One of the biggest things I'd point out for security is that unless effort is made to ensure people are upgrading, more systems on Linux is going to mean more versions of the kernel being on more machines.
It will result in a lot more machines running versions that have known exploits open against them so malware will become easier to propagate on Linux in general.
I just took it favoring a daily driver for gaming and every distro it gave had either didn't work, isn't optimized for, or requires additional config for gaming.
As an airline customer, I would much rather have the airline tell me the plane was grounded due to parts being ready to fall off than the 3 hours I had to wait one time because of a busted tray table.
I think the difference between Stewart and Ford is that Stewart seems more to be doing it because he enjoys this character. Ford seems to be doing it in spite of his feelings.
As long as Stewart is still having fun, I'm happy with him continuing as long as he wants.
Honestly, this is exactly what I thought the complaint was going to be when I saw the headline and it's getting me thinking. Does Starbucks allow split payments between two methods. If not, that's the solution to this problem is require them to.
I end up having a bunch of gift cards to Starbucks through the year because my father in law knows I like coffee so he gets me Starbucks gift cards, not because I love Starbucks but because he can get them on Amazon. I'll have to try this out next time I'm nearing the bottom.
I will say, the stars that build up over the course of my gift card draining more than pays for the dollar or change at the end with free drinks. So it's never really bothered me that much, but now I'm curious.
I've had my dad agree that something the Republicans are doing is extremely authoritarian and state that he is going to look past it because he wants lower taxes and likes guns in the same breath.
On Windows and Mac, you are doing a number of things implicitly that you don't realize.
When you download from their site, you are expected to verify the integrity and validity of the install file yourself. You also have to take ownership of installing any dependencies yourself.
With the instructions mulvad is providing you, you are connecting to a repo and apt does all that for you.
Some installs don't require dependencies, but some do. Long term, this style of install tends to be a lot simpler, you just have to learn it.
But more importantly and as others have stated. Linux is different. If you aren't interested in learning a new workflow, you should stick with something familiar. That's a choice you should make not because others said it but because you want it.
Beehaw is hardly and echo chamber. Generally defederation is done because of significant trolling or other negative behavior from an instance, not a disagreement with a philosophy.
I think an excellent example of how Beehaw allows opposing opinions is that you and I, who clearly disagree, are still able to talk about it.
The thing we want at Beehaw is respectful discourse. So long as neither party is insulting the other and conversation is productive it doesn't matter if the opinions differ.
That said, I myself would probably not follow Beehaw off of ActivityPub. I prefer the content on Beehaw to most of the content in the fediverse, but I don't want to maintain multiple accounts and Beehaw would definitely have less content if it moved off of the fediverse.
If Masimo hadn't finalized the patent, Apple would have filed it's own similar one and the reverse would have happened. It was literally their only option when confronted with a tech giant who is notoriously litigious. If that happened, Apple would have shut down an actual medical device company through constant legal battles Masimo couldn't afford to win.
This isn't trolling because Masimo is actually using the patent and the patent is specific. Patent trolling is filing a bunch of broad patents and hoarding them, often with no intent to develop a product, for the express purpose of either filing law suits or to stifle competition. Apple is often considered a troll for that latter reason.
Masimo would likely allow Apple to license the patent. But Apple tried to bypass paying licensing fees entirely and it's still doing so. Masimo was well within it's rights to protect itself from Apple, though. Unfortunately, this is what a smaller company protecting itself from a larger one looks like in the US.
My feelings on the matter are generally that I'm not sure leaving him off the primary ballots before he's convicted is the most responsible course of action.
One of the biggest arguments that his supporters lean on is that he's being treated unfairly. Now, I disagree with them and believe that having gone through a Grand Jury is sufficient to move to indict. But many people don't actually know what a Grand jury is. My dad, for example, thought the Grand Jury in this case was just a collection of left leaning lawyers looking to hack at Trump's credibility rather than a random group of people called to form a panel for prosecutors to show evidence to prior to indictment.
If we assume that most of his supporters have a similar understanding to my dad, then the only thing we are doing is boosting their feelings that Trump is being treated unfairly by moving to remove him from primary ballots before his trials resolve.
We should instead be trying to focus energy as a country to move the relevant trials forward to ensure they resolve before the general election and remove him from that ballot if he's convicted. Then we should also allow Republicans the ability to replace him on the ballot if necessary.
Are you suggesting that just because their ancestors were tortured beyond recognition that they are no longer worthy of basic rights?
That's definitely a hot take if I've ever seen one.