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by boogies 6y ago
The less funny part is that to the HN users who together made https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23555226 my current most upvoted comment on HN, Zoom is known for “a history of shadiness (MacOS hidden server to prevent un
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by boogies 6y ago
> If Zoom fails at being a product, people will move away. Literally. As in being evicted from their home: https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2020/spring/trial-by-proprietar...
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by boogies 6y ago
Addendum: And of course you can get ‘the macOS experience’ with Adobe products, etc. on a Thinkpad (making a Hackintosh seems easier than ever with OpenCore &c). Not that I as someone who has used Adobe products on macOS for a class and
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by boogies 6y ago
My elementary school students’ Chromebooks’ Zooms keep the webcam light on when they click the Zoom button to turn it off. https://my.fsf.org/give-students-userfreedom
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by boogies 6y ago
I think the firmware is custom (and of course it’s the nexus of hardware and software, so exactly the part that OEMs can best provide the user unique value through. System76 and Pine64 (and I think Purism) provide open source firmware you c
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by boogies 6y ago
Dell also sells an XPS “Developer Edition” with Ubuntu pre-installed and officially supported, and Lenovo recently announced a range of workstations and Thinkpads being certified to support Ubuntu and Fedora. There’s also Purism that create
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by boogies 6y ago
> laptop can’t run the internals at full power when not connected to AC How is this worse than a MBP that can’t “run the internals at full power” when it doesn’t take breaks to cool off (except maybe outside in winter?)? (Edit: my curren
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by boogies 6y ago
> At this point I'm sorely tempted to delete my email and start over with another service provider. Why not? Or you could start over without deleting your current email and go into Gmail settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP
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by boogies 6y ago
> No modern laptop in the current price range can beat it. > I'm also super interested to try out the new ARM-based Macbooks I’m having a hard time choosing between an old Thinkpad and the Pinebook Pro for a GNU/Linux laptop
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by boogies 6y ago
> Support active speaker view, gallery (zoom-style), or GTM-style I prefer Jitsi’s gallery style — that lets you scroll through the participants with your actual scroll wheel — to Zoom’s — forcing you to drag your cursor back and forth a
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by boogies 6y ago
(And Jitsi Meet and BigBlueButton, and according to another comment here Discord, and in my limited experience with Cisco WebEX web at least ≤7 people can be simultaneously visible there)
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by boogies 6y ago
Same, approximately. I got one literal grandma to use Jitsi, and all of my literal grandparents to use BigBlueButton, and the latter actually took effort. Jitsi is significantly easier to use than Zoom et al., requiring no account or anythi
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by boogies 6y ago
This is how my WM (dwm) works (except I patched it to use Super instead of Alt), and it’s a better way of resizing (not requiring such finicky mouse placement). But that is really weird to hear XFCE doesn’t allow both methods like JWM (and
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by boogies 6y ago
(off-topic) What’re the advantages of pihole over /etc/hosts?
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by boogies 6y ago
I use 4GB of RAM as well, with Puppy Linux loaded entirely into it (hard drives only mount the same way as usb drives), in a refurbished desktop.
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by boogies 6y ago
I (not OP) believe I have. It’s nice, but Zathura can use the same engine (MuPDF, which is responsible for the speed and format support, although Zathura also supports Poppler, which Sumatra has removed support for), and is beautifully vi-l
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by boogies 6y ago
This, but at least in my Debian oldstable based distro, it requires Poppler, which the currently highest sibling of your post has pointed out has had vulnerabilities at least in the distant past (Edit: ~7+ years ago). (Edit the second: upst
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by boogies 6y ago
One of the most interesting books I was ever required to read was Night , by Elie Wiesel. In it he recounts how Holocaust survivors where disbelieved as similar to hysterical when they returned to warn their fellow Jews of the horrors ahea
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by boogies 6y ago
What about Godot? The anecdotal evidence I’ve heard has seemed to say that Godot is the best for rapid prototyping because of GDScript, and maybe easier animation.
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by boogies 6y ago
> Are people really writing DAWs and big desktop app interfaces in Unity? I’d love to know if Unity is made in Unity. The Godot game engine’s development environment is made in Godot (which is why it was able to be run in web browsers us
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by boogies 6y ago
Piping the text into DuckDuckGo brings up https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3982027 as the only result. GP seems to be the last two paragraphs.
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by boogies 6y ago
> we could achieve similar outcomes to affirmative action Hopefully much better, affirmative action harms even the minorities it attempts to help, let alone others like Asians: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/
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by boogies 6y ago
There’s more than one comment here about competition and I’m curious how they compare because the article seems to write them off: > Like electric cars, they enjoyed a brief vogue in the early 20th century. And likewise they were never
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by boogies 6y ago
I don’t have downvote yet and you’re tempting me to flag you. The US is a vast and diverse country with plenty of areas that aren’t homogeneously Liechtenstein rich but it’s far from any widely-established definition of a third world countr
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by boogies 6y ago
No, the opposite. I’m saying that Epic is demanding an exception for selfish reasons, but Apple waiving their fees will benefit consumers.
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by boogies 6y ago
This is big corporations fighting over their respective slices of the pie, and this is beneficial to consumers. That is how capitalism works. Some (somewhat small to some) amount will go directly to consumers (vbucks discounts), some (m
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by boogies 6y ago
Because they have a gun to their cold cash craving heads, and will be demoted to lower positions in the results, lose traffic, and lose revenue if they dare withhold their content from the Internet’s biggest gatekeeper?
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by boogies 6y ago
I imagine it defaults to off and the top results recommend the Control-Shift-U<Unicode codepoint> because otherwise people switching from Windows would complain. It’s my understanding that on Windows typing these characters involves h
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by boogies 6y ago
Friendly ALSA user here :)! I think the Pulse situation is very similar to the one with systemd (they’re even by the same author IIRC). There are some haters, but if you’re a hater-hater than you can just ignore them (eg. GNOME IUUC depends
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by boogies 6y ago
Unfortunately I don’t use GNU/Linux on the go enough to give you a good answer. Surf specifically is probably not good for battery life and now I realize I probably shouldn't have brought it up in this context, because it spawns a

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