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Desktop Linux in a nutshell.

> when nobody needs their crap anymore

I bet you wouldn't see WSJ articles on HN if this was the case.

Yet they keep showing up, paywall or no.

Click the [-] on the thread to collapse it, thank your overlords, and move on. Works every time.

Alternatively, pay for a damn subscription and stop moaning that the free lunch is over.

> enroll him in a computer science course

Why are you doing that to him?

You're probably not British, so I'll point out that the Daily Mail is on par with Fox News.

Don't link to it.

> I'm not American

I can tell. Don't put a space after a question mark! See?

It gives you away as a Frenchman.

Santa can I please have a separate HN for those who buy lightbulbs with firmware to post to?

Jesus.

Oh for Christ sake, just disable the Windows Update service and stop complaining. Done. No updates until you turn it back on.

It's two clicks.

> World Stage

Come again? Try switching off the news for a while.

The world doesn't need an elite to run, the plebes run it just fine.

There isn't a "World Stage".

Couldn't you just have said, "this guy doesn't know what he's talking about", like a normal person?

That was hard to parse.

> I'm skeptical that there is such a thing as efficient and comfortable public transport.

Have you tried living in a country made for people, as opposed to cars?

Like, just about anywhere in Europe.

Does that mean that if I type very hard and I feel there's no hope for me to learn not to bang on the keyboard, the most, well, healthy keyboard for me will be the one with the longest key travel?

Mikrotik. Or EdgeRouter Lite or X. $100, Debian-based, they even sell it with an SFP port. You can install FreeBSD if you like that better.

You must be a blast at parties.

> Using an Apple keyboard, which even though it doesn't look ergonomic, the reduced key travel has helped immensely.

I thought the conventional wisdom was that Apple keyboards caused RSI?

Christ, what country are you in?

And people worry we won't have enough jobs when the robots take over.

> Was Rosa Parks anybody important when she did what she did?

These are social issues. There are no monetary interests at work.

In the (very, very) long run nobody really cares who you marry.

These are just the little things given to us to fight over so we don't notice what's really going on (i.e 3 wars, but still no healthcare? Come on.)

Does it make you feel any better though? Do you prefer to be continuously disappointed over things you have no control on?

Others don't give a damn, and they're happier because of it.

Bad things will happen to you personally eventually (assuming they haven't yet). I have enough of that to deal with already, why would I want more?

> I did not read his statement as a blanket statement; it hadn't occurred to me that anyone would until I saw your comment.

You haven't been on the internet much have you?

Get out before it sucks all the optimism out of you and replaces it with cynicism.

I feel it's a non-reversible process.

> Well, Bayer runs (or ran) ads encouraging just that behaviour.

Such a thing would never fly in Europe. They'd get laughed out of the room and sued.

Have an upvote.

How do I downvote idiots? I keep tapping on the arrow but it does nothing. Please help.

Thanks!

If anyone working on Office 365 OWA is about, please make the Ignore button front and center if the To is a mailing list.

One can right click and then Ignore the thread, but presumably nobody is aware of this or we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I used to work at a hotel. 100% of late-night bookings meant trouble in one way or another.

> you guys still believe that GMO are harmful (while they can solve world hunger), have tons of anti-vaccers, flat-earthers, young earth creationist and climate change deniers

You do realise there's 300 million people in the US, yes?

Biased source.

Selected post titles:

- D-Bus, ConsoleKit, PolicyKit: turds upon turds upon turds

- The Systemd (sic) debacle

- D-Bus is completely unnecesary

Choice quote:

"yes, they want me to call it “systemd”, but I’m averse, for some reason, to proper nouns beginning with lower-case letters; something to do with having had a moderately good education, I guess"

This is reddit-level drivel. Please refrain from posting it.

An LWN article on bus1 will come out, eventually; post that instead.

It may well have been, but the title as it stands now is useless. I was forced to click through and read all the comments to find out what this was about.

> analytical decision-steering systems

nice way to say, "the computer is doing my job for me".

which is all well and good, mind. Now if only doctors had that.

Where are the expert systems of the 70s, the ones I read about in AI books?

Implying the political climate has ever been any different.

Something something past, rose-tinted glasses.

Political climate is a function of the people in charge. People in charge, due the nature of power and its effects, are always the same. Therefore the political climate is always the same.

You're just inadvertently filtering out.