No year is going to be "the year of the Linux desktop" precisely because of the nature of how Linux is used.
This speaks nothing about the quality of the operating system as a whole- Linux is still the gold standard for server applications, for moderately computer-savvy people who have junk computers and no desire to buy a license of Windows it's a perfectly fine desktop.
The bevvy of options you have to decide on for Linux is just not worth the effort for most normal people. Even people who just need a web-browser and email, going beyond "yeah just install ubuntu" will have their eyes gloss over the instant you try to explain the concept of other distros/window managers/etc. And the first time their hardware/software doesn't work for whatever reason, they're fucked because the community on the whole isn't welcoming and the solutions to their problems (while almost certainly being well documented by someone else and having bullet-proof instructions) will confuse/spook people into not even trying recommended fixes. The instant a normal human trying Linux has to break into the commandline and learn Linux they're out- that's not what they signed up for and I don't blame them.
Strong UV kills basically everything- it doesn't clear the organisms themselves (that still requires elbow grease) but if airborne/surface pathogens are an issue maybe sealing a room with some VERY strong UV lights for an hour or so would KO everything in the air and a majority of what is on the surfaces that are actively touched by the astronauts, which could then be manually cleaned.
Now stuff that's buried in whatever's behind the walls, that's another trick entirely.
The software/hardware support for the rPi even with all of the annoying/dumb shit in its design is leagues better than the aliexpress trash you probably buy bud. That's the source of the success.
I know I can buy any number of boards for the same or very slightly more with vastly more powerful processors/gpus, a proper ethernet controller, more USB ports, more ram, embedded storage, etc. The software support isn't, and won't be there for them, and I'm not in the mood to janitor a bunch of shit to make them work.
I don't get why doing what you said seems to be so difficult for people who want diversity to be shown in-game.
The Night Witches are cool and badass as fuck. They flew wooden fucking bi-planes in WWII for god's sake.
It's a fucking layup. Just make the goddamn map/campaign and you've got tons of opportunities to put women and POC in and maybe teach some idiots some real history.
Please try to learn to separate the actual game mechanics from the situation it's supposed to present.
The idea is that it is at least supposed to look/feel similar to the actual thing, with the game-parts ironing over the realism bits that wouldn't be that fun (i.e. marching for hours through a field and then getting shot once and dying of sepsis, actual battlefields being miles and miles and miles of nothing, etc). The guns, uniforms, soldiers present, the equipment, the general settings are supposed to be at least mildly authentic.
There were women and people of color who fought in both world wars but for some reason they don't get a map/proper campaign setting of their own where they would have historically been present. Instead we got some lily-white blonde with a hook-hand who fought in a place where no women were recorded to have fought. The representation isn't the problem- the utter lack of effort in it is what makes it kinda pathetic to me.
VLC has had a blocking/blurring issue with most videos on every system I've ever used it on since it was first released. Literally no other player does this.
The swatter is a piece of shit who should go to jail for basically sending a squad of armed police to someone's house on a false report.
The cops are pieces of shit because they have no fucking discipline and shoot people at the drop of a hat. People seem to have a really hard time understanding this but "Getting home to their family" is NOT the job of a cop.
If you choose to be a cop, you're an arm of the government. You have been invested with the coercive force of the government- you are far, far different from a regular civilian worker. Your job isn't to protect yourself first- it's to protect everyone else. That's the cost of your privileges. You are literally being paid to hesitate a moment longer to make sure you don't murder an innocent civilian because if they turn out to NOT be so innocent you are legally authorized to kill them if need be in a way that a civilian is not. If you get killed because of that hesitation, that's the fucking gig. Either deal with that possibility or don't be a cop.
...which will probably be to just rebrand another golden-bin set of 14nm+++++++++++ Xeons and just push the clocks even harder so they can claim 10% more FPS on some insanely shitty 1-2 threaded benchmark game if you don't mind a processor that draws 350W+ under full load and needs to dissipate more heat per square inch than a nuclear reactor.
Also it'll have a new socket and cost like $900+, because lol fuck you
The way I understood it, Intel developed a ton of brand new techniques for getting 10nm and beyond going and it turns out attempting to use all of these new techniques at once on a new node resulted in it taking way, way longer to do and even when they got it sorta working the yields were awful.
...what kind of housefires are these things gonna be? They almost certainly went back to solder because toothpaste wasn't going to cut it for these chips to even work. The last AMD processor I bought was an X2 4200+ something like 10 years ago, but I think they're going to get my business back because I'm not paying a premium for a hotplate running the zillionth tweaked version of an architecture we've had for the better part of a decade.*
Tech companies are not, will not, and cannot be your friends.
In this case it's cool if they legit caught a murderer with it because at least it actually caught someone who did something terrible instead of the feds spending hundreds of manhours to bust your local weed dealer and shoot his dog or whatever, but don't think for a minute anything you have that collects data on you can be trusted.
Since like a lot of people here I use them too. I just don't need it for more than two devices (home, and my phone).
I use it to keep notes for work and store non-critical (i.e. not privileged) account passwords and other stuff and it has been a boon.
The interface does in fact feel like it has gone backwards since its creation- adding more complex abilities is cool, but so is KISS. You just kinda have to settle on one or the other and iterate properly and Evernote hasn't done that. It's a shame too because nothing else really kinda fits the bill.
But the other part of this is how exponential growth is required for a company to simply NOT DIE now. If your staffing is meeting your needs, your userbase is more than paying the bills and isn't shrinking/growing slowly... then really you should be fine. Yeah, explosive constant growth would be nice but if you're in the black every year and you/your staff's needs are being met then you should be fine for a non-traded company but welp- capitalism.
Their design decisions aren't all gold- they just have a massive army of overly-moneyed sycophants who ooh and ahh at everything they do since Apple had the first legitimately good idea for a touchscreen cellphone interface. The notch is dumb. Ditching the 3.5mm jack is dumb. All of the proprietary connectors were dumb. The walled garden is dumb. Glass backs are dumb. No expandable storage is dumb. Smart Watches are in fact, dumb. Bluetooth headphones suck. 3D Touch was stupid. Apple's UI aesthetics have been awful for like 5+ versions of the OS.
But Android manufacturers follow right along because
1. They don't hire anyone who can design UIs or human-usable tech
and
2. Apple makes a shitzillion dollars, and they don't understand that Apple has so much goodwill they can continue flogging really increasingly fucking bad phones for probably another half a decade before even their diehards start to give up.
No one has that kind of faith in Samsung or Motorola or . Hire the right people and make your stuff good on its own merits. You'll never outdo Apple even if your stuff ends up better in the end because you're forever seen as a follower of THEIR trends.
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No year is going to be "the year of the Linux desktop" precisely because of the nature of how Linux is used.
This speaks nothing about the quality of the operating system as a whole- Linux is still the gold standard for server applications, for moderately computer-savvy people who have junk computers and no desire to buy a license of Windows it's a perfectly fine desktop.
The bevvy of options you have to decide on for Linux is just not worth the effort for most normal people. Even people who just need a web-browser and email, going beyond "yeah just install ubuntu" will have their eyes gloss over the instant you try to explain the concept of other distros/window managers/etc. And the first time their hardware/software doesn't work for whatever reason, they're fucked because the community on the whole isn't welcoming and the solutions to their problems (while almost certainly being well documented by someone else and having bullet-proof instructions) will confuse/spook people into not even trying recommended fixes. The instant a normal human trying Linux has to break into the commandline and learn Linux they're out- that's not what they signed up for and I don't blame them.
Try literally something like 90% of software made for engineering.
Particularly CAD/CAM. Let me know when Linux gets Solidworks or Creo.
Strong UV kills basically everything- it doesn't clear the organisms themselves (that still requires elbow grease) but if airborne/surface pathogens are an issue maybe sealing a room with some VERY strong UV lights for an hour or so would KO everything in the air and a majority of what is on the surfaces that are actively touched by the astronauts, which could then be manually cleaned.
Now stuff that's buried in whatever's behind the walls, that's another trick entirely.
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The software/hardware support for the rPi even with all of the annoying/dumb shit in its design is leagues better than the aliexpress trash you probably buy bud. That's the source of the success.
I know I can buy any number of boards for the same or very slightly more with vastly more powerful processors/gpus, a proper ethernet controller, more USB ports, more ram, embedded storage, etc. The software support isn't, and won't be there for them, and I'm not in the mood to janitor a bunch of shit to make them work.
Don't post anymore, thanks.
I don't get why doing what you said seems to be so difficult for people who want diversity to be shown in-game.
The Night Witches are cool and badass as fuck. They flew wooden fucking bi-planes in WWII for god's sake.
It's a fucking layup. Just make the goddamn map/campaign and you've got tons of opportunities to put women and POC in and maybe teach some idiots some real history.
Please try to learn to separate the actual game mechanics from the situation it's supposed to present.
The idea is that it is at least supposed to look/feel similar to the actual thing, with the game-parts ironing over the realism bits that wouldn't be that fun (i.e. marching for hours through a field and then getting shot once and dying of sepsis, actual battlefields being miles and miles and miles of nothing, etc). The guns, uniforms, soldiers present, the equipment, the general settings are supposed to be at least mildly authentic.
There were women and people of color who fought in both world wars but for some reason they don't get a map/proper campaign setting of their own where they would have historically been present. Instead we got some lily-white blonde with a hook-hand who fought in a place where no women were recorded to have fought. The representation isn't the problem- the utter lack of effort in it is what makes it kinda pathetic to me.
Basically it's exactly as the AC posted. This goes for lots of stuff I've tried playing on it across multiple PCs. Even DVDs/BluRays.
VLC has had a blocking/blurring issue with most videos on every system I've ever used it on since it was first released. Literally no other player does this.
Are you literally retarded? We lost none of those things you utter fucking dipshit.
It's that simple.
The swatter is a piece of shit who should go to jail for basically sending a squad of armed police to someone's house on a false report.
The cops are pieces of shit because they have no fucking discipline and shoot people at the drop of a hat. People seem to have a really hard time understanding this but "Getting home to their family" is NOT the job of a cop.
If you choose to be a cop, you're an arm of the government. You have been invested with the coercive force of the government- you are far, far different from a regular civilian worker. Your job isn't to protect yourself first- it's to protect everyone else. That's the cost of your privileges. You are literally being paid to hesitate a moment longer to make sure you don't murder an innocent civilian because if they turn out to NOT be so innocent you are legally authorized to kill them if need be in a way that a civilian is not. If you get killed because of that hesitation, that's the fucking gig. Either deal with that possibility or don't be a cop.
You won't leave.
Remember like 6 months ago when they literally had a presentation saying that Zen was "glued together" processors and that was bad?
...which will probably be to just rebrand another golden-bin set of 14nm+++++++++++ Xeons and just push the clocks even harder so they can claim 10% more FPS on some insanely shitty 1-2 threaded benchmark game if you don't mind a processor that draws 350W+ under full load and needs to dissipate more heat per square inch than a nuclear reactor.
Also it'll have a new socket and cost like $900+, because lol fuck you
The way I understood it, Intel developed a ton of brand new techniques for getting 10nm and beyond going and it turns out attempting to use all of these new techniques at once on a new node resulted in it taking way, way longer to do and even when they got it sorta working the yields were awful.
...what kind of housefires are these things gonna be? They almost certainly went back to solder because toothpaste wasn't going to cut it for these chips to even work. The last AMD processor I bought was an X2 4200+ something like 10 years ago, but I think they're going to get my business back because I'm not paying a premium for a hotplate running the zillionth tweaked version of an architecture we've had for the better part of a decade.*
Tech companies are not, will not, and cannot be your friends.
In this case it's cool if they legit caught a murderer with it because at least it actually caught someone who did something terrible instead of the feds spending hundreds of manhours to bust your local weed dealer and shoot his dog or whatever, but don't think for a minute anything you have that collects data on you can be trusted.
Capitalistic society is a ponzi scheme.
Since like a lot of people here I use them too. I just don't need it for more than two devices (home, and my phone).
I use it to keep notes for work and store non-critical (i.e. not privileged) account passwords and other stuff and it has been a boon.
The interface does in fact feel like it has gone backwards since its creation- adding more complex abilities is cool, but so is KISS. You just kinda have to settle on one or the other and iterate properly and Evernote hasn't done that. It's a shame too because nothing else really kinda fits the bill.
But the other part of this is how exponential growth is required for a company to simply NOT DIE now. If your staffing is meeting your needs, your userbase is more than paying the bills and isn't shrinking/growing slowly... then really you should be fine. Yeah, explosive constant growth would be nice but if you're in the black every year and you/your staff's needs are being met then you should be fine for a non-traded company but welp- capitalism.
Actually yeah big brother should help destroy exploitative employers.
Yes actually, you brain-damaged libertarian dipshit.
Sounds like you suck at what you do then, PHB.
1. How bad does Apple have to make the iPhone before people finally just stop buying so many of them?
2. When will Android manufacturers and Apple stop borrowing the worst things from eachothers designs?
Their design decisions aren't all gold- they just have a massive army of overly-moneyed sycophants who ooh and ahh at everything they do since Apple had the first legitimately good idea for a touchscreen cellphone interface. The notch is dumb. Ditching the 3.5mm jack is dumb. All of the proprietary connectors were dumb. The walled garden is dumb. Glass backs are dumb. No expandable storage is dumb. Smart Watches are in fact, dumb. Bluetooth headphones suck. 3D Touch was stupid. Apple's UI aesthetics have been awful for like 5+ versions of the OS.
But Android manufacturers follow right along because
1. They don't hire anyone who can design UIs or human-usable tech
and
2. Apple makes a shitzillion dollars, and they don't understand that Apple has so much goodwill they can continue flogging really increasingly fucking bad phones for probably another half a decade before even their diehards start to give up.
No one has that kind of faith in Samsung or Motorola or . Hire the right people and make your stuff good on its own merits. You'll never outdo Apple even if your stuff ends up better in the end because you're forever seen as a follower of THEIR trends.