I think the implication is that Facebook is not suitable for her kind of work because it doesn't permit aliases.
A friend of mine who's living in a homophobic community had two Facebook profiles. One was squeaky-clean closet guy, the other was for the guys from the gay bars.
He added me on the squeaky-clean profile, but I would regularly get "people you might know" and it was his gay-bar profile. I warned him about it and he no longer uses Facebook for anything.
"If you have to use the trackpad on a Thinkpad, buy a joystick instead. "
I think you're trying to say that I'm not a hardcore Thinkpad user because I don't use the Trackpoint.
I used the Trackpoint for so many years, my arm tenses up in pain if I do anything with it. Great pointing device, but the RSI is terrible. I remove the cover so that I don't accidentally use it.
They're taking risks, but in the wrong directions. The watch, the TV, the stupid trashcan Mac pro, the touch-bar. All risks. Even Jobs had his share of failed ideas.
It would be nice if they took some risks by creating good workstations... but oh well... they have their ups and downs. They're definately in a down.
It's amazing how the Thinkpad can get it so wrong too. Battery life which is a marketing number, a display where the highest priced upgrade isn't as nice as the Macbook's standard display, a trackpad which is merely tolerable, a keyboard layout which changes every few generations by somebody who thinkgs people hit Prtscn as often as they hit the space bar.
The things on a Thinkpad which make me happy.... I don't have to worry about bumping the magsafe power in clamshell mode, I can turn off the radios with a physical switch, I have a VGA port, I have an always-on USB port, I can bend the display back 180 degrees to use an external monitor.
Alt-tab is awesome. Mac users don't get it. If you have to *think* about changing apps, or look at pretty icons to do so, then you've already been jolted out of your workflow. Alt-tab takes you to the last active window with a flick. Cmd-tab by comparison raises the group related to the previous application you were using, and puts focus in the last window you were using in that group. Deciding between cmd-tab and cmd-` is already breaking your workflow.
The default full-screen maximize behaviour is stupid. I don't know what apple was thinking.
- PayPal can only perform a heist once, then their reputation is destroyed.
- The net worth of Paypal is more than it would be worth destroying their own brand
- The number of people required to collude in a heist of Paypal and their lack of assurance of a payout makes a heist very difficult
- People don't speculate on the value of Paypal dollars
My point about stocks vs Bitcoin is that although stocks have a dubious valuation, there's some rough consensus on what "fundamental" values might be. With bitcoin, you need to speculate on which market forces might even be affecting the valuation.
A 19 year old Zuckerberg probably said that in a chat.
Funny thing about the Winklevoss thing is that there were LOTS of social networks cropping up which could have been Facebook.
The fact that some PHP app written by a kid in school turned into what it is today, probably has more to do with the right business decisions, connections and luck, rather than being "first". It wasn't first by a long shot.
More than likely, the Winklevosses had the next Classmates.com.
"... perhaps I've been doing this long enough that my brain is attuned to dealing with this problem domain and therefore I no longer find it cognitively taxing"
Yep, that's what I'm saying. Coding may for you be no more than putting together blocks of stuff you mostly have mastered. Keeping a momentum to fight boredom is more important than concentrating.
What do you do when things get difficult? when you're faced with something very unfamiliar, poorly written, opaque and massive that it needs to be reverse engineered to be understood... to the point that it may not be solvable?
"the disservice I've seen the Linux community perform for people by recommending Linux as an alternative to Windows and MacOS is terrible."
What do you mean?
Anyone who knows enough about systems to be able to judge the pros and cons has certainly already heard of Linux
I'm stuck with xfce on everything. It has its own issues, all the themes are low-contrast for the foreground window, mimicking Apple and MS, so some customization is needed on my part. Gnome and KDE, despite being FOSS have gone amateur night designer. The design-and-abandon issues are worse.
Apple's been right about touch interfaces, keep them separate from the desktop metaphor. Balmer was a disaster for MS, and Canonical copied their mistakes, complete with Unity and Ubuntu phone. Now Libreoffice looks like it's trying to copy the Ribbon.
Syncing files is a pain. I use a mix of rsync, git, unison and Dropbox (for IOS) when needed.
As for updates, just this weekend I was on the road and needed LibreOffice Calc on my Kali box... it's a Debian rolling-release. To install Calc, I had to install 100's of MBs of updates, when it installed, the icons were all dead. Probably fixable with a reboot, but whatever. Kali's not a desktop distro. Really should have used my VPN to reach home and RDP'd into my Windows box. It would have been less trouble... RDP on Windows is excellent.
My personal experience is that, since I want certain things to work a certain way when I set up a Linux machine, I have to put in tremendous effort for the first few weeks to get it mostly right....
It's also the case that when you plan a new Linux machine, you have to do your homework. I research what hardware will work, then put together my own machine.
This is consistent with my experience, although often the answer to an issue is "you should have picked different hardware". Options with notebooks are far, far more limited. People who say "Linux works on teh everything!!" are very tiring.
If I ever run into you in person, I'm going to stuff my Linux HDD into my Thinkpad and watch you try in vain to resolve the shearing in Kodi or challenge you to squeeze smooth 1080p Youtube video out of it.
I'll boot Windows ahead of time and show you that it's not the hardware.
You might even run into me at various international Linux events. I'll be the guy people heckle because I'm running one laptop with Windows.
I am using CentOS 7 on that KVM host. Did you solve the filesystem passthrough issues? virtio-9pfs doesn't exist in RHEL or CentOS. Why?...Stability issues. It doesn't seem worth recompiling my kernel and qemu, or going to Fedora.
https://access.redhat.com/discussions/1119043
It looks like virtio-vsock might make it into 7.5.
This feature has existed in Virtualbox since 2010. VMware's hgfs goes back further. It's almost essential for the work I do and it's a big part of why I saw no reason to troubleshoot the issues with the bridged networking.
My Thinkpads are rock solid on Windows. Virtualbox is working fine too. Not sure why you would think I have hardware issues.
No, I'm saying that it's very possible that the reason you can't understand why people use Windows is not because they don't understand how to use a computer properly, but it is because you don't understand the work these people do.
Privacy (except for that Canonical incident), scripting, familiarity and expertise are awesome reasons to run Linux on bare metal. They're the reason I run it on my personal servers and the reason I occasionally run it on my laptop. Bash is my Windows command line and I have a Linux VM running most of the time on Windows.
This whole thread bugged me because honestly, the disservice I've seen the Linux community perform for people by recommending Linux as an alternative to Windows and MacOS is terrible.
My hat's off to you, and I share your disappointment with the desktop fragmentation around KDE, then the disaster which was Unity.
I used to sit Debian booths doing tech support. No, really. Solving wifi issues, video drivers, grub nightmares, etc. I wouldn't touch weird things like brightness controls and suspend issues because they're flaky.... the solution was "maybe they'll fix it in an update" or "try thinkwiki", or I would put them in touch with somebody in the Debian community who had a similar machine. I didn't see a lot of Dell machines, but aside from a recent bout of XPS machines and "my company makes me" machines, they're uncommon at tech conferences.
It's very strange that you write as though you have no idea what I'm talking about, but in the next breath, you say that Ubuntu gave you too much trouble.
Ubuntu is a fantastic distro with a good LTS model. Their support for "non-free" codecs, drivers, etc, out of box is among the best.
OpenVPN is great software. It was not suitable at my most recent engagement because the network team was doing static routes, didn't know Linux and couldn't deal with maintaining an OpenVPN server in the DMZ. The helpdesk couldn't handle it because 2FA was best handled with individual certificates, distributing and managing those certificates was too much work.
Ubuntu out-of-box would do VPNs compatible with PA, but would not do challenge-response. This meant ultimately going with Cisco AnyConnect. A very expensive solution for a group of devs. Some might say the mistake was going with PA in the first place, but this is just an example.
If I correspond with Linux users on "office" documents, I use convert once, use LibreOffice for Windows and leave it in native odt/ods format. The incompatibilities in format conversion are insidious. If it has to go for publishing, I have somebody convert it to plain text and re-do all the markup and image work from scratch.
Good luck if you're using Evolution or Thunderbird+lightning for Exchange integration... it's at best a poor equivalent to Outlook Calendaring, at worst, it's a time bomb. Just use OWA and your phone, it will save you weeks of pain and embarrassment. Although maybe my standards are too high, I used to do QA writing and executing test cases for calendaring.
Don't assume that people are using Windows because they don't know any better.
"I can concede that Linux isn't the best solution for everybody, because it's still too difficult for the average person to utilize properly. They really do need the overarching helping hand like Apple or MS offers."
I think there's a Dunning-Krugeresque overconfidence here.
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Hackaday had an article that it could be a directed microwave weapon, and the audio is a hallucination.
Seems more likely than the audio being the cause of memory loss, brain damage, etc...
The motive is hard to imagine.
I think the implication is that Facebook is not suitable for her kind of work because it doesn't permit aliases.
A friend of mine who's living in a homophobic community had two Facebook profiles. One was squeaky-clean closet guy, the other was for the guys from the gay bars.
He added me on the squeaky-clean profile, but I would regularly get "people you might know" and it was his gay-bar profile. I warned him about it and he no longer uses Facebook for anything.
"If you have to use the trackpad on a Thinkpad, buy a joystick instead. "
I think you're trying to say that I'm not a hardcore Thinkpad user because I don't use the Trackpoint.
I used the Trackpoint for so many years, my arm tenses up in pain if I do anything with it. Great pointing device, but the RSI is terrible. I remove the cover so that I don't accidentally use it.
They're taking risks, but in the wrong directions. The watch, the TV, the stupid trashcan Mac pro, the touch-bar. All risks. Even Jobs had his share of failed ideas.
It would be nice if they took some risks by creating good workstations... but oh well... they have their ups and downs. They're definately in a down.
It's amazing how the Thinkpad can get it so wrong too. Battery life which is a marketing number, a display where the highest priced upgrade isn't as nice as the Macbook's standard display, a trackpad which is merely tolerable, a keyboard layout which changes every few generations by somebody who thinkgs people hit Prtscn as often as they hit the space bar.
The things on a Thinkpad which make me happy.... I don't have to worry about bumping the magsafe power in clamshell mode, I can turn off the radios with a physical switch, I have a VGA port, I have an always-on USB port, I can bend the display back 180 degrees to use an external monitor.
Alt-tab is awesome. Mac users don't get it. If you have to *think* about changing apps, or look at pretty icons to do so, then you've already been jolted out of your workflow. Alt-tab takes you to the last active window with a flick. Cmd-tab by comparison raises the group related to the previous application you were using, and puts focus in the last window you were using in that group. Deciding between cmd-tab and cmd-` is already breaking your workflow.
The default full-screen maximize behaviour is stupid. I don't know what apple was thinking.
Would you be able to provide a source to your assertion that Bell is a crown corp?
Nope, I goofed. I'm looking for some of the more interesting references on the juicy bits of the history, but no, it's not government-owned.
Whoops, yeah, that's strictly wrong.
Bell Canada has a complex history with special statuses and stuff, but it's not a crown asset. Flub on my part.
In this case, Bell is the content distributor, the lobbyist, one of the largest Telcos and also a crown corporation.
I think there should be a movement to silence Bell on this issue as they have a clear conflict of interest.
This was mentioned in threads on some earlier posts https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/faulty_data_center_takes_out_sourceforge/
It would be nice to have a geeky article about how things went wrong.
The iphone 7 shipped with iOS 10 which is not affected by this issue.
"...coming paradigm shift to digital currency..."
Check the top of the graph.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7236/6918834286_483518f635_b.jpg
"So it's like PayPal then?"
No.
- PayPal can only perform a heist once, then their reputation is destroyed.
- The net worth of Paypal is more than it would be worth destroying their own brand
- The number of people required to collude in a heist of Paypal and their lack of assurance of a payout makes a heist very difficult
- People don't speculate on the value of Paypal dollars
My point about stocks vs Bitcoin is that although stocks have a dubious valuation, there's some rough consensus on what "fundamental" values might be. With bitcoin, you need to speculate on which market forces might even be affecting the valuation.
"I also suspect that with the volatility, there will be a bitcoin futures market at some point."
Stocks are like betting on a horse race with no finish line. Bitcoin is like betting on a horse race with no finish line and no horses.
A 19 year old Zuckerberg probably said that in a chat.
Funny thing about the Winklevoss thing is that there were LOTS of social networks cropping up which could have been Facebook.
The fact that some PHP app written by a kid in school turned into what it is today, probably has more to do with the right business decisions, connections and luck, rather than being "first". It wasn't first by a long shot.
More than likely, the Winklevosses had the next Classmates.com.
Hurricanes wouldn't dare come close to a well-armed population.
Liberal policies are causing divine wrath!
"... perhaps I've been doing this long enough that my brain is attuned to dealing with this problem domain and therefore I no longer find it cognitively taxing"
Yep, that's what I'm saying. Coding may for you be no more than putting together blocks of stuff you mostly have mastered. Keeping a momentum to fight boredom is more important than concentrating.
What do you do when things get difficult? when you're faced with something very unfamiliar, poorly written, opaque and massive that it needs to be reverse engineered to be understood... to the point that it may not be solvable?
Your coding is probably not taxing your problem solving skills.
I'm on a T420 for that reason. The T420 isn't a bad machine, oooold though. 2011 old.
You can cram a T420 keyboard on a T430 and get a 3rd gen Corei7. Not sure I would recommend the hack:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Install_Classic_Keyboard_on_xx30_Series_ThinkPads
The only difference to me is that they messed up the insert key, but the esc key position is an improvement.
Anyone who knows enough about systems to be able to judge the pros and cons has certainly already heard of Linux
I'm stuck with xfce on everything. It has its own issues, all the themes are low-contrast for the foreground window, mimicking Apple and MS, so some customization is needed on my part. Gnome and KDE, despite being FOSS have gone amateur night designer. The design-and-abandon issues are worse.
Apple's been right about touch interfaces, keep them separate from the desktop metaphor. Balmer was a disaster for MS, and Canonical copied their mistakes, complete with Unity and Ubuntu phone. Now Libreoffice looks like it's trying to copy the Ribbon.
Syncing files is a pain. I use a mix of rsync, git, unison and Dropbox (for IOS) when needed.
As for updates, just this weekend I was on the road and needed LibreOffice Calc on my Kali box... it's a Debian rolling-release. To install Calc, I had to install 100's of MBs of updates, when it installed, the icons were all dead. Probably fixable with a reboot, but whatever. Kali's not a desktop distro. Really should have used my VPN to reach home and RDP'd into my Windows box. It would have been less trouble... RDP on Windows is excellent.
This is consistent with my experience, although often the answer to an issue is "you should have picked different hardware". Options with notebooks are far, far more limited. People who say "Linux works on teh everything!!" are very tiring.
My next Thinkpad I'll look at the model-type of Thinkpad with Ubuntu preinstalled... and probably get the OEM Windows on it anyway: https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop/models/?category=Laptop&vendors=Lenovo
If I ever run into you in person, I'm going to stuff my Linux HDD into my Thinkpad and watch you try in vain to resolve the shearing in Kodi or challenge you to squeeze smooth 1080p Youtube video out of it.
I'll boot Windows ahead of time and show you that it's not the hardware.
You might even run into me at various international Linux events. I'll be the guy people heckle because I'm running one laptop with Windows.
I am using CentOS 7 on that KVM host. Did you solve the filesystem passthrough issues? virtio-9pfs doesn't exist in RHEL or CentOS. Why? ...Stability issues. It doesn't seem worth recompiling my kernel and qemu, or going to Fedora.
https://access.redhat.com/discussions/1119043
It looks like virtio-vsock might make it into 7.5.
This feature has existed in Virtualbox since 2010. VMware's hgfs goes back further. It's almost essential for the work I do and it's a big part of why I saw no reason to troubleshoot the issues with the bridged networking.
My Thinkpads are rock solid on Windows. Virtualbox is working fine too. Not sure why you would think I have hardware issues.
No, I'm saying that it's very possible that the reason you can't understand why people use Windows is not because they don't understand how to use a computer properly, but it is because you don't understand the work these people do.
This to me is a very honest answer.
Privacy (except for that Canonical incident), scripting, familiarity and expertise are awesome reasons to run Linux on bare metal. They're the reason I run it on my personal servers and the reason I occasionally run it on my laptop. Bash is my Windows command line and I have a Linux VM running most of the time on Windows.
This whole thread bugged me because honestly, the disservice I've seen the Linux community perform for people by recommending Linux as an alternative to Windows and MacOS is terrible.
My hat's off to you, and I share your disappointment with the desktop fragmentation around KDE, then the disaster which was Unity.
I used to sit Debian booths doing tech support. No, really. Solving wifi issues, video drivers, grub nightmares, etc. I wouldn't touch weird things like brightness controls and suspend issues because they're flaky.... the solution was "maybe they'll fix it in an update" or "try thinkwiki", or I would put them in touch with somebody in the Debian community who had a similar machine. I didn't see a lot of Dell machines, but aside from a recent bout of XPS machines and "my company makes me" machines, they're uncommon at tech conferences.
It's very strange that you write as though you have no idea what I'm talking about, but in the next breath, you say that Ubuntu gave you too much trouble.
Ubuntu is a fantastic distro with a good LTS model. Their support for "non-free" codecs, drivers, etc, out of box is among the best.
OpenVPN is great software. It was not suitable at my most recent engagement because the network team was doing static routes, didn't know Linux and couldn't deal with maintaining an OpenVPN server in the DMZ. The helpdesk couldn't handle it because 2FA was best handled with individual certificates, distributing and managing those certificates was too much work.
Ubuntu out-of-box would do VPNs compatible with PA, but would not do challenge-response. This meant ultimately going with Cisco AnyConnect. A very expensive solution for a group of devs. Some might say the mistake was going with PA in the first place, but this is just an example.
If I correspond with Linux users on "office" documents, I use convert once, use LibreOffice for Windows and leave it in native odt/ods format. The incompatibilities in format conversion are insidious. If it has to go for publishing, I have somebody convert it to plain text and re-do all the markup and image work from scratch.
Good luck if you're using Evolution or Thunderbird+lightning for Exchange integration... it's at best a poor equivalent to Outlook Calendaring, at worst, it's a time bomb. Just use OWA and your phone, it will save you weeks of pain and embarrassment. Although maybe my standards are too high, I used to do QA writing and executing test cases for calendaring.
Don't assume that people are using Windows because they don't know any better.
"I can concede that Linux isn't the best solution for everybody, because it's still too difficult for the average person to utilize properly. They really do need the overarching helping hand like Apple or MS offers."
I think there's a Dunning-Krugeresque overconfidence here.