I keep reading about all the memory leaks and have been staying far away. Lots of people reporting slowdowns and crashes and not being able to launch new apps. That just shows really bad QA across not just one app or the OS but across the whole process. Probably the hurry to get out a new OS version every year instead of every couple
I always wait for each point release and see if complaints are up or down. I can adjust to about any UI, as long as 80-90% stays the same. For example I ditched windows almost completely at 8 when they left the classic look and went for tablet mode. That's when I went to Mac, I'd been an avid linux user since the 90s though. What I can't put up with are bugs, so I wait out reviews and such from actual technical people and tech sites like reddit and hackernews. It's a policy that hasn't failed me yet.
That's cool, just don't expect linux to handle infinite hardware, it will never happen. Windows doesn't either, your hardware was likely designed to handle windows from the beginning. We as a community welcome people but we aren't obligated to make their computers compatible because that's an impossible goal
When you start with the antichrist as a real person and contemporary threat everything that comes after is gonna fall apart. I agree with RFK on ultraprocessed foods and weightlifting, the health benefits of which are well-established by science; but I'm not going to agree with him on dismantling the FDA, ending vaccinations for everything, and that germ theory is a scientific conspiracy.
in my experience only the comments section which is full of the same whackos as it has been for the past decade. I'm a regular reader at reason, lots of the articles are good and present traditional libertarian points of view.
Those guys are just embarrassed republicans trying to pass themselves off as more intellectual, when they're just as close minded as ever and want to end civil rights and political speech. I've watched the Mises branches and they are not traditional libertarians at all. they welcome in the bigots and other white supremacists for the numbers it adds to their roll calls.
Yeah it's a weak argument. Public transportation is weak in the US because support for it is weak. It will take a dramatic shift in the Average American view of mass transit or some breathtaking price decrease in trains/tunneling/trams along with comfort of travel in said methods.
That's what I thought too. Boring equipment that could dig tunnels for extremely cheap. Don't know the current status, but I didn't think it was set up like picturing set of interconnected tubes like, for instance, the interwebs.
Yep I only buy laptops/computers that are known to be compatible with linux or outright allow it as an option. Drivers are the biggest issue by far, especially video and power suspend modes. Life gets a bit easier when you get windows off the brain
Are they buying it up to kill it or phase it out? Seems like corporations never do anything like this to the "good" of the community, it's always bad. I'd love to be pointed at exceptions where a megacorp bought some small relatively benevolent project and then didn't squeeze all the profit out of it and leave it for dead.
It's still nice that it was put up for completeness. And as we know this stuff has a long sordid history of people who are proponents of weakening encryption not giving up easily.
Yeah the real issue that most Americans (and probably other countries) is that 0.1% of the populace is wagging the rest of the 99.9% around based on how much they're willing to pay to politicians.
It really isn't though. Sure I can't go and buy a full auto AR15/AK47 without a special license. However it's pretty easy for me to go buy semi-auto version of that which can also do a lot of damage. There are a few red flag laws like in Texas but they are easily gotten around by private trade, and that's true for most "Red" states. Often no waiting period either if you go to an actual store. It really varies a lot state to state.
I disagree and think it is very reasonable and very possible. Don't put up cameras everywhere, don't put up listening devices everywhere, don't allow the government to buy this information from corporations. There should be a clear line drawn between me or you or a bar putting up a camera and the government gaining access to that data. It's not hard, it really isn't. Saying what you're saying it just trite and not looking at what is possible.
I don't care. The world is a dangerous place, we make it safer by promoting freedom and education and goodwill and faith in people, not by growing the police state. We do know for a fact however that in the near future anything "think of the children" or "just looking for criminals" ultimately gets turned against all of us as the government grows and grows without limit, our rights will become fewer and fewer with the encroachment. It's not "panic" or "exaggeration" it has happened all through history of nation-states.
“Human distress” today, and “human everything” tomorrow. They probably just don't currently have the processing capability or upload bandwidth for all the passersby talking, the only issue is technical and not moral. Flock is in this for money, all morals are turned off --corporations are not really people-- and will sell cops and the government anything they are willing to pay for, including listening for wrongthink. Every time I read a story like this I send EFF or the ACLU another $20
I can always see myself working somewhere the money leads me. I see languages as a tool and not a "this not that" or "ewww" . Sure I have my preferences but they all keep a Rivian over my head and a nice italian leather couch to lay my head on.
Seems more like a tr-ade off than a tr-ap. Everything has a price. I think LLVM is well worth the tradeoffs for all the stuff that it gives you. I'm sure that some better tech will replace it but calling it a trap seems like an exaggeration, it seems to work well enough for even the biggest companies and countries in the world.
I'm pretty sure the younger generation is intimidated by cash and think maybe only criminals and boomers use it? I am middle-aged and keep a couple of hundred dollars on me of petty cash for day to day activities. If someone “holds me up” it's not a lot, but it's great for keeping my day-to-day purchases anonymous. I'm all for making cash “an option” for every purchase or at least those under say $10k, not everything needs to be tracked or known.
Maybe I'm being dense here, why does this matter? Eventually it has to sync up. So what is the advantage other than maybe being able to pay when networks are down? Same data eventually ends up in "the system" doesn't it?
I'm glad you aren't finding it hard. I can't even get people to move from Whatsapp and Messenger over to Signal. Only computer geeks seem to care or bother, so that's who is on my Signal list.
In the end Revenues > Costs or you have an issue. That "startup" money will eventually be gone, and you're back to MIMO Money In vs Money Out and if it's not > , you will go bankrupt.
I think it's a bit worse this time since we have an unbridled President, that the SCOTUS has made King-adjacent, who wants to permanently fire a lot of the furloughed employees out of vengeance and with no clear logic other than he's angry. So this time it's not quite as matter-of-fact.
It was already dislike because video game fans are a fickle bunch. Now it's own by investors that are likely to run it into the ground, and maybe add some politics to the whole affair while they ride the crashing plane