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  1. Re:Unpopular decision to get virtually nothing?! on Ubuntu Wants To Collect Data About Your System -- Starting With 18.04 LTS (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    An even easier way to opt out is to check the opt-out checkbox

  2. What's the excuse for anything less than 100% compatibility now?

    Says the person who has no clue and clearly did not read one page of the ECMA Office Open XML standard.

  3. Re:Most diffcult Problem first? on Robot Delivery Vans Are Arriving Before Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hubris, I think

  4. Re:Most packages are delivered during the day on Robot Delivery Vans Are Arriving Before Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    People still won't be home

  5. Re:Good grief on Scientists Calculate Carbon Emissions of Your Sandwich (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If all those animals were left alive, breathing out CO2, farting methane, eating up all the good grass and taking the jobs of other animals whose consumption have fallen out of popularity, their carbon footprint would be even worse.

    You are aware that the number of cows and pigs on this planet is as high as it is only because we produce to eat them, right?

  6. There's a difference whether the law that the state gave itself says "I am always right, you can't sue me", or not.

  7. IANAL, but Wikipedia says that sovereign immunity generally applies to immunity from foreign national courts.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    I see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that it is different in the US. Yet another reason not to live there

  8. Re: More the desktop environment than the distro. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Fastest Linux Distro for an Old Macbook 7,1? · · Score: 1

    "Posted one year from now."

    Right. "Nearly" 10 years

  9. Re:Your Macbook model can run El Capitan 10.11 on Ask Slashdot: What's the Fastest Linux Distro for an Old Macbook 7,1? · · Score: 1

    It's not that bold. It might not cover every single person out there, but it covers the vast majority. Most people want wifi, bluetooth and audio drivers that work, proper support for the MacBook's trackpad, good power management, decent and reasonably _consistently-designed_ applications that are easy to install (ie don't quickly descend into package management hell), and a whole host of other stuff that generally just works with macOS and only might kinda/sorta work on Linux, if you spend enough time dicking around with it.

    MBP 5,3 from 2009 here, every single piece of hardware worked perfectly on day 1 of this machine with Ubuntu, and still does now 10 years later. I was and actually still am very happy with this machine

  10. Re:More the desktop environment than the distro. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Fastest Linux Distro for an Old Macbook 7,1? · · Score: 1

    I found arch worked well on very old machines, but even so the main thing is to use a lightweight desktop environment or not. I use FVWM which isn't to everyone's tastes, but I like it on machines of all sizes including fast ones.

    But you won't like unity on that machine I expect.

    Oh also, replace any spining disks with flash.

    I am using Unity on a midyear 2009 MBP 5,3 with 2.52 GHz Core 2 Duo and Nvidia GeForce 9400M just fine
    I have to compliment Apple on this machine, it has been serving me just fine over 10 years for browsing, email, and video watching

  11. Re:Contributing fixes.. on Google Moves To Debian For In-house Linux Desktop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I dunno what you are talking about. It's clearly not targeting smart phones

  12. Re:Contributing fixes.. on Google Moves To Debian For In-house Linux Desktop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Shuttleworth said that they do, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Re:Contributing fixes.. on Google Moves To Debian For In-house Linux Desktop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Ubuntu seems to be faltering on Google Moves To Debian For In-house Linux Desktop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Me too, I am missing it badly, I got so used to all its space savings like the integrated title bar. The current gnome-shell in 17.10 is terrible and wastes a considerable part of a a 1440 screen. When I enable the spacesaver extension, which is poor anyway, gnome-shell needs 50% of one core for doing nothing. Not that it is ever frugal, 10% is not unusual anyway.

  15. Re:Contributing fixes.. on Google Moves To Debian For In-house Linux Desktop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You're assuming a target. If they are targeting smart phones, most of the upstream packages don't have a big impact, and a lot of them don't have ANY impact. If they are targeting IoT devices, there's even less effect.

    It's not clear to me that they are developing a general purpose distribution. I only did a tiny bit of search for it, but I didn't find anything that mentioned it, so my guess is that this "gLinux" is for some internal use...and that could be pretty specialized.

    The target is their "in-house Linux desktop", it's in the first sentence of TFS

  16. Re:Contributing fixes.. on Google Moves To Debian For In-house Linux Desktop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It states that "Google takes each Debian Testing package, rebuilds it, tests it, files and fixes bugs, and once those are resolved, integrates it into the gLinux release candidate"

  17. Re:Smells like a political coverup on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    First I do not agree with guruevi, however:

    Using the wording "the ruling government" to make it appear mysteriously evil is a failure.

    In this case it could be somewhat appropriate to distinguish it from the currently elected government. The election was months ago and the elected parties still haven't formed a new government. So the old government is still ruling.

    Personally I hoped they would fail to form a government and rerun the election. Instead it looks like the SPD may fail to uphold his promise of no great coalition and once again form a government with the CDU. In related news santa claus, the easter bunny and a honest politician walk into a bar ...

    I misunderstood the "ruling government" comment due to its context in the post, thanks for pointing it out

  18. Re:Smells like a political coverup on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Learn some German politics. The current government is no longer elected, it's a leftover because Merkel has "failed" to create a new government knowing that her term is at an end.

    This government (Merkel and party) has indeed said and ran on the platform against the groups saying "many illegals are criminals claiming to be minors, raping and killing" is overblown rhethoric and no such persons exist.

    I live in Germany. OK, I misunderstood your "ruling government" comment, sorry for this. In this sense, it is indeed the ruling government. However, it is still a lie that anyone said that no such persons exist.

  19. Re:Smells like a political coverup on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Missing chunks of data from both phone and video evidence when it involves a highly debated group that the ruling government says doesn't exist. Age can be determined by teeth.

    Merkel's propaganda machine hard at work while she's trying to cobble together her government.

    Using the wording "the ruling government" to make it appear mysteriously evil is a failure. Governments rule, that's not particularly sinister. So it's no surprise that you are lying, as the government is decidedly not saying that this group of people doesn't exist, and that you are wrong, teeth cannot be used to determine age with the precision and confidence necessary for immigration purposes.

  20. TFS: Solved all of the fundamental challenges on Space Is Not a Void (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    We didn't, and this is one important reason for why it stalled

  21. Re:News? on Reading Information Aloud To Yourself Improves Memory (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure, handwriting helps too. Each person's MMV. This has been common knowledge for decades

  22. News? on Reading Information Aloud To Yourself Improves Memory (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone who ever had to learn stuff knows this.

  23. Well... if you "get the theory", then why did you ask "wth is bitcoin"? .

    He didn't

  24. Re:I don't like it, BUT on Two Technologists Create Black Metal Album Using An AI (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because it remixed the original album. It "came up" with pretty much nothing

  25. I can only say that in Germany the cheapest ones from the discounter consistently score best in independent tests. It's important not to use the all-in-one tabs, but keep the salt and rinse agent separate in their dedicated dispensers.