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Dell took the namesake company private some years back because he felt that being public didn't allow the company to make long term plans.

Tech is Apple and Apple is tech...

I have long noticed that Apple "related" news make it to front pages that usually do not carry any tech news at all.

My understanding for why this happens is that media outlets are old school Apple strongholds. In large part because the current generation of media people have been educated by a generation that learned their trade by rote on gray scale Macs.

Mental inbreeding, basically...

IMO, intuitiveness is overrated.

As one snarky joke goes: only the nipple is intuitive, everything else is learned.

IRC...

But yes, Slack is basically IRC with a built in bouncer.

And i case people wonder, a bouncer or BNC, was a personal proxy that would be running on some server somewhere, and that maintained a presence on the IRC networks for you when you logged off.

And when you logged back on, you got a log of all the traffic on the relevant channels and direct messages while you were gone.

I honestly prefer text, at least for technical stuff, over a video. The videos often end up spending 10 minutes when all i want is some quick specs or a bullet point list.

Only problem was that Thunderbird insisted on opening the linked page via its internal gecko copy rather than being able to pass it on to a full browser...

Actually i think REGIS is for vector graphics, SIXEL (six pixels pr character) is the pixel graphics.

I seem to recall that at least one terminal browser can pull some tricks to insert images into the window in X as well.

Funny thing is that this sounds similar to what was Raskin's big idea for computer interaction.

IRC in particular was great for this, as it was rooms not P2P, and quite often one could find quite local rooms. ICQ and IM in general ruined that, IMO, as it was more invite based.

And then a few years later X don't wanna play with Y because Z don't like them etc etc etc...

GDDR5 as CPU RAM sounds crazy in the best possible way.

Apple already have a good enough rapport with Intel that they can get "custom" variants for their laptops (the Air got a variant with a shrunk package back in the day, iirc).

With Razer, dunno. But when it comes to gaming AMD has long held the "hobbyist" stigma compared to Intel+Nvidia (though one may wonder if that is as a result of shenanigans from the latter two).

Depends on what part of the world you live, and what brand.

Huawei and ZTE has had a presence in Europe for years, with Huawei even getting into the infrastructure market.

Xiaomi is a different story, as they were not even interested in getting their devices Google certified for the longest time.

And much like how Samsung eroded the foundation of Nokia's market by undercutting them on cheap featurephones, Huawei seems to have done the same to Samsung by flooding the market with "cheap" models and working their way up.

Not to say that Huawei's offerings are bad from a customer standpoint, i had a P6 for a number of years and frankly it surprised me with its software bundle. I really felt they were angling more towards being a pocket computer than being a media player with streaming.

SteamOS anyone?

Retro Man Cave giving a tour of such a clone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaRyirU_EI

Resulting in some interesting dodges around the law over the years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaRyirU_EI

the problem is invariably with upstream making assumptions and changes on a whim, not with distros.

As for linux on the desktop, until there is a credible brand offering a credible pre-installed computer, via credible outlets, backed by a credible support service, and MS actually allows them to exist beyond the first revision, then you will have your Linux on the desktop independent of all the effort (or anti-effort) the big DEs etc put in.

The reason for the conflicts are rarely if ever at the package layer, and more often than not with upstream changing dependencies on a .x update.

This leaves the distro maintainers two choices: either recompile/restructure the whole distro to placate one upstream, or freeze said upsteam on an older version and suffer their social media wrath.

The sad part is that Twitter started as a SMS relay, ans SMS has had a system for splitting and joining long messages for ages...

It worked just now, just sure what i did wrong earlier.

Maybe it had to fully load the feed before the proper dialog showed up.

Clever.

But i was thinking more of using the whole surface area of a floppy as a PCB and cover it with flash chips.

Gotta love Retro Man Cave, delightfully British.

Edit: On a different note, i would love to see a ssd based "floppy" that was loaded with the solid clunk of the 3.5" floppy.

I only see name and description boxes in the dialog that comes up...

Only problem i have bumped into is easily sending a entry to the browser without reaching for the mouse.

When you can't even modify the URL behind a live bookmark, nor tell Firefox to mark all existing entries read, it is beyond basic...

While i am sad to see Mozilla strip even more out of Firefox, live bookmarks was perhaps a real poor take on rss support.

First of all it didn't cache old entries.

second it didn't update unless the entry on the bookmarks was expanded.

third you didn't know what was read outside of a subtle icon change.

RSS more properly belongs in a email client like ui...

Mozilla has already crippled Firefox's extension system, so why bother?

Iirc, various people wanted to build encryption etc into tcp/ip. But there was a this thing called the cold war going on, and thus encryption was treated as military hardware in the eyes of export law.

Though really one could probably put the ultimate blame on the von Neumann architecture winning the CPU design prize. Thus any data can potentially be a program...

I'm no accountant, but i have the impression that there are various international agreements in place that basically says that earnings are to be taxed where they are made.

This is why there has been a bunch of hoopla over Irish tax incentives for example, as it allowed the likes of Microsoft, Apple and Google to claim all sales inside EU was done by their Irish office. The rest simple earned just enough to cover expenses...