Genuinely, if GOG finally manages to support Linux, I will definitely return to it and start purchasing games there.

You may be right. That does seem to make more sense.

This is not true. Most of the competition are clueless nepo babies who win by default.

The rest are people who have been programming embedded systems since they were 3 months old.

By default, you never have to enter your BitLocker passphrase, since there’s usually no passphrase in the first place. The default configuration unlocks the drive automatically as long as it’s on the same network it was set up with. Otherwise you need the recovery key. You can also manually enable an unlock method, though on modern PCs there’s usually only PIN available.

On Linux, in theory you can have the exact same setup and nothing’s stopping you. However, depending on the distro it may or may not be easily configured. You can fairly easily set up automatic drive unlock with TPM, which essentially gives you a similar experience to the default BitLocker.

I don’t like how writing down passwords on notes has been heavily criminalized. Obviously it’s a security risk, but so is having a simple password that isn’t written down anywhere. In fact, the latter is often more dangerous, depending on the specific environment. Just make sure the note isn’t easily accessible and you’re good.

Very good question indeed. Sadly, it doesn’t help that Chomsky keeps avoiding answering this and other related questions.

As someone so vocal about serious crimes going unpunished, I’d imagine he’d just openly say what’s going on. If he’s so adamant about staying silent, it only adds more doubt and further questions.

To be fair, he never said the self documentation makes any sense. Just that it’s there.

In case you were wondering the ‘w’ in ‘wine’ stands for ‘wine’, and the full acronym is ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’. What do you think the ‘w’ in ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’ stands for?

It’s not at all misleading. That’s how percantages work. It plainly says ‘+22.4%’, which is fully factual and accurate. Your ‘actual 1% increase’ is a false statement. It’s a 1 percentage point increase, which is completely separate from the regular percantage.

Polyamorous in public. It’s open and anyone can contribute.

Year of the Linux gooning

You write clean code and you get replaced in 2 months, because everyone can work on that code.

You write an unreadable mess that no raise will convince other employees to work on and suddenly your holiday requests don’t get declined anymore.

This is a vicious cycle of falling back to dictatorship to avoid imperialism, or some of it.

A) The country opens up and holds free elections, leading to an American puppet winning and the country turning into a vassal state at best, a glorified colony at worst.

B) The country turns into a dictatorship to limit foreign influence and fight back against imperialism, becoming a similarly terrible place to live, but at least without giving anything to the empire. Also note that as time passes, it’s quite likely that the dictatorship will forget why it was even created, i.e. it will no longer be about rejecting imperialism.

There are often the only two realistic scenarios for countries targetted by the American Empire. Both are bad and I’m not sure I feel like analyzing which one is slightly less bad for the average person.

Well, the friends are right, because he is a dictator.

Which is still better than whatever USA has in store for Venezuela.

And which absolutely doesn’t justify slaughtering Venezuelan civilians.

Been using Fedora on several laptops and desktops, and haven’t had issues with wifi. Or with anything else for that matter. For me, everything in Fedora just works and never breaks.

The first bug I’ve seen was recently. Apparently an update broke the ‘shutdown and update’ function in Fedora Workstation. So now when you press it, nothing happens. Then when you try shutting down, the PC will shut down without updating. It’ll update and shutdown upon next boot. Can confirm Fedora KDE is unaffected though.

How can you know if the sources really are bad if it’s not obvious aftet reading? Do you just trust a random person’s words? In this case, you’re essentially arbitrarily picking one version over another.

The problem with ‘stopping lies’ is it requires effort, which not everyone may wish to dedicate. I’m by no means denouncing the other person for trying to stop misinformation (assuming that’s the case, since I still have no idea). However, it’s all in vain if they don’t bother to do anything to prove their point.

Anyone can post misinformation as sources, just as anyone can post that the sources are bad. Fundamentally there isn’t a whole lot of difference between the two. If you really feel the need to defend people from being misinformed, some better source or other form of proof, or at the very least a deeper explanation would go a long way.

Disclaimer: not .ml.

Critisizing someone’s sources and then refusing to provide any other ones “because it’s pointless” seems a little hypocritical to me.

I’m pointing out the problems with the sources for all the other people that are observing that comment and being swayed, because it’s a bunch of baloney.

So we should trust your word over someone’s who has at least put in the effort to provide sources?

Look, you don’t need to prove anything, but if you’re gonna argue or act like you’re defending people from misinformation, then I’d expect to see more than just “don’t listen to that guy”. It’s not exactly easy finding objective information about various issues in China and filtering out all the American propaganda. Personally, I’d very much appreciate any links that don’t lead to obvious manipulation.

What the hell? It looks insane. How have I not seen this before? Will need to check it out later. Thanks for sharing!

Now make Windows 7.

If I was getting programmer socks in exchange for my personal data I wouldn’t care so much about privacy.