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Emacs has a graphical interface with menus, icons and help text. You can use it without knowing any keyboard shortcuts which I feel makes it easier for newcomers. vim on the other hand...

So yes, this game is the reason I will always be an emacs person...

Well, that only proves that people don't want to pay for security ;)

> one year after its release, with 9% market worldwide.

Android N was not released a year ago, it wasn't even announced a full year ago.

And when it was released it was so buggy OEMs had to wait until February for a fixed version.

For Amazon and Alphabet this is just about reaching a new market before the other guy. Things will be rushed, and they will move fast and break more things. I don't want to ride the car that was created by first-to-market.

As new299 mentioned, this could be due to watermarking.

I have not seen any actual analysis of the sent data. I would prefer it didn't send anything but until proven otherwise I will assume it is just app diagnostics.

Remember they are in the business of selling operating systems. EU would happily shut them down if they are caught doing any shenanigans.

> Thankfully the only Windows I currently run is XP in a VM isolated from the Internet

I suspect whatever OS you are using as host also talks to the mothership, it just doesn't say it in a privacy page.

I think they were more influential to computer architecture than the original RISC and CISC ideas.

I downloaded the same file both directly from IEEE and sci-hub and the checksum did not match. I am a bit worried that sci-hub is/will be used to spread malware.

Not true. Lets see what those "cheap" devices provide in terms of privacy:

1. During installation Windows 10 explicitly asks you what stuff you want to enable and how those affect your privacy

2. Microsoft Edge supports ad blockers and anti-trackers on desktop, mobile version is coming (already here in fast-ring?)

3. Google allows you to turn off all kind of analytics. They email you once a year and ask you to check your security and privacy settings.

4. Chrome allows you to install ad-blockers from Googles own extension store

5. On Android you also have the choice of installing Mozilla firefox which supports desktop-grade adblocker and anti-tracker extensions. Android being android you can make it the default OS browser and disable or remove Chrome completely.

6. On Android you can also install Mozilla Focus which is a privacy-oriented browser

You are basically spreading FUD.

How can that be ambiguous?

https://termux.com/

Now I can finally ditch the mail app and read all my emails in Mutt ;)

First of all, you don't know my requirements yet you declare ARM winner. What if for my particular use case Tensilica is the best choice?

Furthermore, you generally cannot define what IoT means for other people. For one person it could mean a 8-bit garage door opener, for someone else it could be an octa-core 64-bit monster.

Finally, Intel has a simplified x86 design with very good power usage for use in IoT. This CPU is not used in Galileo and alike today, but it exists.

No, you can't define other peoples use cases.

For myself, as long as the device meets my requirements (peripherals, power, tools, size, price) it can use power8 or PDP/11 for all I care.

What if those 87% make your code easier to maintain and update?

Not in its current form. Google with all its might hasn't even managed to remove those "work from home for $$$" youtube comments.

Google doesn't have a good way to incorporate human intelligence (users) into its AI. Pure AI has no chance against an army of highly adaptable humans.

It's an embedded system, not a as low-power desktop.

If you are using it like an ordinary PC then you are probably using it wrong.

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[1] unless the developer has intentionally broken this convention, in which case I suggest you uninstall the app immediately.

Your previous efforts to police crafty humanss using AI has utterly failed. Just look at adsense and play store.

Some people use this to turn their smartphones into a laptop. I guess you can use it to read email too:

https://www.marcbilodeau.com/termux/

edit: this makes me want to buy a smartphone with physical keyboard. maybe I should pull the trigger on the Blackberry keyone...

Having visited the Paris startup scene recently, I got the feeling that the bureaucracy is much less taxing these days.

People making these blanket statement very clearly demonstrate that they don't understand security and cryptography. Do you really want to use a security tool written by such people?

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/7tp2gYWQugL

Sounds dangerous to me.