NateNate60 @ NateNate60 @lemmy.ml

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The Windows Store limits the number of machines that you can install paid software on to 10. If you are managing a lot of computers you'd be better off with some actual management software or at least a package manager like Chocolatey. Then you can push software to your machines, run updates, or uninstall stuff whenever you like.

They can install the same management software that most companies around the globe put on their employee's phones to track what their minions are doing on company hardware. You don't need special backdoors for that.

Hitler was only sentenced to 5 years in prison despite being convicted of treason. He lived in comfort and wrote his famous book there.

The 60-day, nine-month, and time-served sentences make a mockery of justice and a tragedy of history. 20 years is about right if not a bit lenient for plotting what would have gotten someone hanged, drawn, and quartered at the time of our country's founding.

Same here. It seems she just pops up every so often, says something stupid, then disappears again into the woodwork.

Originally my mum moved my brother and I into the same room and rented out the empty room for $40 a night. The cleaning fee was $20 and we still cleared $2,000 in one summer.

My brother and I each got a 5% cut and we bought ice creams from Safeway every day for a week until we got wicked stomach aches

I'm sure the Government can go tell a company to remove the backdoors on Government devices:

Remove all the backdoors and we'll buy phones for each of our 100,000 employees and award your company a ¥3 gazillion support contract. But if we find out the NSA hacked our phones then there'll be big trouble, Mao Zedong-style.

This is like the people who repackage and rebrand LibreOffice and then resell it for $10 on the Windows Store to gullible users.

And the worst part about that is that it doesn't even break the law.

The existence of a way to get around the problem doesn't mean the problem is solved. If a lot of people want to do this, then it should be easier to do and obvious how to do it

It's not, but what distros frequently top the list of "user-friendly" distros?

Ubuntu, PopOS, Fedora, and friends.

Maybe it's not how it should be, but that's currently how it is.

I won't spoil the plot for you, but let's just say I really couldn't even if I tried.

I think it is unreasonable because a Windows user (i.e. myself) can quickly get up to speed with MacOS within five minutes without the need for external instruction. I can manage a MacOS system perfectly fine even without any prior knowledge of how it works. I can figure out how to configure the settings to do what I need it to do without needing to search for how to do it online.

GNOME took almost a week to get used to and remember where things are located, such as what is located in Settings, how the task flow works, and so forth. I never got used to the "disappearing dock". I had to use an extension for that. GNOME is just way more different than the others. Meanwhile, my grandpa picked up Cinnamon as a lifelong Windows user within five minutes.

You're probably right, but we also want prisoners to actually still get jobs and earn money, so it can't cost more than hiring a regular working because then why would anyone bother.

I would support the State adding a few dollars to minimum wage and taking that as a commission or something to offset costs.

I'm not opposed to prison labour, but I think prisoners still ought to be paid minimum wage less tax, and this amount can be put in a sort of savings account for them to responsibly use "on the outside", such as for rent, restitution, &c. Interest on the money can then be put towards a crime victims' fund. That way, I think, everyone gets a fair shake and it's not just a forced labour camp.

I think most of the time if they have a Github/Gitlab repo open to the public opening issues, they will accept an issue that merely describes a problem that needs to be fixed along with how it might be fixed.

Something like this is generally appreciated:

I'm an HCI expert and should be improved to do because of . I'm willing to volunteer to do design work on this to help the project out

...and if the maintainers ask for contact info, provide it and there you go.

I love and use GNOME daily, but I think it's still the case that the interface "needs some getting used to" for a Windows/MacOS user. The design paradigm is just not familiar or self-explanatory to anyone who has regularly used desktop computers in the past decade.

I don't think that's the sole reason. I don't know anyone who uses WordPad. Like you said, for quick text edits people use Notepad or some other simple text editor and for anything more sophisticated than that people use a full office suite like LibreOffice or MS Office or pirated copies thereof.

It just doesn't make sense to maintain a third word processor software that nobody bothers to really use.

This problem is pretty common across most parts of the Linux space. Everyone wants to volunteer coding work, which is great, but not what's desperately needed right now.

The Linux community needs more than programmers, or else it will consist only of programmers. We need UI/UX experts, or we'll never have the simplicity and ease of use of iOS. We need accessibility designers or we'll never match up to the accessibility of MacOS. We need graphic designers and artists or we'll never look as good as Windows 11. We need PR professionals and marketing experts or we'll never be as notable as the Windows XP startup sound.

We don't have enough volunteers that fit into these categories. The next best thing you can do is contribute your money so that your favourite project can hire the people they need.

There is written Cantonese that is slightly different from written Mandarin, but the vocabulary is similar enough that it is mutually intelligible. It's about as different as American English and Indian English.

Most of the time when writing Cantonese, you will write it in "formal" terms which are technically pronounced differently. So instead of a casual word, you will write the formal equivalent, but when reading it back you can transcribe it on the fly to the informal equivalent again. If you know Cantonese, you can watch TVB news reports with the subtitles on and you'll see this being done when they interview people.

For example, the word "without" in Cantonese is 冇 (mou), and in Mandarin it is 没. But a Cantonese speaker will still write "mou" as 没, or 無, even though those characters are supposed to be pronounced "mut" and "wu" in Cantonese and are considered formal. When reading it back, you can either say "mou" or "mut"/"wu" and both are considered fine, it just depends on how formal you want to be.

Another thing is that Mandarin is written exactly as it is said, and if you then read the writing back in Cantonese, it is completely intelligible, it just sounds overly formal and terse. So a Mandarin speaker can write something down and a Cantonese speaker will understand it. A Cantonese speaker can write something down using very formal terms and the Mandarin speaker will also be able to read it.

You can write Cantonese using the actual characters for the informal terms but then only Cantonese people will be able to read it since the characters used aren't commonly used in Mandarin. Even then many Cantonese speakers only know how to read/write the formal version and will have to guess at the "informal" version.

Another interesting thing is that there is actually a lot of shared vocabulary between Cantonese and Mandarin. In fact, most of the "formal" vocabulary is shared and exactly the same, since the both derive from Classical Chinese. Classical Chinese is really just "peak formality" of regular Chinese (all dialects). Thus if you write in Classical Chinese most educated Chinese speakers will be able to read it! This is why Chinese is described as "the oldest language in the world". An example is a no-smoking sign. In informal Cantonese, it's 唔好食烟, which is nonsense to a Mandarin speaker. It would literally mean "?? good eat smoke" in Mandarin (the first character is almost never seen in Mandarin). But you can write the formal term, which is 禁止吸烟, which is exactly the same and 100% readable in both Cantonese and Mandarin. It means "smoking is prohibited" in both languages.

QAnon would have made for an excellent action movie plotline if only people didn't subscribe to it in real life. Swap in some fake politicians and it's almost Hollywood-ready.