cassidyjames

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by cassidyjames 5y ago
Diluting a brand and trademark is something that can and does happen and does not imply a threat whatsoever. I clarified that multiple times. And uploading legal filings with private addresses in them and publicly associating with a GitHub
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by cassidyjames 5y ago
They uploaded documents with my personal information in them when it was not even necessary to discuss the issue. They refuse to remove the documents at my request. They continue to draw attention to the post on social media. That's ab
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by cassidyjames 5y ago
Yeah that would be fine. :)
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by cassidyjames 5y ago
There was never any legal threat, in fact I try to clarify that repeatedly. The user kept steering it to a poor understanding of trademark law and then publicly uploaded documents with a physical address in response. This user has been repe
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by cassidyjames 5y ago
The user (who appears to have posted this link, btw, based on recent post history) has been disruptive in the subreddit and Slack in the past, and then literally started publicly doxxing _and_ going around to social media to draw public att
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by cassidyjames 5y ago
Yes, still experimental. We recently merged in the ability to cross-compile Flatpak apps across x86 and ARM, so hopefully that leads to a more official status soon.
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by cassidyjames 6y ago
They support MBOX exports and have expressed that they will support custom domains. Between the two, it’s hardly lock-in; you can export as often as you like and keep your address.
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by cassidyjames 7y ago
Yes, because elementary OS is not Ubuntu. In the past, we carried newer versions of GTK or other core libraries, so pretending to be Ubuntu would actually do more harm than good. However, we have added an `--upstream` or `-u` flag to lsb_re
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
For what it's worth, elementary does not create Epiphany; that's the GNOME browser and is largely a GUI wrapper around WebKit, the exact same engine as in Safari. AppCenter is a way to serve the app developers who were already att
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
You realize elementary has created the entire Pantheon desktop environment, right? So, "It's just their desktop environment with their stylesheet, their apps, and the AppCenter ecosystem," is basically what you are saying. In
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
For what it's worth, that was my personal response and not anything official or reviewed by System76 "the company." I try to retain a bit of autonomy while working for Sytem76. I agree that my tone may have been a little unpr
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
Just curious, what laptop do you have? I'm always open to hearing constructive criticism like this, and it's something we've been more aggressively addressing with recent products. But I'd love to know which product it i
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
And it's been something we've been working on for more than two years. Building a US-based manufacturing plant from the ground up is a long process, but it will be worth it in the end. You can come by the factory in Denver, Colora
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
>What do you mean by "products"? Is it a particular combination of a specific barebones Clevo laptop installed with specific components (make+model) picked by System76? It's kind of a case-by-case basis. But some products,
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
Sometimes we have to make hard decisions like that where the upstream manufacturer insists on a feature in order to get a certain class of design (because then they can resell it to Windows companies and have it be an extra selling point).
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
Yeah, this is fair. One nit-pick is that the System76 firmware tool is not proprietary at all; the blobs themselves are (just like almost every other consumer product), but the firmware updater is all completely open source. It's just
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
I don't think I can share intimate details, but we are designing the products, manufacturing the chassis and some internal components, and assembling the products all in Denver, CO.
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
System76 UX architect here! This vastly trivializes the work System76 does for months and sometimes years leading up to a product release. We don't simply take an off-the-shelf product that already exists, throw an OS on it, and sell i
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
Hrm, that's strange and I haven't heard that being a widespread issue; thousands of customers have updated without issue. I'd open a support case so someone can get that sorted out for you.
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
Yes, just like every consumer computer at this point. But we're working on that. ;)
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by cassidyjames 8y ago
I'm literally on the factory floor right now, working with our designers and CEO on upcoming product designs. There's an area populated with a few dozen iterations of unreleased prototypes from the past couple of years, a couple o
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by cassidyjames 9y ago
Never say never! We listen to feedback. :)
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by cassidyjames 9y ago
We're not actively hiring for anything specific, but we accept interesting applications regardless. See https://system76.com/careers
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by cassidyjames 9y ago
System76 employee here! We do have a number of HiDPI models. Galago Pro ( https://system76.com/laptops/galago ) is probably our most popular, and its resolution is 3200×1800—not technically 4K, but the right resolution f
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by cassidyjames 9y ago
Yep! Jeremy (jackpot51) is the lead developer. https://github.com/jackpot51
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by cassidyjames 9y ago
I asked David Jordan, the engineer working on the firmware updater. >Not only aren't updates initiated without permission, I wrote the code to make that literally impossible without changes to the installed python code. The code is
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by cassidyjames 9y ago
System76 employee here. I suppose the "automatic" could be re-worded; the data is automatically pushed to the machine but then the user always opts into the actual install. But on the other hand, System76 customers are trusting th
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by cassidyjames 9y ago
There were plenty of electric cars before the Model S. You might say that "electric cars" was a solved problem space. Around that time, Tesla was "selling rebadged European sports cars" in low quantities as a proof of co
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by cassidyjames 10y ago
System76 employee here! Up to 32 GB. ;)
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by cassidyjames 10y ago
System76 employee (and HiDPI... enthusiast?) here! It does not need non-integer scaling. It's 3200x1800, which is like 1600x900 pixel-doubled. A great resolution for that physical size. This is also why you don't hear us talking a

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