intrepid

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[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The ability to lock stolen phones should be under the control of its owner. Keeping it under OEM is just asking for that capability to be abused and misused against the wishes of the owner.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 years ago

He is the same sociopath who denies the Assyrian and Armenian genocide. Such a statement from him about Hamas is hardly surprising.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

In what world would Microsoft allow the Linux name to appear before Windows? If MS were a person, they would be diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Do you know that there is a Linux port of DirectX that runs only with WSL?

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Back when Microsoft started showing interest in and contributing to Linux, I knew that they were up to something no good like this. But honestly, anyone who thinks that WSL running inside a very abusive Windows environment is an alternative to true Linux/BSD experience, is frankly clueless. They deserve everything MS subjects them to.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Solitary confinement is worse than death. Nobody deserves it - under trials much less. But look at how many are down voting the articles and comments here. It should give an idea how many hideously racist and sociopathic individuals are prowling the net and the society at large.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

Ooh! Looks like 9 muskrats who pre-ordered the stupidtruck ended up here by mistake, instead of on X.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't like the wordings and insinuations in the article. Ubuntu Linux 'snuck' into Dell laptops? Dell - best known for good-quality mass-produced PCs - end up building Linux laptops? What are they saying? Linux is low quality and it being in Dell laptops is bad?

Dell and Canonical have a partnership. And Linux isn't a choice that's forced on consumers. That's hardly what one can say about Windows. An ad-ridden spyware that's disguised as an OS and forced down everyone's throat even when we don't want it. (Not dell, but there are cases where I had to buy a laptop and clean out Windows).

I don't understand the author's exact intentions (I read the entire article). Seems like they are trying to say something positive. But the choice of words is bad.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ukrainian has enough speakers for there to be multiple translators, doesn't it?

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I'm more surprised that it wasn't caught by some review process. We normies may not consider it. But with 8 billion individuals on this planet, the chances of this happening is near 100%, without sufficient safeguards in place. If this is what happens to something as obvious as translation, imagine how compromised all those cryptic open source code must be!

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

The fundamental problem here is those monopolies having unfettered access to regulatory law making processes. Right now it's as if these companies are free to regulate themselves and everyone is unhappy because they misuse those powers to enrich themselves at the cost of everyone else. The minimum requirement is to break them up for such overreach.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

More specifically, XDG is more related to Linux. It was the name of the freedesktop group. OpenSSH is more related to OpenBSD. However, none of that is strictly true - freedesktop/XDG isn't just about desktop, XDG directories are not completely neglected by OpenBSD and OpenSSH isn't used by just OpenBSD. dotfiles sprawling is a common problem - so OpenSSH should probably follow it as well.

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