As I see it, Crouton is for people who live alone, not for people who live with someone far less computer savvy. Installing it requires putting the Chromebook in developer mode, which could also be called "beg whoever turns it on to wipe everything by pressing two keys" mode. If your roommate turns on your Chromebook with Crouton installed, she probably won't know to press Ctrl+D to skip the "OS verification is OFF" interstitial. If she follows the prompts in said interstitial to to reenable OS verification by pressing Space then Enter, do you enjoy having all your work since the last backup powerwashed away and having to reinstall Crouton?
I have had family members erase my disks by following unsafe defaults that they don't understand. In my case, it was the pixel art editor in The Print Shop on my Apple II offering to "initialize" a floppy disk before saving a custom pixel art image. While I was in the shower, my little brother "initialized" my pixel art disk, not knowing what "initialize" meant but assuming that the default was safe. It wasn't; "initialize" means reformat, which caused me to lose all the pixel art that I had already saved on that disk. I have been wary of buying a Chromebook for the purpose of installing Crouton because I fear that others will likewise follow the prompts to cause me to lose data.
No it can't because there are multiple independent implementations of C++ available to the public. A licensee of Microsoft and Intel C++ can use those, Clang, and GCC for a four-way DDC test to ensure that the resulting Clang or GCC executable is free of self-replicating binary trojans.
or a bunch of other non-C++ languages. [...] And even if it happens for gcc, does it happen for every language that forms part of a modern distribution.
If the compiler for a non-C++ language is written in C++ or another language supported by GCC, you can do due diligence on GCC and then use that trojan-free executable as the first step in making reproducible builds of toolchains for the other languages. Building CPython with a GCC executable that is free of trojans, for example, will produce a Python interpreter free of trojans.
but does that happen?
Some of the more privacy-paranoid projects are taking serious effort to ensure reproducible builds, and this starts with due diligence on the executables in the toolchain.
A UWP application from the Windows Store can shit all over its sandbox. It can't shit outside the sandbox except for those files and folders that the user makes available to that particular application using secure OS-managed file choosers.
Or does "shit all over my PC" refer to running proprietary native code in the first place, sandboxed or not?
If I can't download and watch on a tv easily I personally don't really care.
Practically all PCs since the late 1980s have one or more of VGA, DVI, or HDMI output. Practically all TVs since 2007 have HDMI input, which can be used with DVI outputs with a sub-$10 adapter cable, and many have VGA input. So plug a cable from your computer to your TV.
Both iTunes Store purchases (your solution) and Netflix caching (the present article) are useful for people whose Internet connectivity is highly location-dependent, such as having usable connectivity at home but harshly capped or nonexistent connectivity while a passenger on the commute or a long road trip. But Netflix caching is better for people who A. watch Netflix original programming, B. haven't already amassed much of an iTunes library, or C. carry a non-Apple device.
There is XSDL, which runs on top of Android's built-in graphics framework. I just wondered if anyone here had good or bad experiences getting GNURoot Debian and XSDL to work together, such as if there is any non-obvious configuration that needs to be done or if it's unusably slow or clunky to control.
The difference is that "multiple major mainstream car brands, models and domains" can drive on the same roads to the same businesses. With computers, on the other hand, you need to make your application five different times to reach users of the five incompatibly different operating systems: Windows, macOS, X11/Linux, iOS, and Android.
And since when did running the GNU userland represent a requirement for being classified as being "Linux".
It doesn't. But there is a noticeable correlation between "desktop Linux" and GNU.
But multi-window graphical display is a practical requirement for a desktop system, so that the user can see both what he's reading and what he's writing. And most multi-window Linux GUIs use the X Window System (or perhaps its direct successors such as Wayland), which is designed to let the user choose a window manager. Where GNU comes in is its correlation with X: GUI Linux distributions that include either X or GNU tend to include both. Fedora and Debian include both; Android includes neither.
Sure, in the corporate world desktops are going to be around for some time to come, but in the home consumer world
Would an individual author working from home fit better into "the corporate world" category or "the home consumer world"?
I find it dangerous to assume that all authorship is "corporate", that people at home exclusively "consume", or view works made by others, as opposed to creating works themselves. It promotes the misguided view that only those who gain the approval of incumbent publishers deserve a platform for their speech.
certainly a fair portion of my emails and document reviews are done on my phone
How is that practical when your phone can display only one window at once? On a desktop or laptop running X11/Linux, I can split the screen to see the document in one half and an editor for my review comments in the other half. On Android without manufacturer-specific multi-window mode, everything is maximized, and many applications lack support for manufacturer-specific multi-window mode.
Saying Android isn't really Linux is like saying Windows 8 isn't really Windows because it changed the application menu.
That's not quite the best analogy. While Windows 8 can run almost all applications made for Windows 7, Android can't run almost all applications made for GNU/Linux as far as I can tell.
Has anyone tried to install something like GNURoot Debian and an X server on an Android tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard and then try to run desktop applications? How well does it work?
I then pointed out that Android was Linux and that the Personal Computer had just shrank to cellphone size.
It's too bad these computers are stuck back in the DOS era of one application maximized to fill the whole screen. Even Windows 1.0 could split the screen to put two applications side by side. But with the "all maximized all the time" window management policy of stock Android 1 through 6, you need to buy two devices just to (say) read a document in one application and take notes in another, or have a game and its walkthrough visible. This is despite a tablet's display being (physically) large enough to show the equivalent of two phone displays side by side.
The multi-window mode in the customized version of Android for select Samsung Galaxy devices is not present in stock Android <= 6. Because of this, applications need to be specially marked in the manifest to be compatible with Samsung multi-window, and many are not. I can run the Chrome web browser and the Skype chat client side by side on my Galaxy Tab A, but opening the Discord chat client causes multi-window to end.
Android 7 "Nougat" claims to have multi-window mode. But neither of the Android devices I use runs Nougat, despite both being "up to date" according to the update manager in Settings. And I imagine few others have received an OTA upgrade to Nougat either.
Unlike Wi-Fi, which uses unlicensed spectrum, cellular uses spectrum exclusively licensed to a carrier by a national radio regular. Thus the cellular connection belongs to the carrier, not the subscriber.
Fiber to the home? As far as I'm aware, more live outside its service footprint than live outside that of cable. DSL? Unless it's VDSL, which (again) isn't available everywhere, it often has trouble keeping up with 720p let alone 4K. Satellite or fixed cellular? Its data transfer quota tends to be on the order of 10 GB. Per month. This is so small that it's unsuitable for regular viewing of long-form streaming video.
The Writers Guild of America represents writers for all of TV / Film / Streaming / you name it
Including things like the BBC's Sherlock, or Doctor Who, or Downton Abbey or a dozen other shows that have gotten quite popular from "across the pond"?
Which are represented by Writers Guild of Great Britain. Or are you making the weaker claim that WGAW and WGAE aren't coordinating with WGGB?
For another, I imagine that far more screen time on this side of the pond is spent viewing U.S.-originated programming than those fifteen British series you mention. Many British-operated channels are geoblocked, and those that are available in the United States, such as BBC America, tend to be on higher multichannel pay TV tiers than the first expanded basic tier (the one with TNT, ESPN, CNN, and the like).
A language with only one compiler written in that selfsame language can't be trusted very easily because all available binaries might have trojans that self-replicate using the technique that Ken Thompson demonstrated in "Reflections on Trusting Trust". The usual way to detect a "Trusting Trust" trojan is David A. Wheeler's diverse double-compiling, which starts by bootstrapping a compiler's source code on three independent implementations of a language and seeing if the process of compiling a compiler with itself converges to identical binaries. But you can't do DDC if the only available Rust compiler is written in Rust. Sure, you can use OCaml to compile the old Rust frontend and use old Rust to compile the new Rust frontend, but then you'd need multiple independent OCaml compilers so that it can be verified using DDC.
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Moore's law is an empirical law in the sense of Ohm's law, which most familiar materials obey but some do not.
Then the problem becomes one of getting enough of a raise to afford a cellular data subscription.
I'm pretty sure live action Pocahontas exists. I seem to remember Kevin Costner starring.
As I see it, Crouton is for people who live alone, not for people who live with someone far less computer savvy. Installing it requires putting the Chromebook in developer mode, which could also be called "beg whoever turns it on to wipe everything by pressing two keys" mode. If your roommate turns on your Chromebook with Crouton installed, she probably won't know to press Ctrl+D to skip the "OS verification is OFF" interstitial. If she follows the prompts in said interstitial to to reenable OS verification by pressing Space then Enter, do you enjoy having all your work since the last backup powerwashed away and having to reinstall Crouton?
I have had family members erase my disks by following unsafe defaults that they don't understand. In my case, it was the pixel art editor in The Print Shop on my Apple II offering to "initialize" a floppy disk before saving a custom pixel art image. While I was in the shower, my little brother "initialized" my pixel art disk, not knowing what "initialize" meant but assuming that the default was safe. It wasn't; "initialize" means reformat, which caused me to lose all the pixel art that I had already saved on that disk. I have been wary of buying a Chromebook for the purpose of installing Crouton because I fear that others will likewise follow the prompts to cause me to lose data.
The same could be said for gcc, clang
No it can't because there are multiple independent implementations of C++ available to the public. A licensee of Microsoft and Intel C++ can use those, Clang, and GCC for a four-way DDC test to ensure that the resulting Clang or GCC executable is free of self-replicating binary trojans.
or a bunch of other non-C++ languages. [...] And even if it happens for gcc, does it happen for every language that forms part of a modern distribution.
If the compiler for a non-C++ language is written in C++ or another language supported by GCC, you can do due diligence on GCC and then use that trojan-free executable as the first step in making reproducible builds of toolchains for the other languages. Building CPython with a GCC executable that is free of trojans, for example, will produce a Python interpreter free of trojans.
but does that happen?
Some of the more privacy-paranoid projects are taking serious effort to ensure reproducible builds, and this starts with due diligence on the executables in the toolchain.
The channels buy shows and sell ad time to pay for them.
A UWP application from the Windows Store can shit all over its sandbox. It can't shit outside the sandbox except for those files and folders that the user makes available to that particular application using secure OS-managed file choosers.
Or does "shit all over my PC" refer to running proprietary native code in the first place, sandboxed or not?
If I can't download and watch on a tv easily I personally don't really care.
Practically all PCs since the late 1980s have one or more of VGA, DVI, or HDMI output. Practically all TVs since 2007 have HDMI input, which can be used with DVI outputs with a sub-$10 adapter cable, and many have VGA input. So plug a cable from your computer to your TV.
Both iTunes Store purchases (your solution) and Netflix caching (the present article) are useful for people whose Internet connectivity is highly location-dependent, such as having usable connectivity at home but harshly capped or nonexistent connectivity while a passenger on the commute or a long road trip. But Netflix caching is better for people who A. watch Netflix original programming, B. haven't already amassed much of an iTunes library, or C. carry a non-Apple device.
There is XSDL, which runs on top of Android's built-in graphics framework. I just wondered if anyone here had good or bad experiences getting GNURoot Debian and XSDL to work together, such as if there is any non-obvious configuration that needs to be done or if it's unusably slow or clunky to control.
The difference is that "multiple major mainstream car brands, models and domains" can drive on the same roads to the same businesses. With computers, on the other hand, you need to make your application five different times to reach users of the five incompatibly different operating systems: Windows, macOS, X11/Linux, iOS, and Android.
you must remember this: If you're not PAYING for the product, you ARE the product being sold.
I purchased an ASUS Nexus 7 tablet on Google's store in July 2012. Does that count as "PAYING for the product"?
When the OS has a built-in Ads API
Three words: Unity shopping scope.
And since when did running the GNU userland represent a requirement for being classified as being "Linux".
It doesn't. But there is a noticeable correlation between "desktop Linux" and GNU.
But multi-window graphical display is a practical requirement for a desktop system, so that the user can see both what he's reading and what he's writing. And most multi-window Linux GUIs use the X Window System (or perhaps its direct successors such as Wayland), which is designed to let the user choose a window manager. Where GNU comes in is its correlation with X: GUI Linux distributions that include either X or GNU tend to include both. Fedora and Debian include both; Android includes neither.
Sure, in the corporate world desktops are going to be around for some time to come, but in the home consumer world
Would an individual author working from home fit better into "the corporate world" category or "the home consumer world"?
I find it dangerous to assume that all authorship is "corporate", that people at home exclusively "consume", or view works made by others, as opposed to creating works themselves. It promotes the misguided view that only those who gain the approval of incumbent publishers deserve a platform for their speech.
certainly a fair portion of my emails and document reviews are done on my phone
How is that practical when your phone can display only one window at once? On a desktop or laptop running X11/Linux, I can split the screen to see the document in one half and an editor for my review comments in the other half. On Android without manufacturer-specific multi-window mode, everything is maximized, and many applications lack support for manufacturer-specific multi-window mode.
For any computer user, Linux would be an OS that would either take them to a bash shell
If you're using GNU's command prompt as the contrast, say "Android doesn't run applications made for GNU/Linux."
or to an X/Wayland based desktop environment, like KDE, GNOME, XFCE, et al.
If you're using the X Window System as the contrast, say "Android doesn't run applications made for X11/Linux."
What you could have pointed your sister to could have been ChromeOS: it's been gaining popularity
How well does Chrome OS run applications that aren't written in JavaScript, especially while riding a bus in a city whose buses doesn't provide Wi-Fi?
Saying Android isn't really Linux is like saying Windows 8 isn't really Windows because it changed the application menu.
That's not quite the best analogy. While Windows 8 can run almost all applications made for Windows 7, Android can't run almost all applications made for GNU/Linux as far as I can tell.
Has anyone tried to install something like GNURoot Debian and an X server on an Android tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard and then try to run desktop applications? How well does it work?
I then pointed out that Android was Linux and that the Personal Computer had just shrank to cellphone size.
It's too bad these computers are stuck back in the DOS era of one application maximized to fill the whole screen. Even Windows 1.0 could split the screen to put two applications side by side. But with the "all maximized all the time" window management policy of stock Android 1 through 6, you need to buy two devices just to (say) read a document in one application and take notes in another, or have a game and its walkthrough visible. This is despite a tablet's display being (physically) large enough to show the equivalent of two phone displays side by side.
The multi-window mode in the customized version of Android for select Samsung Galaxy devices is not present in stock Android <= 6. Because of this, applications need to be specially marked in the manifest to be compatible with Samsung multi-window, and many are not. I can run the Chrome web browser and the Skype chat client side by side on my Galaxy Tab A, but opening the Discord chat client causes multi-window to end.
Android 7 "Nougat" claims to have multi-window mode. But neither of the Android devices I use runs Nougat, despite both being "up to date" according to the update manager in Settings. And I imagine few others have received an OTA upgrade to Nougat either.
If your employer MITMs HTTPS connections, then you need to get a job at a better company.
And if all employers in a particular (city, industry) pair MITM HTTPS connections, should someone change industry first or change city first?
Unlike Wi-Fi, which uses unlicensed spectrum, cellular uses spectrum exclusively licensed to a carrier by a national radio regular. Thus the cellular connection belongs to the carrier, not the subscriber.
I didn't worry about a cable company
You do if cable is the ISP for your area.
Fiber to the home? As far as I'm aware, more live outside its service footprint than live outside that of cable.
DSL? Unless it's VDSL, which (again) isn't available everywhere, it often has trouble keeping up with 720p let alone 4K.
Satellite or fixed cellular? Its data transfer quota tends to be on the order of 10 GB. Per month. This is so small that it's unsuitable for regular viewing of long-form streaming video.
The Writers Guild of America represents writers for all of TV / Film / Streaming / you name it
Including things like the BBC's Sherlock, or Doctor Who, or Downton Abbey or a dozen other shows that have gotten quite popular from "across the pond"?
Which are represented by Writers Guild of Great Britain. Or are you making the weaker claim that WGAW and WGAE aren't coordinating with WGGB?
For another, I imagine that far more screen time on this side of the pond is spent viewing U.S.-originated programming than those fifteen British series you mention. Many British-operated channels are geoblocked, and those that are available in the United States, such as BBC America, tend to be on higher multichannel pay TV tiers than the first expanded basic tier (the one with TNT, ESPN, CNN, and the like).
The problem is now all the dance steps are painted on the floor and followed to precise meter.
Then how much do they have to pay Konami to license the Dance Dance Revolution patents?
(Background: Konami v. Roxor)
A language with only one compiler written in that selfsame language can't be trusted very easily because all available binaries might have trojans that self-replicate using the technique that Ken Thompson demonstrated in "Reflections on Trusting Trust". The usual way to detect a "Trusting Trust" trojan is David A. Wheeler's diverse double-compiling, which starts by bootstrapping a compiler's source code on three independent implementations of a language and seeing if the process of compiling a compiler with itself converges to identical binaries. But you can't do DDC if the only available Rust compiler is written in Rust. Sure, you can use OCaml to compile the old Rust frontend and use old Rust to compile the new Rust frontend, but then you'd need multiple independent OCaml compilers so that it can be verified using DDC.