phippsbrad

I know nothing about this project, but this appears to be using a docker image from here "https://github.com/dockur/windows/pkgs/container/windows". Which says "Any product keys found in the code are just generic placeholders provided by Microsoft for trial purposes." This app appears to be using windows with trial keys which goes against their intended usage and would have questionable legality. I would think if you do use this you would need to have a licensed version of windows and alter the docker settings to use your purchased key instead of the included trial keys. Ideally this project would have this detail in big bold letters in it's README.

I have Intel Atom netbooks that currently run Ubuntu wonderfully. But they are low RAM and the 32bit version runs better than the 64bit (if they can even run 64bit). I am worried I will have to drop Ubuntu and switch to plain Debian because of this.

This person is just crazy. The whole point of a "currency" is to use it for a consistent trade of goods. Sure, you may say the US dollar or the Euro is not "consistent". But those change over a timespan of years. $100 today is $100 tomorrow. Yes, the dollar may go up 0.01% one day, and there is inflation which may be up to 3% per year. Bitcoin has no such sonsistency now, and may never have it. 0.01% a day? 3% a year? Ha! I have seen the value of bitcoin jump +/- 300% in ONE DAY.

It's just not rational to think you could live a "normal" life when ALL of your finances are jumping around in the extremes that bitcoin experiences.

Sorry, but this sounds like just another silicon valley startup, living in their own little bubble, thinking that their special code can "change the world".

Imagine a log of transactions (a blockchain) confirming that Clinton got 1.5 million popular votes. That has ZERO effect on the Electoral College selecting Trump. So why even bring the election up? This guy might as well say that "a blockchain could stop the Patriot Act and the NSA wiretaps". No, it couldnt. Real political change happens through laws, constitutional ammendments, and court decisions. No amount of electronic blockchains will change that fact.

To understand, you only need to read the recent posts about how systemd is effecting how commonly used userland applications work like: screen, tmux, nohup.

The systemd supporters are soon going to take away the ability to run pretty much all background processes (including using "&" in a shell) by killing those processes when your X session logs out.

This will fundamentally changes the way you administer and maintain a linux computer.

When told that this change is a bad idea, the systemd supporters said they knew better than you, and they are doing this to make the desktop UI better.

This is one small example why they invoke "hate".

They make a decisions like that every day that dramatically effect the entire linux platform.

If I can't run "nohup" or "screen" or "sh &" to do my job anymore, then that forces me to use some other OS/distro that does not have systemd installed as the default.

I upgraded my laptop, and the display looked horrible in low resolution afterwards. There was an accelerated video driver for my video card in windows7, but not for windows10, so it falls back to vga. So i had to revert back. My desktop is often used to watch live TV from my cable-card device in WindowsMediaCenter. There is no WindowsMediaCenter for windows10, so I guess that machine is staying on windows7 also. Just because you could upgrade to windows 10, does not mean everyone can. Every day i get a popup, telling me to upgrade. I say no thanks, i cant. Why does it keep asking me? That's what the fuss is about.

I have had really good luck with this open source, native windows, ssh server. http://www.kpym.com/2/kpym/index.htm I have no affiliation with the project, i just thought i'd mention that it is a nice alternative i found.