Disclaimer: Romanian here. It's more complicated than this. It is true that Gypsies have been marginalized for a long time. It's not really clear whether the marginalization is a cause or an effect. After studying the subject for quite some time, I am inclined to say it's both - kind of like egg-versus-hen. Nobody could tell which was first.
The bigger problem is that efforts to integrate Gypsies have failed. Particular success cases do exist, but all of them (from what I have researched) are based on a genuine desire of the subject(s) to integrate into civilized society. Western societies tend to cover both habits/traditions and integration challenges under the same blanket, which is wrong. Let me explain.
While it's true that it's more difficult for a Gypsy person to leave poverty behind them, this has nothing to do with their unwillingness to shed bad habits. Speaking loudly in public in their own languages, littering all over the place, listening to loud (bad) music, behaving in primitive ways, being verbally and physically aggressive towards other people, being dirty, urinating in public, disrespecting neighbors - all these can't be explained by "I am poor and marginalized". A 50 cent soap is much cheaper than a thousand dollar phone blaring "manele" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manele) or the thick, genuine gold-made necklace. When you build a million-dollar house which has no running water or toilet and keep your horses and carriages in the yard, poverty is no excuse.
Soundcloud obviously has a ton of fake accounts, more than any other platform. I sometimes put up sound captures there, for example a capture of fan tone shapes as part of my fan reviews, or a comparison between microphone sensitivities, and once I upload such an audio capture, I very quickly receive notifications that someone liked my track. There isn't anything to like, really, these captures are not art.
Couple weeks later, those users are gone (accounts no longer exist).
Notification looks like this:
Patricia Bustamante likes your track Patricia Bustamante likes one of your tracks, Logitech C910 vs Trust GXT 232 Check out Patricia Bustamante's likes and tracks
If the account is still up and I check its likes and tracks, there are always no tracks from that account but a bunch of random likes unrelated to each other (from an artistic or audio domain perspective).
"Keto Diet Not Effective, Causes Blood Sugar Problems In Women" results in "Keto Diet Not Effective, Causes Blood Sugar Problems In Women In Mice". How do women fit in mice?
I am from Eastern Europe. I work US-time shift, which means I am usually awake at 2-3-4 AM my time, which is when I usually shop. So there, two factors that would raise flags for me.
OP says "we need a standardized user interface". Your reply is "we have three of those standardized user interfaces". Looking in Wikipedia, I found this:
On desktop systems, the most popular user interfaces are the GUI shells, packaged together with extensive desktop environments, such as KDE Plasma, GNOME, MATE, Cinnamon, Unity, LXDE, Pantheon and Xfce, though a variety of additional user interfaces exist.
A standard is a standard. One single thing. Not eight. Certainly not eight over umpteen distros.
I have an old ASUS Eee PC 1005HA which came with Windows 7 Start or something like that. In time, that ugly-ass sticker with the license key has faded away so I installed a Linux Mint distro on it. We plan to use that Eee PC in the kitchen, to look up recipe instructions while cooking, and my girlfriend was asking me about its OS. She's a Windows user and so am I (most of the time). I was telling her it has Linux installed and if she doesn't like the interface, there are others around. She asked "so which is better?" - hell, I don't know.
Now, if you have a normal PC user, who knows just enough about an OS UI to be able to configure the OS and use it without asking for help, how would you present these user interfaces and the difference between them? When faced with a choice between multiple software solutions I tend to construct a table having the solutions in columns and their features in rows, with each cell marked on or off showing whether A certain solution has a certain feature, compared to the rest. In this case I realized I don't know what the difference is. I'm not sure I should care, either. So why, then, do these competing solutions even exist? They don't compete commercially, because they are free to use. They don't compete from a functionality perspective, because (and I make an assumption here) top 30 UI features for any modern interface are present in all of them. So why have all those solutions, if the top reason to use one over the other is personal preference? Which, by the way, needs to be developed, and a new user (or a converted one) doesn't have.
Last thing I need when switching to Linux Desktop is a consultant to help me decide which user interface better suits me. I would very much like to install a distro and have a way to choose between the eight user interfaces above, on the fly, by choosing from a menu or something, much like themes work on an Android phone. Then yes, it would indeed be a matter of preference.
I remember when Windows 8 was released, with their new Tile-based desktop and their horrible choice of redesigning Settings, a half-assed implementation which destroyed usability. Even today, with Windows 10 v.1809, Settings are a mess. Half of them are present in the "new" UI, and half are still in the classic UI (which was way more functional, if you ask me). I, the ever-desktop-click-and-OK user, had to rely on PowerShell or Command Prompt a lot more to change settings, because the UI way was more frustrating and slower. So, yes, there is ample opportunity for Linux-based desktop UIs to replace Windows-based UI from that regard, but fragmentation is one of the big hurdles.
After the initial North American launch in the fourth quarter of 2019, the service will roll out to Western Europe and in Asia-Pacific regions starting in Q4 and into early 2020 and in Eastern Europe and Latin America starting at the end of 2020.
The European Commission will most likely slam them with a heavy fine if they do this. The European Union is a single entity economically speaking, and treating Western Europe and Eastern Europe separately is a huge no-no.
Valve is under pressure right now for allowing game price geotagging in the EU, together with other major game publishers. https://win.gg/news/977 As a person living in Eastern Europe (and a Star Wars fan), I am directly interested in how is this going to unfold.
That's not the point. The point is 8x+8x is still impossible to achieve if you have even ONE nVME SSD. I don't need 16x+16x for the GPUs. I need 8x+8x, hell even 8x+4x would be fine, provided both my SSDs get 4x CPU lanes each. That's not the case with any current desktop platform except Intel's X299 and AMD's X399 platforms.
And there's another point I am trying to convey. Back in 2017 when I bought the CPU and motherboard, they set me back around $700 (both), in my country, which means USA prices would have been at least 25% lower, say around $550 for both. I got 6 cores, 12 threads, 4.25 GHz frequency and 28 PCI Express lanes. All good and dandy. Fast-forward to today, this kind of deal doesn't exist any more. Here in my EU country, the lowest price for a 7900X CPU is $1350. That's 2.5 times I had paid for the CPU+motherboard combo a couple years ago. Threadripper 1950X (first generation) costs $784 at some shady stores. The larger stores price it at close to a grand. Just the CPU.
Eventually I will upgrade my current platform, but now is not the time.
I have 2x GPUs in SLI. I also have 2x nVME SSDs which reach 3.4 GB/s transfer rate (each). I also own a 16x PCI Express card which can fit 4 nVME SSDs (not using it for obvious reasons). If I want to use 8x+8x for GPUs and 4x+4x for nVMEs, I need 24 lanes. The 6800K already has 28 lanes available (CPU only), so if I upgrade, I want to upgrade to something better from this point of view as well. Ryzen 2 would be a downgrade, unless I go Threadripper.
She builds furniture and does woodworking among other things. So yes, we both have hobbies, I'm learning her crafts and teaching her mine (PC modding, 3D design, PC hardware).
I've been waiting for 3 years now for a relatively affordable desktop CPU with enough PCI Express Lanes. My current CPU is an Intel i7 6800K, using the X99 motherboard chipset and it has 28 PCI Express Lanes. The 6850K has 40 PCI Express lanes but otherwise brings no performance increase. The next step in the upgrade process is the 6900K which, albeit on an EOL platform, has enough meat to satisfy my requirements... but costs a fortune. As a matter of fact, it costs as much if not more than a 2nd gen Threadripper (2920X), which has 12 cores and 24 threads available, compared to Intel's 8/16. But that requires changing the motherboard as well, and those are pricy too.
Only the HEDT CPUs have enough PCI Express Lanes, if you have 2x GPUs and a minimum of 2x nVME SSDs. There are regular desktop solutions which allow you to use such a hardware combo, but one GPU will run at 8X, the other at 4x, one SSD will run at 2X and the other would most likely use motherboard-provided PCI Express lanes, reducing the data throughput or providing variable performance. The 9900K from Intel has 16 PCI Express Lanes. The Ryzen 2700X has 16 lanes as well. You need more PCI Express lanes? Tough luck, cough up a couple grands on CPU+motherboard alone.
Clicked TFA. The Washington Post, tag line "Democracy Dies in Darkness". Embedded content showing me an ash background with a terse message: "This content is currently not available in your region."
It's news because, with the proper filtering and monitoring in place, such groups could be detected very easily. Yes, I know, privacy and shit, but let's face it, once on Facebook, privacy is gone in an instant. It's very hard to believe a large group of 385K members can fly under the radar for so long. This can't be explained as incompetence.
A couple years ago, my older child started sipping into addiction but with another game title: Ark: Survival Evolved. Once I realized it, I cut his play time to 2 hours Saturday and 2 hours Sunday, either between 10 AM and noon or between 2 PM and 4 PM. Mon-Fri were off limits as far as games were involved. It was quite a battle at first, when this rule came into place, but with patience and resolve it got sorted out.
He's right though. In the past, the April's Fool's day was indeed aimed at fools. The "stories" were clearly not true to anyone who had some brains, for example the famous spaghetti tree story. Now, it's fake news, nothing else.
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Disclaimer: Romanian here.
It's more complicated than this. It is true that Gypsies have been marginalized for a long time. It's not really clear whether the marginalization is a cause or an effect. After studying the subject for quite some time, I am inclined to say it's both - kind of like egg-versus-hen. Nobody could tell which was first.
The bigger problem is that efforts to integrate Gypsies have failed. Particular success cases do exist, but all of them (from what I have researched) are based on a genuine desire of the subject(s) to integrate into civilized society. Western societies tend to cover both habits/traditions and integration challenges under the same blanket, which is wrong. Let me explain.
While it's true that it's more difficult for a Gypsy person to leave poverty behind them, this has nothing to do with their unwillingness to shed bad habits. Speaking loudly in public in their own languages, littering all over the place, listening to loud (bad) music, behaving in primitive ways, being verbally and physically aggressive towards other people, being dirty, urinating in public, disrespecting neighbors - all these can't be explained by "I am poor and marginalized". A 50 cent soap is much cheaper than a thousand dollar phone blaring "manele" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manele) or the thick, genuine gold-made necklace. When you build a million-dollar house which has no running water or toilet and keep your horses and carriages in the yard, poverty is no excuse.
Check these Gypsy house images below from the village of Buzescu, Romania:
https://www.google.com/search?...
And then tell me they are poor and marginalized. And no, this village is not an exception, it's just the most prominently-displayed.
Soundcloud obviously has a ton of fake accounts, more than any other platform. I sometimes put up sound captures there, for example a capture of fan tone shapes as part of my fan reviews, or a comparison between microphone sensitivities, and once I upload such an audio capture, I very quickly receive notifications that someone liked my track. There isn't anything to like, really, these captures are not art.
Couple weeks later, those users are gone (accounts no longer exist).
Notification looks like this:
Patricia Bustamante likes your track
Patricia Bustamante likes one of your tracks, Logitech C910 vs Trust GXT 232
Check out Patricia Bustamante's likes and tracks
If the account is still up and I check its likes and tracks, there are always no tracks from that account but a bunch of random likes unrelated to each other (from an artistic or audio domain perspective).
As per TFS:
"Keto Diet Not Effective, Causes Blood Sugar Problems In Women" results in "Keto Diet Not Effective, Causes Blood Sugar Problems In Women In Mice".
How do women fit in mice?
I am from Eastern Europe. I work US-time shift, which means I am usually awake at 2-3-4 AM my time, which is when I usually shop. So there, two factors that would raise flags for me.
One of the smaller issues is that a name such as "Sabnzbd" is allowed to exist for an application.
Have you seen the Windows App Store? Makes Google Play a blissful experience by comparison.
The strength of linux is the different flavors.
And its curse as well.
You just described Themes :)
OP says "we need a standardized user interface".
Your reply is "we have three of those standardized user interfaces". Looking in Wikipedia, I found this:
On desktop systems, the most popular user interfaces are the GUI shells, packaged together with extensive desktop environments, such as KDE Plasma, GNOME, MATE, Cinnamon, Unity, LXDE, Pantheon and Xfce, though a variety of additional user interfaces exist.
A standard is a standard. One single thing. Not eight. Certainly not eight over umpteen distros.
I have an old ASUS Eee PC 1005HA which came with Windows 7 Start or something like that. In time, that ugly-ass sticker with the license key has faded away so I installed a Linux Mint distro on it. We plan to use that Eee PC in the kitchen, to look up recipe instructions while cooking, and my girlfriend was asking me about its OS. She's a Windows user and so am I (most of the time). I was telling her it has Linux installed and if she doesn't like the interface, there are others around. She asked "so which is better?" - hell, I don't know.
Now, if you have a normal PC user, who knows just enough about an OS UI to be able to configure the OS and use it without asking for help, how would you present these user interfaces and the difference between them? When faced with a choice between multiple software solutions I tend to construct a table having the solutions in columns and their features in rows, with each cell marked on or off showing whether A certain solution has a certain feature, compared to the rest. In this case I realized I don't know what the difference is. I'm not sure I should care, either. So why, then, do these competing solutions even exist? They don't compete commercially, because they are free to use. They don't compete from a functionality perspective, because (and I make an assumption here) top 30 UI features for any modern interface are present in all of them. So why have all those solutions, if the top reason to use one over the other is personal preference? Which, by the way, needs to be developed, and a new user (or a converted one) doesn't have.
Last thing I need when switching to Linux Desktop is a consultant to help me decide which user interface better suits me. I would very much like to install a distro and have a way to choose between the eight user interfaces above, on the fly, by choosing from a menu or something, much like themes work on an Android phone. Then yes, it would indeed be a matter of preference.
I remember when Windows 8 was released, with their new Tile-based desktop and their horrible choice of redesigning Settings, a half-assed implementation which destroyed usability. Even today, with Windows 10 v.1809, Settings are a mess. Half of them are present in the "new" UI, and half are still in the classic UI (which was way more functional, if you ask me). I, the ever-desktop-click-and-OK user, had to rely on PowerShell or Command Prompt a lot more to change settings, because the UI way was more frustrating and slower. So, yes, there is ample opportunity for Linux-based desktop UIs to replace Windows-based UI from that regard, but fragmentation is one of the big hurdles.
From TFA:
After the initial North American launch in the fourth quarter of 2019, the service will roll out to Western Europe and in Asia-Pacific regions starting in Q4 and into early 2020 and in Eastern Europe and Latin America starting at the end of 2020.
The European Commission will most likely slam them with a heavy fine if they do this. The European Union is a single entity economically speaking, and treating Western Europe and Eastern Europe separately is a huge no-no.
Valve is under pressure right now for allowing game price geotagging in the EU, together with other major game publishers. https://win.gg/news/977
As a person living in Eastern Europe (and a Star Wars fan), I am directly interested in how is this going to unfold.
I recognize a bait when I see one, but I'll bite. I assume you refer to Episodes IV through VI?
That's not the point. The point is 8x+8x is still impossible to achieve if you have even ONE nVME SSD. I don't need 16x+16x for the GPUs. I need 8x+8x, hell even 8x+4x would be fine, provided both my SSDs get 4x CPU lanes each. That's not the case with any current desktop platform except Intel's X299 and AMD's X399 platforms.
And there's another point I am trying to convey. Back in 2017 when I bought the CPU and motherboard, they set me back around $700 (both), in my country, which means USA prices would have been at least 25% lower, say around $550 for both. I got 6 cores, 12 threads, 4.25 GHz frequency and 28 PCI Express lanes. All good and dandy. Fast-forward to today, this kind of deal doesn't exist any more. Here in my EU country, the lowest price for a 7900X CPU is $1350. That's 2.5 times I had paid for the CPU+motherboard combo a couple years ago. Threadripper 1950X (first generation) costs $784 at some shady stores. The larger stores price it at close to a grand. Just the CPU.
Eventually I will upgrade my current platform, but now is not the time.
I have 2x GPUs in SLI. I also have 2x nVME SSDs which reach 3.4 GB/s transfer rate (each). I also own a 16x PCI Express card which can fit 4 nVME SSDs (not using it for obvious reasons). If I want to use 8x+8x for GPUs and 4x+4x for nVMEs, I need 24 lanes.
The 6800K already has 28 lanes available (CPU only), so if I upgrade, I want to upgrade to something better from this point of view as well. Ryzen 2 would be a downgrade, unless I go Threadripper.
No, friend, YOU can get a TR4 board for 250 bucks. I can get the same one for 350 EUR if lucky. Same with CPU, a $1000 CPU is 1200 EUR here easily.
She builds furniture and does woodworking among other things. So yes, we both have hobbies, I'm learning her crafts and teaching her mine (PC modding, 3D design, PC hardware).
I've been waiting for 3 years now for a relatively affordable desktop CPU with enough PCI Express Lanes.
My current CPU is an Intel i7 6800K, using the X99 motherboard chipset and it has 28 PCI Express Lanes. The 6850K has 40 PCI Express lanes but otherwise brings no performance increase. The next step in the upgrade process is the 6900K which, albeit on an EOL platform, has enough meat to satisfy my requirements... but costs a fortune. As a matter of fact, it costs as much if not more than a 2nd gen Threadripper (2920X), which has 12 cores and 24 threads available, compared to Intel's 8/16. But that requires changing the motherboard as well, and those are pricy too.
Only the HEDT CPUs have enough PCI Express Lanes, if you have 2x GPUs and a minimum of 2x nVME SSDs. There are regular desktop solutions which allow you to use such a hardware combo, but one GPU will run at 8X, the other at 4x, one SSD will run at 2X and the other would most likely use motherboard-provided PCI Express lanes, reducing the data throughput or providing variable performance. The 9900K from Intel has 16 PCI Express Lanes. The Ryzen 2700X has 16 lanes as well. You need more PCI Express lanes? Tough luck, cough up a couple grands on CPU+motherboard alone.
Clicked TFA.
The Washington Post, tag line "Democracy Dies in Darkness". Embedded content showing me an ash background with a terse message: "This content is currently not available in your region."
The irony is striking.
It's my passion, not my job.
It's news because, with the proper filtering and monitoring in place, such groups could be detected very easily. Yes, I know, privacy and shit, but let's face it, once on Facebook, privacy is gone in an instant.
It's very hard to believe a large group of 385K members can fly under the radar for so long. This can't be explained as incompetence.
A couple years ago, my older child started sipping into addiction but with another game title: Ark: Survival Evolved. Once I realized it, I cut his play time to 2 hours Saturday and 2 hours Sunday, either between 10 AM and noon or between 2 PM and 4 PM. Mon-Fri were off limits as far as games were involved.
It was quite a battle at first, when this rule came into place, but with patience and resolve it got sorted out.
I tried it a short while after it launched. I disliked it. A lot.
Well, I guess I exceeded the target age range.
"big band", not "big bang".
Sheesh.
He's right though.
In the past, the April's Fool's day was indeed aimed at fools. The "stories" were clearly not true to anyone who had some brains, for example the famous spaghetti tree story.
Now, it's fake news, nothing else.
Like life, then?
I met the love of my life on Tinder. Anecdotal, of course, but hey... it worked for one guy at least :)
Strictly ontopic, I did a quick conversion and I am 5.97113 feet tall. Bummer :P