Who cares? Not everything needs to wake on LAN. Not all computers need to wake on LAN. Not all devices need a remote control. There's parasitic power draw on blenders. Does your blender needs to wake on LAN?
The power switch is one of the few things that is actually intuitive. Tech support costs? Lol whatever.
> No program should be able to decrypt a "properly" encrypted file, or set of files, in a few hours.
No true encryption, eh?
We have no reason to believe it's not real crypto. We have every reason to believe they screwed up their implementation.
Do we need another word? I don't think so. Maybe if we want to abolish the notion of "ok, their files are encrypted... this is hard encryption... ok done!" as seen on pretty much any TV show. But as reported it is accurate- you aren't even picking nits, you're asking for a much greater degree of insight than a headline can really provide.
How is any of this relevant to a gaming machine? Dell doesn't have corporate gaming machines.
If you're going to plug Alienware from experience, do that. If you're going to talk about high end machines that don't have vendor customizations (or in many cases, modern video cards), how is that topical?
Random elements of Linux randomly adopting systemd as a prereq to working is, in fact, the thing that Devuan is fighting, right? From their perspective, anything that requires systemd is itself a problem that needs to be exposed and repaired (or forked, as they were willing to do with Debian).
It's not a packaging error. It's yet another systemd issue, and it's totally legit to lay it on KDE for allowing one of their subcomponents to add a hugely unrelated and unpopular requirement to their functionality. Opposing this nonstop systemd creep is literally the entire reason Devuan exists. Not a packing error, a systemd error.
How about something that is never stored in plaintext remotely? Like you can manage your bookmarks, put them in subgroups, ideally move them across browsers and devices, but no one but you ever knows what bookmarks you saved?
> Only a sucker buys products from a company that boasts of a high markup on their products.
How does this follow? Nintendo and Apple are both famous for this- their per unit profit is always a record high within the industry.
Nintendo has had this policy since at least the 80s, and Apple since right about the time they stopped being broke as all hell.
So why would you be happy to be ripped off? You aren't- but you might be happy to: 1- Pay money to a company who is trying to *make money in a market*. When you see someone come along and give away their product, like Microsoft, this isn't charity- it's an attempt to grab marketshare. Do they want the marketshare just to drive out the competition? What's next after that? Once you injure Nintendo, do they keep selling at a loss? Most phones are Android, and a lot are priced sub commodity- what's their business model, because it obviously isn't selling you a phone, right?
2- Pay money to a company that is rewarding itself by selling to consumers instead of monetizing them, betraying them, or monitoring them. If the hardware is the loss leader, do they just want to get you subscribed to something so that they can pile on adware, bloatware, and crapware endlessly, and now you are locked into their product? Buy an iphone, it has all the stuff an iphone comes with. Buy and Android and start trying to remove all the vendor crapware, that varies from place to place.
3- Pay for a status symbol.
(1) and (2) are fully and completely rational. (3) is usually not rational, but it's still a reason.
Now, many Androids are sold at profit, and many vendors are honestly trying to earn money by selling you a product- but some are not.
As one final note in (1) and (2)- this isn't some vague "vote with your dollars" thing that maybe benefits society eventually- this benefits you personally immediately, because the company you just bought the product for is heavily motivated to please you and keep you around. If you buy and iphone and never buy a single app or anything, Apple loves you. If you buy a break-even or sell-at-loss phone, and then don't ever buy stuff, you're basically playing a "freemium" game- the devs have every motivation to dick you around until you open wallet. But unlike a freemium game, this is not obvious to most buyers- they don't realize they are "freeloading" and that the company is looking for ways to make them either become a real user, or gtfo to another brand.
Anyway, "high profit margin" doesn't only mean "you're getting ripped off". It can, and whether Apple products are worth their "Apple Tax" is certainly not any manner of given.
> So explain to everyone why exactly you want to keep your medical records abroad?
Because it's his data, and he can store it where he likes... unless a defacto dictator or totalitarian regime, Putin-style, overrides that.
> Don't trust my government, well, I trust corporations a whole lot less
I mean, that's a reasonable position. But under Russian style laws, you don't have the choice- you BETTER "trust" the government, because *you don't have a choice*.
Also, you mention things like the government auditing to be sure. That's scary as shit, and here's why- proper data would be stored encrypted. In the ideal world, you provide the key. In a less than ideal world, some corporation can unlock it. In a shitty world, some corporation can unlock it, AND the government can unlock it.
You don't get to pick "corporation or government". You are picking "corporation, or corporation AND government, AND it has to be stored less secure so the government guys can get to it easily, you know, for whatever reason".
Under Russian style laws, you could argue that renting a server in the US and a server in Russia and keeping a one time pad on both of those (such that neither side has your data) is in violation of the "data residency" laws.
This isn't a thing to save you from a corporation. A government that wants to do this is looking to monitor and control its citizens, full stop.
Apple plays "catch up" on a lot of tech. But I think matte screens are like mice with multiple buttons- their company position is that the glossy solution "is better". I don't think they even believe they need to get on stuff like that, oddly.
I'm not sure guys, on a lot of boxes glxgears is the only work that the video card gets to do. Fixing that helps the needs of the many over the needs of the few...
He gave an example of a type of diamond that is really rare. I concur that diamonds shouldn't be used as an example of inherent value, though.
Platinum and gold are around 30 dollars a gram. Rhodium peaked at around 28,000 dollars a gram.
His example was exceptional because it used something that would trivially devalue if it came to Earth in large quantities as well. His point is that there's no known substance that could possibly justify 281,000 dollars per gram of transportation costs- the few you could point to or hypothesize are only so valuable because they are rare, such as unique quality gems, extremely short lived radioactive materials, etc. It's too expensive period- at the moment.
A correct statement would be "There is not much incentive for game devs to move to Linux when people are NOT buying Linux games.". That's very different.
Second, he's not a social movement, he's a gamer looking for a better platform to play games on. If all of us on this website never bought another Windows game, that doesn't tell the company anything- you would need a huge movement, one that was vocal enough and had enough members- and that's a steep obstacle to just play some games.
Your suggestion that he abandon his gaming platform is not actionable or reasonable.
Well, actually I fully intend to continue buying Apple- but it is clear that I have to do this knowing that their items are like, charged items from D&D or something.
I'm on my third Apple phone. The first one I was using happily (and it still works ok), but upgraded because I needed a technical capability that it didn't posses, just more horsepower. The second one, after three years, started coming apart at the seams a bit- plus, they had finally launched a larger phone (the 6 plus). That was a little bit lame, but my expectations for phones are that they are expensive and are with me all the time, and that they are reasonably current because I play mobile games on them- I view them more like video cards than CPUs, basically.
I would be very worried if I had a laptop, where anything could go wrong with a part and be told to get fucked. I would be moderately concerned with their laptop-like builds of most of their Macs for the same reason.
What they won't do is necessarily repair shit for me when it is broken.
I haven't had a problem with any of their phones, but I had an ipod with a loose headphone connector. They simply told me they couldn't repair it. Not "it's not under the warranty so it will cost X", but just "nope, can't be arsed to pop open the proprietary screws we used and solder it down". They offered me like a 20 dollar credit on an entirely new one- which at the time was a couple hundred bucks for a model that was not particularly even an upgrade.
Vista had bloaty problems, but it was just a good reason to hold onto XP for a bit longer. Seven is a very good OS- apparently the last one. Eight and Eight-one have some mild spyware problems, but nothing intractable- mostly it's just their anti-user UI arrogance that got them a bad reception. Up until right near the end when Microsoft added all the spyware and really baked it in hard, everyone was expecting to go to Windows 10.
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Good cowtroll pic, but I can't help thinking that it needs some... repairs?
Who cares? Not everything needs to wake on LAN. Not all computers need to wake on LAN. Not all devices need a remote control. There's parasitic power draw on blenders. Does your blender needs to wake on LAN?
The power switch is one of the few things that is actually intuitive. Tech support costs? Lol whatever.
> No program should be able to decrypt a "properly" encrypted file, or set of files, in a few hours.
No true encryption, eh?
We have no reason to believe it's not real crypto. We have every reason to believe they screwed up their implementation.
Do we need another word? I don't think so. Maybe if we want to abolish the notion of "ok, their files are encrypted... this is hard encryption... ok done!" as seen on pretty much any TV show. But as reported it is accurate- you aren't even picking nits, you're asking for a much greater degree of insight than a headline can really provide.
How is any of this relevant to a gaming machine? Dell doesn't have corporate gaming machines.
If you're going to plug Alienware from experience, do that. If you're going to talk about high end machines that don't have vendor customizations (or in many cases, modern video cards), how is that topical?
> upower started needing systemd. KDE changed nothing, that's why they don't see why they should "fix" it.
It sounds like KDE should have moved to supporting pm-utils instead of sticking with upower only:
http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2014/06/...
Random elements of Linux randomly adopting systemd as a prereq to working is, in fact, the thing that Devuan is fighting, right? From their perspective, anything that requires systemd is itself a problem that needs to be exposed and repaired (or forked, as they were willing to do with Debian).
It's not a packaging error. It's yet another systemd issue, and it's totally legit to lay it on KDE for allowing one of their subcomponents to add a hugely unrelated and unpopular requirement to their functionality. Opposing this nonstop systemd creep is literally the entire reason Devuan exists. Not a packing error, a systemd error.
How about something that is never stored in plaintext remotely? Like you can manage your bookmarks, put them in subgroups, ideally move them across browsers and devices, but no one but you ever knows what bookmarks you saved?
> No, it's only a problem for distros that don't have systemd.
Ok, so it's not a distro problem at all.
> The problem is that newer versions of upower need systemd to do hibernate/suspend, and KDE uses upower.
So it is a KDE problem, because they started requiring systemd. Hopefully they work that out soon.
If you frame it as a Devuan packaging error, that means that including KDE is a packaging error?
p.sure most comments browse with a filter of 'head -n 3'
> Only a sucker buys products from a company that boasts of a high markup on their products.
How does this follow? Nintendo and Apple are both famous for this- their per unit profit is always a record high within the industry.
Nintendo has had this policy since at least the 80s, and Apple since right about the time they stopped being broke as all hell.
So why would you be happy to be ripped off? You aren't- but you might be happy to:
1- Pay money to a company who is trying to *make money in a market*. When you see someone come along and give away their product, like Microsoft, this isn't charity- it's an attempt to grab marketshare. Do they want the marketshare just to drive out the competition? What's next after that? Once you injure Nintendo, do they keep selling at a loss? Most phones are Android, and a lot are priced sub commodity- what's their business model, because it obviously isn't selling you a phone, right?
2- Pay money to a company that is rewarding itself by selling to consumers instead of monetizing them, betraying them, or monitoring them. If the hardware is the loss leader, do they just want to get you subscribed to something so that they can pile on adware, bloatware, and crapware endlessly, and now you are locked into their product? Buy an iphone, it has all the stuff an iphone comes with. Buy and Android and start trying to remove all the vendor crapware, that varies from place to place.
3- Pay for a status symbol.
(1) and (2) are fully and completely rational. (3) is usually not rational, but it's still a reason.
Now, many Androids are sold at profit, and many vendors are honestly trying to earn money by selling you a product- but some are not.
As one final note in (1) and (2)- this isn't some vague "vote with your dollars" thing that maybe benefits society eventually- this benefits you personally immediately, because the company you just bought the product for is heavily motivated to please you and keep you around. If you buy and iphone and never buy a single app or anything, Apple loves you. If you buy a break-even or sell-at-loss phone, and then don't ever buy stuff, you're basically playing a "freemium" game- the devs have every motivation to dick you around until you open wallet. But unlike a freemium game, this is not obvious to most buyers- they don't realize they are "freeloading" and that the company is looking for ways to make them either become a real user, or gtfo to another brand.
Anyway, "high profit margin" doesn't only mean "you're getting ripped off". It can, and whether Apple products are worth their "Apple Tax" is certainly not any manner of given.
> I am a registered Planethunter
I know what a "Plane" is, but how do you Thunt?
Seriously though, your post has good info.
> So explain to everyone why exactly you want to keep your medical records abroad?
Because it's his data, and he can store it where he likes... unless a defacto dictator or totalitarian regime, Putin-style, overrides that.
> Don't trust my government, well, I trust corporations a whole lot less
I mean, that's a reasonable position. But under Russian style laws, you don't have the choice- you BETTER "trust" the government, because *you don't have a choice*.
Also, you mention things like the government auditing to be sure. That's scary as shit, and here's why- proper data would be stored encrypted. In the ideal world, you provide the key. In a less than ideal world, some corporation can unlock it. In a shitty world, some corporation can unlock it, AND the government can unlock it.
You don't get to pick "corporation or government". You are picking "corporation, or corporation AND government, AND it has to be stored less secure so the government guys can get to it easily, you know, for whatever reason".
Under Russian style laws, you could argue that renting a server in the US and a server in Russia and keeping a one time pad on both of those (such that neither side has your data) is in violation of the "data residency" laws.
This isn't a thing to save you from a corporation. A government that wants to do this is looking to monitor and control its citizens, full stop.
It's evil.
Apple plays "catch up" on a lot of tech. But I think matte screens are like mice with multiple buttons- their company position is that the glossy solution "is better". I don't think they even believe they need to get on stuff like that, oddly.
I'm not sure guys, on a lot of boxes glxgears is the only work that the video card gets to do. Fixing that helps the needs of the many over the needs of the few...
He gave an example of a type of diamond that is really rare. I concur that diamonds shouldn't be used as an example of inherent value, though.
Platinum and gold are around 30 dollars a gram.
Rhodium peaked at around 28,000 dollars a gram.
His example was exceptional because it used something that would trivially devalue if it came to Earth in large quantities as well. His point is that there's no known substance that could possibly justify 281,000 dollars per gram of transportation costs- the few you could point to or hypothesize are only so valuable because they are rare, such as unique quality gems, extremely short lived radioactive materials, etc. It's too expensive period- at the moment.
> games? Seriously, how old are you? 12?
> Do you still live in a basement?
I prefer to think of my whole house as a type of basement!
This is incorrect for two reasons.
A correct statement would be "There is not much incentive for game devs to move to Linux when people are NOT buying Linux games.". That's very different.
Second, he's not a social movement, he's a gamer looking for a better platform to play games on. If all of us on this website never bought another Windows game, that doesn't tell the company anything- you would need a huge movement, one that was vocal enough and had enough members- and that's a steep obstacle to just play some games.
Your suggestion that he abandon his gaming platform is not actionable or reasonable.
> Post the issue to your distribution not the systemd group.
It's a problem with almost every distro, right? Like what doesn't have systemd, slack?
Well, actually I fully intend to continue buying Apple- but it is clear that I have to do this knowing that their items are like, charged items from D&D or something.
I'm on my third Apple phone. The first one I was using happily (and it still works ok), but upgraded because I needed a technical capability that it didn't posses, just more horsepower. The second one, after three years, started coming apart at the seams a bit- plus, they had finally launched a larger phone (the 6 plus). That was a little bit lame, but my expectations for phones are that they are expensive and are with me all the time, and that they are reasonably current because I play mobile games on them- I view them more like video cards than CPUs, basically.
I would be very worried if I had a laptop, where anything could go wrong with a part and be told to get fucked. I would be moderately concerned with their laptop-like builds of most of their Macs for the same reason.
It's clearl
> YOU REPAIRED COWS!!!
The cow troll is actually getting kinda funny.
What they won't do is necessarily repair shit for me when it is broken.
I haven't had a problem with any of their phones, but I had an ipod with a loose headphone connector. They simply told me they couldn't repair it. Not "it's not under the warranty so it will cost X", but just "nope, can't be arsed to pop open the proprietary screws we used and solder it down". They offered me like a 20 dollar credit on an entirely new one- which at the time was a couple hundred bucks for a model that was not particularly even an upgrade.
Of course it's a bug. The problem is that it's willing to remove programs, and that it does so in a bugged way.
Only the odd releases are worth using, so I'd wait for Windows 11.
Vista had bloaty problems, but it was just a good reason to hold onto XP for a bit longer. Seven is a very good OS- apparently the last one. Eight and Eight-one have some mild spyware problems, but nothing intractable- mostly it's just their anti-user UI arrogance that got them a bad reception. Up until right near the end when Microsoft added all the spyware and really baked it in hard, everyone was expecting to go to Windows 10.
But Windows 10 is the worst thing ever, so nope.
I mean, it is a perfect joke, but this is a pretty serious matter.
NATO has confirmed that the jet was in Turkey.