alexmcc81

> Plasma doesn't support Wayland yet

Plasma does support Wayland and has for some time. Some distros are even considering defaulting to Wayland now. There have been substantial improvements to Wayland support in the last few months making it an acceptable daily driver, at least for me with 1 HDPI screen.

Do you mean specific Wayland support for multiple screens? I have played with the KwinFT fork and found it be better for screen management.

I'm an engineer working with the best physicists and engineers in wireless technology. None of us know anything about biology. Why would we?

The only time I have ever seen anyone consider biology has been work outsourcing modelling hands for antenna design for handsets.

I used to think that too until I saw a family member dump Windows for Mac. iPhones are a hell of a gateway drug.

I don't see how Google's bad behaviour with Chrome installers excuses Microsoft in any way. Arguably Microsoft is still worse since they intentionally obfuscate system settings so even informed users have difficulty changing their browser settings (which 'sententiously' reset to Edge every so often).

I agree that file sharing is a great feature. I use One Drive every day. However Dropbox is not running an advertising network embedded in their OS nor are they placing ads in the default file explorer in an OS to upsell users on services.

I don't see it backfiring much to be honest. I see a lot of people keeping Windows 10 as long as possible... until Microsoft pushes an update to their machines with increasingly annoying messages until they accept - a strategy they have already deployed successfully.

Defaults always win and laptop vendors will advertise Windows 11 as more secure. What choice do people have?

If anything, this may push a few people to Apple. If you are going to give up all your privacy and pay for services, why not choose the company with the best hardware and integrated and polished UIs?

I've had to set aside several hours to set up family members Windows laptops for that reason. It's crazy to have to jump through hoops to get an offline account, battle the OS to use their browser of choice (possibly reverted by future updates) and download random scripts from GitHub to remove advertising, confusing trialware and random games from the default install - and that's before you get to the laptop vendor software.

I kind of agree. Cynically I see Windows 11 as a big leap for Microsoft in terms of getting to their own ChromeOS. Mandatory online accounts, integrated Teams, very dark patterns to force Edge usage (with all the associated tracking), pushing One Drive hard... all to get a totally surveilled, locked-in user dependent on their cloud services who is a rich source of data for advertising and a target for monthly service charges.

Mandatory Microsoft accounts also mean a concrete, cross platform identity for advertising/tracking and an account to drive One Drive/Office/cloud services purchases (already heavily advertised throughout the OS in the case of One Drive).

More info: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mulanpsl-2.0/

I agree about the 'everything in lua' config. I've found it frustrating.

Neovim is great. I've moved from a very large custom vim setup to a slightly modified LunarVim [1] config (requires Neovim 0.5+), which takes full advantage of tree-sitter and LSP. Loving it so far.

[1] https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli/LunarVim

I used this to create my family tree (several hundred entries, previously only on paper) as a gift to a family member when they married. It was actually easy to use. I'm glad there is a good offline version instead of the online alternatives.

Obviously this is a reason otherwise Fuchsia would have the same licence. However Google probably doesn't care that much about having an option to keep it closed source. Antagonism to the GPL comes mainly from Hardware vendors.

Shingles can cause blindness. Early treatment is very important. A friend of mine was hospitalised and left with bad scaring because they delayed seeking help. At least she didn't have any large bills because she was not in the US. No one should be afraid of going to the hospital.

I'll definitely check this out. Two questions:

1. How does it compare to seaborne? (https://seaborn.pydata.org/)

2. Any tips for plotting large amounts of data with matplotlib?

Do you have any major new features in mind you would like to implement (assuming you had time + help)?

I was wondering why I recognised your name - you're the main developer of ffsend. Thanks for all the work! I really hope you get more people interested in maintaining and developing Send.

You would really have to stretch the definition of religion to breaking point to justify that comparison though. Secular humanism is fundamentally different in the way it was born, how it tenets are formulated and how it's practised compared to say to Islam or Christianity. Reducing both religion, as practised by billions of people, and a secular belief system to just philosophical systems does neither justice.

> Literally just plug in the hard drive and not think about it.

First you have to know that utility exists. Will most biology students know about Windows Backup? I doubt it. Even if they do, they're using a college administered PC. Backups are not their concern. They probably won't have permission to set it up even if they want to. In the article the staff member doesn't have permission to install the applications they need on their desktop PC.

> they should have figured out a way to back that stuff up.

That's incredibly naive. Not everyone has a Comp-Sci degree. Not all specialised programs will allow users access to the data easily. Even if they do, the student/staff may not be knowledgeable enough to back it up. The data may be multiple gigabytes in size or greater... There are lots of reasons why local data exists like this.

So much for empathy. Not all students are as technically literate as HN readers or in the same position to understand or manage the data they deal with. Let's not rush to blame them.

Some students and staff likely use specialised (often very very expensive) software that locally process gigabytes of data, e.g. in the fields of biology and chemistry. These datasets or simulations will be in proprietary formats buried deep in some folder somewhere or in an even more inaccessible database hidden from the user. The PCs in question could also be physically tied to hardware systems in a lab. They're not going to expect that machine to be randomly wiped while working on the data, possibly for weeks at a time. They don't know where the data is. At best they might export the data (a feature which probably doesn't exist for most programs) and archive it at the end of their project. This IT screwup will hurt them a lot.

You've already given them a lot of money. The German government gave BioNtech $445 million dollars in a grant last year alone. It's not unreasonable to be concerned that a small number of pharma companies are trying to generate massive profits when they basically have the entire world hostage.

General statistics on site usage would be interesting. But what about all the other data that could be extracted, both on a personal and national level?

You could, for example, determine which areas are more likely to access HIV information on the NHS website. Insurance companies would like that but would it benefit the public or be in line with people's basic privacy expectations for government services?

(I'm sure Google claim that they won't add a user looking at cancer information on the NHS site to their data profile but I wonder what other insights could be generated.)

Am I the only one who thinks it's creepy that the largest advertising company in the world, and particularly one based outside the country, has so much data on what UK citizens access on their own government websites for health, tax, social welfare information etc?

I see there is an F-Droid compatible repo linked. Is there a reason it has not been submitted to F-Droid proper? Sounds like a perfect addition to the default repo.

It's a shame Remote SSH etc are closed source and MS has no plans to open them. The extensions even check and refuse to run under non-MS vscode builds.

It would very naive to believe extremely wealthy interests did not play a very large part in Brexit. One example of such dark money is the funnelling of half a million euro through Northern Ireland [1] to influence London voters.

[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/what-connects-brexit-the-...

If you're on Android, I can't recommend RedReader enough [1] . It's open source and customisation (also installable via F-Droid). I browse with a compact display and thumbnails turned off.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.quantumbad...

>I think you might be confusing the Linux distribution with the desktop environment.

I'm definitely not ;). Please reread my comment. If you know the answer to the question, please let me know.

>I don't think the parent is confusing these notions.

I'm not (I've even maintained distro spins). I am at a loss how anyone could read my question and think otherwise ;).

> I hope the pre-installed distribution will have an up to date kernel with latest patches.

That's precisely what I want to find out. I've seen so many blog posts and forum threads about different PinePhone builds. It's like the best and worst of Android ROM development from the XDA forums.

Different people seem to be hacking on different thing (which is fun) and many are attempting to get things upstreamed but the development seems to be all over the place. It's not clear what builds have safety features like the Power IC limits enabled for example.