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Interesting, thanks. That's something then - I don't know much about ChromeOS. I've considered it for parents, but in the end have opted for something modest running one Linux or another. A true laptop-appliance with an immut
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I don't have (or want) a Twitter account, which kind of rules me out.
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A willingness to selectively use the Google ecosystem, versus signing over your bare ability to even use a purchased general-purpose computing device entirely to Google's pleasure, are two distinctly different things though. I'm n
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Which means that Google can simply lock you out of your Chromebook, for entirely arbitrary (and not even necessarily disclosed) reasons, at any moment. There's no practical avenue of appeal - Google is vast and even governments have tr
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Looks good. Given the course is unfinished, it's a shame the only way to get updates is via a third party corporate web site ("Twitter"). RSS would be the obvious way to go.
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Unfortunately it's not a patch on Dash. I used to use it, but found too many cases where it was missing docsets and glitching on existing ones. It didn't handle different screen resolutions well. The Fedora package for it is often
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Which is a very odd response to a question of fact. Rationalism 'ain't dead yet, it seems.
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If your question is a sincere one, then you're asking, of employees who have been approached by companies via OS contributions, "why did they do that when they could have got that work for free?". Hearing from employers who h
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Odd by comparison to the smaller magpies, currawongs, blue-faced honeyeaters & noisy miners that can so readily shoo them off. They're pretty shy with people too, which isn't true of many common urban birds. Though that shyne
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Similarly, Australian Ravens are great. Characterful and bright. The young have a great sense of fun and are entertaining to watch. I have seen them playing a game of chase round the garden, play-fighting over a prized mango leaf. Adults ar
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You can't expect non-Aussies to understand the ingeniousness of our birds. Like the maggie who can nick me precisely on the ear lobe exposed by my bike helmet. Or the Kookaburra who can swoop down to extract, mid flight, a slice of mea
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2022/sep/13...