You know what else is voluntary? A background check for applying for a job or airport TSA scanning. You most likely won't get the job, and for the TSA get felt up by the TSA at best.
Youtube streams the ads on Android so you can't block them with a hosts file or any other blocking software even if you wanted to. Just don't use the official client or use the web version.
Eh I'm just gonna quote myself because I looked and know the answer already.
Youtube streams the ads on Android so you can't block them with a hosts file or any other blocking software even if you wanted to. Just don't use the official client or use the web version.
You really don't have to install it, you know. Just look for "[distro] systemd remove" and you can do it if you really need to, and distros that come without it already.
ChromeOS is adding support for Android apps (and Linux programs) but it's not advertised yet as a feature and still in testing and sometimes requires going out of your way to enable it, so in a roundabout way it's happening.
I wish we could just block tags. Blocking the HTML tag would work for a lot of the ads and the most annoying of them with sound. Maybe there is support for it but I haven't checked recently.
Government contracts, and anyone still vendor locked into their service(s) still (possibly past tense for Amazon now), and royalties for Android using Java. The proliferation of MySQL and its royalties is quite high as well.
I'd like to hear this honestly: how is it malware? There are some questionable DRM schemes in some of the games like Denuvo, but Steam only does an online login check every once in a while. Besides those, what does Steam do that is likened to malware?
Well in short, we need a backup plan when the earth makes human life impossible. It's not an if. And we don't and can't know exactly when, and maybe even how.
The Windows tax is around $80 USD. Or $0 if the tablet screen is under 9 inches https://www.theverge.com/2014/... but there's other much more important charges laptop manufacturers make versus System76. On a Windows laptop you pay the Windows fee and the manufacturers for all the parts just gives you the binary blob drivers for Windows as part of the motherboard/chip costs (or in other words, for free). On a System76 laptop, those drivers are not actually given, made, or even supported, barring someone else already making the driver for a part because either System76 or someone already did it for the same part. So System76 does the good deed of making the drivers themselves, open sources it and hands it upstream to the Linux kernel; the cost for development isn't that much but there's 1 final cost barrier however: NDA locked specifications. Broadcom bluetooth/wifi, Intel/AMD for motherboard and soundchip drivers, the screen/keyboard, and the battery all need drivers; the specifications and driver instructions aren't free, and costs thousands of dollars per device, and under NDA only the driver is specifically the exception they pay for to be able to upstream the driver support so you can install whatever Linux you want; not even the price is allowed to be talked about.
In short, System76 pays for the information required to make the drivers that they code themselves for the laptops/parts running Linux they are shipping for a lump sum under NDA amount, and some other manufacturers like Dell make money on warranty insurance and repairs, not the devices themselves.
They are. You can use the terminal, install busybox and run Linux commands on Android with the right bits of software. All the/dev,/proc and/sys files are on Android too.
His point is that piracy is a service problem. The main PC vendors that literally blow all the other services out the water in both content and earnings is Steam and GOG. While Gabe kinda does have a monopoly for PC games his point is very poignant for this topic: https://games.slashdot.org/sto... Steam being such an easy service to use for having games and keeping them updated means that people will want to use them more. It's not Netflix's fault though since before Netflix became huge, they had licenses for really cheap because the studios didn't think Netflix would take off. Then it did so now they are making their own services for each of the licenses and now the fragments are ruining the issue making piracy a better service again.
I don't think the issue is whether it works. It might be good enough as a utility but for what it does, which is give root system permissions and do some very powerful tasks, it needs a patch if a security issue/bug arises, and someone has to code that. I saw some good alternatives in this comment section though and I'll keep that in mind; I am just warning people that this is a possibility.
One of the interesting protections lets you upload files and even if the link is DMCA'd, all that would do is just hide the link from its search feature and browsing sections. The files stay up if you know the direct link. There's a lot of legally gray files like ROMs on there because of that.
I did my own research but you can just have fun looking at these two links and figuring it out for yourself; the highlights I noticed is that they respond to USA subpoenas, that they can but usually don't tolerate resource abuse, and follow US laws:
Uh, that's what drivers are. Most of the code in drivers never get touched or processed unless needed in ANY kernel, and drivers are a large part of everyday general kernels by design for hardware compatibility, but don't do anything because not everyone has every piece of hardware. If space really was a concern, Linux can be compiled manually to have only the drivers you want.
In other words: you're just posting because you think it adds something bad or is a waste of time, but in reality you don't know what you're talking about, and it means people waste less time and be less frustrated by adding it.
Google does suck in a lot of ways, not a lot of people are going to disagree with you. Even their open source projects are just vendor lock-in traps, you can't actually call a device "Android" and sell it without installing a number of apps including Google Play.
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You know what else is voluntary? A background check for applying for a job or airport TSA scanning. You most likely won't get the job, and for the TSA get felt up by the TSA at best.
Youtube streams the ads on Android so you can't block them with a hosts file or any other blocking software even if you wanted to. Just don't use the official client or use the web version.
Eh I'm just gonna quote myself because I looked and know the answer already.
Youtube streams the ads on Android so you can't block them with a hosts file or any other blocking software even if you wanted to. Just don't use the official client or use the web version.
Maybe if you hate bullying you can just leave instead of complaining about it?
You really don't have to install it, you know. Just look for "[distro] systemd remove" and you can do it if you really need to, and distros that come without it already.
I don't think they are "just fine" with it, it's more like indifference. They don't care until something bad happens.
ChromeOS is adding support for Android apps (and Linux programs) but it's not advertised yet as a feature and still in testing and sometimes requires going out of your way to enable it, so in a roundabout way it's happening.
Whoops looks like it ate <video>, had to type < and > to make it work right.
I wish we could just block tags. Blocking the HTML tag would work for a lot of the ads and the most annoying of them with sound. Maybe there is support for it but I haven't checked recently.
Government contracts, and anyone still vendor locked into their service(s) still (possibly past tense for Amazon now), and royalties for Android using Java. The proliferation of MySQL and its royalties is quite high as well.
I'd like to hear this honestly: how is it malware? There are some questionable DRM schemes in some of the games like Denuvo, but Steam only does an online login check every once in a while. Besides those, what does Steam do that is likened to malware?
Well in short, we need a backup plan when the earth makes human life impossible. It's not an if. And we don't and can't know exactly when, and maybe even how.
Yeah it's called Android. An American made product, for every cell phone that isn't iPhone. You meant that right?
There's only 1 thing on their mind, even though they have plenty of it anyway: more $$$
Easy: cure for aging = make them infertile too.
Offtopic but I can answer the question for you:
The Windows tax is around $80 USD. Or $0 if the tablet screen is under 9 inches https://www.theverge.com/2014/... but there's other much more important charges laptop manufacturers make versus System76. On a Windows laptop you pay the Windows fee and the manufacturers for all the parts just gives you the binary blob drivers for Windows as part of the motherboard/chip costs (or in other words, for free). On a System76 laptop, those drivers are not actually given, made, or even supported, barring someone else already making the driver for a part because either System76 or someone already did it for the same part. So System76 does the good deed of making the drivers themselves, open sources it and hands it upstream to the Linux kernel; the cost for development isn't that much but there's 1 final cost barrier however: NDA locked specifications. Broadcom bluetooth/wifi, Intel/AMD for motherboard and soundchip drivers, the screen/keyboard, and the battery all need drivers; the specifications and driver instructions aren't free, and costs thousands of dollars per device, and under NDA only the driver is specifically the exception they pay for to be able to upstream the driver support so you can install whatever Linux you want; not even the price is allowed to be talked about.
In short, System76 pays for the information required to make the drivers that they code themselves for the laptops/parts running Linux they are shipping for a lump sum under NDA amount, and some other manufacturers like Dell make money on warranty insurance and repairs, not the devices themselves.
They are. You can use the terminal, install busybox and run Linux commands on Android with the right bits of software. All the /dev, /proc and /sys files are on Android too.
His point is that piracy is a service problem. The main PC vendors that literally blow all the other services out the water in both content and earnings is Steam and GOG. While Gabe kinda does have a monopoly for PC games his point is very poignant for this topic: https://games.slashdot.org/sto... Steam being such an easy service to use for having games and keeping them updated means that people will want to use them more. It's not Netflix's fault though since before Netflix became huge, they had licenses for really cheap because the studios didn't think Netflix would take off. Then it did so now they are making their own services for each of the licenses and now the fragments are ruining the issue making piracy a better service again.
I don't think the issue is whether it works. It might be good enough as a utility but for what it does, which is give root system permissions and do some very powerful tasks, it needs a patch if a security issue/bug arises, and someone has to code that. I saw some good alternatives in this comment section though and I'll keep that in mind; I am just warning people that this is a possibility.
One of the interesting protections lets you upload files and even if the link is DMCA'd, all that would do is just hide the link from its search feature and browsing sections. The files stay up if you know the direct link. There's a lot of legally gray files like ROMs on there because of that.
I did my own research but you can just have fun looking at these two links and figuring it out for yourself; the highlights I noticed is that they respond to USA subpoenas, that they can but usually don't tolerate resource abuse, and follow US laws:
https://www.cloudflare.com/tra...
https://www.cloudflare.com/pri...
Uh, that's what drivers are. Most of the code in drivers never get touched or processed unless needed in ANY kernel, and drivers are a large part of everyday general kernels by design for hardware compatibility, but don't do anything because not everyone has every piece of hardware. If space really was a concern, Linux can be compiled manually to have only the drivers you want.
In other words: you're just posting because you think it adds something bad or is a waste of time, but in reality you don't know what you're talking about, and it means people waste less time and be less frustrated by adding it.
http://www.videolan.org/ The one linked on their site: https://play.google.com/store/...
That's exactly like saying "it's cold here, I thought the earth was getting hotter."
There's professional beekeepers trying to keep bees alive in general, but comparatively to decades ago total bee population is down everywhere.
Google does suck in a lot of ways, not a lot of people are going to disagree with you. Even their open source projects are just vendor lock-in traps, you can't actually call a device "Android" and sell it without installing a number of apps including Google Play.