Nerdfest

Seems to me sticking your head in the sand, however tempting it might be, would be playing right into the hands of the current administration. Regardless, it's a very bad idea.

I've been a Linux user for about 10 years. The only hardware I've had trouble with after setting up dozens of machines for myself and friends has been Wifi devices from RTLink. They were solvable, but requires an actual recompile of drivers after kernel updates.

I've had a couple of experiences in the other direction though, including a Sony Viao laptop where neither the wired or wireless network worked after Window 7 install. With Linux (Kubuntu), everything worked flawlessly. This was not some strange one-off laptop manufacturer.

The other thing won't matter to many, but the install time for Windows was almost three hours, while Linux (and all it's accompanying office software, etc) took about 20 minutes. Updates are similar though, so there is some value there.

Just a few more data points, but I, and many others find that Linux is far easier to use than Windows these days as well.

People won't abandon Apple in droves unless the media start trashing them to the same degree they've been praising them. They've effectively given Apple billions in free advertising over the years, so I'd guess it would take a lot of trashing.

I think we're at the point that copyright can no longer be respected, or certainly close to it.

Much like you you could go to some social network other than Facebook. You can but it's inconvenient.

Perhaps you have a Samsung? Some of the changes that vendors make are aggressively stupid, in the name of being different.

A good headphone design makes the parts that wear out replaceable. Bose does this with some of their stuff, as do others, I would guess. It should be considered an important part of the design.

They quite clearly should be distrusted in the current conditions. Electronic voting should go. This greatly reduces the attack surface.

He could play by their rules, if he had far more money. Buying policy and laws ain't cheap.

I think people named Adolph still have a hard time.

The article claims it's reducing the number of paralellizable steps, but it sounds like it's actually reducing serial operations and become more parallel.

If a lot more people drove manual transmissions, or at least learned that you can slow down by just raising the accelerator a little rather than hitting the brakes, things would be a lot better. It really doesn't seem like a hard thing to learn.

I'm assuming it's the spinning up of "Space Force".

"The new notebook was universally applauded by tech pundits". Riiiiiight.

Google Plus us quite popular with photographers.

I would guess that it's stored and dealt with using a basic "copy on write" strategy. It's functionally a copy, which is all that usually matters. This may have been an oversight.

I can, (and usually do) quite easily get by without Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, and Apple. I'd love it if everyone dumped FaceBook. Google would be more difficult, but not impossible. Part of what keeps these companies going is the inertia and "friends" factors, but much of it is that people like how well they work. They have to keep in mind that they're one good competitor away from having a serious chunk of their business taken .... assuming they don't just buy out the competitor.

When developing for iOS, you "serve at the pleasure of the King".

In most large corporations and governments, the primary reason for not using open source (especially is software development) is that open source doesn't take purchasing people out for lunches or golf vacations.

Someone that paid for 8 would probably disagree. It's no longer a free upgrade, is it? Perhaps people should switch to LibreOffice. It's really more usable according to most people I've talked to.

To advertise them. Duh.

You obviously have an iPhone. Rewarding that platform lock-in would not be my first choice.

Seems to me that Google has a better privacy record than Apple. Both companies get all sorts of data about their users, but Apple has had some serious data breaches.

... and you don't think all the free marketing is a large part of that? It's a little quieter lately, but they have a huge fan-base in the media world due to them using Apple kit for both audio and video editing for years. How many other phone manufacturers get multiple articles in the news when a new model is released?

"Poor academic and other performance is just one small symptom of larger systemic issues."

Like culture, which is sadly, by choice.

Android can be used without any connection to Google at all. You have a more limited choice of software (using F-Droid, etc), but it's quite easy to do.

The writers seem to be solid Apple fans and exaggerate their influence. With billions in free marketing from every media site on the planet, Apple would be pretty much irrelevant already.

"have been impacted by the iPhone. Chromebooks are locked down with an app store". Windows 10S apparently as well. The damage done by Apple making this acceptable is huge.

Nor rap, as it doesn't generally have a verse/chorus structure. Claiming it's not music aside, fans tend to describe it more as poetry, which is generally non-repetitive.

I'm guessing it would be extremely repetitive for poetry though.

I saw a few videos on mainstream news from that day and it looked like police were indiscriminately spraying both protesters and bystanders. I'm amazed it wasn't covered more, but I guess there's bigger problems.