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by fierarul 6y ago
I suspect this is a myth too because desktops get a plain USB keyboard / mouse, maybe a webcam and call it a day. What if I put a TV tuner in there? Hello compatibility lists. As it happens my Ryzen desktop did have fewer issue but sta
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by fierarul 6y ago
True, but when it's among the 1st Ryzen laptops and you need a beefy CPU for work you might take a chance! I still hope a good kernel hacker will buy it and fix the trackpad. I would even chip in some money in a fund, but it's not
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by fierarul 6y ago
Well, the X1 is not exactly cheap hardware. There was recently a news that all Lenovo laptops will be Linux certified so I guess there's little change to have issues with a Lenovo Legion. Turns out the trackpad just won't work. I
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by fierarul 6y ago
My extended family all switched to Ubuntu because this is what I put on their cheap laptops. I showed them Firefox, Skype and the photo manager and it all worked well. Everything is done in the browser nowadays. At some point one laptop was
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by fierarul 6y ago
This reminds me of the Homer Simpson quote: "We should exchange insurance information. I have none!" The average Romanian would cross the national border and notice the phone have NO signal. No data, no GBs, no voice, only 112. Tr
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by fierarul 6y ago
What else could a man do but cry with rage?! The most interesting thing is how flat the hierarchy apparently was. Was a modern astronaut just mingle with the prime minister and try to muscle in on a launch?
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by fierarul 6y ago
It's a good thing that with EU's "Roam Like at Home" people from Finland can go transfer those 17GB/month in any other EU country, but people from Romania saw the introduction of "national" SIM cards which
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by fierarul 6y ago
What I found fascinating is that Google is digitally signing the data given to authorities. This is more than any free or paid user can obtain. You have a green padlock in your URL but can you prove in court you received a given email? No
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by fierarul 6y ago
If you want to promote the idea that there's more to life than work and that one could focus more on family, nature and the arts by all means. But saying that capable people must bend the knee so somebody less capable also gets a turn
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by fierarul 6y ago
Thing is Google were also nasty towards Sun and helped it go under quite well. In many ways this is karma but too bad there's so much externality to it.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Honestly it would be nice to stop beating around the bush and declare your end goal: communism. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". "Meritocratic equality" is an oxymoron. You can only a
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by fierarul 6y ago
Wow, that article: "meritocratic inequality". How would "meritocratic equality" look like!? Interesting how the rich were blamed for being fat cats and not are blamed for overworking so much they win the race. It seems s
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by fierarul 6y ago
For posterity I would like to underline 3 of the top 5 comments on HN[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24706414 > What a crock of shit. I understand the whole worship of individualism, but this is just taking it a
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by fierarul 6y ago
So you are saying in the UK absolutely nobody is working but getting 80% of their salary?
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by fierarul 6y ago
I would like to see some data about this because the European "safety net" is reaching mythical proportions in the minds of Americans. What safety net when schools were closed and hospitals closed with only emergencies and COVID?!
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by fierarul 6y ago
Plank Time would be the smallest size of a grid in that Wikipedia animation.
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by fierarul 6y ago
> You invested in the opportunity to generate income. Not the guarantee. They may still have the opportunity to get income from another tennant but you want them to be responsible for the tenant that can't/won't pay. The s
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by fierarul 6y ago
The stock rules weren't changed out of the blue. But, no worries, once people figure out the risk involved in home equity this will be derisked and have surprising outcomes.
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by fierarul 6y ago
The Apple et all antipoaching agreement was illegal the whole time and they knew it. It wasn't that the courts found it happens to be illegal. What Apple under Jobs' watch did was illegal at a critical time for the industry.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Replacing the arbitrariness of the monarch with the arbitrariness of institutions is a step forward in terms of diluting responsibility. Next up: machine driven decision making.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Funny thing: I had my email on a commercial support page for, you know, companies that wanted to pay money for custom work. 100% of the emails were from companies asking various questions; everybody took that page as priority free support f
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by fierarul 6y ago
Entirely disagree. This is not how a project is transformed but what a project is... But indeed, maybe our common conclusion is that open source is not for everybody and it should have a warning on the box like cigarettes.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Which is why I said stopping open source work is a valid option. It's quite hard to untangle yourself from that and sometime it seems like money would help.
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by fierarul 6y ago
The again there is no reason any project has to go on forever. Some open source devs assume, often correctly, that money would ease the pain. In other cases just stoping open source work seems the logical choice. After all, there is no need
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by fierarul 6y ago
I feel like the author is not the best spokesperson considering the overwhelming success he's had with open source on a personal and financial levels. It's like those startup success blog posts. It's also quite idealistic. Fo
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by fierarul 6y ago
It does not work. Just like print to PDF, trying prostscript tells you: > Saving a PDF file when printing is not supported. Instead, > choose File > Save. Because Adobe went out of their way to prevent this to work.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Can Apple kill PDF too, please? I'm especially enraged at the PDF "forms" XFA or whatever that no software on this planet can open except Adobe Reader. And Adobe Reader even on macOS doesn't allow Print to PDF or somethi
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by fierarul 6y ago
So you replace 1 CEO with a committee of 6 people and save how much money?
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by fierarul 6y ago
The IRS would disagree with this. Mozilla Foundation has a staff of 80 and "manages" about 1000 volunteers. It's unclear how much donations it gets as they published a consolidated report that includes the corporation. I expe
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by fierarul 6y ago
Mozilla Inc is not a non-profit. The parent organization is.

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