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721.
by trelane 4y ago
Those are all windows computers.
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For Remote Workers, These Cities Are Great Places to Live(wsj.com)
1 points by trelane 4y ago|0 comments
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by trelane 4y ago
I don't develop OpenWRT, but I use it extensively. The GPL is one of the best tools we have for the software side of the right to repair, especially the GPLv3 (anti-tivoization provisions). Just because you don't actively develop
724.
by trelane 4y ago
Source?
725.
by trelane 4y ago
I don't see your argument here. Is your objection solely that I was insufficiently restrictive in my statement? addendum: You're saying your analogy is fallacious, therefore I'm incorrect. Which I find rather confusing.
726.
by trelane 4y ago
I am not convinced that safety regulations enacted by elected bodies are the same as proprietary software offering its manufacturer against the user's wishes.
727.
by trelane 4y ago
Isn't this just admin vs a regular user account?
728.
by trelane 4y ago
Do they have secret APIs the rest of us plebes don't get?
729.
by trelane 4y ago
> Apple is now the worst offender in forcing you to use your computing the device only the way they want you to. Is it your device if it obeys someone else?
730.
by trelane 4y ago
This is akin to saying that licensing your code under the GPL will prevent GitHub's copilot from recreating it in a proprietary project. I wish it were true, but it's not.
731.
by trelane 4y ago
> Edge since the Chromium switch is cross-platform now. You can use Edge on Mac or Linux, too. It's not just for Windows. Are they exactly the same, or do you have to be on Windows for the full feature set?
732.
by trelane 4y ago
again
733.
by trelane 4y ago
Oh? Were can I get the source and compile Edge myself? Perhaps you've mistaken open source for Free Software.
734.
by trelane 4y ago
> I think Edge's advantage is MS could build a load of corporately validated plugins and service in it for employees, making it the de facto corporate browser. Man, I really don't want another IE. I was around back then, it w
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IRS Tells Millions to Wait Before Filing Taxes(wsj.com)
17 points by trelane 4y ago|5 comments
736.
by trelane 4y ago
> I really wish MS would remove the TPM requirement That's not going to happen. For one, having a more secure OS is actually a good thing, but especially for the even larger amounts of control they'll gain over your computer as
737.
by trelane 4y ago
Man, these names keep being disappointing. Initial reaction: Sweet! Now people can run their Windows apps on Linux/ Android. A second later: oh, bah. More X-on-Windows.
738.
by trelane 4y ago
Once? There was also a recent Cloudberg article about a place radar would've been real handy to have. (Plane and ground thought they were S of Kathmandu when they were N, until they suddenly went silent, due to hitting a mountain.) E
739.
by trelane 4y ago
> GPUs are still Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD), for every vector operation you are doing operation: adding vectors, taking a dot production you are only executing a single op at a time. Sort of. It's both, really. On nvidi
740.
by trelane 4y ago
> Windows NT originally shipped with support for all major CPUs targeted by UNIX workstations, yet all of them faded away until Itanium. Sure, and as any Linux advocate will tell you, most folks on Windows are stuck there due to the prop
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Boeing delivers last 747, saying goodbye to 'Queen of the Skies'(reuters.com)
2 points by trelane 4y ago|0 comments
742.
by trelane 4y ago
No, they co-design the laptops and ship them with completely different firmware. That's very different from what you're saying is happening. You even linked to a thread where an employee discussed how it works. It'd be nice i
743.
by trelane 4y ago
I don't think there has to be a better, existing alternative to say something is terrible. AFAICT, this is just generally a hard space to get right, especially by default, on a system that will power both a data center - size supercomp
744.
by trelane 4y ago
> Those household smoke detectors were in the 80s, the ones sold now are optical. No, ionization detectors are still around. They're better for detecting flame fires than optical. Think of when you've seen a campfire and there&
745.
by trelane 4y ago
> when considering a company that sells branded generic laptops What company does that?
746.
by trelane 4y ago
It's really common. The term is ODM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manu...
747.
by trelane 4y ago
> Docx is similarly open as PDF. This is not true, as far as I can tell. > PDF has an edge here in practice because most use cases are read-only I think many folks would be extremely happy to have full-fidelity read-only access to M
748.
by trelane 4y ago
> You can use Nitrokey too, but IIRC be careful which one you buy as some are software-only implementations. First I've heard of this. Do you have some links where I can read more about this?
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by trelane 4y ago
From the packaging, it says it's more dense. The yellow color is used to indicate gas, so I suspect that's why they chose yellow.
750.
by trelane 4y ago
> It was white thread tape (I've never seen any other color). Teflon tape for gas connections is yellow.

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