You keep talking over me without reading what I say. System76 does not use Google Analytics, so this is irrelevant. hCaptcha is not the privacy win that you think it is, either. It's trading Google for Cloudflare and Apple. You claimed System76 profits from selling user data to Google. It does not. Nobody is disputing that Google profits from data collection. That was never up for debate.
Once again, you are making baseless accusations without evidence. I've already corrected you on these misconceptions multiple times here, yet you insist to repeat them. So whether you trust me or not, who are you getting this misinformation from, and where does it state that System76 is giving access to user data to Google, or receiving any form of discounts?
Yet again, System76 does not give user data to Google, nor does it get any profit or discounts from Google for using a captcha service. We use Plausible instead of Google Analytics. Google's captcha service is a captcha service, not a big data analytics platform directly feeding "Big Brother". It is recommended by our payment processor, and is useful to eliminate attempted scams and spam.
The intent behind your comments here going far off at a tangent is very questionable. You're grasping for straws where there are none. Hence my questioning about your intentions.
cosmic-text already supports ligatures and emojis. Various GUI projects in the Rust space are using cosmic-text in their libraries and applications. Lapce, for example, uses cosmic-text for its text rendering. And many more.
System76 does not make any profit from use of Google's reCAPTCHA service. You can't be seriously trying to insinuate that. You keep mentioning Purism, so are you actually a Purism customer, or paid by Purism? Very sketchy comments.
Customer services and other web-facing frontends are a constant target of attacks, so a captcha service is required. This whole comment is hyperbole, honestly.
Purism also uses the same captcha services... Honestly, all of your comments here sound like a poor attempt at Purism promotion. You've been repeatedly spreading misinformation while simultaneously promoting Purism in each comment here.
They are not "resold". The laptops are custom-ordered and manufactured in Taiwan. The same as virtually every computer you buy. Taiwan would be very unhappy to see comments claiming they're Chinese.
It's not as simple as you think it is. First, we use Plausible instead instead of Google Analytics, so tracking data is not being given to Google. If the choice was purely up to System76's web team, use of Google services wouldn't be required. However, you'll be hard pressed to find any online store that accepts online payments without a captcha service, because most payment processors require it. System76's payment processor also requires it, and will not allow you to substitute your own solution or bypass that requirement. Same as said here: https://lemmy.world/comment/3137069
Customer services and other web-facing frontends are also a constant target of attacks, so a captcha service is required.
Not sure how that would be the fault of customer service. There were a lot of component shortages during the pandemic. Suppliers often discontinued components in the middle of production because they couldn't source the chips required. Batteries also require chips to control their charging thresholds and voltages.
Posts like these demanding that we rebase are not constructive, and will not be well received.
I'm tired of seeing these accusations lately that we don't update Pop!_OS even though we are constantly updating packages and release new ISO's every week or two. In addition to the constant steam of security updates from Ubuntu, which will continue to support 22.04 until 2031.
We make ~30 ISO releases every year to enable hardware support for the latest hardware. Every new System76 product ships day one with a new Pop!_OS ISO on the website containing all of the latest updates we made to backport the latest kernel, firmware, drivers, mesa, zfs, etc.
There's a person here making weekly package update posts. Follow those, or the pop-os/repo-release GitHub repository directly.
What are you talking about? We update Pop!_OS constantly. You're effectively saying all the work I and the QA team do each week is non-existent and pointless. There's a person regularly creating posts with package updates from our pop-os/repo-release repo. There are updates from last week that will be released this week.
Our ISOs are rebuilt every week or so to include all of the changes. Therefore we release ~30 "versions" of Pop!_OS each year. Which is required to ship new System76 products, as they contain the latest hardware on the market at time of release.
So once again, LTS means Long Term Support, which means it actively gets updates for a long time. In this case, until 2031. Security updates from Ubuntu, and various system updates from us that's similar to a rolling release.
I can easily assume you have no idea what LTS means. Nor apparently do you realize that we frequently update the core system software in Pop. Our kernel, firmware, and drivers are newer than what most Linux distributions have. Same goes for Pipewire, Lutris, Virtualbox, etc.
22.04 LTS will receive security updates until 2031. That's what the L in LTS means. Ubuntu backports security patches, and occasionally bug fixes, for their core, server, and enterprise customers. You can't compare Ubuntu versions of software because most of them contain patches.
There's nothing to change. zstd is already the default. Has been from the beginning.