trelane

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by trelane 3y ago
Sort of? It's along the lines of "Das kannst Du hier nicht machen!" it's sort of a metaphor. Yes, technically there's no physical impediment, but the social ones are high. If you want to speak to the social / p
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by trelane 3y ago
Since OSX has a lot of BSD... they kind of did already
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by trelane 3y ago
> you come across as dishonest Weird! That's my perception of you!
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by trelane 3y ago
This is a very arrogant take. I don't think we're going to make much agreement, you and I.
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by trelane 3y ago
I agree, your incorrectness on this point is likely leading you both to incorrect conclusions, even before we get to the "is an empty set a set?" that you would apparently need to argue against.
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by trelane 3y ago
> Yes, there is the "Brights" thing and other such nonsense with little to no traction. And it's just a marginal group of people who think they are better, anyway. Huh. Sounds like almost any other religion. > [Atheism]
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by trelane 3y ago
Who is in charge of Christianity?
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by trelane 3y ago
> But some atheists (I would call them "militant atheists") do. Of course I'd argue that militant atheists are largely reacting to the militant theism of others, which is more popularly accepted and gets way more air time
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by trelane 3y ago
> I think I see your agenda here though. My agenda is to make you (and those reading the thread) consider your own movement critically, instead of perpetuating your own mythology. > Atheists have done terrible things. Adolf, Joseph,
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by trelane 3y ago
> You've got me all wrong. This is ironic, surely, given your response? > The sins committed against groups of humans in the name of any belief system are not the topic I was asking about. They're all terrible. Choose your i
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by trelane 3y ago
How about all the historical fiction of Science or Atheism vs Christianity? Pointing out that atheism and scientism are making up and embellishing their own history is more of a controversial take in these circles.
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by trelane 3y ago
> By definition it's many nebulous people with nebulous beliefs in many different places By this definition, then, you have no beef with most religions Additionally, it sure looks like atheism as the state religion and exterminating
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by trelane 3y ago
> None of those were done under the decree of atheism. This is false. They most certainly were under the "decree of atheism." e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-religious_campaign_(...
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by trelane 3y ago
The Soviets and Maoists were no slouches when it came to killing the infidels either. Gotta keep the populace from their opium.
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by trelane 3y ago
Not quite correct. They're built by Clevo, but they're co-designed. That said, the described symptoms are something that should get fixed by calling support.
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by trelane 3y ago
> When it comes to hardware a Clevo is a Texedo is a System76 is a Sager (and a bunch of others) 1. That's not necessarily a fact; I don't know that it's been established one way or the other. There may well be small varia
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by trelane 3y ago
They're working on an in-house laptop. https://github.com/system76/virgo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36115413
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by trelane 3y ago
> But until now I have not actually seen any difference in chipsets? System76 is not Apple. I don't know why you'd expect them to have a wholly new chip set. Maybe you can flash a given Clevo with the "equivalent" sys
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by trelane 3y ago
There's a lot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17039414 You may find reading like that informative. It's perhaps not surprising that the laptops that Clevo ships vs those they make for System76 are different.
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by trelane 3y ago
ACPI is executable code. "Much of the firmware ACPI functionality is provided in bytecode of ACPI Machine Language (AML), a Turing-complete, domain-specific low-level language, stored in the ACPI tables.[7] To make use of the ACPI ta
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by trelane 3y ago
> Standardizing peripherals the ways PCs have done would have many benefits. So, Linux's implementation would work well, whilst Windows has to pretend to be Linux in order to have it work mostly kinda unless the device explicitly su
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by trelane 3y ago
I use Wayland. Perhaps that's your issue?
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by trelane 3y ago
Only two monitors? I've no problem with more than that. I don't know what hardware you're using, but that's atypical.
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by trelane 3y ago
> He kept referring to employees as “resources” The classic comeback for this is to refer to management as "overhead."
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by trelane 3y ago
> you are a resource, and can be replaced This is exactly the disconnect between people's salary expectations and their actual salary. It's not really based on how valuable your work is, but how easily replaced you are.
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by trelane 3y ago
LWN article that I got the link from: https://lwn.net/Articles/957255/
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OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream supported" design(lwn.net)
425 points by trelane 3y ago|179 comments
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by trelane 3y ago
I was a student Unix systems administrator back then. We had ultrasparc workstations, with a SunPCi card. I believe a number of us hooked up a monitor to the VGA connector on it, and used x2vnc to have a continuous virtual screen. https:&#
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by trelane 3y ago
Depends on your work
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by trelane 3y ago
> Office can open them. Maybe, but it's probably more reliable for them to just grab LibreOffice to open it. It's much easier to get LibreOffice than MS Office.

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