nexussapphire @ nexussapphire @lemm.ee

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Why does the installer still explode sometimes when I use it on my computers. I use it on my mother's computer or our movie server and it works fine.

Maybe it just eats shit when it sees a btrfs partition or something. Nothing against Debian but I tried to install Debian testing weekly and it just refused to install on my system 76 laptop. After flashing arch on my USB drive to wipe the disk I just said fuck it and installed arch on my laptop again. I haven't had any issues with arch since I've installed it on my desktop five years ago. If arch blows up on my laptop I'll try Debian again.

I got the spaceship car in grand theft auto V. I never felt so empty after spending so much time on something so pointless. Ah well, at least it wasn't flying rats in GTA IV.

It's always better to go that route. I also understand having hardware requirements and not being able to find a version of those models with Linux installed.

I like what system 76 is doing but I don't think they really have competition in the US market right now. If you don't mind a clevo and you live in the US I'd recommend them.

Don't take it personally, it's just a direction I haven't seen many researchers/pen testers use. I've seen most run it on a virtual machine or a second computer and modify Ubuntu/Debian to better suit their needs and a primary computer/os for business transactions etc.

I can't speak for hackers but from anecdotal evidence it seems like they can do their work on most systems but hacking hardware is just easier on Linux in general.

You mean that distro people use to pretend to be a hacker/security researcher. It's just hardened Debian with a few tools installed. I've set something like that up in an afternoon tbh.

That good and all for your saints and what not but how about us sinners.

Some manufacturers allow you to get a refund for pre installed windows if you feel like sitting on the phone for hours. Something about a lawsuit involving Microsoft and anticompetitive contracts with the manufacturer not allowing the distribution of other operating systems.

I've seen a story about someone who got a refund for their dell laptop but it was slow, and the support staff was rude about it during the process. They stated things like the Microsoft software is free and why would you want to remove windows anyway, passing him from department to department. It's often $60-$80 depending on the version of windows etc.

Edit: I should clarify it might only be a US thing, I've heard people in France having some luck.

Who's fuckin who?

Sadly the toy was recalled due to... Pushes glasses up nose "a lethal dose of radiation."

The easier it is for onboarding the better, even if it includes proprietary software. The discovery of free or open source software will come when they start exploring what's available on Linux and find workflows that suit them.

I like free and open source software but the freedom of choice is what's really important in the end.

Yeah, it sucks but you can always work on it. I still struggle with social anxiety but I push myself to mingle with people every chance I get. After a couple years I still get overwhelmed by people and struggle to share when in a big group of people.

There's always a virtual machine if you need it for work.

No, there is not. Updating through terminal still bypasses it and I don't mind so much seeing how my mother might accidentally power it off in the middle an important update otherwise. Most people know not to hit the power button when the scary load bar pops up with a message saying please do not power off system.

Back in the day the whole presentation was about it though. Now says they don't talk about the toolkits and stuff in the actual presentations with demos and examples like they used to. Infact it was the job of most tech journalist to pull out the relevant information to the user because the focus was almost entirely developer focused.

They did announce hardware at the very beginning though. It was often followed by statistics on how many developers were actively developing for the platform and the revenue developers made as a whole so on and so forth.

I remember them explaining push notifications, how it works, what you might want to implement it for and tried to sell the fact it didn't really hit battery life much because it was pushed from apples servers etc. the whole presentation that was an hour long on technologies like coco demonstrating the fluidity and speed of the new tools and how they dramatically reduced the install size while improving stability etc. there was a 20 minute section on how apples iad's were going to make developers more money while reducing overhead and had a downloadable demo in the app store.

It was originally for developers and press but it's mostly for investors and press now. They practically never talk about APIs and tooling anymore.

The place users are expected to learn about the products are in ads, on the website, their favorite news outlet, or the apple store. No regular customer even bothers sitting through a 3 hour presentation.

Why does it bother you, the presentation is made for investors. Investors want to know if Apple will still be able to compete in the European market and that's all they really had to show.

It's ok, it's called being a masochist. No one is judging you for using css.😆

Na, just saying in case someone didn't know. It's the same with anything. Just don't use company resources to make a product. That day you end up in court it won't end well.

They also released a borderline useless posix subsystem to get government contracts that only authorized the purchase of posix compliant systems.

Windows subsystem for Linux is pretty much the modern version of that. Before it was partially based on openbsd and called windows subsystem for unix. The original was NT posix subsystem and was hastly hacked together to just barely support the standards required by the US government. If I remember right there was zero user facing utilities it only supported compiling posix compatible code.

It's quite fascinating history. Also Apple just ported unix system V to Macintosh, heavily modified x server, some Macintosh app compatibility, and called it A/UX. Actually apples version of unix was fully featured and seems nicer than system 7 it ran beside.