Why is this your question given that the lack of disclosure doesn't have anything to do with RAID, doesn't have anything to do with being locked down to Windows, and doesn't have anything to do with the possibility that most Signature Series computers run Linux just fine?
2 things needed disclosure : 1. That the laptop is of the "Signature Series". Not directly because it shows that it won't support Linux, but because it is a relevant fact.
2. That the type of RAID it uses cannot be overridden (at least from supported interfaces). Not because it shows that it won't support Linux, but because it is a relevant fact.
With the closed software model of Uber, with only black-box testing possible by spending a significant amount of money, we don't know if a third scenario is not being played - one which harms both drivers and passengers for the benefit of Uber.
Or if today close to Scenario 2 is being played, but due to tendencies of such markets to slide towards monopoly - worse scenarios won't be played once we allow mind-share monopoly to one or two companies with no recourse because we establish way too much precedent to never audit algorithms that affect "company operations", affecting the economy as a whole due to lack of options and an enormous entry barrier.
The problem with tech, is that once it is part of our lives, we no longer consider it "tech", and we take it for granted.
Exactly. Which is why you are taking for granted that the millions killed in WW2 and various wars in the last 700 years were mostly killed by technology. You might say wars were caused by politics, not technology, but then technology was also caused / enabled by politics.
Is there some blindness epidemic I am unaware of? I didn't realize accessibility was the kingmaker in desktop Linux. If so, that's a bit crazy.
Are section 508 and/or ADA law, allied state laws due to some blindness epidemic 300 million Americans are unaware of? If yes, same explains Linux desktop policy. If not, the laws, their impacts, and the professed intent behind them explain the Linux desktop policy. That was not too difficult, was it ?
Nature of a business decides how much such laws impact them - purely consumer businesses like McDonald's are impacted by such laws differently than Linux distributions which might advertise themselves as a drop-in solution for businesses that may or may not wish to receive governmental contracts. McDonald's may not want to host government dinners, Linux distributions might want to be useful at customer end to businesses needing government contracts. McDonald's staff might be trained to recognize symptoms of blindness and produce braille menu or ask a preference, in which braille menu becomes the "default" menu for relevant customers, Linux distribution user businesses may not want to do that.
Think before posting.
Needing/wanting more up to date software is enough to choose Fedora over Ubuntu
That alone is not a very compelling reason. You aren't gaining much over the latest non-LTS Ubuntu, and if you're perpetually in need of the cutting edge there are rolling release distros that would be a better fit than Fedora. PPAs offer another easy Ubuntu-hosted channel for obtaining more up to date software even if you're on an LTS release.
Read before posting.
I think Alpine linux is interesting. I demand you stop whatever tangent you're on right now and start talking about Alpine linux. If you decline to immediately stop what you're doing, research Alpine, and write up a dissertation on it then you are unfairly excluding it.
Only if I insinuate Alpine is irrelevant to the discussion.
You do exclude it from the discussion by saying " Still, it isn't a Red Hat product. Fedora is more popular and was the topic at hand.".
and the very first post in this conversational thread mentioned Fedora (and only Fedora) by name.
Yes, and as a reply to that, someone introduced Ubuntu and Suse. You didn't tell them no one is talking about Ubuntu and Suse except them. All the advantages of Ubuntu that you (and some others) mentioned are more than applicable to CentOS - in that sense it is a more valid "tangent" than Ubuntu itself is to the topic if the topic be defined like you are defining : "Fedora".
If you're blind and GNOME is the only thing you can use then godspeed......Gnome...........
I have been informing people professing ignorance of the reason why Gnome continues to be the default in many distributions. Including you. I am not sure why you have not understood why Gnome is the default in so many distributions, but I can only lead the horse to water.
Fedora is leading in no area that I can discern. The best I can figure is it's a lazy option for people who want slightly more up to date apps but hate non-LTS Ubuntu and can't be bothered with any of the fancier distros
Needing/wanting more up to date software is enough to choose Fedora over Ubuntu. Hating non-LTS Ubuntu is not necessary because Fedora is typically quite far ahead of non-LTS Ubuntu. "Can't be bothered with any of the fancier distros" may or may not be necessary, given that Fedora is indistinguishable from the fancier distributions in the quickness of software downstreaming.
The original implied subject was "not Ubuntu". Just because layer ignorant people translated it to RedHat, Suse etc. doesn't mean Fedora becomes a candidate for someone seeking stability. Only extremely ignorant people think Fedora and Ubuntu LTS are comparable enough to be thought of as alternative for the same user.
All the arguments being raised for Ubuntu apply even more to CentOS : 1. You have problems with RedHat, but reject CentOS because it is not RedHat ? You excuse is relevance to the" implied subject ", but the implication is itself incorrect and ignorant from the original implied subject which was something other than Ubuntu.
2. Support life time is always greater than Ubuntu LTS.
Look at the accessibility history of non-Gnome DEs. Download a 10 years old Gnome release and use it as a blind user, and marvel at the accessibility being better than today's releases on other DEs.
Gnome has a long history of accessibility - even 10 years ago it was quite usable by blind people. It is completely clear why it is the default DE for so many distributions. If you're not blind, you can switch to another DE, but if you are, the default should be good for you.
If we all condemn public shaming, it will be public shaming. Will we condemn ourselves then? Or, doing what this woman didn't but should have, refrain from doing something we will be publicly shamed for, which means not condemning public shaming. But that is weird, right?
I think that everyone has a right to control their own image and content
What? I want to have an image of a sexy, successful, go-getter, who can solve all the problems of the most powerful countries and companies such that they choose me as their supreme leader.
Instead, I have an image of a fat nerd, who is not the supreme leader of my family of 4, let alone any country or company. Where do I sign up for this right to control my own image?
Actually what humiliated her wasn't that these millions watched it. Her knowledge , conviction and obsessing over that these people watched it was what humiliated her.
Those millions are an unnecessary part of the story.
Precisely in these couple hundred years, democracy has flourished in the world. And precisely the latest ("final " is a strong word) result of the information age through data mining and allied sciences coupled with callousness of people sharing personal information, can convert democracy into something far worse than most autocracies.
People who were not criminally pampered when young, expect to live within the limitations of reality. Gravity exists, and that means stepping off my 7th floor roof is not a great idea. We do not have the technological means to prevent harm to people stepping off 7th floor roofs, so it is ridiculous to expect that a right to not come to harm when stepping off 7th floor roofs be effective.
If everyone in the world following every law in their current jurisdiction is a fundamental condition of your willingness to live, you might as well die right now. Because that ain't gonna happen, buddy.
By this logic, decades after the invention of the electronic adding machine, such a newly manufactured machine would never make a simple arithmetic error, right?
we're just going to have to accept a world in which prosecutions are a lot harder
Only if the "crime" begins and ends at one's own electronic device. People will be able to see wrong pixels - the horror!!. I don't think that is much of a crime. Or if constitutions are proposed to be modified to make such activities crimes then this limitation in enforcing them is a welcome deterrent to such legislation.
But if there is any real world, meatspace, brick&mortar etc. implications of the crime, they are as much investigatable/prosecutable as they were 2000 years ago. Criminals can now co-ordinate using electronic devices, travel using aircraft - unsurprisingly so can the "law enforcement". Both parties can create colorful flowcharts of their plans using Microsoft Visio, if they should be so softwarically challenged.
If the crime is inter-device, as long as data remains encrypted, it can't do much. For someones "data" to harm my devices, my device should decrypt it first - at which point there is your evidence. Otherwise, the harm my device came to could just be due the the volume of the data at which point encrypted data is equivalent to random data, so there is no need to decrypt it to investigate anything.
For the rest, I don't see any problem with asking for warrants. That ensures at least 2, somewhat independent, branches of government are involved lowering the chances of abuse of power.
There are different kinds of happiness. One is simple pleasure-seeking and hedonism, another is a more deep-souled immediate sense of "joy" that goes beyond normal pleasure, and yet another is something more like a longer lasting "overall contentment and satisfaction".
The positive psychology people have found good reasons to classify it into 3 types : positive emotions, flow, and meaningfulness. This might interest you : https://www.ted.com/talks/mart...
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Why is this your question given that the lack of disclosure doesn't have anything to do with RAID, doesn't have anything to do with being locked down to Windows, and doesn't have anything to do with the possibility that most Signature Series computers run Linux just fine?
2 things needed disclosure :
1. That the laptop is of the "Signature Series". Not directly because it shows that it won't support Linux, but because it is a relevant fact.
2. That the type of RAID it uses cannot be overridden (at least from supported interfaces). Not because it shows that it won't support Linux, but because it is a relevant fact.
The most effective barriers to entry are the ones erected by government regulation
And yet, the fact remains that which no one outside of Uber knows which scenario is being played out here.
You believe this. You don't have much evidence - except some rudimentary black box testing, but you believe.
Really? Do you have the source code ?
With the closed software model of Uber, with only black-box testing possible by spending a significant amount of money, we don't know if a third scenario is not being played - one which harms both drivers and passengers for the benefit of Uber.
Or if today close to Scenario 2 is being played, but due to tendencies of such markets to slide towards monopoly - worse scenarios won't be played once we allow mind-share monopoly to one or two companies with no recourse because we establish way too much precedent to never audit algorithms that affect "company operations", affecting the economy as a whole due to lack of options and an enormous entry barrier.
The problem with tech, is that once it is part of our lives, we no longer consider it "tech", and we take it for granted.
Exactly. Which is why you are taking for granted that the millions killed in WW2 and various wars in the last 700 years were mostly killed by technology. You might say wars were caused by politics, not technology, but then technology was also caused / enabled by politics.
That is great. I hope a lot of the work of the good folks at Fedora is available for your use in spite of this.
Is there some blindness epidemic I am unaware of? I didn't realize accessibility was the kingmaker in desktop Linux. If so, that's a bit crazy.
Are section 508 and/or ADA law, allied state laws due to some blindness epidemic 300 million Americans are unaware of? If yes, same explains Linux desktop policy. If not, the laws, their impacts, and the professed intent behind them explain the Linux desktop policy. That was not too difficult, was it ?
Nature of a business decides how much such laws impact them - purely consumer businesses like McDonald's are impacted by such laws differently than Linux distributions which might advertise themselves as a drop-in solution for businesses that may or may not wish to receive governmental contracts. McDonald's may not want to host government dinners, Linux distributions might want to be useful at customer end to businesses needing government contracts. McDonald's staff might be trained to recognize symptoms of blindness and produce braille menu or ask a preference, in which braille menu becomes the "default" menu for relevant customers, Linux distribution user businesses may not want to do that.
Think before posting.
Needing/wanting more up to date software is enough to choose Fedora over Ubuntu
That alone is not a very compelling reason. You aren't gaining much over the latest non-LTS Ubuntu, and if you're perpetually in need of the cutting edge there are rolling release distros that would be a better fit than Fedora. PPAs offer another easy Ubuntu-hosted channel for obtaining more up to date software even if you're on an LTS release.
Read before posting.
I think Alpine linux is interesting. I demand you stop whatever tangent you're on right now and start talking about Alpine linux. If you decline to immediately stop what you're doing, research Alpine, and write up a dissertation on it then you are unfairly excluding it.
Only if I insinuate Alpine is irrelevant to the discussion.
Understand before posting.
I don't reject CentOS
You do exclude it from the discussion by saying " Still, it isn't a Red Hat product. Fedora is more popular and was the topic at hand.".
and the very first post in this conversational thread mentioned Fedora (and only Fedora) by name.
Yes, and as a reply to that, someone introduced Ubuntu and Suse. You didn't tell them no one is talking about Ubuntu and Suse except them. All the advantages of Ubuntu that you (and some others) mentioned are more than applicable to CentOS - in that sense it is a more valid "tangent" than Ubuntu itself is to the topic if the topic be defined like you are defining : "Fedora".
If you're blind and GNOME is the only thing you can use then godspeed ..... .Gnome..... ..... .
I have been informing people professing ignorance of the reason why Gnome continues to be the default in many distributions. Including you. I am not sure why you have not understood why Gnome is the default in so many distributions, but I can only lead the horse to water.
Fedora is leading in no area that I can discern. The best I can figure is it's a lazy option for people who want slightly more up to date apps but hate non-LTS Ubuntu and can't be bothered with any of the fancier distros
Needing/wanting more up to date software is enough to choose Fedora over Ubuntu. Hating non-LTS Ubuntu is not necessary because Fedora is typically quite far ahead of non-LTS Ubuntu. "Can't be bothered with any of the fancier distros" may or may not be necessary, given that Fedora is indistinguishable from the fancier distributions in the quickness of software downstreaming.
s/layer/later/
The original implied subject was "not Ubuntu". Just because layer ignorant people translated it to RedHat, Suse etc. doesn't mean Fedora becomes a candidate for someone seeking stability. Only extremely ignorant people think Fedora and Ubuntu LTS are comparable enough to be thought of as alternative for the same user.
All the arguments being raised for Ubuntu apply even more to CentOS :
1. You have problems with RedHat, but reject CentOS because it is not RedHat ? You excuse is relevance to the" implied subject ", but the implication is itself incorrect and ignorant from the original implied subject which was something other than Ubuntu.
2. Support life time is always greater than Ubuntu LTS.
Look at the accessibility history of non-Gnome DEs. Download a 10 years old Gnome release and use it as a blind user, and marvel at the accessibility being better than today's releases on other DEs.
Gnome has a long history of accessibility - even 10 years ago it was quite usable by blind people. It is completely clear why it is the default DE for so many distributions. If you're not blind, you can switch to another DE, but if you are, the default should be good for you.
CentOS ends up being supported for 7-10 years. Redhat does/collects most of the work for that, and even links to CentOS from Redhat website.
Duration of support is the reason by very ignorant people to use Ubuntu over Redhat family.
Fedora is not remotely comparable.
If we all condemn public shaming, it will be public shaming. Will we condemn ourselves then? Or, doing what this woman didn't but should have, refrain from doing something we will be publicly shamed for, which means not condemning public shaming. But that is weird, right?
I think that everyone has a right to control their own image and content
What? I want to have an image of a sexy, successful, go-getter, who can solve all the problems of the most powerful countries and companies such that they choose me as their supreme leader.
Instead, I have an image of a fat nerd, who is not the supreme leader of my family of 4, let alone any country or company. Where do I sign up for this right to control my own image?
Actually what humiliated her wasn't that these millions watched it. Her knowledge , conviction and obsessing over that these people watched it was what humiliated her.
Those millions are an unnecessary part of the story.
Precisely in these couple hundred years, democracy has flourished in the world. And precisely the latest ("final " is a strong word) result of the information age through data mining and allied sciences coupled with callousness of people sharing personal information, can convert democracy into something far worse than most autocracies.
People who were not criminally pampered when young, expect to live within the limitations of reality. Gravity exists, and that means stepping off my 7th floor roof is not a great idea. We do not have the technological means to prevent harm to people stepping off 7th floor roofs, so it is ridiculous to expect that a right to not come to harm when stepping off 7th floor roofs be effective.
You're conflating illegal and impossible.
If everyone in the world following every law in their current jurisdiction is a fundamental condition of your willingness to live, you might as well die right now. Because that ain't gonna happen, buddy.
By this logic, decades after the invention of the electronic adding machine, such a newly manufactured machine would never make a simple arithmetic error, right?
[citation needed]
Not at all.
we're just going to have to accept a world in which prosecutions are a lot harder
Only if the "crime" begins and ends at one's own electronic device. People will be able to see wrong pixels - the horror!!. I don't think that is much of a crime. Or if constitutions are proposed to be modified to make such activities crimes then this limitation in enforcing them is a welcome deterrent to such legislation.
But if there is any real world, meatspace, brick&mortar etc. implications of the crime, they are as much investigatable/prosecutable as they were 2000 years ago. Criminals can now co-ordinate using electronic devices, travel using aircraft - unsurprisingly so can the "law enforcement". Both parties can create colorful flowcharts of their plans using Microsoft Visio, if they should be so softwarically challenged.
If the crime is inter-device, as long as data remains encrypted, it can't do much. For someones "data" to harm my devices, my device should decrypt it first - at which point there is your evidence. Otherwise, the harm my device came to could just be due the the volume of the data at which point encrypted data is equivalent to random data, so there is no need to decrypt it to investigate anything.
For the rest, I don't see any problem with asking for warrants. That ensures at least 2, somewhat independent, branches of government are involved lowering the chances of abuse of power.
How is that fair to me?
You did none of the work, and you can use it for some purposes. You already got more than your fair share of rights.
There are different kinds of happiness. One is simple pleasure-seeking and hedonism, another is a more deep-souled immediate sense of "joy" that goes beyond normal pleasure, and yet another is something more like a longer lasting "overall contentment and satisfaction".
The positive psychology people have found good reasons to classify it into 3 types : positive emotions, flow, and meaningfulness. This might interest you : https://www.ted.com/talks/mart...