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by sbuk 4y ago
This post is completely on the money. As distasteful as this will be to proponents of FOSS - especially those that “hate” all things Apple, a majority of professional design and photo work is done with them, which has a massive impact on th
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by sbuk 4y ago
> Also blender was regularly used to make content with input from the community. Multiple shorts that dog fooded it and provided improvements through the process, while inspiring many to see what’s possible. The Blender Foundation and co
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by sbuk 4y ago
The Blender Foundation is a well oiled machine that actively seeks funding and offers easy ways to contribute. It all described here: https://www.blender.org/about/foundation/ Blender is, after Linux, the golden c
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by sbuk 4y ago
The trouble with construction is the Autodesk monopoly. They are kings of EEE.
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by sbuk 4y ago
A beautifully draughty schematic or plan is something to behold - with carefully considered weight of line, and perfectly executed detailing. This can absolutely achieved with 2D CAD draughting, and is indeed quicker than hand draughting, b
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by sbuk 4y ago
Marcan, in case you are not aware, is one of the people behind Asahi. The only speculation here is yours. Parties directly involved have said otherwise. Hector Martin appears to have given up posting here exactly because of this kind of
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by sbuk 4y ago
This is literally from the horses mouth. You are exactly who marcan was referring to in the “peanut gallery” comment.
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by sbuk 4y ago
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1554395184473190400 > "Okay, it's been over a year, and it's time to end the nonsense speculation." > "I have heard from several Apple employees t
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by sbuk 4y ago
Not sure about the “features” at the end. Specifically Markdown support. This is a client-side issue. If MUAs parsed Markdown, then there is no reason that markdown couldn’t replace html in the relevant part of a MIME multipart message. The
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by sbuk 4y ago
I had a typo - should read “hasn’t factored” and not “has factored”.
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by sbuk 4y ago
To all intents and purposes, yes, it is. You're naïve if think anyone offering "free" delivery hasn’t factored it into the overall pricing. Typo: s/has/hasn’t/
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by sbuk 4y ago
Parts? Manufacturing? Shipping? Labour? Storage? Distribution? There's more to a part than the cost. Now whether or not what they're charging is over the top, then I doubt you'll find much disagreement; however, the GP doesn&
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by sbuk 4y ago
It's simple - you give them notice during local working hours (i.e. not the weekend), that way the customer has time to rectify, and if they don't you can take action and have proof of warning them of the consequences of ignorin
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by sbuk 4y ago
Which I what many here who worked through the IE dominance have been warning against - yet the only thing we hear is that other browsers are the “new IE”.
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by sbuk 4y ago
"> August 2002: Shazam launches as a text message service based in the UK." AFAIR, we never had CDMA in the UK , so what Verizon et al. were using is irrelevant.
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by sbuk 4y ago
Ctrl-v was SIGINT long before it was a shortcut for paste (first added in Windows 3.1). Although it can be switched now , it hasn't always been so. Of all the things that desktops (I'm not going to say Linux, as it isn't a L
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by sbuk 4y ago
That attitude is what gets people phished. They are generally very clever, but will take the path of least resistance. If you accuse them of anything, it’s laziness.
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by sbuk 4y ago
So every app is a monopoly now? This is getting ridiculous.
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by sbuk 4y ago
What’s to stop governments banning RCS?
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by sbuk 4y ago
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1554395184473190400 > "Okay, it's been over a year, and it's time to end the nonsense speculation." > "I have heard from several Apple employees
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by sbuk 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU - Linus states he hates it. He does say that it's a fine license, and that the freedom to choose a license is important. The video is worth a watch if you want to understand
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by sbuk 4y ago
> But parenting means also setting boundaries and not always indulging kids with the latest internet connected shiny toys. You could just leave off the "...with the latest internet connected shiny toys."
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by sbuk 4y ago
My child is 4. They prefer fruit and vegetables over sweets. Milk or water over soft drinks. They come home from nursery and, in the warmer months, play outside with their friends until 7pm. They also draw and do "craft", and we d
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by sbuk 4y ago
Intel and AMD don't make the whole widget. They want people to buy the components, so publicly 'supporting' multiple OSs makes sense. Apple on the other hand want people to buy and use Macs and macOS...
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by sbuk 4y ago
Ask marcan_42 for how much support Apple have provided. When it has come up, they have been pretty open about it...
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by sbuk 4y ago
Google Workspace is free to schools. Therefore it 'costs' significantly less than running the infrastructure to service accounts for several 100's to 1000's of staff and kids using a FOSS solution. Of course, there are o
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by sbuk 4y ago
It came very close. Had AOL/Netscape/Mozilla not opensourced and push open standards when they did, things would be very different.
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by sbuk 4y ago
My goodness, the cognative dissonance is dumbfounding.
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by sbuk 4y ago
“This website only works on Chrome.” will be the new "Best viewed in Interet Explorer"
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by sbuk 4y ago
> relinquishing everybody's freedom to a monopoly. And yet we're consistently reminded that iOS's marketshare is globally small and that the macOS share is vanishingly small. Which is it?

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