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by trelane 1y ago
Yeah the best way to go is to buy Linux preinstalled and supported. Though, as with Windows in this case, that still won't save you if the system integration and firmware teams don't do their job.
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by trelane 1y ago
Yeah, that's not shocking. Linux uses the Intel ACPI infra, whereas Windows uses Microsoft's. It's as good as they can do, but it's not going to be possible to perfectly replicate Windows, let alone improve such clearly
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by trelane 1y ago
This really underscores how complex a computer is these days. This complexity is why you get a ton of little glitches when you slap Linux on a Windows PC--and this is even on Windows, as designed!
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by trelane 1y ago
I need more, but a switch isn't hard to get. In fact, I mainly plan to use these solely for wifi, and have a more advanced, high-bandwidth switch setup.
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by trelane 1y ago
It's been amazing to watch the chair occupants change on this subject (free speech) in the last few years. I still remember "freeze peach" and https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by trelane 1y ago
> That's better than a fully commercial world or a fully "pure" world with no functionality. I would prefer a fully open world with full functionality.
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by trelane 1y ago
I read about this on lwn and am pretty excited for it.
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by trelane 1y ago
LibreOffice has versions that you pay for, with support. The most prominent is Collabora, which is a (if not the ) biggest contributor to LibreOffice.
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by trelane 1y ago
Hahaha. Hosted by my own petard. :)
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by trelane 1y ago
Usually I write "pounds," but what I usually write isn't the point.
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by trelane 1y ago
> 1.4 million km Strange way of writing 1.4gm.
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by trelane 1y ago
I want to believe that we can come together to rein in the federal executive. However, it seems to only ever be a problem when the other side does it.
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by trelane 1y ago
Some context: https://www.history.com/articles/national-state-of-emergency... https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/98-505
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by trelane 1y ago
Sure, there are other options for this. But this is certainly a use case for guix, which is what the poster was asking about.
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by trelane 1y ago
If you install guix as a user, it augments or overrides the software available on your base system. It helps a lot on Chromebooks, where it's not straightforward to get a recent release. It also helps to get up-to-date packages if you&
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by trelane 1y ago
> Free speech isn’t free if it only applies where it’s convenient. Man, this is true across so much of the political landscape. "Principles" are what we enforce on others and excuse away for ourselves.
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by trelane 1y ago
> Free-speech Twitter no longer exists. This is ironic on a posting discussing shadow bans.
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by trelane 1y ago
Might want to send them some help directly if you're able then: https://www.winehq.org/donate
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by trelane 1y ago
Might work even better with CodeWeavers' CrossOver: https://www.codeweavers.com/ It costs a little bit of money, but it comes with support and directly finds the WINE project (CodeWeavers is a major contributor.)
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by trelane 1y ago
They also had (for governments) the ability to look at the (supposed) source code. They couldn't do anything with it (alter or even build iirc), but they could look at it. https://www.computerworld.com/article/
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by trelane 1y ago
You don't have to jailbreak some Android devices, namely the Google devices (provided you didn't buy them from a carrier).[1] They are designed to allow alternate firmware. Instructions for installing alternate firmware : https:
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by trelane 1y ago
Switching licenses on a FOSS project without copyright assignment is almost impossible, unless the license already allows for it. See Linux kernel GPLv3 relicensing discussions of the latter aughts.
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by trelane 1y ago
18ish years after the 3rd version of the GNU General Public License, and tivoization is now the norm.
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by trelane 1y ago
> protection from duplicate packets was never a requirement.. Nope. This is what "at-most-one" means. Either zero or one. Not two. Three is right out. > you also assume there is no other identifying info inside the packets
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by trelane 1y ago
>> UDP delivery itself is not guaranteed >> I asked if at-most-one delivery was ok, he said yes. > Use case satisfied. No. https://wiki.wireshark.org/DuplicatePackets "ConnectionlessProtocols such as UDP
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by trelane 1y ago
> had so-so luck getting Linux working with non-AMD stuff, and regardless of who is ultimately to blame it's still something I had to deal with. Did you buy the laptop with the intention of running Linux on it? Did it ship with Linu
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by trelane 1y ago
System76 is my go to
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by trelane 1y ago
At this point, I'm skeptical of any laptop that wasn't specifically designed for Linux. I have very real doubts that any laptop can support both Linux and Windows well. > specific hardware features are not supported yet, the re
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by trelane 1y ago
Only if you buy a Windows laptop and slap Linux on it. Or is OSX bad because you can't put it on some random laptop off Amazon?
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by trelane 1y ago
I just want people to buy from Linux vendors who put in the work rather than yolo'ing it and then complaining about how bad Linux is.

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