When you run a process under sudo, it will be running as the root user. Processes that that process launches will also be running as the root user; new processes run as the same user as their parent process.

So internally, no, it won’t result in another invocation of sudo. But those processes a dolphin process running as root starts will be running as the root user, same as if you had individually invoked them via sudo.

I am quite sure they also don’t offer USB ports to charge the phone you run in lieu of a build in system

I definitely read an article somewhere where it says that they provide USB power for the tablet/phone.

kagis

This article has it:

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a64580484/slate-truck-ev-pickup-truck-suv/

The Truck will come with a phone mount and convenient USB power to mount your phone or a tablet to the dash.

EDIT: I think that a better criticism is that this thing is just a prototype, still almost two years away from mass production, assuming everything goes right for them. Like, they could have any number of things go wrong (the Trump tariff situation, for one…hard to have any idea where things will be). It could be that they crash into problems trying to get mass production going. It could be that they can’t hit their target price point.

The truck form is just one of the body options for it. I mean, you can’t get it in sedan form, but the website configurator thing has options for small SUV and fastback.

It looks like all of the Windows File Explorer, MacOS Finder, GNOME Files (nee Nautilus), and KDE Dolphin can. I suspect that that covers the overwhelming majority of users.

They do say that they also offer a larger battery pack with a 240 mi range, but yeah, even so, it’s not gonna be a great vehicle for long-distance highway travel compared to a current ICE vehicle. Fine for a commuter, though.

From my other link, I don’t think that the touch screen is an optional purchase. I don’t think that they’re selling any entertainment computer to have a screen on. It says that they come standard with a smartphone mounting point or optionally with a tablet mounting point. But the car computer is bring-your-own, and not built into the car. Which…is what I’ve wanted, because computers age out a lot more quickly than cars do.

I assume that there’ll be an OBD-II slot that one can hook up to to feed data about the car to the phone/tablet. There’s software that can make use of that. Dunno if there’s any other data typically exposed to car computers other than what that provides.

I don’t think that it has a cell modem, either, because it sounds like it eschews a baked-in entertainment computer:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64564869/2027-slate-truck-revealed/

Roll-down windows come standard, as do manually adjustable rearview mirrors. An audio or infotainment system is noticeably missing, too. Instead, your cellphone or tablet serves these functions, with a dock for the former included and one for the latter available as an optional accessory. Better like the sound coming out from your phone or tablet’s speakers, too, because the Slate lacks speakers, though the brand’s accessory division will gladly hook you up with a set.

Honestly, if you took my last year of comments complaining about privacy-infringing cars and those complaining about changes to what a truck is, this does kind of look to be addressing both. Gotta see what the actual production vehicle is like in real life, of course, but…

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/mini-truckin-returns-slate-unveils-old-school-style-affordable-electric-pickup

When I say the truck is small, I mean it. At 174.6 inches, it’s about 2 feet shorter in overall length than the 2025 Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz. And to use the Wayback Machine to a time when compact pickups were actually compact, it’s roughly the same size as the compact pickups of 1980: the Toyota truck, Chevy LUV and Ford Courier. Notably, no other automakers have offered trucks of this size in America since the mid 1990s.

Yeah, like the “inexpensive, no-frills utility vehicle” that pickups originally were.

Looks about right.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64564869/2027-slate-truck-revealed/

The Slate Truck is a bare-bones EV that’s expected to cost a little under $27,500, which can drop to less than $20,000 with the federal EV tax credit included.

http://www.newforestexplorersguide.co.uk/wildlife/mammals/badgers/grooming.html

Mutual grooming between a mixture of adults and cubs serves the same function, but additionally is surely a sign of affection that strengthens the bond between the animals.

A variety of grooming postures are adopted by badgers but to onlookers, the one that is most likely to raise a smile involves the badger sitting or lying back on its haunches and, with seemingly not a care in the world (and with all hints of modesty forgotten), enjoying prolonged scratches and nibbles at its under-parts and nether regions.

That being said, that’s the European badger. Apparently the American badger isn’t very social:

https://a-z-animals.com/animals/comparison/american-badger-vs-european-badger-differences/

American badger: Nocturnal unless in remote areas; powerful digger and generally more solitary than other species. Frequently hunts with coyotes.

European badger: Digs complicated dens and burrows with their familial group; one of the most social badger species. Depending on location, hibernation may occur.

Don’t kink-shame.

At one point in time, when I went searching for “Canada patriotic image”, this is what I got:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/cd00e294-27ec-41b5-8004-03cc1ef78d59.jpeg

I don’t feel like Canada is the place most-prone to nationalism in the world.

EDIT: According to Tineye, the image goes back at least to 2013. I was curious; the artist, Jessica Borutski, apparently has, in the intervening years, moved from Canada to the US to work for Nickelodeon.

Jessica is a proud Canadian who loves beavers. She is an Ottawa born artist that made her way to Los Angeles to work in the Animation Industry. She currently is a supervising director at Nickelodeon Animation.

https://www.instagram.com/jessicaborutski/?hl=en

They can! We’ve got a nuclear power plant that evaporates water from sewage for cooling.

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

The Palo Verde Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located near Tonopah, Arizona[5] about 45 miles (72 km) west of downtown Phoenix. Palo Verde generates the most electricity of any power plant in the United States per year, and is the largest power plant by net generation as of 2021.[6] Palo Verde has the third-highest rated capacity of any U.S power plant. It is a critical asset to the Southwest, generating approximately 32 million megawatt-hours annually.

At its location in the Arizona desert, Palo Verde is the only nuclear generating facility in the world that is not located adjacent to a large body of above-ground water. The facility evaporates water from the treated sewage of several nearby municipalities to meet its cooling needs. Up to 26 billion US gallons (~100,000,000 m³) of treated water are evaporated each year.[12][13] This water represents about 25% of the annual overdraft of the Arizona Department of Water Resources Phoenix Active Management Area.[14] At the nuclear plant site, the wastewater is further treated and stored in an 85-acre (34 ha) reservoir and a 45-acre (18 ha) reservoir for use in the plant’s wet cooling towers.

If you’re location-agnostic as to your datacenter, though, probably easier to just stick a datacenter by the ocean and use seawater, though. Lots of that.

EDIT: Or make use of the waste heat instead of throwing it away. If it’s winter and you’re a town in Alaska, say, you’d probably just as soon have the heat piped your way.

Imagine if Microsoft required all software developers to give them 30% of their earning

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/publish/publish-your-app/why-distribute-through-store

Flexible revenue sharing options that let developers choose their own commerce platform and keep 100% of the revenue for non-gaming apps, or use Microsoft’s commerce platform and pay a competitive fee of 15% for apps and 12% for games.

I guess their rates are lower. Currently.

EDIT: And as @[email protected] points out, that’s for Windows, not the XBox. For the XBox, they do run an exclusive store and apparently do 30% there as well.

continues using Linux

The first case is the most-likely for most people, and the simplest to do. Most directory browsers do support numeric sorting.

In the second case, I provided a Perl program in another comment in the thread that provides a generic way to do this with one command for nearly all files of this sort.

The third case, where human-language stuff needs to be parsed, true enough, doesn’t just have a button to push.

A Perl program to convert the number of digits in the first numeric field that appears in a list of filenames.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# numberit.pl
# Converts between number formats (number of leading zeros) in numbers in title names
# Usage: <number of digits> filelist

$digits = shift (@ARGV);

if ($digits > -1)
{
    foreach $oldName (@ARGV)
    {
        $newName = $digitValue = $oldName;

        if ($digitValue =~ m/\//) {
          $digitValue =~ m/^(.*\/[^0-9\/]*)([0-9]+)([^\/]*)$/;
          $prefix = $1;
          $postfix = $3;
          if (!defined($prefix)) {
            $prefix = "";
          }

          $digitFormatted = sprintf("%0${digits}d", $2);

        } else {
          $digitValue =~ m/^([^0-9]*)([0-9]+)([^\/]*)$/;
          $prefix = $1;
          $postfix = $3;
          if (!defined($prefix)) {
            $prefix = "";
          }

          $digitFormatted = sprintf("%0${digits}d", $2);


        }

        if ($digitValue) {
          $newName = $prefix . $digitFormatted . $postfix;
          rename($oldName, $newName);
        }
      }
}

Looks something like:

$ touch a1.mp3
$ touch a2.mp3
$ numberit.pl 3 *
$ ls
a001.mp3  a002.mp3
$ numberit.pl 2 *
$ ls
a01.mp3  a02.mp3
$

Assuming that the leading number and period is part of the filename:

1. If the directory-browsing thing supports natural sorting of numbers, you can use that; this will detect numbers within the filename and sort by them. For example, I use emacs’s dired to browse directories and play movies. It can modify the flags passed to ls, and ls supports natural sorting of numbers in filenames with the -v flag. Doing this in dired means C-u s v RET, and the directory will be displayed sorted numerically.

2. If the directory-browsing thing doesn’t support that, rename to a “0”-padded format such that a lexicographic order has the same ordering as numeric order:

    $ for f in *; do
        n="$(printf %04d ${f%%.*})"
        mv "$f" "$(echo $f|sed s/^[0-9]*/$n/)"
    done 
   

   That way,

    1. Episode_One.mp4
   

   will become

    0001. Episode_One.mp4
   

   and so forth, and so software that can only do lexicographic orderings is happy.

If the leading number and period isn’t part of the filename, then we need to parse human-language strings.

$ npm install words-to-numbers

$ for f in *; do
    w="$(echo $f|sed -r "s/^Episode_([^.]*).mp4/\1/")"
    n=$(echo $w|node -e 'wn=require("words-to-numbers"); const l=require("readline").createInterface({input:process.stdin, output:process.stdout, terminal:false}); rl.on("line", l=> {console.log(wn.wordsToNumbers(l));})')
    nf=$(printf %04d $n)
    mv "$f" "$nf. $f"
done

That’ll rename to the format mentioned above in option 2:

Episode_One.mp4

will become

0001. Episode_One.mp4

And lexicographic sorting will work.

According to Prosecuting Attorney Sonia Hagood, the incident lasted 30 minutes and included a teacher instructing a student to hit another “in the private area.”

https://jonesbororightnow.com/news/268862-jonesboro-school-director-given-250k-bond-accused-of-leading-makeshift-child-fight-club/

“Engage” describes itself as a “unique learning center that teaches children with autism the executive functioning skills that will make them accomplished, goal-driven adults.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn't_Steal_a_Car

And the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

8h ago
@Rib this may be apocryphal, but I remember hearing the backing track for it was also used without paying the creator royalties Nischay@[email protected]

2h ago
@[email protected] @Rib
It’s not apocryphal, it actually happened: https://torrentfreak.com/rights-group-fined-for-not-paying-artist-for-anti-piracy-ad-120717/

That’s kind of impressive, actually.

On one hand, yes. On the other hand, on a cell phone on a boat in the middle of nowhere with no congestion in the airwaves, it’s probably by far the most practical.