LtWorf

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721.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
AFAIK you can use GPLv3 for non-replaceable stuff. The thing is only to allow the users to replace it IIF it's phisically possible to do so. If you make a device that boots from a ROM it's not a problem. If you sign your updates a
722.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
I don't think it was important. It just came at a time when sourceforge was being heavily enshittified.
723.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
I think ads are just overpriced and companies do not really get that return. But marketing people have no metrics to show that.
724.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
Without it, chrome would be closed source entirely.
725.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
It doesn't ban apple from doing anything. They choose to avoid a license that was better for the users.
726.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
I think you are calculating with current prices. Try to extrapolate the price in one year, seeing the current trends instead.
727.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
To not depend on an external company that can decide the price.
728.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
Thanks!
729.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
I feel like the author cannot tell a serial and a parallel port apart?
730.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
> I want ethical companies This will never exist. We should want regulated and lawful companies, which we don't have right now.
731.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
I think you hate life in general more than just your job. Anyway statistician, accountant, teacher, are indeed jobs, and I assure you they aren't found living on the streets.
732.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
Not every project has decided to let microsoft sign releases instead of checking developer's signatures.
733.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
Software engineers graduates I've met are usually much worse at programming than computer science graduates.
734.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
I mean… there's other jobs in the world. If you chose to do something you hate, that's maybe a bit your fault too?
735.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
Sorry I wanted to mention a few hundreds other reasons but I thought it'd be too long.
736.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
I think the type of people who get hyped about the cool thing aren't the kind of people who pay much attention to research and science.
737.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
I don't think the problem was over-engineering. I think the problem was that if you plugged in headphones it would instantly set the volume to 100% from whatever value it was before. Plus of course, initially you had to regularly run k
738.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
Having used a macbook air for work just recently… not the best hardware at all. I think I can spend 5€ and get a better keyboard.
739.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
Most distributions shipped ALSA preconfigured with dmix, which means multiple applications could play sound at the same time just fine. Which is why the whole "we must use pulseaudio even if it's terrible and has awful standards t
740.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
Clinton was the president of the USA, I think you're proving I was correct. I never stated each and every USA citizen was pushing for it.
741.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
In my opinion it's a complete waste of time and money to learn something that is gated by a company that might disappear tomorrow. It's akin to company courses to learn something that is specific to that company. Of course you do
742.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
I see it as the usual push from sw companies to replace important copyleft projects with company directed ones with business-friendly (user unfriendly) licenses.
743.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
That's because they have more to gain from that.
744.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
And it's not a waste of money because?
745.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
You probably overestimate yourself.
746.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
USA had no part in that push?
747.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
Why are you linking mozilla.org if we're talking about ubuntu?
748.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
Yay we can create new CVEs faster!
749.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
It's called plasma now :) KDE is the association, the desktop is plasma. I still mostly use Xorg though, I only have wayland on a tablet.
750.
by LtWorf 6mo ago
run "apt install firefox" and you'll end up with having snaps again.

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