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by trelane 3y ago
It used to be that either you paid for the software product, or the software was free and you were the product. I guess they just, you know, fixed the glitch.
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by trelane 3y ago
> Astonishing that after more than 30 years of coexistence of Linux and Windows OSes such arrogant remarks are still being made Why are you not astonished that, after "30 years of coexistence" people still: feel the need to bu
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by trelane 3y ago
I'm much less annoyed about "see[ing] UNIX everywhere" then I am about "there's a lot of specialised hardware design software that's only supported under Windows, so this isn't really avoidable".
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by trelane 3y ago
> You can plug an Android in and drop stuff on it like a thumb drive again now? I don't think that ever changed, though the vendor can probably turn it off, since they have the source. On Linux, it can (depends on what you told the
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by trelane 3y ago
> What Apple software would people want outside of the Apple ecosystem? Do you have an example? How about starting with iMessage? Keynote etc. for Linux would be rather nice. At one point, I joined a local MUG (Mac Users Group), hoping w
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by trelane 3y ago
> which was speciality equipment designed to be compatible with the conditions inside of the spacecraft. Right, that's the point. It's also how you get the other very expensive things that the Pentagon gets dinged for.
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by trelane 3y ago
Do you have links to read up on this? I know only if personal finance; makes sense that it's not correct for corporate.
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by trelane 3y ago
I think this is a deeper point that really gets to the heart of what's happening. If you or a corporation have some money, where does it reside ? Unless the money is in something tangible (briefcase of cash, gold bullion, or real esta
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by trelane 3y ago
It's not quite wrong either. The truth is more complex. See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-spent-millio... and https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-nasa-pens-idUSL1N2..
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by trelane 3y ago
Meeks wrote up some of the history at The history & pre - LibreOffice https://conference.libreoffice.org/assets/libocon2020/Slides... (PDF). This may help provide context for you to better understand why go-oo
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by trelane 3y ago
Let me introduce you to LibreOffice Online ( https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ ) and its descendent, Collabora Online ( https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/ )
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Mullvad: Response to “TunnelCrack” Vulnerability Disclosure(mullvad.net)
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Ground-up rewrite of Sysprof announced – Sysprof 45 beta(fosstodon.org)
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by trelane 3y ago
Alternately, you can use the Android environment and Android firefox, if you want it to work like a tablet instead of a desktop computer.
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by trelane 3y ago
Also, no cloud or subscription required.
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by trelane 3y ago
I would be surprised if the Linux kernel or Mesa would approve such a pull request. Slipping it into already secret code (proprietary drivers), though, would be a cinch. So, it's Windows.
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by trelane 3y ago
It's not exactly new that Twitter and others take over handles. https://twitter.com/jeremyvaught/status/1687537767671070737 The lesson isn't that Musk is Bad (in this instance anyway) so much as your e
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by trelane 3y ago
1.1kg. The superconductor is "levitating" by being repelled (magnetically) by the platform, which is in turn being repelled (physically) by the scale. If either of those were not true, the scale and/or platform would start mo
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by trelane 3y ago
> Transistors "just" made it more efficient. Sort of, the thing about transistors isn't the efficiency as much as the scalability. You'd be very hard-pressed to make a modern processor out of vacuum tubes. It would
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by trelane 3y ago
> Whenever I see a project like this, I have to ask: what kinds of true things are censored from the "uncensored library"? I was curious about this as well. The "criteria for inclusion" link takes you to a page on &qu
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by trelane 3y ago
> How did Ethernet go from fat cables and vampire taps to RJ35? At least, at university: students like me that got hired cheaply and rewired everything. :) That was not a fun summer, but I learned a lot. > Is it still exactly the same
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by trelane 3y ago
> The reason why most (consumer-facing at least) malware isn't targeting Linux is because its desktop market share is like 3%. This is also why there's not as much software in general. So if a (lack of) regular software is a va
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by trelane 3y ago
You can see the line where the new inscription was put in, above the inscription in the photos. It look like it was whitespace there, given the height of the letters, but that's a lot of whitespace. I can't find earlier photos o
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by trelane 3y ago
Sure, because they (or whoever) don't make it. Many printers, especially the MFC ones, support Linux. For instance, Brother has drivers: https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/52188&#x2
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by trelane 3y ago
It's not about the fee (generally it's small for you (though for the OEM it's critical, and one of the ways MSFT gets OEMs to do their bidding (a small example is how they all "recommend Windows" on their sites; it&
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by trelane 3y ago
> I mean, https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen7-7840u So, they took a cutting edge Windows PC, slapped Linux on it, and it didn't work well. How well did OSX do when they tried it? Clearly, OSX isn'
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by trelane 3y ago
> Thinkpads I have seen and used (last one in 2023) I haven't yet seen one that is "fully supported" out of the box on Linux and all of them required some degree of tinkering. Yes, that is my limited experience with Thinkp
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by trelane 3y ago
Yep, and the docs are freely available. https://gpuopen.com/amd-isa-documentation/ for AMD. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/graphics-for-li... for Intel
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by trelane 3y ago
> On any hardware supported fully by both This hardware does not exist, or at least it's exceedingly rare. something most folks miss is that the OS supports the hardware (though for Windows it's more the drivers than the OS, bu
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by trelane 3y ago
Or you could run Linux on Linux hardware and get the full hardware support and sweet battery life without the Microsoft spyware.

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