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Yes, we Russians are entirely responsible for British carpet bombing.

(I, of course, do not agree with the decision to demolish the remaining ruins in 1968; it could have been handled better.)

Why lie? It _is_ a tourist location, with > 2mln tourists annually (for their 1 mln permanent population). It also has quite a diverse economy, with Avtotor being a major car assembler (though not quite what it was pre-war), a fishing industry, amber mining, a TV manufacturer, &c. With a significant military presence, of course, but "giant military base in the middle of nowhere" is just ridiculous.

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LAMY 2000 and Platinum Preppy/Pilot V-pen are not the same kind of product. To be honest, the disposables are not excellent at all.

However, the difference in writing feel, line quality, &c between a lamy 2k and the new Chinese producers like Majohn or PenBBS is not so big. They do require a bit more maintenance, and the looks and feels are subpar. Whether that's worth the $230 price difference is questionable.

I own the lamy, and love it dearly. I bought it 10 years ago, when I felt easier with spending money. I wouldn't have bought one now.

"operationally" implies that capex (which I would assume includes datacenters, gpus, and r&d) is not in. So the big news is that they can now pay for electricity and sysadmin.

What age are you worried about?

Yes. The economic reason for the fork is the same.

There's a clear intent for EU entities to switch to "sovereign" tech. That means that there's a lot of money on the table. Hence the "EuroOffice" rebadge, and this unpleasantness.

Shortcuts still don't work on non-Latin keyboard layouts on Linux. For people who use languages with non-Latin writing systems, this is a show-stopper.

(there is, of course, a rich tradition of text editors with the same issue, including Vim and Emacs. They 1) have an excuse; 2) provide both workarounds and their own input method systems. Having this in a new program is nuts.)

That would be good, but somehow didn't work all the other times.

What apps?

(idle interest; I use Graphene, but few apps, and everything worked so far)

This Pi thing does not have a DAC.

it reliably keeps buffers between restarts, including for unsaved files. It's kinda amazing at that.

Note how noone clones bbedit for other oses.

They don't usually want to. Why restrict yourself in such contortions?

Bit it's entirely possible, and common. E. g., uses of Linux in schools and governments are not more terminal-heavy for end-users than Windows setups.

Fedora on supported hardware does not require the use of a terminal for the kind of things people use Windows for.

Your bar has been cleared long ago.

(that's without even mentioning steam, chrome os, android, &c)

> The hardware is almost universally agreed to be great

There is some agreement in terms of the M chips. There is no universl agreement re keyboard layout, screen technology and surfacing, trackpoints, touchscreens, 2-in-1 form factors, port selection, or aluminium unibodies.

Are we giving strategic advice to Microsoft now?

Anyway: consumer OSes are historically cheap, and cannot be easily converted into subscriptions. So the market is low-margin, and shrinking (due to both phones and clouds). I suspect it is already unprofitable for Microsoft. So they need to exit; while exiting, ideally, sell people something else.

Which is what we observe.

The article advises them to “have a boring year” to “stop the slide” to stay dominant in a market they should have left years ago.

What does “at the network level” mean?..

Anyway; Tailscale is not your only network. If you’re on a laptop, you need to be able to log onto rando wifi networks. If you’re at home, you need to be mindful of your smart fridge going rogue. You need to run a firewall. Tailscale adds a separate, Tailscale-specific, firewall with centralized management. Now you have two firewalls.

You have to use a firewall anyway. If you use Tailscale, you have two firewalls, which is not strictly easier.

Tailscale somehow found use for self-hosters, despite being wildly unergonomic for an all-Linux, non-corporate, network. Yggdrasil lacks marketing effort, but is otherwise a great option.

I suspect Linux has better hardware support than Haiku, which is not exactly easy to run on laptop hardware (w/ wifi, sleep, &c)

Also opposite in terms of feature-richness.

You can block your own internet, if you feel that way.

I think the most you can say is that they recognized that many male propertied white protestant Americans are American. Maybe some more qualifiers are necessary.

So are the other browsers on iOS.

Yes. My original question was whether federation is necessary for the kind of communities Mastodon serves, not whether the web must have multiple websites.

So did forums, even with no federation.

Having many instances is not the same as federation.

Why not several identities, and aggregation in the client? You seem to need to be in the community to fully interact with it on Mastodon, anyway.

My parents did fine with Linux. My mom still does; it's certainly less maintenance effort from me than Windows would require.

It was fine for non-technical users since at least early GNOME 2, if you're ready to help them set up and maintain. Semi-technical users (Windows power users, gamers, &c — people who like to install and configure things, but fear the deep dark abyss of the terminal) were and remain more problematic.

Unity days were the nadir of linux desktop ux — it was when Gnome 2 was gone, and 3 not yet there. Still better than contemporaneous Windows 8, though.