I was on Gnome for a long time starting around 2.10, but the camel's back broke at 3.40 when they really wrecked lots of extensions.
If you like to have a desktop that is fashion du jour, you are in for a treat but if you want your desktop the way you like it and keep it that way you don' t stand a chance.
You really have to work the way they think is good for you or they will wreck all your computer fun.
In the end after testing many desktop systems I personally stuck with LXQt, not going to try and lure you there, just see for yourself if you like it.
Besides the privacy problems, this also means that they use your bundle to transmit data, it is a form of theft if one is not compensated. I wonder if that can be a narrative to sue them for it.
Not worse, just as bad in a different way, it has nothing to do with geography. It is just that absolute power corrupts absolutely, regardless of the players of this power game.
We had housing cooperation's for a century until they were forced by consecutive right wing governments to sell their houses, and thus ruining a system that was well working, except for rich friends of the right wing government to speculate with the housing system, which is taking place now.
At this moment in time the interest on debt created by governments, multinationals and rich elite is paid for by the increased housing rent of people in the range of poor to upper middle class. Not only in the US but almost everywhere. Low and even negative interest rates cause investors to invest in bricks. and where investors go, lowlife speculator creeps seem to follow.
He was talking about protecting a trade secret, patents are about giving up your trade secret to have a monopoly for a given time. This enabled society in the past to build complex systems by standing on each others shoulders. The problem with patents nowadays is the way they are validated, they used to be validated on the idea and now they are validated on implementation, which enables corporations to change a single ingredient of that idea to take out another patent. Also corruption of all parts of government and civil society does not help e.a. lobby-ism, revolving door employment between corporations and government/civil society.
With Flu your bones or muscles ache or your belly feels like it falls off. When bad, you have all symptoms. Worse is when attracting lung inflammation, that feels as if you are constantly drowning. All of this with high fever or even worse, cold fever.
It is not just, people keep giving their money to them.
Problem is that most common people always value a convenient prison over a little less convenient freedom. Most common people can't deal with freedom and need a hand of their favorite overlord to function. It is not a conscious decision as if you ask them they will reject that thought.
Shared libraries are a tradeoff from a time (80's and 90's) where big projects like GUI systems needed to be run on small computers.
Today with the cheap memory resources and fast interfacing you are often better off with programs that are statically linked as they have no run dependencies other than the OS.
The country has only one problem, the fascist caste system where rich castes feel entitled to scam, rape, squeeze and murder poor castes. All problems of that country boils down to this.
I am doing production with these recordings, tools are more precise at higher bit and sample rates. Also quality of listening equipment is a factor as hearing is not a flat frequency response, things as ambiance and resonance play a role, music is not a single frequency tone but a combination of complicated frequency additions, subtractions, multiplications and divisions. So more frequency room can produce nicer highs and clearer sound, especially when music is uncompressed.
It is simplistic to state that 44.1/16bit is enough, if that is the case then any combination of recording, amplifier and speaker would suffice.
This just isn't the case, also that we would need awesome priced equipment isn't really worth it.
But there really is a difference between a phone with a music app playing a 16bit/44.1kHz song on a medium quality headphones and a dedicated player with a good DAC chip playing a 96kHz song on a good quality headphones.
People that cannot hear the difference should not invest in such equipment and will be happy with the need to invest less money for their entertainment.
I found out when digitizing vinyl that LP's before 1977, when digital mixing and mastering was not the norm that there is more data in the frequencies between 20 and 50kHz. I do my recording standard at 192kHz and analogue LP's often reach 48kHz of data while digital mastered ones do only 22kHz. After that date often the frequency is cutoff at 20-22kHz, probably to save memory room. Only after 2000-2010 there is enough memory to record at insane sample rates and bits per sample. Most awful are cds having only 16 bits and 41kHz sample rate, by modern standards really poor.
Is it me? As far as I can read nothing is said really, only some vague communication director mumble that they value their employees output to open source projects. What is said and what is showed, is not only in this case miles apart, but often is with a lot of big companies.
Covid... In negative sense, but also in investing sense.
We will see a multitude of R&D and investments in all sorts of forms around this buzzword. From tests, filtering, mRNA to all sorts of medical innovations.