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zagaberoo

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  • Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed

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  • Well, these services do require money to run. If everyone were as 'clever' as you are then we'd have little content indeed.

  • Notepad.exe

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  • I just the other day edited a Steam config file with some wacky file extension by cracking it open in notepad. Bless plain text.

  • Bored_irl (Art by Chesca Hause)

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  • Don't forget Kodi!

  • Ubuntu Will Replace GNU Core Utilities With Rust

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  • I'm not complaining; I'm clarifying for less informed readers. It's a subtle and often misleading distinction.

    Calling a license that leads to more proprietary software "even more open source" is absolutely debatable. The only extra restriction is disallowing free software becoming proprietary, which promotes more openness overall.

    You're not wrong by any means, but people should understand the actual tradeoff when considering licenses.

  • Ubuntu Will Replace GNU Core Utilities With Rust

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  • More open strictly in that it allows free software to be rolled up into proprietary software.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • Just because competition can be suppressed temporarily within a discrete system doesn't mean it has ceased to exist. Exactly why ideologies that demand the absence of competition will eventually be outcompeted from the outside.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • The health of the current system is undenianly declining, absolutely. But competition is eternal and non-optional, so systems that seek to eliminate it are intrinsically doomed.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • Well, competition has been going pretty strong for the last four billion years; time will tell.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • Yes, exactly! For all the noxious effects of greed, it drives competition which drives evolution.

    Even if a utopian communist/anarchist society were able to stabilize on its own, it would inevitably be overcome at some point in the future by a more competitive society that had martially evolved beyond the utopia's understanding.

    Whether its right or wrong has no bearing on the entropy of it.

  • Trying to quit Reddit

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  • What a goofy take. "Having trouble with self control? Have you tried having self control?" Obviously there's something more going on or life would be a whole lot simpler. Sometimes externalizing a decision through a tool like a timer is part of how a person indirectly exerts self control.

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  • A friend gave me the 6-CD "power pack" of Mandrake 10 that could install a quite wide range of optional software completely offline. Hooked me too.

  • is this how extroverts function?

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  • Why do lots of people find it bizarre for someone to eat 6 boiled eggs in one sitting but not 12 devilled eggs and in one sitting?

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  • Truly, I scramble six eggs in a go, but six boiled eggs feels like a whole feast somehow.

  • Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?

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  • That does sound like a bit much for my daily driver; I'll have to check it out in a VM sometime. It warms my heart that a distro community can have such longevity, and I think the simplicity has to be a big part of that.

  • Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?

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  • Isn't the lack of dependency management a huge pain on Slackware? I think Gentoo is my forever distro, but I'm very curious about Slackware.

  • Magnets

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  • Ass Dan's gonna live forever!

  • 'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

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  • The BDFL model, as it's called, is what allows large projects to continue to have focused vision rather than devolving into design-by-committee. The kernel is actually already well beyond pure BDFL, but my point is having a single point of overall leadership can be a huge boon for the organization of large and complex projects. FOSS philosophy has literally nothing to do with management structure; it's entirely about the rights of the end user.

    BDFL is not without its own risks. WordPress is a good counterexample these days. But, when someone originates a project and sticks around to steer it, it would be silly to reject their proven successful leadership for such a vague reason as you have presented.

    When things do go sideways, people are free to fork the project. That is what FOSS is.

  • Can you self-host AI at parity with chatgpt?

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  • Excellent, I'll try the $8 option

  • Escalation_irl (Art by ShepGoesBlep)

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  • That's literally what I thought when I first learned as a kid. "But the last option is shoot!"