I’m speaking from the perspective of the IP owner who writes the driver and manufacturer who puts together all the components.

As am I.

And I’m sure the drivers would get mainlined.

That’s not the norm.

Intel

Intel is huge and employs shit loads of Linux developers. Most vendors, who will be much smaller, don’t. For example, Realtek, who stick a crappily written driver in a tarball on their download page and call it a day. Or any of the hundreds of silicon vendors (such as NXP, Nvidia, Rockchip, Allwinner, Realtek again, Qualcomm, etc., etc.) with "BSP"s who give their customers a 500GB package containing, among lots of proprietary userland shit, some butchered horror show based on Linux 3.3 with no git history.

I can’t imagine why you would expect drivers to be mainlined by a vendor.

let you

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They are going to write the Linux driver and say, “put this in your handheld.”

That would be terrible. They shouldn’t be giving their customers a driver, they should be sending their driver to mainline and telling their customers “Use any version of Linux after 6.<whenever their driver was committed>”.

let you

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“poor engineering” you mentioned:

None of those assert that the poor engineering is due to not using a particular distro’s packaging system. Because I have asserted no such thing.

This doesn’t provide any insight into the problems young people are facing, only the consequences.

young people have problems today

Out of curiosity, what problems are you referring to?

our careers would basically have to restart

Why would your careers need to restart? I took an 18 month sabbatical and went right back in to work.

NO U

Being a celebrity isn’t the point here.

Being a celebrity is the point here.

Have you eaten at one of his restaurants?

Nope. Nor would I. From what little I’ve seen of him, I wouldn’t go anywhere near the guy nor any of his businesses.

I find it bizarre that you discount an expert opinion because the expert is famous.

I find it bizarre that you find that bizarre. I don’t watch TV. To me you seem like a weirdo TV slave, obeying the TV masters who dole out mediocre entertainment and call it “culture”. I suppose you vote as well.

He’s arguably one of the most knowledgeable people alive when it comes to culinary arts.

How have you determined this?

Edit: did you perhaps mean “on TV”?

I find it bizarre that you care what celebrity chefs think.

your repeated assertion that it is poorly engineered simply because it doesn’t use a particular distros packaging system

I have asserted no such thing.

To me it’s irrelevant

I think that’s the crux of the issue. You’ve conflated your interests and the author’s purposes.

What you’ve described is not an algorithm.

You didn’t answer my question.

The article is about the couple being fined for finding the stowaway after they left the port, the gender, age and reason the stowaway came to the UK is irrelevant to that.

Why do you believe the gender and age were included in the article?

Pro-tip: share text as text, not as images.

they could have left it out and it wouldn’t have changed anything

LOL, it would have changed the article.