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I hadn't thought about Yellow Dog Linux in years until seeing this. Discontinued in 2012, which is understandable after Apple's switch to Intel.

If the current government want to kill it completely why have the ruled out decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee? There are pretty strong ethical reasons for why you shouldn't get a criminal record and, possibly, face prison time for not paying for a TV licence, so it would be politically quite easy to pass.

Or the content becomes the differentiator rather than the presentation.

30k in Swedish krone?

Serious question but how do you get in so many situations that lead to violence?

The first novel is the build up to a massive war.

Tiberius: Tim Apple

Having had a Model 3 for eight months now, the interface is something you learn to live with rather than ever feeling totally confident with.

The buttons etc are designed for a car that can run the wipers etc flawlessly itself but the tech isn’t there yet.

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What you’re looking for sounds like Skypix, an Amiga based system for creating BBS UIs.

But, honestly, if your intention is to reach an audience rather than simply to geek out over an elegant technical solution (no harm in that!), then just go with streaming. It’s not your bandwidth, after all, if you’re using Twitch et al.

I guess, though, that streaming has the problem of not letting you copy the code, not being meaningfully interactive, etc.

I wondered why we hadn’t seen her in The Rovers.

Where are British schoolchildren getting these Pis? Mine aren’t. The school where my sister works isn’t giving them out, either.

The closest I’ve seen to what you describe was a BBC Microbit my son was given as part of holiday club but that was sponsored by Maxell, not the British government, Broadcom, or anyone else.

Is it really a distro? Surely a distro is a collection of tools, applications, and a kernel that form an operating system.

Haiku is a single project operating system, so when they make a release it's not a distribution as such, is it?

We wouldn't call Windows 10 a Windows distro.

Oh cool. The Dreamwriter was based on the Amstrad NC100:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_NC100

A very cool little device, at the time. I borrowed one as a kid and it seemed very exciting to be able to type things wherever I was.

I'm kinda nostalgic for that less connected era, where life moved at a slightly slower pace. Like all nostalgia, I'm leaving out the bad parts.

This feels like the sort of thing people buy to kid themselves that the problem with their writing lies outside their own brains.

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of a dedicated writing device but, for me as someone who writes pretty much for the entire working day, inconvenience is the biggest bar to writing other than lack of sleep. If I can't edit on the device, or find the text in my usual GSuite/Office 365 spaces, then maybe I'd be better off with a $40 dictaphone and Rev.com.

I don't think that distinction is helpful. Journalism is too important to our society for us to give the profession a free pass by giving the shadier parts a different name.

I'm sure that wasn't your intention but a profession won't improve if there's a way for its practitioners to shrug off criticism by telling themselves some version of the no true Scotsman fallacy.

I suppose it depends on how quickly they go from "Apple says this legacy" to actual legacy tech.

When it's a laptop, I'm quite the fan of having as much as possible built into the machine as a single unit. That's the point of the form factor, after all.

I think the last thing the MacBooks need are more dongles.

If you spend hours upon hours each day using that tool to be productive, then the quality of experience it delivers does change your life.

If you're constantly fighting against a jammed keyboard, that affects your productivity, which most likely affects your happiness.

A lot of words to say nothing.

Yes it’s a bad keyboard. But the interesting story is in how a company that once prioritised quality of user experience came to make that choice.

The article is a set of maybes without any new insights.

Dave Winer, creator of RSS, said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 people. I think we’ve been living in that world for a few years now.

When you mention the change of ownership, I assume that there's an implication there, but would you be willing to be explicit about it?

In the U.K. it’s supermarket opening times, especially near holidays.

Google for “Aldi opening times Easter Sunday” and you’ll get articles from the lower quality newspaper websites.

It’s pathetic.

From the perspective of a customer who cares about these things, though, there is a difference between a non-EU company bound by EU law and an EU head quartered company.

I'm not saying it's enough to build an AWS-sized business or that Lidl is in a position to do it but there are cloud hosts who sell themselves specifically on that, such Exoscale.com

You'll need to give some more detail.

When I worked with a European cloud host, customers in Germany demanded German data centres and EU ownership. I've seen enough people/companies ask for that to convince me there's at least some demand.

What's your reason for saying it's not a good differentiator?

There are circumstances in which non-competes are enforceable in the UK. Even if it doesn’t technically apply to your situation, it can end up with a court deciding. At the least, a bloody minded employer can make it too expensive and painful to hire you by taking out an injunction against the new employer.

Sadly, thinking non-competes don’t apply in the UK has led people to sign them glibly and then face problems later.

The Economist is one of the few publications I consider worth my money. Its journalism is thoughtful and for the long term, rather than sensationalised click-bait.

Any time someone gives the guy’s full name it’s a clear indicator of a certain agenda. Give it a rest. Dredge it up when he’s recovered or maybe, if he doesn’t survive this, after a respectful interval following his death.

Uncited thoughts of non-aviation person from unrelated industry who says they know no one in the airline industry.

I'll go with what my doctor tells me but thanks for the links.