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"Software problem, nothing we could do."

Every time someone fucks up using technology and noone is held accountable, that's what we hear.

Check out the archwiki for information about what hardware works. I assumed you mean the Gen 8 X1:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carb...

You can find a lot of other laptops there and see what works in what way.

This analogy is flawed in two points:

1. Let's Encrypt isn't useless

because

2. With certificates you can be sure, the message you received, is from the certificate owner. This applies to websites and emails.

Do you see the irony in your reply or would you like me to explain it?

KDE and Gnome are significantly more expensive resource wise.

This really bothered me too, so much so that I downloaded some unofficial LineageOS source code for the latest version, patched it for signature spoofing to be able to use microG and flashed it to my device. That play protect popup was the last straw. It reminded me that google is indeed watching every step on my android phone.

I used to donate to Wikipedia but stopped when I saw that they have enough already.

I still donate to ffmpeg (it's used in more software than you might think), newpipe, signal (the signal foundation, the people behind the end to end encrypted messenger) and debian.

I use all of the above software and I'm fairly happy with it.

From the article it seems it wasn't on purpose:

>An unnamed businessman forgot the canvas—an untitled and undated work by French painter Yves Tanguy—at a check-in counter when boarding a flight [...] He soon realized that the 16- by 24-inch painting, which he’d stored in a flat cardboard box, had gone missing, and upon arriving in Israel, immediately contacted German authorities.

This seems an awful lot of text for being basically identical to the advice I get from older relatives, ehich are detached from the current reality: "Just power through it."

I can only agree that it's nauseating. One time on a trip from Copenhagen to Munich it was so unbearable that I had to throw up.

I've told about a dozen friends about this when I got home. While all of them found it very unpleasant, only one other person had to be sick.

Imagine the mental gymnastics you have to go through to defend China's clear disregard for human rights and human life.

I wouldn't touch anything that's even remotely tied to Oracle with a 10ft pole.

Yes, clearly, probably because some buttoned-up wannabe-manager wants to impress his higher-ups my presenting them BS like "these new UI tweaks of my team increased our user retention by 26%!" so he can get a raise or a slightly higer bonus.

While Chrome is proprietary, Chromium and Brave are not.

> (...) the app also employs a proprietary open-source encryption protocol (...)

Is it possible for something to be open-source and proprietary at the same time? Is it possible if one assumes the definition of the OSI?

These randos on the internet are people. And who works in government and/or the justice system? You guessed it! People!

The govermnent is not some sort of abstract infallible entity. It consists of regular people. And giving those people deep access to your private and personal life is going to be abused more than it will help.

Have we already forgotten what disastrous consequences moving toward such a totalitarian government has? Have we already forgotten about the horrors of the second world war and its aftermath?

Vivaldi is also proprietary, which should be a dealbreaker for every IT person with half a brain.

I really love their customer service. Since it's not possible to delete your account from whithin the settings (after disagreeing with updated ToS) I had to contact them. It only took me 16 emails and 27 days to delete my account! Very efficient! /s

Yes it would be worth it but don't rush the purchase and inform yourself beforehand. Definitely check out /r/telescopes. An 8 inch dobsonian reflector telescope is recommended so much that it has become a meme, but it is rightfully recommended!

There are three versions available for download on their website. The smallest one, which calls itself _lite_ contains chromium, flash player, thummy and pulseaudio. So much for "lite".

This might be the opportunity to unironically recommend tinfoil hats.

In Croatia, where the VAT is 25%, the solution was: every customer has to be given a receipt without asking for one and the customer has to take the receipt and carry it out of the store.

Stores who don't comply get massive fines.

> It won't be a dangerous issue because no one can force a TV inside your house/office.

No, but the government forces me to pay for the public TV stations and there is no way to opt out. So yes, I do want a TV in my home.

Inb4 sunk cost fallacy.

Open Source has always worked with companies, which is why Micro$oft loves it - developers code for free, release the code under an open source licence, and companies just take that code, slap some features on it, rebrand it, and resell it under their proprietary licence.

It is free (as in freedom) software which companies usually don't like and we need more than ever.

I was joking, putting blockchain anywhere near voting is a terrible idea.

Blockchain Machine Learning would be a perfrct fit for that.

> Is there anything that prevents anyone receiving a DMCA take down letter from charging a fee if that request is found to be fraudulent, illegal or otherwise unwarranted?

Well, yes, the law. How would you enforce a contract which binds the claimant to paying a fee? What if the claimant doesn't want to enter an agreement where he has to pay? Do you refuse his takedown request? Well congrats, you just made yourself liable.

AFAIK in Pennsylvania they have a paper trail for all electronic votes, so essentially, they bought a pencil.

No, he's just telling you that your anecdote is sad but does not at all reflect the impact cannabis has on most people, while the effects of alcohol are widely known, studied and quantified. We know how many people die of alcohol poisoning and we know how many die from cannabis overdose (0). We also know quite well how many die while doing stupid shit drunk and how many (much much less) people die while doing stupid shit high on pot.

> There is zero doubt in my mind that this is completely deliberate

It is, and there is proof. A two cameras have been swapped and didn't work, they worked again when swapped back so there was no damage while disasembling it.

Louis Rossmann has pointed this out in one of his recent YouTube videos, just like he points out so many other scams Apple is getting away with.