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by awill 3y ago
The term freeloading is stupid. There are customers who genuinely don't need and don't want support. And there are customers who do need support and should pay for it. It's that simple. Don't bundle them together as all
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by awill 3y ago
Exactly. They're doing it because they THINK they can outdo Arm. Arm isn't standing still, and they would have had to start years ago.
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by awill 3y ago
Interesting. They they'd better be much faster than an off-the-shelf Arm core. That takes some serious investment. Qualcomm tried it, and eventually gave up. Isn't the only company outdoing Arm Apple?
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by awill 3y ago
It's not like there's that much magic to it. Ampere is just using off-the-shelf Arm-designed cores. Altra was an Arm Neoverse N1. Presumably Altra-Next will just use Neoverse N2 (or N3).
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by awill 3y ago
Exactly right on the lack of notice. What happens to people relying on Alma/Rocky? They're possibly screwed. Of course, RHEL (or others) could say that if you're depending on a free product, you're to blame. That's
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by awill 3y ago
Rocky can offer support on helping you install it. But they can't offer real support. They can't fix bugs or do any real work on RHEL beyond requesting that Red Hat accept a fix. If Red Hat declines, Rocky can't even ship the
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by awill 3y ago
The key point to me is that this data hasn't been sold yet. If I had any domains in Google, I'd migrate them immediately.
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by awill 3y ago
There's a huge difference between Rocky/Alma, and Oracle. Oracle actually tries to steal RHEL business. They offer support, which I think is ludicrous when they don't even build the product. Alma/Rocky aren't to my
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by awill 3y ago
It's pretty obvious that Red Hat wasn't happy with Rocky and Alma so successfully taking over from CentOS.
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by awill 3y ago
Then why is Red Hat doing this?
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by awill 3y ago
This is awful. It seems Red Hat (and probably IBM) are unhappy that Alma and Rocky have so successfully replaced the old CentOS.
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by awill 3y ago
charging also makes most people migrate off. It encourages good behaviour. And customers that can't migrate off (for good or bad reasons) pay. Seems like a good model to me. If they made it free, it wouldn't encourage good behavio
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by awill 3y ago
because a lot of code is single-threaded
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by awill 3y ago
But the magic of reddit is that I can browse all my communities in one place. Playstation, Audi, Cooking, Tennis. It's super convenient to have a single account for all of this. Before I used reddit, I had an account at an Audi forum,
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by awill 3y ago
It's not really building anything. You would just download a few apps from flathub.org
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by awill 3y ago
I don't really see the problem. I want the rock solid underpinnings of RHEL, and am ok with older kernels etc.., but I generally want updated apps like LibreOffice, Firefox etc.. To me it makes sense for those things to be Flatpak, and
107.
by awill 3y ago
I'm amazed at how successful Rocky and Alma have been. They're both way better than CentOS ever was (the metric is that they're binary identical, but come out sooner). Alma released 9.2 the same day as RedHat. Truly incredibl
108.
by awill 3y ago
but a proxy doesn't have any benefit over regular IMAP. It's just a stop-gap.
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by awill 3y ago
First they need to get massive email providers to offer JMAP support, and then get clients to support it. Surely this is simply too big a ship to steer. Google is not going to support this, and isn't that >50% of the market?
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by awill 3y ago
exactly. A RHEL kernel is likely a lot more stable than the kernel.org LTS kernel. Often bugfixes and security patches are backported to the LTS kernel, meaning both can be affected by similar bugs.
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by awill 3y ago
I wish Sublime would make an email client :). Sublime's pricing is fair, and it's cross platform. I use their text and merge apps on both my work Mac, and my personal Linux desktop. It's a bargain. The fact that Mimestream th
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by awill 3y ago
Not thrilled with yet another subscription. I get it though, as they have to maintain their app with Google's moving Gmail API. I understand paying for this if you're a paying Google Workspace customer. But if you're a free g
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by awill 3y ago
This was so predictable. I remember those articles, and thought "Gee, IBM doesn't know what they're doing, they're just jumping on random bandwagons"
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by awill 3y ago
Good point on updates. But if Debian pulled in latest every 2 years (Debian release cycle), wouldn't that be enough. I can't imaging improvements being so urgent. Also, agreed on the need for this on IoT stuff. But it's about
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by awill 3y ago
I'm sure it's nearly impossible, but this needs to be integrated with cp, mv and dd. Otherwise, usage will be a fraction of a percent. I SSH into many many different machines (desktops, routers, servers, IoT devices etc..), and un
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by awill 3y ago
this is an overreaction. Dropbox is mostly storing files that are already stored on the customer's device, so customers usually won't notice an outage.
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by awill 3y ago
I'd say it's not so much that it's really hard, it's that the compromises aren't worth it. note, I worked on S3 2015-2017
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by awill 3y ago
This is very well written and made me laugh. When you're objective about it, it's all accurate, and pretty shocking. What's shocking to me is that Elon could be so successful at Tesla, and fail so spectacularly at Twitter. Of
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by awill 3y ago
I think it's accurate. The first Cloudflare refers to the product, and the second Cloudflare refers to the company. Ultimately if Cloudflare's customers see slow performance, it doesn't really matter who is to blame. The cust
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by awill 3y ago
Good. Wayland is ready. Any GPU/DE that hasn't fully supported Wayland should be abandoned at this point.

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