I had that too, closed the popup and never ran into anything even mildly broken during the entire course. Aside from the popup they don't seem to be actively sabotaging Linux users, and it's a website, so it's gonna work pretty much identically on any OS as long as you're using a common browser.
That said, they should definitely phrase the message more like "Your OS isn't supported, so don't expect help from us if something Linux-specific breaks our page" than "You need to get a different OS."
It's insane to me that Windows still doesn't have a proper package manager. When you need to upgrade a program you're expected to go to their website and download the latest version, or update it with its own update mechanism.
It's easy to take a few minutes and think about what to say before responding over chat, but when I do that during a face to face conversation people get annoyed for "ignoring them" and "just standing there silently" smh.
Actually at household water pressures, water's boiling point is somewhere from 140-160°C, so it's actually somewhat plausible. I'm sure some less heat tolerant stuff would have to be upgraded, but the system's total pressure would be about the same (with the added danger that the consequence of a pressure failure would be a steam explosion instead of a leak).
And of course turning your faucet on hot would now blast out a stream of boiling water propelled by superheated steam, which is probably less than ideal.
I'm American, but I've been keeping tabs on the election, and I'm so happy that you learned from our mistake. Fingers crossed the Liberals can get a majority; keep fighting against our fascist turd president. 🇨🇦
This is the kind of AI that will change the world, not the word salad machines that burn through massive amounts of compute to sound kind of intelligent. The ability to train an AI model to identify problems is incredibly useful, whether it's sewer blockages or cancer cells.
Couldn't solar farms just strategically disconnect some of their panels from the grid to avoid that? Solar panels are always collecting energy, but if you disconnect them that energy just goes into making them a bit warmer rather than overloading the grid.
Just install a bunch of spotlights that point back at the Sun so when power prices go negative you can return all that excess energy! Come on MIT, I thought you were supposed to be smart.
I don't think there will be a single year that stands out in terms of Linux adoption, but it's definitely been accelerating over the past few years. I think in the next decade we'll see Linux gain enough of a market share to be considered a mainstream OS.
Go get your PhD and write one yourself!
I will link to the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning.