Unfortunately they were only ordered to draw a new map, which they did. So they did indeed “comply”. The court can’t tell them how to draw the map, only that it needs to be redrawn.

It’s not a particularly smart system

Oh! I had no idea Fedora was officially supporting Flatpaks these days. I used Fedora from when it was Fedora Core 3 in 2004 until about 2015. Since it was the distro I cut my teeth on, I assumed I was familiar, but it’s wild to think it’s been nearly a decade since I’ve used it…

I completely agree that they should come up with a unified way for managing packages that they officially support. But also, a few years ago, if things weren’t in the default package manager then we had to build them ourselves because they can’t be expected to do everything for us.

So I don’t think we killed the killer feature. I simply think people have more options these days (although I see how some might see this as more rope with which to hang themselves)

I’ll update my original post to clarify that I was wrong

No. (Or maybe yes. See Edit)

Ultimately, you are the one that decided to install things outside of your distro’s package manager. If you don’t like what happens as a result… then don’t do that.

You are completely able to use the built-in package manager to achieve what we had “a few years ago”. If you want something that isn’t available in the package manager you can do what we did “a few years ago” and install it separately yourself (from source, flatpaks, snaps, appimage). Or you could become a package maintainer for that package and get it added as a package for your distro. It’s completely up to you and in no way different frmo what it was a few years ago.

Edit: after finding out from @[email protected] that Fedora does in fact officially support Flatpak, I do indeed think that they could do better in how they support that.

Right, there are some legitimate reasons to not split everything by population or affiliation. This can end up destroying the voice that some isolated minority communities have.

It’s a super hard problem to find the best solution, but also super obvious when people are proposing shitty solutions for obviously immoral reasons. It would be a decent first step if we could just get to where we don’t have an obviously shitty, and ultimately unconstitutional, map

I’d be down with that, FartsWithAnAccent! But the constitution would have to be updated with that clause. Right now, it just says that they have to do a thing without specifying what happens if they don’t do that thing

Yup. They just kept submitting maps that were getting rejected for being unconstitutional and eventually the court just had to let it go because you can’t just not have an election and they couldn’t do anything else about it.

We need to add some kind of recourse to the rules. Something like “if you can’t put together a constitutional map by the deadline, then the minority party gets to submit one for consideration instead”.

They’re both great!

I personally like Star Trek better because it’s the OG and has better world building.

I must be a weirdo because I actually preferred the Orville more in the first season when the focus was a bit more on the comedy, as that brought something new and hilarious to the table. In the later seasons, they shifted to what feels extremely similar to TNG, which made it less interesting for me, although I do still enjoy the story. The similarity isn’t just in the style or themes of the show, either… I remember seeing multiple episodes of the Orville with plot lines that directly correlated to specific TNG episodes.

The most important thing, though, is that we get more Sci-Fi on TV. The more the merrier!