They can’t go to far down this line, they’ll have antitrust issues. They’re a mature company doing what mature companies do and letting the middle (marketing) managers who couldn’t run a bath, run the company by focusing on cost reduction not earnings growth, and bury it.
We saw this with HP. Remember how we all used to buy HP printers for Linux? I still have my 1990s - please god - LaserJet and can still get toner.
It’s not just a pricing issue. It’s an ownership issue.
Too many of the things we buy are not ours.
Yesterday I saw the article about VW cars which need a subscription to use the built-in capabilities. The car you bought doesn’t belong to you.
Fair comment.
IANA developer at all. Mostly just keeping records of my dotfiles and odd bits I have playing with., and the experiments I try to run using branches. Sometimes I need a visual representation of the commits and hashes to make it easier to understand what I’m doing.
git is my only nemesis.
Google had a leak.
They found a way to make your photos more social,
Off topic: day-after-day with these kinds of posts and especially the replies, I need Reddit less and less. That’s a very good thing.
A bag of frozen peas.
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Now you have the reliability of fifty-three messages all saying “ring me back”.
Give me visual voicemail. You put the switch on my Android. Just do it!
Oh. Thank-you. I’ll read through.
Thank-you. Recently rebuilt my Arch Rescue build and saw that section in doing the UKI dance.
I don’t mind the Microsoft keys being there at all. I just don’t think tying myself to them is particularly clever.
From your final part. I think I need to go back and reread it. Thank-you again.
I thought it was a Microsoft centric thing in that the certificate authority was either Microsoft or signed by Microsoft?
Maybe I need to read about it more? Can you direct me to the general area?
Being beholden to Microsoft doesn’t sound like something anyone needs.
Until that ends I’m doing best to avoid secure boot. I don’t want to.
Do you trust any other provider? Amex used to have a payment type app but I’m not sure I’d call it a wallet. From what I remember Amex wasn’t well used in Germany.
You’re better of looking in the degoogle communities. Sorry, I still haven’t learned to cite the communities here properly (there seem to be two forms). Type degoogle into a community search box (all one word, no hyphens)
This is such a wonderful project. I am so grateful that it exists.
Thank-you everyone. Truly.
If you’re new to Linux, you won’t stay with the distro anyone recommends for more than a month. It’s a truism.
I’m not you. You’re not me.
That said. Ubuntu isn’t the Ubuntu of old. The real selling point is the zfs, but you have all the other NIH stuff like snap etc. I’m not a zfs fan but I appreciate that it’s got a huge fan base.
One thing to say is that you don’t have to have a one and only. I have at least two distros I use daily for workstation stuff. I use Fedora for typing and Arch for backups, debugging, rescue, and other fiddling about stuff (because Fedora gets in the way sometimes). Every distro has the same set of commands.
distrowatch.com is your friend.
Thank-you.
What things are and what the masses choose to call them, and use them for, are usually two different things.
Asking the masses to understand a complex subject for themselves, and ascribe to it appropriate nomenclature, when all they actually want is something that echoes what they already think with more eloquence is folly.
Reference: social media - a method to collect personal data from the masses to use against them, which they willingly and greedily supply, without recompense.
I’d suggest no-one ever dual-boot Windows with anything. There are to many mishaps when Windows takes it into their head to fuck the bootloader.
Put the OS into a VM. If you only use Windows for one app put Windows into the VM. Otherwise put Linux into the VM until you find you’re mostly using Linux.
Unless you have an old PC laying around …
Isn’t Mozilla VPN just rebadged Mullvad (but you have to identify yourself)?