We have no Linux Desktop because of even worse design choices by distros.
No. The real reason is pre-installed systems. If there where pre-installed systems, people would buy them. People now use happily a Windows PC with an iPhone and an Android tablet at the same time and they have no issue with it. If their portable would be bought with Linux, they would use that and happily be using KDE, Gnome, Slack or anything else you trow at them.
The people selecting their OS are a minority. Most people would ask you 'why?' if you tell them you do not run the default thing that was installed and you can try to explain it, but they will not care. It all sounds like hard work to them and they will visit the same websites, so why bother?
You only have issues with Systemd? I have a bios, that tries to do everything, starting a bootloader that tries to do everything, launching a desktop manager that tries to do everything, so I can run a browser that tries to do everything so I can go to a website that tries to do everything. All that running on a processor that tries to do everything using a GPU that tries to do everything.
They should have build on top of that philosophy. Using it as a base. They build around it.
I use Debian on my server and Debian on my portable and Debian on my desktop. The reason is that I have only one thing to do. I have used openSUSE in the past.
For the portable the more important question to me is not what distro, but what Desktop. I do see little to no difference between using XFCE on openSUSE or on Debian after I am done configuring it how I like. I have not tried it, but I doubt that it will be much different to Mint and XFCE.
I rather have only one thing to do that I can do on all machines, than to pick them. I am not a gamer, so 3D is not something I need. I just looked up some screenshots for XFCE Mint and I see nothing that I would keep or that is special compared to Debian or openSUSE.
The way they do opt-out and opt-in makes it not actually human error most of the time. "Are you not unwilling to not have the unicluded number not be absent form the undisplaying non-information or do you exclude wanting the anti-opposite?" or sometjng similar with a default yes or no selected at almost random.
Yes it is there, but it will be there in such a way that the majority of the people select what the company wants, not what the user wants. And they will present it over and over again, till you have selected what they want you to select. Then suddenly the option is off.
Legally it is user error, morally it is company error.
I remember when that happened. The IT department told everybody in the company to close their PC and go home. Most department did. We just dualbooted into BeOS and Linux and kept going. COO called me to close and I told him no. Fun times. (Yes, I still had a job after that) That was the first time something like that happened on such a large scale.
Since then we have had many scares, but we got used to it.
If the boy who cries wolf has it right every time, the result is the same as when he is wrong every time. We tend to ignore it after a while.
I work in a city center. It takes 10 minutes to get out of the parking. It takes 10 minutes to get from my desk to be on a moving bus. 20 minutes would mean walking distance and nobody wants to live there.
My travel time from door to desk is about an hour. The average is around 45 minutes. Almost nobody moved for the job.
I once worked for a company and by mistake answered not making it clear I was from the company. They made it clear I should never do that. Since then I have used an alias so to make it clear I speak in my name, never go to the companies forum and be very generic about what I say about companies I work for, so ot could be almist any company.
To me that is common sense. In almost all companies I worked it was made clear who the people where who spoke to the public, who to journalists, others to lawers and what the process was of the poluce called. That last ine basically was : unless you have a court order we do not tell anything. I have seen police escorted out of a building. They had forgotten their order. Came back two hours later and we had it all ready for them
With Kaspersky I know that at least the US does not have a backdoor. Because worst case scenario, all others have backdoors from everybody. So the Ruskies will read your things, no matter what.
In Belgium going to the police might still be a good thing as there will then be a trace of when you filed it. That way they can't later say that you where to late for whatever reason.
Any lawyer will first look at the dates when that was done and if the time was unreasonable late (yes, that is very flexible) it will weaken your case. Sometimes so much that you do not get anything. I know. I have been on both sides. Saying "You filed a claim after six months? We doubt that you are honest about that, so fuck off." and the legal system followed us in that way of thinking.
So I would start any and all procedures, just to prove later that you did your part. Send emails and keep the bounces. Save screenshots with dates. Keep records of newspaper segments. And if you write to the company concerned, keep it as dry as possible. If you start accusing or worse, cussing, you will be taken less serious.
we've won the World Series for like 23 years straight
But you are shit at Fierljeppen. You have most people in prison. And if you also look at number of people : US is 11 as it is calculated over all. It has a bit (ok, a lot) to do with distribution of wealth. Because if 1 person has 1000 and 9 others have 100, the average might sound as if they are well of, but the 9 others might still starve to death, because not having enough. But the USofA is still the best country between Mexico and Canada. I give you that.
I am also sure that the USofA will always be a first world country. They will just redefine what it means, like they redefined what a prisoner is and what torture is.
You not only put Trump in quotes, you also put vacancies in quotes.
There is a reason there are vacancies (Just read the article you linked). Car analogy: You first cut down the 5 tires (4 + a spare) to 4 and a small spare tire to save money. That is good, but you still need to buy a new tire. If you do not buy the new tire, your small spare will break sooner or later and the cost of that will be much higher than just the a new tire.
5% cutting is a LOT. You should assume that every FTE (not every person) is needed in a company, otherwise it would not be there. And these are all of the same job description. None of the other jobs? Really? That would be like saying you fire 5% of your Football team (soccer for some) and only fire the three goalkeepers without replacing them. (Yes, many have 3. A main one, a backup and a backup for the backup)
The way they treat IP, I think it will be in better hands than what the US is doing with it. Midn you, I am eneither Chinese nor USian, so I will get screwed no matter what (alas not by a female).
When I install by default, it gives me VLC. So if you are a new user, that is what you learn to use and that is what you will prefer. I still like MPlayer as that is what I started with. The same goes with vim instead of nano.
The same goes with the fact that Firefox is still installed by default. I still have it on my machine, but now use Chrome.I use it to see if it a site does not display how I expect it to display and see if it is the site or the browser. Till now always the site.
It would be nice to know what the least pre-selected software is or what the first is that people remove.
Just as an exte: I use XFCE, because each time you start KDE, a puppy is killed and each time you start GNOME they kill a kitten. True!
This depends from job to job. If you are depending directly or indirectly on others, this might be a problem. e.g. if you have store opening hours from 09:00 to 18:00, this means that problems with the POS will be during those times. That means that the IT people who deal with those issues must be available. No, this will not be all of them. But these people will have to often get into contact with the networking people, because the issue was a network issue. They then realize it was a cable cut, so they need to contact the cable company. They need to contact the people company that goes in and digs up the cable to repair it.
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.
The fact that they just added 'for AI' means they are just cashing in. This is just like all the patent trolls that added 'on the Internet' on existing ones to "create" a new one.
Ethics is the same regardless if it is done by an AI or by a human. Why, you ask? Well, that is explained in a Ethics class. Not just a subset of Ethics, like Ethics for AI or Ethics for Women or Ethics on the Internet.
If there is a difference in ethics for AI and for non-AI I would like to hear it.
Living in Belgium. Sick days are not know before you get sick. The first month you will get full pay. After that it will go down to first 80% and later to minimum wage, I think. Some companies have extra insurance for you where you will get more. Some even that you get full pay.
So in a way all sick days are paid sick days. Friend of mine is now at home for 3 or so months.
If I am sick, I go to a doctor who will have to write a note from when till when I will not be able to work and if I can leave the house or not. This can be for one day or for a long period, depending on the situation and job you do as well as how you get to work.
The company has the right to send a control doctor to see if you are actually sick. The company will just get an OK or NOK, not what the illness is. You are obviously in your right if you tell them, but they can not force you to.
Is this abused? Sure it is abuse by people who are willing to abuse it. THere will always be people to abuse anything. This is a minority and people can still get fired if they are sick. If they are found out, which obviously also happens, they will lose their job, have no unemployment benefits, so no income and good luck on finding a job after that. Oh, they also have to pay back everything.
I get them free at work. They send an email fo all. People who want it say they want it. You get a day and hour, go to that meeting room. In and out in 5 minutes or so. Company covers the cost. Yes, it is optional. No, they do not trace who goes and does not go. If they would do that, the Unions would be killing them and the law would cut up the rest. (Unions, not trade guilds. Living in Belgium)
I had them and I heard no difference. Well, until I noticed that I placed it the wrong way around, so I changed it. Now the electrons flow in the right direction. My LPs never sounded better.
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So how is it waking up after a 10 year coma? Look up who is the president if the US now (small spoiler, the previous one was black. Not even joking)
As long as their customers are not complaining, why would they change? This is like cows complaing that the farmer has cold hands.
No. The real reason is pre-installed systems. If there where pre-installed systems, people would buy them. People now use happily a Windows PC with an iPhone and an Android tablet at the same time and they have no issue with it. If their portable would be bought with Linux, they would use that and happily be using KDE, Gnome, Slack or anything else you trow at them.
The people selecting their OS are a minority. Most people would ask you 'why?' if you tell them you do not run the default thing that was installed and you can try to explain it, but they will not care. It all sounds like hard work to them and they will visit the same websites, so why bother?
You only have issues with Systemd? I have a bios, that tries to do everything, starting a bootloader that tries to do everything, launching a desktop manager that tries to do everything, so I can run a browser that tries to do everything so I can go to a website that tries to do everything. All that running on a processor that tries to do everything using a GPU that tries to do everything.
They should have build on top of that philosophy. Using it as a base. They build around it.
I use Debian on my server and Debian on my portable and Debian on my desktop. The reason is that I have only one thing to do. I have used openSUSE in the past.
For the portable the more important question to me is not what distro, but what Desktop. I do see little to no difference between using XFCE on openSUSE or on Debian after I am done configuring it how I like. I have not tried it, but I doubt that it will be much different to Mint and XFCE.
I rather have only one thing to do that I can do on all machines, than to pick them. I am not a gamer, so 3D is not something I need. I just looked up some screenshots for XFCE Mint and I see nothing that I would keep or that is special compared to Debian or openSUSE.
The way they do opt-out and opt-in makes it not actually human error most of the time.
"Are you not unwilling to not have the unicluded number not be absent form the undisplaying non-information or do you exclude wanting the anti-opposite?" or sometjng similar with a default yes or no selected at almost random.
Yes it is there, but it will be there in such a way that the majority of the people select what the company wants, not what the user wants. And they will present it over and over again, till you have selected what they want you to select. Then suddenly the option is off.
Legally it is user error, morally it is company error.
I remember when that happened. The IT department told everybody in the company to close their PC and go home. Most department did. We just dualbooted into BeOS and Linux and kept going. COO called me to close and I told him no. Fun times. (Yes, I still had a job after that)
That was the first time something like that happened on such a large scale.
Since then we have had many scares, but we got used to it.
If the boy who cries wolf has it right every time, the result is the same as when he is wrong every time. We tend to ignore it after a while.
I hope they do not have a webbrowser that would link to a google search where you cab type in filetype:torrent because that would be bad.
I work in a city center. It takes 10 minutes to get out of the parking. It takes 10 minutes to get from my desk to be on a moving bus. 20 minutes would mean walking distance and nobody wants to live there.
My travel time from door to desk is about an hour. The average is around 45 minutes. Almost nobody moved for the job.
I once worked for a company and by mistake answered not making it clear I was from the company. They made it clear I should never do that. Since then I have used an alias so to make it clear I speak in my name, never go to the companies forum and be very generic about what I say about companies I work for, so ot could be almist any company.
To me that is common sense. In almost all companies I worked it was made clear who the people where who spoke to the public, who to journalists, others to lawers and what the process was of the poluce called. That last ine basically was : unless you have a court order we do not tell anything. I have seen police escorted out of a building. They had forgotten their order. Came back two hours later and we had it all ready for them
It indeed says a lot about others.
With Kaspersky I know that at least the US does not have a backdoor. Because worst case scenario, all others have backdoors from everybody. So the Ruskies will read your things, no matter what.
It was a pyramid scheme. Just a very limited one with only 1 level.
In Belgium going to the police might still be a good thing as there will then be a trace of when you filed it. That way they can't later say that you where to late for whatever reason.
Any lawyer will first look at the dates when that was done and if the time was unreasonable late (yes, that is very flexible) it will weaken your case. Sometimes so much that you do not get anything. I know. I have been on both sides. Saying "You filed a claim after six months? We doubt that you are honest about that, so fuck off." and the legal system followed us in that way of thinking.
So I would start any and all procedures, just to prove later that you did your part. Send emails and keep the bounces. Save screenshots with dates. Keep records of newspaper segments. And if you write to the company concerned, keep it as dry as possible. If you start accusing or worse, cussing, you will be taken less serious.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Is this about Yelp or about China? I am confused now.
But you are shit at Fierljeppen. You have most people in prison. And if you also look at number of people : US is 11 as it is calculated over all. It has a bit (ok, a lot) to do with distribution of wealth. Because if 1 person has 1000 and 9 others have 100, the average might sound as if they are well of, but the 9 others might still starve to death, because not having enough.
But the USofA is still the best country between Mexico and Canada. I give you that.
I am also sure that the USofA will always be a first world country. They will just redefine what it means, like they redefined what a prisoner is and what torture is.
You not only put Trump in quotes, you also put vacancies in quotes.
There is a reason there are vacancies (Just read the article you linked). Car analogy: You first cut down the 5 tires (4 + a spare) to 4 and a small spare tire to save money. That is good, but you still need to buy a new tire. If you do not buy the new tire, your small spare will break sooner or later and the cost of that will be much higher than just the a new tire.
5% cutting is a LOT. You should assume that every FTE (not every person) is needed in a company, otherwise it would not be there. And these are all of the same job description. None of the other jobs? Really? That would be like saying you fire 5% of your Football team (soccer for some) and only fire the three goalkeepers without replacing them. (Yes, many have 3. A main one, a backup and a backup for the backup)
The way they treat IP, I think it will be in better hands than what the US is doing with it. Midn you, I am eneither Chinese nor USian, so I will get screwed no matter what (alas not by a female).
When I install by default, it gives me VLC. So if you are a new user, that is what you learn to use and that is what you will prefer. I still like MPlayer as that is what I started with. The same goes with vim instead of nano.
The same goes with the fact that Firefox is still installed by default. I still have it on my machine, but now use Chrome.I use it to see if it a site does not display how I expect it to display and see if it is the site or the browser. Till now always the site.
It would be nice to know what the least pre-selected software is or what the first is that people remove.
Just as an exte: I use XFCE, because each time you start KDE, a puppy is killed and each time you start GNOME they kill a kitten. True!
This depends from job to job. If you are depending directly or indirectly on others, this might be a problem. e.g. if you have store opening hours from 09:00 to 18:00, this means that problems with the POS will be during those times. That means that the IT people who deal with those issues must be available. No, this will not be all of them.
But these people will have to often get into contact with the networking people, because the issue was a network issue. They then realize it was a cable cut, so they need to contact the cable company. They need to contact the people company that goes in and digs up the cable to repair it.
I could give many examples like that.
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.
The fact that they just added 'for AI' means they are just cashing in. This is just like all the patent trolls that added 'on the Internet' on existing ones to "create" a new one.
Ethics is the same regardless if it is done by an AI or by a human. Why, you ask? Well, that is explained in a Ethics class. Not just a subset of Ethics, like Ethics for AI or Ethics for Women or Ethics on the Internet.
If there is a difference in ethics for AI and for non-AI I would like to hear it.
Living in Belgium. Sick days are not know before you get sick. The first month you will get full pay. After that it will go down to first 80% and later to minimum wage, I think. Some companies have extra insurance for you where you will get more. Some even that you get full pay.
So in a way all sick days are paid sick days. Friend of mine is now at home for 3 or so months.
If I am sick, I go to a doctor who will have to write a note from when till when I will not be able to work and if I can leave the house or not. This can be for one day or for a long period, depending on the situation and job you do as well as how you get to work.
The company has the right to send a control doctor to see if you are actually sick. The company will just get an OK or NOK, not what the illness is. You are obviously in your right if you tell them, but they can not force you to.
Is this abused? Sure it is abuse by people who are willing to abuse it. THere will always be people to abuse anything. This is a minority and people can still get fired if they are sick. If they are found out, which obviously also happens, they will lose their job, have no unemployment benefits, so no income and good luck on finding a job after that. Oh, they also have to pay back everything.
I get them free at work. They send an email fo all. People who want it say they want it. You get a day and hour, go to that meeting room. In and out in 5 minutes or so. Company covers the cost.
Yes, it is optional. No, they do not trace who goes and does not go. If they would do that, the Unions would be killing them and the law would cut up the rest. (Unions, not trade guilds. Living in Belgium)
I am a consultant. I see no problem with that. I billed all those hours.
I had them and I heard no difference. Well, until I noticed that I placed it the wrong way around, so I changed it. Now the electrons flow in the right direction. My LPs never sounded better.