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by lproven 8mo ago
FWIW I wrote about this last month on El Reg: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/river_wayland_with_wm...
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by lproven 8mo ago
FWIW, agreed. It is very odd to me that I often read people asking about alternative OSes -- Linux compared to Windows, or FreeBSD compared to Linux, or OpenBSD compared to FreeBSD -- and they say that they want to move except that they d
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Remember that most machines back then were Ethernet, not WiFi. Not "most" -- all. 802.11 networking was standardised in 1997. The first versions to really see significant mass adoption were 802.11b and then 802.11a in 1999.
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by lproven 8mo ago
> as powerful as Linux Can you explain what you mean by that? Can you give some examples?
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by lproven 8mo ago
Be specific. Why do you need LVM? What for, what do you do with it? Secondly: are you aware that ZFS includes what LVM does on Linux, and so you don't need a separate tool for it? This makes the comparison tricky but it's importan
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by lproven 8mo ago
Um. ISTM that you're saying "this is a common mistake but some people don't make it." Is that fair? If so: no argument, but the error is now more common than the correct form, in my experience. A BrEn example: a mistake
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Now I wonder if it is sometimes the opposite problem: A skilled writer losing patience when someone less skilled is at the wheel. Others in his thread explored that theory, and it seems they may be onto something. Could be. The KISS pr
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by lproven 8mo ago
> They shall learn from the masters (Microsoft): a pirated version shall be easily available I think you mean "should" not "shall". Shall: this is a prediction of the future; this will happen. Should: this is a re
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by lproven 8mo ago
> this has been confirmed by people from Arca Noae in various interviews/presentations I've seen. Has it? Do you have any links, please? I interviewed Lewis Rosenthal of Arca Noae. https://www.theregister.com/20
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by lproven 8mo ago
Nicely put. I like the worked example in para 2. :-) Tell me, did you ever watch Yes, Minister or Yes, Prime Minister ? If not, I think you might enjoy them.
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by lproven 8mo ago
"Needless." :-D But you're right. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brevity_is_the_soul_of_wit
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by lproven 8mo ago
Fair, but they do often go together.
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Out of curiosity, are you a reader? Very much so. I started reading adult novels at 7 years old, and by the time I was 12 or so, I could if I was hurrying read 5 or 6 novels a day. I read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy for the
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by lproven 8mo ago
You say you are being blunt, but then 5 paragraphs of exegesis follows. TL;DR. Talking takes time and effort. So does listening. Be brief. Get to the point.
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by lproven 8mo ago
This post, and the pithier original, is absolutely astonishing to me as a Brit who has lived and worked in Europe all my adult life. Now I think I see why some American-dominated FOSS communities object to my writing, and why I get hatemail
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Maybe this is a bit US-centric, You are violating the rule of the principle in saying this. :-) (Yes, I am aware it does not apply here.) It is EXTREMELY US-centric and frankly as a Brit who lived and worked in Central Europe and was
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Do people really say this? Is it exclusive? I've only heard the inverse: "I couldn't care less". "I could" is American. "I couldn't" is British. As AmEn is now more widespread, the former is
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by lproven 8mo ago
I have to admit, my Japanese is extremely rudimentary and I couldn't remember the exact term offhand. I had to look it up.
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Bodies acclimate. Absolutely -- and at different rates. I have had severe asthma since puberty. After a decade of suffering, good drugs arrived around the turn of the century, and I've been well controlled since and I've been
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by lproven 8mo ago
I read this last night. AFAICS it's a turbojet tilt-rotor with folding rotors? Is that a fair summary? Sounds fun but also somewhat terrifying. The more complexity, the lower the MTBF.
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by lproven 8mo ago
> During the time of x86 macos this was AMD or Intel PCs Still is. A modern Hackintosh can run macOS 15 "Sequioa" and Tahoe still has x86 support and OCLP is working on it. It will happen in time.
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by lproven 8mo ago
This is so established a thing that it has a name: Sonshi Style. https://dylanbaileywrites.medium.com/sonshi-style-an-obscure... I have an external Thinkpad USB keyboard with full-travel keys, a built-in trackpoint, 3 physi
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by lproven 8mo ago
> I didn't say Loogson the company was dead Yeah you did. « AFAIK Loongson is dead and isn't made anymore » You are angrily arguing against things I didn't say and am not saying. I suspect you're downvoting me as well
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by lproven 8mo ago
> FAIK Loongson is dead and isn't made anymore, Wrong. It is alive and well and in production from several vendors. https://www.loongson.cn/EN > Loongson was a little-endian arch True. https://loongson
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by lproven 8mo ago
You jogged my memory and I downloaded it, after a small detour trying to find a version that'll run on my 11YO iMac. I have a whole collection of feeds alread, which I have no knowledge of at all. Many I've never even heard of. Is
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by lproven 8mo ago
Er... he's saying Windows 1 was really ugly, and with Win11, MS has got back to its roots. In other words, Win11 is also really ugly. Cosmetically, it's all right, sometimes pretty. I like the Bing Wallpaper thing. Functionally,
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by lproven 8mo ago
Well, it was a breath of fresh air after even 3.0 let alone Windows 2. But personally, I enjoyed NT 3.1 more. Built-in PPP so I could dial up to CompuServe and get on the Net. Not the web, which barely existed yet, but the Internet. Grab
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by lproven 8mo ago
> IIRC we got long filenames with Win95, and a built-in network stack, no more Trumpet WinSock. And it did seem more stable, not nearly as good as NT/2000 but better than 3.1. Kinda sorta but this misses context. > we got long fi
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by lproven 8mo ago
Online, I believe that one bit of Beverley Hills has the highest number of online users in the USA. I am one. I have never visited California or the West Coast of the USA in my life. But I have used dozens of websites which need a Zip code.
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by lproven 8mo ago
I lost a Nationwide Building Society account I've had for forty years last year because the bank bought some extremely poor online-ID-verification system. The bank forgot it had customers in a Crown Dependency. It forgot those countr

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