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  • Usually separate labelling where I'm from.

    You can advertise your product as "gluten free" if it doesn't contain any ingredients containing gluten, but will have a separate disclaimer which looks something like "processed in a factory also handling nuts, gluten, and dairy products" as applicable.

    I'm not sure if this is mandatory or voluntary labelling here, but in my opinion it satisfies the need for truly allergic people to choose products not even made on the same premises as their allergens, while avoiding perverse labelling such as the parent poster's "gluten free beans".

  • do they even offer any?

    On non-LTS releases? Almost certainly not.

    You're 100% on the money, if a broken non-LTS release - which you can still upgrade to from an earlier release with do-release-upgrade, or install from the server ISO then apt install the UI - something has already gone horribly wrong, and a couple of days wait for a re-released ISO is by far the least of your problems.

  • Not OP, but genuine answer: because I loathe being forced into their way of doing things. Every little thing on the Mac seems engineered with an "our way or the highway" mentality, that leaves no room for other (frequently, better) ways of achieving anything.

    Adding to that, window/task management is an absolute nightmare (things that have worked certain ways basically since System 6 on monochrome Mac Classic machines, and haven't improved), and despite all claims to the contrary, its BSD-based underpinnings are just different enough to Linux's GNU toolset to make supposed compatibility (or the purported "develop on Mac, deploy on Linux" workflow) a gross misadventure.

    I just find the experience frustrating, unpleasant, and always walk away from a Mac feeling irritated.

    (For context: 20 year exclusively Linux user. While it's definitely not always been a smooth ride, I seldom feel like I'm fighting against the computer to get it to do what I want, which is distinctly not my experience with Apple products)

  • Agree with all these points about the Nexdock.

    We bought a bunch of them at work to be KVM consoles for computers without network out of band management, and at that they excel.

    That said, I don't think I actually knew it had speakers, wasn't really part of my use case :)

    It also makes me wish that USB-C connectors on GPUs hadn't been such a short-term deal, the one-cable hookup is definitely a great thing.

  • I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a pcie card that will not function at all unless it receives it’s required lanes

    One of the few things that'd be problematic would be the x16 - quad M.2 cards which use PCIe bifurcation.
    Lanes 1-4 from the socket are wired to the first M.2, 5-8 to the 2nd, etc.

    It would still work (by some definition of the word), but in the sense that the first M.2 drive would get 1 lane and any others wouldn't be connected.

    (Quad M.2 boards with a "PLX" or other PCIe switch chip would work fine with 1 upstream lane serving all 4 drives)

  • That's great, unless the store you're in is a giant concrete bunker.
    Mobile data barely works in my neighbourhood supermarket; even text-based communication is frequently dicey, but you want to send someone a photo of something as a "should I buy this"? Fuhgeddaboudit.

  • Yeah this is the problem for sure. The generic-zigbee-usb-stick approach might work today, but I'd still be wary.

    This year it's "Hue Hub now requires cloud account".

    Next year, we get to "Firmware updates now require Hue Hub". Annoying - and someone will probably work around it - but not realistically a long-term strategy. Better hope that the security/functionality holds up long term with whatever version you're running. With firmware supporting Matter seemingly coming out about the same time as this change, that could be a very real problem.

    A bit further down the line, we arrive at "All Hue products released after \ only work with the Hue Hub". And then it's all over. What was open is now closed, and it's the end of the line for anyone who refuses to capitulate.

    In theory, you're fine to keep using he things you currently own. In practice, they're almost certainly going to make that as difficult as possible for you.

    Better to vote with your wallet. As a few people have suggested in various threads around the internet, the kind of bait-and-switch they've pulled might well entitle you to a full refund if your country has consumer protection laws that are worth a damn.

  • and the people who do still download, wouldn’t care about doing it while on battery

    Very much this; I've got a whole army of machines I can SSH into to launch a long-running download, which frequently additionaly cuts out a 2nd step of copying the file to where it needs to be after downloading it (a action which would normally cause additional battery usage on the laptop).

    And I thoroughly agree with you; I want the laptop to go to S3 sleep immediately when I shut the lid, and then pull it out of my bag a hours later with only a couple of percent of the battery consumed in the interim.

  • I've definitely forgotten to close mine once or twice, even though my custom (LoRa) integration is just simulating pushing the button on the wall by closing a relay contact and watching for closed status with a reed switch, it means I can do it from anywhere.

  • Unfortunately Firefox doesn't have a replacement for the "Android System WebView" component, so any app that embeds a browser component (and oh boy is that a lot of them) will still be using Chrome.

    There's a relevant ticket here: https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview/issues/167

    It should be possible to have a shim that allows Mozilla's "GeckoView" component to implement the API, but - per that ticket, at least - most Android ROMs won't allow alternatives to the Google one.

    The Firefox browser is genuinely great, but it's so far from possible to replace Chrome with it everywhere a browser is used.

  • Sony listened to their customers complaints and brought back the headphone jack for the 2nd generation Xperia 1.

    Their phones continue to feature some of the best waterproofing (real world performance, and not just the rating they slap on it) in the entire industry.

    That has never been a justifiable argument against the headphone jack, despite being an all-too-frequent one.