998 should have known that. Cancer is not one disease, at best you can cure a small specific subset of cancers.

Most stores will be replaced by shopping on the Internet

Brick and mortar stores have become fewer, but it’s hard to tell how much of that was Internet shopping and how much was market consolidation into powerful big-box stores.

Most people will do their jobs from home.

We didn’t even come close to “most” during Covid. Most jobs just cannot be done from home.

United States will be involved in a full scale war

What’s “full scale”? There were certainly a few that were “full-scale” for the other side. Shit, there only just was one shortly before this poll was conducted…

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

Congratz on the woodworking achievement! But,… somehow a fireplace seems like an inappropriate place for books…

From the photo, there seems to have been a substantial-thickness concrete wall and then a brick wall. Obviously, they were still not enough, but it wasn’t just a brick wall.

And about the wooden shelves: So what? They are not security relevant or customer facing, they just need to work as shelves.

The password for the hard drive encryption and the system login are two separate things, so, yes, this combination is easily possible. You’ll have to input a password for system bootup, but not for logging in.

How advisable that combination is is another question entirely.

I found two posts in this entire thread asking what these actually are. That’s not a whole lot.

It’s a pack of resistors. Electrical resistors for building electronic circuits.