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by okanat 2y ago
> It‘s extremely difficult to predict the lifetime of a consumer product as it also depends on how it’s being used. That's actually false. Almost all of the engineered goods are engineered to a certain lifetime. Usually companies ha
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by okanat 2y ago
Graphene maybe but it has a very limited set of devices it works on. Lineage may not be actually. They rarely go against what Google does. Developing any normal user facing OS with lots of bells and whistles so it has a useful and modern cl
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by okanat 2y ago
Custom builds are not trustworthy. I have less trust to random nobodies on the Web than a corporation who still has to have some profits and acquire some trust. It doesn't mean they wouldn't use that trust and do things against my
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by okanat 2y ago
A competent government will prevent those kinds of privacy abuses as well by enacting laws like GDPR and constantly updating them.
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by okanat 2y ago
Penalties based on the global revenue also prevent companies finding loopholes in the corporate and tax laws. They need to announce good revenue to have shareholders and they will be judged by the same standards by the law.
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by okanat 2y ago
Secure enclave doesn't have to be single software locked thing. They don't have to give every app unconditional access to securely executing code either nor giving access to other apps' data. Users can choose just like they c
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by okanat 2y ago
No. There is not. Without changing how "Linux" is built from the very C library to binary loader and graphics APIs, there cannot be either. Try finding alternatives to Excel with its entire feature set (no cheating all SQL db inte
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by okanat 2y ago
I used Linux as my primary OS for 15 years and currently earn money from maintaining an internal distro that is compiled from scratch. I can go as deep into the kernel as I want and if the business needs I can change or patch a package. The
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by okanat 2y ago
You make a false assumption that all Linux things are equivalent and provide a good baseline feature set. They are not equivalent, each one misses something that Windows provides out of the box to an extent. Choosing a Linux distro / D
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by okanat 2y ago
Here is the thing. MS Windows has no alternative. There is no other OS that: - is primarily user friendly (no terminal use, good accessibility support, well known patterns, well made paid human translation) - has drivers working out of the
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by okanat 2y ago
> The free software world wasn't meant to be like this, where you have to fight the OS/distro to get things to work the way you want. I think the actual history says something different. The free software world is created by pe
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by okanat 2y ago
A very similar one happened in Turkey as late as 1998! https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1102_web.p... A hospital sold the Co-60 source they depleted to a company. The company got the license
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by okanat 2y ago
You cannot at the moment with GNU stuff since glibc relies on a plugin system to load things like DNS, user management etc. at runtime since it enables stuff like LDAP. OpenSSL also relies on dynamic library infrastructure. The OpenGL drive
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by okanat 2y ago
> I don't get why parts of the Linux community are so resistant to embrace AppImages and provide first class integration for them. Decent desktop integration isn't that hard. > As a user I want to download the thing and run
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by okanat 2y ago
Frequent cancelations, leaving 100s of people stranded in an airport because it's the end of shift, losing bags more frequently than any flag carrier (hell even more than cheap airlines), despite being late insisting on checking size o
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by okanat 2y ago
Windows has a slightly better concept: Structured Exceptions ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/struct... ). It is a universal concept to handle all sorts of unexpected situations like
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by okanat 2y ago
Xplore file manager has this ability
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by okanat 2y ago
Your first statement is already refuted by other commenters. For the second, the reason is offical software support, internationalization and accessibility. Microsoft provides certain guarantees for its officially released software. They do
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by okanat 2y ago
This is actually one of the features I like in Android. You can strictly limit where an app can access. They are tightening the screws with each release as well. Only if the same limitations were applied for Google services...
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by okanat 2y ago
I write and maintain code in a bunch of languages. Rust has risen to the first place, C is the close second followed by C++ and Python. All of the languages except C have similar iterator-based stuff that let you write one liners and often
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by okanat 2y ago
Call me crazy, but I find the second example more readable. The first example is long line and you have to go back and forth to understand it. The second example is a single top down pass.
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by okanat 2y ago
The voice and expression is copyrightable, that's just how audio books are under copyright protection.
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by okanat 2y ago
The only way _you_ can think of is "invading privacy". If you delete any data that can single out people when you're ingesting it, then nothing more needs to be done. So you delete any user identifying data by default, not k
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by okanat 2y ago
System76 uses Clevo and Sager notebooks with little modifications. Both of them are purely Chinese. With your logic anything produced after ca. 1995 is unusable.
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by okanat 2y ago
Brave itself blocks ads. It is embedded into the browser called Brave Shields.
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by okanat 2y ago
uBlock origin + Firefox exists or open source Rethink VPN project funded by Mozilla or open source AdAway app in Android.
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by okanat 3y ago
Not only marketing but also the worst engineering, testing, design, accessibility ... budgets. Financing open-source projects is hard because anybody can take them and build stuff on top of them to sell at a way higher margin (or they are r
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by okanat 3y ago
What a bad, hyperbolic take. UTF-8 can encode the entire Unicode space. All you need is up-to-date libraries and fonts to display the codepoints correctly. It is backwards compatible forever. So requiring UTF-8 allows Japanese to represent
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by okanat 3y ago
That doesn't work when alignment depends on the tab size like aligning an indented line below an unindented line like long assignments Type myvar = something_very_long + that_needs_alignment; The only way to g
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by okanat 3y ago
> This why most attempts to improve on C fail. C is simple and gives the programmer control, and this is why C programmers love and use it. Most C programmers use C because they are forced to use it, by technical limitations like lack of

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