Don't forget a decade a go, all the kids that were so excited at using linux, learned from linux, now have to unlearn everything thanks to new version of the GPL due to their new jobs and companies that don't want to deal with the crap. Stallman is such a genius.
All they had to do was keep the Macbook Pro up to date. The design was fine in the first place. They could have added a touch screen and it would have been wonderful. But, noooo, they had to do something radical to be different and completely destroy the brand.
For someone that switched their business to linux, these are all excellent points. However, linux is missing and lacking critical commercial software which makes switching difficult. Cad software, PLC programming software, well, just have to run it in VMWare, which is nothing unusual, most people in this profession will run those things in VMware regardless of Windows or Linux. The licenses on these software is just too expensive to lose, VMWare helps a lot there.
Also, I've noticed employees having trouble with libreoffice and thunderbird, where they were used to the Microsoft way of things. Most of these issues are trivial, but they're a nuisance when you start having 10 or more people complaining. Eventually, they'll get used to it, but it did slow things down a little bit. My worse problem is with PDF's and annotation. Adobe Acrobat is great with annotation, editing and OCR. None of the opensource alternative PDF viewers come even close to the ease of use and capability of what Adobe Acrobat did. Annotation in either Okular or Document Viewer is just terrible, like 1990's terrible.
As for OCR, I had to setup a special directory on a share drive with some scripts to auto OCR documents that are placed in there (Why the hell is OCR so terrible in linux??? I don't understand this. Why the hell do all the linux PDF's viewers not have OCR? It's something Adobe Acrobat has had for ages and none of the opensource alternatives have it at all).
Just some things in the linux world is primitive compared to software you can get in Windows unfortunately. Wine and VMWare tends to be a solution for some cases. Even apps in Android may tend to be better than any of the opensource applications currently (Hancom, almost all the PDF viewers). And if that's the case, that's quite sad that a $2 app is better than an opensource app.
Still, I'm not switching back to Windows, I no longer trust it.
That and there isn't any new ground breaking software that won't run fine on an old PC or laptop, unless you're playing games. You can get an old PC with a nice new screen, runs fine like a new PC.
And this is the sad thing about photo editing applications in linux.
Krita takes a step forward, but it still has stupid details that annoy the crap out of me, like you know, PRINTING? Krita's excuse for this is, I quote, "We also removed the print and print preview options; printing in Krita has never worked well, and after porting to Qt5 broke completely.". Yeah, that makes PERFECT SENSE! Then trying to put text into an image, what FUN!
So guess what I do? Vmware and Photoshop, because image editing or anything art related in linux just sucks ass and has sucked for 15 years or more. So I just laugh at people who claim that they use Gimp all the time, because I can't even use Gimp for simple photo manipulation because it's just dog slow for high megapixel images that even camera phones now have. The time it takes Gimp to wake up with some simple manipulation (Layers? lol), I'm already done doing what I want in vmware -> photoshop.
I like and I do want to continue to use linux, but there are simply certain software that the opensource community has not been able to match or beat the commercial alternatives. That and the fact that there is no commercial development for said software for linux just hurts the community even more. I hope that changes.
It is mostly an US problem because it's been very poorly implemented in the United States. And since a lot of fraud is moving online, it does nothing to prevent that.
I don't even need to worry about this bug, systemd already hangs my system when rebooting because it can't properly unmount or mount my network drives.
The funny thing is, you speak the truth. The Chinese don't trust their own home made products. I have a big facility next to me where the Chinese make medical equipment and they put the "Made in USA" sticker on it. They told me because no one in China wants to buy anything made in China, especially for medical use. So they do the next big thing, move the China to the US and have Chinese make Chinese products in the US, to sell in China with a fancy "Made in USA" sticker. None of their products they make sell in the US, it all goes to China.
I thought that's what they tried with Youtube Red? Trying to get me to do a monthly subscription so I can watch youtube videos and shut the screen down on my phone without it pausing the audio.
You can download Youtube's audio with a direct link. Why don't they sue Youtube? Oh that's right, then all their content delivery would go down the drain and no one would care about them anymore.
And don't forget Ubuntu on phones. I was hoping they'd have some success with that but it seems incompetence completely rolled over that. They stopped selling the Meizu Pro 5, with all its problems, since then it has become last years phone. The Meizu Pro 6 is out and Ubuntu is just left behind, selling nothing. I hope they can change because I'm honestly tired of my Android phone tracking me ever since Google's latest maps and play store update.
There are some IoT devices that have their uses in the industrial world. They don't need to be connected to the Internet, but on the internal network, they are quite useful and provide useful data and metrics for many things. There was some guy that was going to make wireless IoT sensors with a 5 year battery life, I don't know what happened with that. I would have found that very useful and save me a ton of wiring.
5. Separate your network. You can have all your IOT devices on another network that's firewalled. Then you don't have to worry about the NSA, government or anything else for that matter. If you're paranoid enough, you can simply disconnect them from the Internet completely.
This bothers me more than anything. These devices are all hunting my network for other devices to snoop around. My wonderful new HP printer likes to snoop my network and call home.
I've resorted to blocking all outgoing communication from each device. It's very annoying. I'm in the process of having a separate network for such devices and my secured computers on another network that don't have this problem.
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Don't forget a decade a go, all the kids that were so excited at using linux, learned from linux, now have to unlearn everything thanks to new version of the GPL due to their new jobs and companies that don't want to deal with the crap. Stallman is such a genius.
All they had to do was keep the Macbook Pro up to date. The design was fine in the first place. They could have added a touch screen and it would have been wonderful. But, noooo, they had to do something radical to be different and completely destroy the brand.
For someone that switched their business to linux, these are all excellent points. However, linux is missing and lacking critical commercial software which makes switching difficult. Cad software, PLC programming software, well, just have to run it in VMWare, which is nothing unusual, most people in this profession will run those things in VMware regardless of Windows or Linux. The licenses on these software is just too expensive to lose, VMWare helps a lot there.
Also, I've noticed employees having trouble with libreoffice and thunderbird, where they were used to the Microsoft way of things. Most of these issues are trivial, but they're a nuisance when you start having 10 or more people complaining. Eventually, they'll get used to it, but it did slow things down a little bit. My worse problem is with PDF's and annotation. Adobe Acrobat is great with annotation, editing and OCR. None of the opensource alternative PDF viewers come even close to the ease of use and capability of what Adobe Acrobat did. Annotation in either Okular or Document Viewer is just terrible, like 1990's terrible.
As for OCR, I had to setup a special directory on a share drive with some scripts to auto OCR documents that are placed in there (Why the hell is OCR so terrible in linux??? I don't understand this. Why the hell do all the linux PDF's viewers not have OCR? It's something Adobe Acrobat has had for ages and none of the opensource alternatives have it at all).
Just some things in the linux world is primitive compared to software you can get in Windows unfortunately. Wine and VMWare tends to be a solution for some cases. Even apps in Android may tend to be better than any of the opensource applications currently (Hancom, almost all the PDF viewers). And if that's the case, that's quite sad that a $2 app is better than an opensource app.
Still, I'm not switching back to Windows, I no longer trust it.
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Because many of these countries do not have corrupt politicians in city or county councils who decide they need a 100k pay raise just because.
That and there isn't any new ground breaking software that won't run fine on an old PC or laptop, unless you're playing games. You can get an old PC with a nice new screen, runs fine like a new PC.
He's free to kneel all he wants, doesn't mean we have to watch it or like it.
Ever hear of the Air Force bombing Al Qaeda by dropping batteries on them ?
Not Yet, but with this latest Samsung development, we may start seeing that soon.
And this is the sad thing about photo editing applications in linux.
Krita takes a step forward, but it still has stupid details that annoy the crap out of me, like you know, PRINTING? Krita's excuse for this is, I quote, "We also removed the print and print preview options; printing in Krita has never worked well, and after porting to Qt5 broke completely.". Yeah, that makes PERFECT SENSE! Then trying to put text into an image, what FUN!
So guess what I do? Vmware and Photoshop, because image editing or anything art related in linux just sucks ass and has sucked for 15 years or more. So I just laugh at people who claim that they use Gimp all the time, because I can't even use Gimp for simple photo manipulation because it's just dog slow for high megapixel images that even camera phones now have. The time it takes Gimp to wake up with some simple manipulation (Layers? lol), I'm already done doing what I want in vmware -> photoshop.
I like and I do want to continue to use linux, but there are simply certain software that the opensource community has not been able to match or beat the commercial alternatives. That and the fact that there is no commercial development for said software for linux just hurts the community even more. I hope that changes.
I can't. They're both horrible.
Why not? They already think they can fix machines.
It is mostly an US problem because it's been very poorly implemented in the United States. And since a lot of fraud is moving online, it does nothing to prevent that.
I would love baloo if it actually worked right. The thing just fails for me to index anything right.
People have a short memory.
Remember tape drives?
NAS devices are common place and anyone that needs storage space for their photos, 4k video, professional or not, is going to still buy large HDD's.
I don't even need to worry about this bug, systemd already hangs my system when rebooting because it can't properly unmount or mount my network drives.
The funny thing is, you speak the truth. The Chinese don't trust their own home made products. I have a big facility next to me where the Chinese make medical equipment and they put the "Made in USA" sticker on it. They told me because no one in China wants to buy anything made in China, especially for medical use. So they do the next big thing, move the China to the US and have Chinese make Chinese products in the US, to sell in China with a fancy "Made in USA" sticker. None of their products they make sell in the US, it all goes to China.
I thought that's what they tried with Youtube Red? Trying to get me to do a monthly subscription so I can watch youtube videos and shut the screen down on my phone without it pausing the audio.
You can download Youtube's audio with a direct link. Why don't they sue Youtube? Oh that's right, then all their content delivery would go down the drain and no one would care about them anymore.
And don't forget Ubuntu on phones. I was hoping they'd have some success with that but it seems incompetence completely rolled over that. They stopped selling the Meizu Pro 5, with all its problems, since then it has become last years phone. The Meizu Pro 6 is out and Ubuntu is just left behind, selling nothing. I hope they can change because I'm honestly tired of my Android phone tracking me ever since Google's latest maps and play store update.
Lets just wipe it all and start over. The whole system stinks.
There are some IoT devices that have their uses in the industrial world. They don't need to be connected to the Internet, but on the internal network, they are quite useful and provide useful data and metrics for many things. There was some guy that was going to make wireless IoT sensors with a 5 year battery life, I don't know what happened with that. I would have found that very useful and save me a ton of wiring.
5. Separate your network. You can have all your IOT devices on another network that's firewalled. Then you don't have to worry about the NSA, government or anything else for that matter. If you're paranoid enough, you can simply disconnect them from the Internet completely.
This bothers me more than anything. These devices are all hunting my network for other devices to snoop around. My wonderful new HP printer likes to snoop my network and call home.
I've resorted to blocking all outgoing communication from each device. It's very annoying. I'm in the process of having a separate network for such devices and my secured computers on another network that don't have this problem.