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by chappi42 13y ago
"Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it"... Bla bla, shame on these platitudes! Bad times when a ceo no longer can act according to his opinion (in private). Reflec
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by chappi42 13y ago
(just saw [this article]( http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2014/03/02/windows_8_surface/ ) on the hn frontpage which describes very well what I meant with bullshit and mess. I kind of like the metro part
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by chappi42 13y ago
Just updated Windows 8(#) to 8.1. What a bullshit (still)! It's not a question of money (free) but of simplifying the experience. It's a bloody mess! (#) Admittedly I didn't use Windows 8 often (mostly worked with Mountain Li
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by chappi42 13y ago
hello from a jolla :-) it will be hard but 'we' have a chance! there is no other platform which feels like a normal linux distribution and people are very friendly, neither 'inaccesible ad droids' nor grim 'prison
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by chappi42 13y ago
Well and google capitalizes on the fact that most normal people are too lazy to install adblockers and bored enough to watch youtube videos. I admire their engineering capabilities but for me they are no longer cool and the 'one google
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Jolla after 2 months – any open source fan should get one(strayobject.co.uk)
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by chappi42 13y ago
If it's a few huge multinationals vs. individuals it's not so easy 'to just get another phone'. Isn't society/government here to provide general regulations? Ok, some are stupid but (at least in Europe) many ar
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by chappi42 13y ago
there were palms treos before
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by chappi42 13y ago
Apple? Fuck them. Fully agree. The Apple app store 'universum' became too large in order to allow Apple to continue censoring it. Government need to (somehow) enforce alternative app stores. Until this happens, boycott Apple (or b
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by chappi42 13y ago
>> the two power-houses of Google and Apple to shape the industry and they went in a bad direction imho: - Apple closed down the app distribution process (we don't like what they are saying, let's censor Phone Story etc. etc
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by chappi42 13y ago
Here we go, and I use Thunderbird and would switch to Outlook (if it would be available for Ubuntu..)
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by chappi42 13y ago
I don't need Google's Nexus 5 and I think Jolla does deliver some unique advantage: standard linux underpinning. A more soft reason is: it's not closed down as the iPhones and also not the one Google ring which collects every
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by chappi42 13y ago
You cannot buy it now, thus... If - I'm speculating - we 'normal' people can buy the device in spring it will have more features. (I'm interested as it's linux based, and a good alternative to the closed apple world
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by chappi42 13y ago
I'm no english native speaker, meant state in plural, sorry.
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by chappi42 13y ago
> Trying to solve social issues with technology doesn't work that well. Changing social patterns is much harder. Maybe it could e.g. when offering a 'globally funded retirement provision' to people who agree to only have o
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by chappi42 13y ago
It's great what he and Melinda are doing. I'd put the focus much more towards reducing or even reversing the tremendous population growth. Malaria, Polio, fertilizers.. all about more people (yes it helps them, is good...; complic
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by chappi42 13y ago
I don't understand your point about 'goodbye'. Are you saying that the hardware is subsidized? But it's a problem I didn't think of. While I don't mind Kindle, consoles I mind for phones, tablets and 'norm
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by chappi42 13y ago
It is also criminal that Apple and Microsoft get away with enforcing a 'single point of app store'. Monopoly or not, states set the rules and these two are points where imho government should enforce choice.
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by chappi42 13y ago
So you're not concerned about Ubuntu. Why don't you then let Ubuntu try _their_ thing and be happy with the Linux ecosystem which provides so much choice? Why the strong critisizing? It was an apt-get remove --purge .. to remove t
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by chappi42 13y ago
I know, but Gentoo is by far the most interesting. - The others feel like a downgrade/hassle from Ubuntu (I love unity, 'pretty okay' is not good enough). Tried Debian (which we use for servers) but had problems with my labto
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by chappi42 13y ago
But Ubuntu looks good (imo) and is comparatively easy. Hope many Apple/Windows users switch to it. Big step in the right direction. Apps 'uncomplicated' software and I think it is very necessary that there is a mainstream Lin
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by chappi42 13y ago
And you feel proud to use a well polished system that Canonical prepared for you without paying? Motto: I have my OS, it's free & I owe nothing, Canonical can look for themself? The alternative (well polished, reasonably easy/
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by chappi42 13y ago
crummy setup... oh come on, on your mac spotlight is a bloody binary program and you have no way to check the sources. And you critizice the default configuration of an open source program?
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by chappi42 13y ago
I'm not good enough. It would need people who know more about specifications, parsing and have influence. But if I would go for it, I would call it 'Markdown' and try to redefine it, hehe.
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by chappi42 13y ago
;-) But why not 'just steal' the markdown name? Afaik Gruber used the name for a software and not for a standard... A committee (codehorror, Github, marked, discount, Pandoc people etc.) could e.g. buy the markdown.org domain and
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by chappi42 13y ago
Markdown is a mess. Gruber refuses to take care and now there are a ton of slightly different dialects because the original draft is clearly lacking in some respects. Just last week wanted to use GFM, they introduced a new newline style. Or
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by chappi42 13y ago
H & M is also on the Bahnhofstrasse... This road has lost its edge :-(
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by chappi42 13y ago
If you have problems with the installation use the free cloud service - nothing to setup. Or use vagrant (didn't try out myself). It is a great product and 'my' users love it (finally convinced them to move on from svn). On
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by chappi42 13y ago
I hold the opposite opinion: if Amazon shopping lens supports Ubuntu providing their awesome operating system, it's very well they have it. Also I don't see a distrust point at all, hey it's a click away to disable, some comm
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by chappi42 13y ago
Doesn't surprise me. I'm a customer and the whole experience feels like this.

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