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by wkat4242 1y ago
I use it every day as my desktop OS. Vanilla FreeBSD even, not dragonfly. I like it because it's so stable. They don't have this Linux thing where they have to change everything around to incorporate the latest fad, and there&#x27
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by wkat4242 1y ago
The problem with this is embrace extend extinguish. The way Microsoft adds features to email that only work well in their ecosystem and annoy everyone else is a clear extend phase in progress
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by wkat4242 1y ago
They don't either. Microsoft wants it. They even do all this adoption crap basically advertising their own features "did you react to an email today? Did you @name tag a person today?" If these features were actually compelli
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Yeah our company has recently decided to go all cloud (we're always so late with this stuff, especially now that a moment back from cloud has already started emerging). But for me it's totally ruining my job to be honest. I like t
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by wkat4242 1y ago
> you're the one that wants multiple subscriptions, you just dislike the cost/inconvenience. Economically speaking, there's no solution here that can satisfy you... Yes there is, it's called piracy > ... the cost t
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Obscure musicians never made a lot of money. That's not Spotify's fault. It's just a. Industry where the majority doesn't make it. Gigs are still the main way to earn money for them. And for video it wouldn't have t
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Hmm VLC and Plex still work for me but it looks like I'll need to buy another stick long term. I wish there was a FOSS AOSP distro for android TV, just like lineageos for phones.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
The same with copilot for office. It was much better before but it seems like they're really turning the screws on the compute. Especially the research agent is pretty useless now and it was really powerful. I guess these companies are
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Don't you remember when Satya Nadella was called in front of a congressional hearing to explain their numerous security breaches? So yeah.. Apple is a different story, but they are not invulnerable to cellebrite either
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by wkat4242 1y ago
I don't remember how much I had, but I think the "contemporary" is the issue. It really needed up to date hardware and most people didn't spend a lot on computers in those days so it would usually have been a year or som
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Yes it is the way to go but politicians get fatigued because they keep pushing the same thing so often. Also the lobbyists have big bags of money to throw at it.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Well yes but even a no forever would be revisited under the right circumstances. But what we do need is a wider no. Not just "no this highly specific combination of stipulations is not ok, let's try it again next month with one or
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Huh I wonder if this would run on my G4 Mac mini. Or my G4 iMac. I still have both. Would be cool to try.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Probably some but those old towers were not VoIP capable and the handsets are no longer sold. I doubt there's many around. The voicemail card was basically an 8088 and i think still used floppies IIRC. I didn't work with them dire
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by wkat4242 1y ago
I remember in the warp days they were throwing free cdroms at anyone who asked, full licensed. I got several at trade shows. They were trying to sell it for sure.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Yeah it would have been amazing to not have MS as the dominant desktop OS vendor in the world. But Warp in particular was just sooooo heavy. I used it in the day, I even got a free cdrom somewhere. But it was just terribly sluggish. And I w
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by wkat4242 1y ago
I thought this was a user ID and password lol
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by wkat4242 1y ago
True though I don't believe Google's goal is truly security here. I think it's more an excuse and the real reason is tightening control.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Ah I see, I thought this was like a constant thing like it was for me. My flights were all regional so it wasn't so bad in terms of flight time, but it did take over my life. For example, I often had to be at a meeting at 10-11am monda
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by wkat4242 1y ago
F-Droid is also the only one that does reproducible builds which is a big security feature. One that is precisely the cause of making this hard. But it also makes it safer than even the play store. It should really be accommodated.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
You could make a glossy PC client around it. On the meta quest there's an app called SideQuest that does just that because meta doesn't permit apps to install other apps. It's still a fairly big thing there.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Wow you fly a lot! These things are out what, 2 months? :O Doesn't that get exhausting? I used to have a job where I'd be on a plane every week and I couldn't hack it. It's supposed to be liberating to travel but basical
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Yes me too. A lot of my stuff is NUCs and similar. Several of those nice ultra-cheap N100s. Amazing stuff
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by wkat4242 1y ago
And wargames too
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by wkat4242 1y ago
After the first crash they knew for sure. Yet they didn't do anything to prevent the second one. Before the first one yeah, you could claim that they might have had no idea this could possibly happen. I don't think that is the cas
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Copy selected files to another pendrive. Use postal service to ship pendrive to other person. We used to call that sneakernet :D But yeah there's a reason people don't do this anymore
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by wkat4242 1y ago
I use S3 glacier on Scaleway (European cloud provider). Storing about 3TB costs me about 7€ per month including VAT. I've had to restore 1TB in the past and it cost me around 10€. Not bad for a worst case scenario. They also do mini VP
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Where I see the open source platforms lack is selective sync. That thing that dropbox and OneDrive etc do where they have a folder with only placeholders for your files, and only when you actually access one it gets downloaded and then keep
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Oh he certainly is. But he is ero ding it. It's only just starting and the EU is only just starting to disconnect itself from the US. So right now he still has a lot of pull.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
> you can bet your ass C-Suite is gonna be A-Okay. No but that's why it should be possible to hold them personally accountable IMO. I think them getting away with everything is what's wrong with the world these days. Also, a co

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