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This.

After 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic, can anyone find a standout reason why someone might want to transit into Manhattan to work in a highrise office tower?

Practices?

This. Total white-box support is the model that other manufacturers have struggled to match.

I've been a small fan (pun intended) of the Intel NUC product range, and have found them to be solid, compatible platforms for multi-OS development, provided that one sticks with the small form-factor models (c.f. Asus BeeBox range) and buys the Core i7-based barebones kits.

The Geekom Mini IT range, by all accounts, appears on the surface to be a rebadged, upspecified flavor of the Intel NUC baseboards; I wonder if there is a back story to this as regards the underlying ODM ecosystem....

Nine times out of ten, genealogical research often reveals that (distant) family of, or location of, origin are not what you thought they would be. It is both humbling and gratifying to find that connectedness with others-quite different in outcome than a racist eugenics exercise.

Do feel free to paint all Americans with the same ratty brush at your own peril.

OpenResty is IMHO the killer app that demonstrates Lua's strengths.

Perhaps the Russians should first ensure that their subs are up to the task, unless they're planning missions from whence no sailor may safely return.

Sure they do, same as mobile chipsets end up Intel NUCs. You're ignoring a whole category of devices.

I watched the first three Mad Max films last night, in one sitting...while there is certainly an argument for absolute performance over time, it's becoming a lot more difficult to justify the power consumption of the current Intel (and, to a lesser degree, AMD) offerings, especially for sustained personal productivity and burst compilation tasks.

We cannot speak of performance without the per-watt quotient. Battery life is a real concern, and current Wintel laptops just don't compete.

Energy concerns are real (as depicted in the George Miller-directed films mentioned above), and it may be the case that the premium paid for Apple Silicon-based devices is actually a bargain.

I'd focus on item 2, with a nod toward static site generation (at one end) and WebAssembly at the other.

Understood, though consuming the sausage (as an end user) is often a very different exercise than making it, so to speak. Battery tradeoffs are a real consideration for end consumers, though are not as much an issue within a development environment where the test device is tethered to the host development machine.

To each, one's own.

Microsoft and Alphabet have plenty of motivation to keep things on track, as does the Linux Foundation and others. I suspect that, if things get completely out of hand, that corporate sponsors might impress their will upon the Rust Foundation to address any issues around governance.

Politics will creep into anything, if one allows that to happen.

IMHO, one should make one's language choices based on utility and NOT solely on metacharacteristics such as quality of governance, DEI efforts, or nation of origin. None of these things matter when the program is run, if the process and end result do not solve the problem(s) at hand.

Thorough feature discussion, appropriate licensing, and accessibility of source code for risk evaluation are metacharacteristics that are relevant.

And-lest anyone think that, as a white cisgender male born in America, I have no skin in the game, it is my belief that any interactions with others ought to be principled on transparent rigor and mutual respect, from which all other things should flow.

You may not expect desktop-class performance, though others do. Display scrolling on a mobile handset is an indicator of quality that separates cheap devices from those that one might actually want to use to get work (or play) done.

My thoughts exactly.

There is significant benefit to learning "two levels up" how to perform a given task, though it need not be provided within a formal environment.

The "laptop class" knew fully well that the cheapest PSF could be found in residential real estate, and that the food truck on the edge of the industrial park was the best place to meet friends and influence people-not an overpriced monument to oneself with a glass phallus in the lobby.

Now we have automotive manufacturers commiserating with commercial real estate folks...time for a Three-Hour-Tour social!

Love it - it's become a valuable part of my workflow, is built like a tank, and sounds great!

While I agree with the overarching sentiment regarding trust, this was by no measure the first time that "intelligence" was leveraged as part of a spin operation.

For the rest of us, any purported scandal regarding the contents of a laptop that was not handled within a secure chain of custody is moot. It's time to move on.

Strictly my opinion: upper management who are not servant leaders and individual contributors of their own account are, in fact, doomed. No amount of Kafka-esque office theater will save them from cuts.

As for support businesses (food / clothing / commercial real estate / parking / technical services), nearly all of that is also doomed. Urban planners had best figure out how to address the issues of keeping more valuable services (commercial kitchens, entertainment, boutique retail) from fleeing to places closer to home.

Proud ISLA Instruments S2400 owner here!

That may not be enough to go on, to be frank, as your app may ultimately determine your requirements.

Does the world really need a new app per week, or a few good ones every so often?

It smells like Medium.

Silly question, but what happens to the device once it has been retrieved? Is it recycled for another employee, re-sold to a systems refurbisher, etc.?

In theory, the terminus (as far as your company is concerned) should determine the retrieval mechanism.

If you're willing to forgo Linux, there is a lot of work / interest in Zephyr.

Drake's AI clone is actually a clone of his Autotune-d voice, so it will be interesting to see how that transform maps.

...to access non-free software or services. That is patently ridiculous and philosophically inconsistent.

This seems somewhat overblown, inasmuch as the use of proprietary, closed-source productivity applications developed in the United States is itself an a priori compromise of eFSF values.

Email is a thankless, dirty business (ask anyone that has ever done an Exchange migration), and there is no incentive for the University to necessarily use and maintain a persistent free software-based email backend. It would be a better outcome to allow students the ability to use their own, personally-chosen communication services and devices, with the caveat that this might exclude some students or faculty from accessing resources that are under the control of commercial partnerships.

Stop putting your hand in the meat grinder and turning the crank. It IS possible to live the FOSS dream; just stop whining that non-FOSS software and services have left you behind-it's not their directive to do so.