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by trelane 4y ago
"No updates unless you use Windows" and broken hardware don't sound like "commitment to Linux"
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by trelane 4y ago
Now imagine if all that money went to a vendor that actually cared
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by trelane 4y ago
Why would you buy a laptop that you cannot install updates on without jumping though hoops?
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by trelane 4y ago
Or, better, buy a computer with Linux preinstalled and with support. Then, of there's a problem, you can support and get it sorted.
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by trelane 4y ago
It was Office + Works, and other strategic assets.
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by trelane 4y ago
Also, there was the bundling and OEM backroom deals.
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by trelane 4y ago
> We lost control because of cryptography and enforced signature verification. Yes, the term for this is "tivoization." It is a large part of why the GPLv3 exists. > Just because software is licensed as open source doesn&#x2
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by trelane 4y ago
This is also true if after and hardware generally
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by trelane 4y ago
> For laptops you need to do a bit of research to make sure they have good Linux support. Or, you know, you could buy it preinstalled, with support, form a vendor that actually supports Linux on the hardware.
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by trelane 4y ago
Aldi sometimes sells these here in the us. They're similar to Bamba, but not as fluffy. It's a coarser-ground corn, I think. e.g. https://aldithings.com/deutsche-kuche-peanut-puffs/
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by trelane 4y ago
> people are getting banned now. Getting banned from what? Bing, or their whole Microsoft account?
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by trelane 4y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-... "Let’s begin with the current state of play: Apple’s advertising efforts today consist of display ads inside of its News and Stocks apps, a
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by trelane 4y ago
I don't get it. Two advertisers are keeping you in the ecosystem of.. a third advertiser? I could see a Linux or a BSD, but Apple is also just another advertiser spying on you here.
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by trelane 4y ago
What are some good places to read up on these things (e.g. PCR 7 &, 4)?
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Telemetry required? Ask users first(dev.blog.documentfoundation.org)
97 points by trelane 4y ago|105 comments
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by trelane 4y ago
But Apple products are premium products, with status attached. As my kid will attest to, though not directly.
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by trelane 4y ago
Ah, if you need 3D, then probably something in the line of an AMD mobile setup would be it, for the GPU.
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by trelane 4y ago
> Exactly (on both sides). We should help people to find and choose cars they can afford. I'd personally much prefer to make public transit that is so good that everyone uses it.
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by trelane 4y ago
Source is https://withinhealth.com/learn/articles/perfecting-perfectio... This detects one kind of manipulation, the horrifying-sounding "Face-Aware Liquify" tool in Adobe Photoshop
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by trelane 4y ago
Raspberry Pi builds are common. E.g. https://www.instructables.com/Full-Size-Arcade-Cabinet-Using... There are a lot of hits for "arcade cabinet raspberry pi."
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by trelane 4y ago
Also, apparently the link de-dup logic doesn't account for the fact that a website can change in salient ways after 9 months. When I tried to link to the actual Dev One page, it got deduped to the release announcement.
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HP Dev One “sold out” less than a year after release(twitter.com)
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by trelane 4y ago
It wasn't clear that it was harmful. For example, there was a Radium health craze, after it apparently cured cancer in some patients: https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new... > After scie
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by trelane 4y ago
xroach says hello. https://software.opensuse.org/package/xroach Oh! And XSnow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsnow
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by trelane 4y ago
> The entire US election system is comically insecure and the thing that's surprising is how rare evidence of large scale fraud is. The question that bothers me most is this: how would we know ? What safeguards do we have, and how
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by trelane 4y ago
Ah. The MarketWatch and tweet seem to indicate that it's streaming. Also, the tweet ( https://twitter.com/BradSmi/status/1627926790172811264 ) seems to indicate many games. If it's just a few, hand-ported
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by trelane 4y ago
Some additional info at https://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-teams-up-with-nv...
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by trelane 4y ago
It's been good knowing you, Nintendo. I can see what Microsoft gets out of this, but I don't think it's at all to your advantage long-term. Short term it may be nice (get access to Microsoft's catalog) but long term, it&
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by trelane 4y ago
This strikes me as no different from the GPL or any other license (api compatibility, how do you detect infringement, etc.) along with a tasty smattering of misrepresentation ("poison pill", "Your entire codebase needs to be
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by trelane 4y ago
You said > The distinction is 100% about what a future developer can do or not do. I pointed out that this was incorrect. > But I don't think they should require other software creators to release under the same license. So you t

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