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  • Thank you. I expected to be download badly. Nice to be wrong about that.

  • We don't know the details yet. But, if this stabber was a white kid, we'd all be talking about mental health. Non-white kids of immigrants can also have mental health issue. But the worse of the country jump straight to racism, blaming the culture of the immigrant. If this lad grew up here, he has been surrounded by our culture. If there is mental health issues, it's our fault it wasn't caught in time. If he went mental for cultural reasons, we can't wash our hands of that either. If we want assimilation, we can't other people.

  • Like the ice cubes in dad's drink before he get mad? ;-)

    Not sure everyone here knows their Futurama.

  • I know, but there us as quiet war going on between the chippers and manufacturers. EV is a new battle front and we the consumers are losing right now.

    Law makes need to join this century and get involved ensuring competition and longer product lives.

  • They DRM it all if we let them. We must not. It should going the other way. More open, repairable and upgradable.

  • Without right to repair, there will be planned obsolescence.

    My Citroen EV developed an on board charger fault. It wouldn't charge. The part was a "coded part" which meant it had to specifically programmed with my EV's ID by Citroen at manufacture. It took months to finally be fitted and ready. So basically, not only does the coded parts system make service shit, but also means when the manufacturer is done making the part, the car is dead. You can't swap parts between cars and there is no third party parts. It's meant to be about car theft, but it's very convenient it blocks competition and long product life....

  • By communities, but not the manufacturer. Custom ROMs is the only way to keep it up to date for long enough for the hardware to become too old to be worth it.

    No custom ROM for cars anytime soon.

  • Your want to store a copy of the private key on the encrypted machine so it can automatically sign kernel updates.

  • I'm sorry, but competition is good.

    Installing some closed blob into your kernel, that's on you.

    The problem is if anything is not enough competition. We just saw a centralized monoculture fall over.

  • Exactly. I don't even think it's that different to be honest, it's just not identical to PS and comes from a different windowing school of thought.

  • Yer, I didn't, but this does seams a very Windows'y way of doing things, so can't see it widely done in Linux/BSD/Unix world.

  • The joke is Mac and Linux users, who aren't actually effected, are incapacitated due to being busy gloating on social media.

  • It needs to be faster and more stable. Crashes and slowness are killer issues. Slowness is single core issue. You can see one core working it's ass off, but the other like 15, sitting doing nothing. Plus it freezes during that often because it's not async/multi-threaded enough. Crashes, well that's just bad, but in this case it's normally when even 48GB RAM isn't enough. Bloody curved geometry from external sources with massive messes. Needs more exchanging files methods that isn't mesh based. But also mesh rationalization tools are need too.

  • Meh, always done what I need and I find easy enough.

    I've been in rooms for people forced to switch from PS to GIMP for corporate cost cutting. Every time I went to help someone on something else (animation or exporter related), I'd hear "GIMP can't do X" and "GIMP can't do Y". I'd go over and show it could and how. It was never even stuff that hard. Layer stuff often. GIMP gets a lot of hate I just don't think is justified.

  • It'll catch on at some point. KiCAD did. Blender did. Many other FOSS apps have!

  • Gimp is intuitive to me. I grew up on RISC OS, not Windows, and only later learned Photoshop. Switching was easy for me, and that was before I got into FOSS. It was just free and legal.

    I've seen lots of people from a Windows only background struggle with it. I agree it's not like a normal Windows app. Maybe single window mode helps, but I'm not in a place to judge.

  • I don't need some closed blob, with auto updates, in my OS. I doubt many Linux people would be happy with that.

    To deal with a bad update, I'd boot a Btrfs snapshot from before the bad update. 'grub-btrfs' is great. I confess, it works great for my laptop, but I've not yet got it on one of my server. When I finally rebuild my home server, I will though. Work servers, I hope won't always be my problem!

  • Not quite the same thing. I doubt, for example, they have a big bag of device trees for different ARM devices to build from.

  • Can't see many Linux, or BSD, admins, being happy with "self-updating ring-0 proprietary software". That's very much a Windows culture thing.