troyunrau

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Git is a sort of proto-blockchain -- well, it's a ledger anyway. It is fairly useful. (Fucking opaque compared to subversion or other centralized systems that didn't have the ledger, but I digress...)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

If the Kindle is a tablet, then yes. If the Kindle is an e-reader, then no.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I don't think Kobo has that option. I just toggle on my wifi hotspot on my phone though and that works just fine.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Comics and graphic novels mostly. Maybe scientific papers and textbooks.

Oh you mean the point for Amazon? Extract money

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Articles like this always tend to overlook the fact that Bell Labs wasn't unique in its time. And other companies had very similar labs running. A famous example is Xerox Labs which invented the computer mouse and graphical windowing, among other things.

Google had this vibe too, prior to going public.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Weirdly enough, .Net works relatively well on Linux (at least the core components). Parts of the framework are even various degrees of open sourced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Should we tell them? ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Is there a "government" version or similar, where security is paramount? Like, how does MS sell windows 11 to the navy or whatever...?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

Sometimes people get caught up trying to find exact matches for software, when instead it's a combination of tools that gets the job done on another OS. The annoying thing is learning new toolsets -- but it's only annoying until you know them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

KDE Plasma recently added a once-annually notification requesting donations to the KDE e.V. (who pay for things like server infrastructure to support the project). Is this past your line, or acceptable?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Windows 7 still has a similar market share to desktop Linux. I suspect that some of those users are holdouts, rejecting the Cortana nonsense but too stubborn or lazy to switch. But I'd also wager that, in the longer term, a decent portion of that 3% ends up on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Very possible. But wanted to presume bad coding over outright falsification.

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