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by trelane 3y ago
> It’s quite amazing how there are exactly two words in your response that, while true, provide more insight into your position on tax policy than the rest of your comment. I also think they preclude us coming to any sort of understandin
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by trelane 3y ago
> The whole point of taxes is that you don't get to pick and choose the parts you like or use. No, the point of taxes is taking some minimum amount of money from others by force, so that the government can spend it how they choose.
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by trelane 3y ago
> What the books add to all this theorizing is that they're wildly entertaining. Or, in my case, mildly entertaining. It felt like a lot of leftist proselytizing, or more likely preaching to the choir. The humor fell flat, I guess
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by trelane 3y ago
There's no maximum tax. You're free to send the government extra money.
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by trelane 3y ago
> Microsoft will likely just let them keep operating as they do now, providing money and reaping any profits. Yeah, it's not like Microsoft ever bought a game studio that was making a highly-anticipated game, then made them release
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by trelane 3y ago
> whenever Apple takes steps to release a feature aimed at professionals there is a significant uptick in users trying out MotionCam. Ha, and here I am, learning about your app for the first time, and about to install it... :)
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by trelane 3y ago
Mine is parks, and nature generally
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by trelane 3y ago
In case folks don't yet know how to use pivot tables in LibreOffice: https://books.libreoffice.org/en/CG71/CG7108-PivotTables.htm...
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by trelane 3y ago
no, it's reverse WSL. LSW, if you will.
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by trelane 3y ago
Microsoft could create this. They have no reason to. Nobody else could, because it would require Microsoft to agree to something that's against their interests.
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by trelane 3y ago
This is something I don't get; don't the computers businesses buy already come with a Windows license?
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by trelane 3y ago
> The will put ads in different parts of the O/S. They have already been doing this. https://www.pcworld.com/article/1790329/i-paid-for-microsoft... https://www.theregister.com/2023/04
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by trelane 3y ago
It's "commonly said" because it's true. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt via https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201...
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by trelane 3y ago
If you've not periodically restored and run from your backup, do you even have backups?
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by trelane 3y ago
It's never gauche to quote Marx.[1] Especially Groucho. He wasn't a director , though, as far as I can tell.[2] [1] https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000050/quotes [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by trelane 3y ago
> In general, though, particularly for highway driving, it's a system that works well. That depends on the highway. If it's a limited access motorway, like the interstates, Autobahn, or M-class then sure. Perhaps not coincident
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by trelane 3y ago
> Need to slow down because your turn is coming? No problem, move over to the right. That's the wrong approach for a left turn. > Imagine actually having protocols around traffic flow, and following them! Like limits on the magni
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by trelane 3y ago
> But sophisticated users who'll take advantage of things like that are only 1% of the market. Most folks can't or won't do lots of things in their lives (e.g. plumbing, electrical, construction, lawn services, Automotive)
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by trelane 3y ago
How about requiring devices to accept alternate, Free Software firmware, from the upstream provider? At the very least, it should be possible after some time period of no updates or insecurity, but a blanket requirement is less susceptible
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DRM in ASTC 3.0 (over-the-air TV)(mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)
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by trelane 3y ago
> You can publish your extension on Open VSX only instead of in the MS Marketplace. So to use an extension in VSCode, it has to be published in Microsoft's store? And VSCode only in this other store?
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by trelane 3y ago
What about the other way: will plugins designed for VSCodium work in VSCode?
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by trelane 3y ago
Both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice are descendents of the original OpenOffice (what you're probably thinking about.) LibreOffice is under very active development and can be downloaded from https://www.libreoffice.org&#x2
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by trelane 3y ago
Users always have the option of doing what they already do: use the Linux that was preinstalled on the computer.
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by trelane 3y ago
> I figured it was the device literally cooking it’s ram into a bitflip that caused it to bsod. Funny, that's exactly how I push "control" in emacs. Ref: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by trelane 3y ago
> Ever had use hardware that you didn't buy yourself? Yes, of course. The point wasn't that I would buy a device for my own use (though that is kind of appealing these days), but rather that your choices influence what the mar
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by trelane 3y ago
> Seems to me a rather circular definition, because I'm not sure anyone except Microsoft has a 'productivity suite'? LibreOffice and its descendents (e.g. Collabora) spring to mind immediately. There are a few. Apple has i
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by trelane 3y ago
> I really want to just plug in a conference room projector into my laptop and have other people already put in place out those workarounds for me sometimes. Then you should definitely use Linux more, and buy hardware that explicitly sup
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by trelane 3y ago
> Basically, they tested it on these 2 and then shipped it. If it would fail on win or osx, LG would not ship it. Yep. I first and foremost look fir Linux support explicitly called out in the system requirements. If I can't find it,
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by trelane 3y ago
I a world without Windows (or at least one with enough competition), software and hardware wouldn't require Windows either, since it would support multiple OSes.

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