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First, f-droid only accepts OSS apps, so the incentives for spyware is simply not there. Second, anti-features are explicitly marked on f-droid. Third, f-droid apps are curated like a very rigorous linux repo.

Well, things are particularly more complicated on my case: I don't use google services and only install apps from f-droid.

Although I've never contributed with Blender, I felt proud when I saw "made with Blender" in the credits.

Blender is a jewel of the FLOSS movement and a history and behavior that must be mimicked by many other projects.

Looking forward to more successes like this.

Or, if you want to do it pain free, install guix on it.

> no installers, no archives, no registry keys, no additional runtimes and a single executable file.

This is exactly the experience nowadays with AppImages.

Should be codified by law:

  - If a firmware can be updated, it must keep a minimum ROM feature so it can be recovered. 
  - No device should be updated without the *owner* explicit intention to do so.
  - Full docs must be released if the vendor stops supporting it.

Snaps, flatpaks and appimages are converging to that. Slowly indeed, but they are.

Familia Toledo. They're abnormally gifted. I wonder what could have happened if they were thrown into Linux development in the early days.

If, in our current world, the only reason you see for privacy is to commit a crime, then the shame is on you.

I want to buy a printer but I want it to simply print what I tell it to (which indeed is exactly how it should behave). What can I do?

Isn't DeepSeek simple/small enough you can run it locally?

This is an important step. Especially for beginners or people who are not in the loop, being able to easily type some simple commands to download, install dependencies, compile and run everything needed for a LLM AI model gives a feeling sci-fi; it's almost like you can have a helping brain at home.

One thing I've being thinking about doing is to combine one of those LLM models running in llama.cpp, feed it with the output of whisper.cpp and connect its output to some TTS model. I wonder how far from Wheels and Roadie from the Pole Position tv series.

How about an "open comment protocol" so we could finally get rid of the siloed internet we have today?

The thing I like the most about it: appendix A has a "detailed" description of each syscall. Is there something nearly as good as this for subsequent UNIX versions? Suppose someone plans to implement a clone of V5 or ealier UNIX, where can the list of syscalls be found?

I really wonder how well averse conditioning works... maybe I'll try it if it works on firefox and is open source.

Something I've done on some periods I was fighting my procrastination was to use pomodoro timers and mantras: "Just for today" and "one day at a time". Interestingly, these simple tools worked very very well.

In Brazil, pica is a slang for penis.

> Launching something as simple as the calculator takes a second or two to load in.

You can get this feature on Linux if you use flatpaks or snaps on an older computer. I got used to bearing with it because it allows me to have a stable core OS combined with modern applications that have been released today. It's a price I'm willing to pay. Nevertheless, I don't know how slow it is on a more modern machine, I guess it is probably quite fast.

Also, gnome-calculator is not an application I would install through a flatpak or snap.

What I fear: blaming on the immigrants.

IIRC Gaia had a performance degradation because of stray light, probably ice on the border of it's aperture[1].

How has that affected this result?

[1] https://blogs.esa.int/gaia/2014/06/16/preliminary-analysis-o...

In Brazil there is a very successful cash alternative called PIX. My personal problem with it is that I still can't find a single FLOSS app to use it. For now, I have to resort to cash or cards.

For people who don't want to depend on proprietary software to make payments, what are the current trends and alternatives?

The "desktop" (which includes laptops and enterprise desktop) is the last remaining bastion of windows. Servers, database, cloud computing, AI, supercomputers, tablets, smart phones, TV's... all that was taken by Linux. Every small dent on the desktop should be a cause of concern.

There is a reason azure is their cash cow nowadays.

Whisper.cpp ran fine on my GPU-less 2013 era 8GB i5 Dell laptop.

This is how a media player should work and be developed. Learn that, RealPlayer.

Linux dominates supercomputers for a long time: https://itsfoss.com/linux-runs-top-supercomputers/

> That should finally put arguments that Blender would not be "production ready" to rest.

I dream so, but to this day I still have to explain things to people who say "if Linux is free then it has no value."

> Also, the main problem with linux on laptops are still drivers. Standby issues, broken keyboard backlighting, mousepad not working after resume, ...

This simply doesn't happen when you buy from an established vendor that sells computers with Linux out of the box. My suggestion these days is: even if you're going to use windows, buy a computer that comes with Linux; drivers (even windows drivers) are usually better. Use windows on a VM and only install it baremetal if performance is an issue.

What would be really interesting: porting DOSEMU 1.4.0 to it. This would give us a maintained unix-like OS combined with a huge abandonware dos library turning those old machines into something fun and maybe useful.

Not only that, I remember X.org source tree had a bult-in x86 emulator so VGA bios of some PCI video cards could be run on Solaris.