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You can (I guess to an extent). But, you cannot use iOS however you see fit - it's probably in that wall of text you agree to every time it updates.

I get all these laws etc, but they are all at the behest of other big business who wants to take the ecosystem apple made and profit MORE off of it.

This whole thing does not help small devs, or consumers. I would argue apples PR stance that it actively basically harms consumers is 100% spot on.

The problem may be that people in ios have grown to not be looking over their shoulders for scams, but all of this will just bring about that exact thing.

The grift as soon as ios/app store opens up will be insane. You can't stop it in an open platform, and again, the average tech user is not at all savvy about tech.

There are probably good solutions to this, but so far nothing out in public is anything but self-serving of already monied interests.

Fragmented meaning if I was taking a year or 2 to get a code base up for a linux port, I have to take one of a few roads. 1, my app is specialized enough where we dictate the rules and probably it runs well on just one distro, or I have to account for all the different flavors of GUI and windowing systems to target users with their current setups. The former I think happened all the time with specific apps, the latter kept commercial devs far away.

I think the situation is less bad now, but my point was the boat had mostly sailed.

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Thunderbird is fine (i use it daily), but nothing touches the functionality of outlook (on windows - not the limited versions that exist on the web and elsewhere). And I was as anti MS as anyone back then, but once I had to actually implement exchange servers as part of my job vs using sendmail and a bunch of random crap - there was just no contest. I always knew it was important, but it really is the killer business app.

And now that you dont need to hire 1.5 people minimum to manage it, and pay for servers and infrastructure etc to get the benefits, it is now more a killer app than ever, to those who need it. (really, I hope to never manage on-location exchange ever again)

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On the terminal of course, with apps like SecureCRT

1) is 2 points (the second touched on by point 5). 1st, it makes development stupid if you have moving targets (not as bad today, but ffs it was horrible in the early days). 2nd is 99.99% of consumer computer users have a hard enough time with OS GUIs that hold their hand - the fact I cannot sit someone down to any 3 random linux machines and have the same experience (again MUCH worse 20 years ago) means it can never make desktop inroads.

2) here is where peoples blind spots can be, but they really reallllly don't understand that MS made some apps that basically need to be aped feature for feature to allow for migration to linux as a desktop. Again touching on familiarity (as in with the gui) but also feature set. People who make money writing certain things can't use certain apps because the features needed by those users don't exist because the software (at the time it needed to be) wasn't mature enough.

3) Thunderbird and evolution are not replacements for outlook. Exchange/outlook had database backed mail and calendaring. No one to this day is even remotely close. Not google, not anyone. This is the biggest app in business for better or worse. Not only did you have database backed calendaring and email, but you also had ridiculously fine-grained group policy management, and way better tools for retention (and this is actually a bfd) If an oss replacement had been made 15-20 years ago the computing landscape would be hugely different.

Only windows gets the full feature set to this day - ios/mac/android/web all don't get the full thing (because no/limited GPOs)

There WAS a project called zimbra or something, and I think they knew replacing exchange was a holy grail (and wanted to benefit monetarily), but iirc it was a paid thing, and never took off in any meaningful way.

4) remember, you, we, are not 99.99% of computer users. I have had hmm, 4 linux laptops over the years, and while fine, it was never problem free. Driver support mostly came down to age and brand, most of them were Dells.

I manage hundreds of linux servers... from my windows desktop and mac laptop.

This will be super unpopular, but Linux missed the desktop boat 20 years ago, and my feeling as someone who at the time built his gentoo OS's from source, it was the fault of a few things:

1) Fragmented gui development. There were too many projects with none focusing on really making a better gui than mac/windows.

2) A lack of bread and butter 1st class "business" apps - you know, office. OpenOffice is fine, IF you are ok with the janky ui and no one knowing how it works.

3) lack of open source exchange type mail/cal/etc server and outlook-like client). Holy fudge, I tried to get this going and people just crapped on me for suggesting it.

4) Until recently, installing on laptops was an absolute crap shoot.

5) Just, apps, in general. Gimp is fine, but it has never been close to photoshop. GUI standards are all over the place, etc. People go to a platform because it has the tools they want. The real fallout from point 1 is no one would ever port apps to linux (a little hyperbolic - a lot of high-end post production apps and audio apps all made it over). Open source yadda yadda, thats nice (this is not a brush off, it IS nice), but the ecosystem could be light years ahead of where we are now.

We don't punish white collar crime for the same reasons. If you made it illegal to get outside money for politicians, and made the punishment significant, the rats would scurry and "normal" people could get involved in the process. The way it works now we just get rich people looking after rich people problems because theres no way to overcome all the money flowing around with any regular success.

We can try to change government, but do a quick thought experiment: how many resources does it take to manage shared infrastructure and services for 20 people? 200? 2000? 20,000? 200,000? 2,000,000?

Go on up to 350mil.

It's not easy, and you can't just "tear it down". You can envision some ways to streamline some things, but the problem is just mind boggling gigantic.

No serious reputable anything has ever found a flat tax to be anything but a huge giveaway to the rich as well.

Just fund the IRS and stop letting the foxes run the hun house, ie. get money out of politics and stop letting a few people and their rich friends make all the rules to favor that small cadre.

Apple nuked Flash from orbit.

Their balance sheet of naughty and nice web wise will be hard to put into naughty for quite some time.

Accumulated wealth was always one of the core threats to Democracy, and the founders knew it.

Any concentrated power, be it wealth, the crown, or something like the Church of England, were not coincidentally major targets in the founding documents.

But wealth concentrated, eroded the laws through hammering of the courts, then ended up buying the levers of power "under the dome" and here we are.

And to the rest of your comment - paying in taxes and getting universal benefits benefit society as a whole, not just the poor.

I think it was finland that got rid of private schools, and all of aa sudden schools got WAY better , for everyone.

Insulating people with wealth from everyone else is an overt societal negative. People are their experiences, and if you go through life without meeting people with different experiences than you, you grow up in a bubble.

Having everyone be able to enjoy life and not having a govt bought off that laser focuses on making a small class of people even richer is their goal, not solidarity with a certain class.

As a % of population, and % of military spending... does "less innovation" hold up? I assume you have some data backing that claim, would be interesting if true, and the reasons why.

One chance to prove you are not bought. I don't have much hope but this is a big enough test early enough.

Looking for a patch/package for Cent6, otherwise will have to try to compile it I guess.

UPDATE: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/releases/tag/SUDO_1_9_5...

UPDATE AGAIN: https://www.sudo.ws/download.html#binary

But the mojang account was fine? That's my point, they already have your email address.

Honest question - have you played a windows game in the last 3ish years? GFWL was utter shit, but the current XBL integrations are pretty painless, well integrated, and even ask permission on a per-game basis.

What's the friction to this from? They have your account data already...

1) it's a whole other discipline 2) software is often made in a little enclave without outside input until the very end on how a user would interact, at which point it becomes a shoe-horned mess.

Overly broad, but pretty much my experience on projects that aren't mine

"The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were well understood. It is said, by the Guide, that such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy.

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sorts of parties.

The physicists encountered repeated failures while trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralyzing distances between the farthest stars. They eventually announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.

Then, one day, a student who had been left to sweep up after a particularly unsuccessful party found himself reasoning in this way: If he thought to himself, such a machine is a virtual impossibility, it must have finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one is to work out how exactly improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea... and turn it on!

He did this and managed to create the long sought after golden Infinite Improbability generator out of thin air. Unfortunately, after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he was lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who couldn't stand him being "a smart arse."

I always just tackle things head on, hit a roadblock, research how to get through it, and continue. But having a goal that's interesting to me is paramount.

Wrote learning doesn't do much for me, but having a goal, finding working examples of solutions or implementations of the parts of solutions helps me internalize how things actually work, and put it all together.

As an owner of a nvidia650m macbookpro, the fact apple actually made it work again with discrete graphics is the best part of the upgrade (in the previous os, it would slow down till it was unuseable)

Came here to say this, really good software, picked it up for a recent project and was pretty productive pretty fast

I discovered I had this a year ago. Honestly, I always thought I had some kind of learning disability. Some kinds of tests are very hard, I cannot picture anything while awake, I literally cannot remember anything about my life visually, learning faces takes a long time, I failed geometry, and struggled with any kind of visualization math past that (despite doing quite well in calculus)...

Then there were the careers I was drawn to: creative things like graphic design, drafting, etc that I utterly failed at. I had ideas of what I wanted to do, but the step between transforming the thoughts onto paper was always a fight. I studied photography in school, and could never convert it into a profession because I found being creative enough to get clients wasn't coming to me - I would be burnt out on small projects for no reason I could fathom.

I ALWAYS assumed people who visualize chakras or meditate with a object focus were just faking it.

I remember reading about this a year or so ago, and telling some friends. One of them immediately recognized it as why I utterly failed at some MMO raid mechanics.

So there is probably an unending list of ways this has impacted my choices, and I can only hope young kinds get a chance to learn they have this and get some guidance on what effects this will have on certain tasks based on the level of visualization they have.

IIRC nothing in MCC is emulated.

In grade school, they did some testing on me for a study or something, and it had to do with visual stuff - my parents remember that I just came up with correct answers but I had a novel way of coming to them, and I think this gets to what you're saying.

This happened to me. Saw a Facebook post forma friend and then realized I had it, and all the implications and some difficulties in my academic and professional life.

I told my friends, some of whom went "ah-ha!". Oddly, someone who ran a lot of our WoW raids basically put 2+2 together and recognized why I had an almost impossible time on some bosses.

I also found out my mother has it - and she didnt know it was a thing either.

I had ALWAYS thought people were just bs'ing when someone would say stuff like "visualize this or that".

It's a shame that it feels like it hampers (or partly hampers) a lot of fields I am very interested in.

I have 0 visual ability when awake, but fully vivid dreams and vivid lucid dreaming... so theres just something that turns that off completely while fully awake.

I wanted to be an architect or similar in high school - but I was always painfully slow at drafting.

I also found throughout life I cannot easily transfer my ideas (like, if I have a concept for something, its not an image, its just a collection of ideas or concepts) into something physical

(found out about aphantasia early 2018)

I have it, I cannot do (parts of) geometry, but everything else was very natural (only did math up to calculus)

I have an ok IQ and have aphantasia. It makes some questions harder I am pretty sure - I am always second guessing and re-checking because I cannot retain even a small amount of visual information.

I only found out about aphantasia early 2018. I had always suspected there was something different/difficent and went to a university study, and just reaffirmed my IQ and discovered that I reallly get slow on some tasks - I find the answer fast enough but I have a lifetime of distrust on my processes, so just out of habit do double or triple checks (which dont really make better answers, just verify what I am writing is what was meant, I guess). Of course, no one knew about aphantasia at this point.

I failed geometry in jr.high hard. It was almost impossible. But making and passing calculus was relatively easy (long story short: parents moved, lied about passing geometry).

I have mild dyslexia, so I think that mixed with the other just makes it reallly hard.

I used backuppc at a place ohh, 8 or 9 years ago now and it was pretty rock solid then (90/10 mac/pc clients) to a linux server with some applescript to manage keys and such.

I think if you try to extrapolate your or my willingness to repair something to the overall market for the iphone, it would be an error.

What are the tradeoffs for a user replaceable battery? (really, this is something we should all know if we are arguing FOR replaceable batteries - maybe it's not the best idea?

I would wager 99%+ of sales go to people who never want to touch the innards of a phone.

And anecdotally, my SO's father got a cheap battery for his iphone and it ballooned up and almost destroyed his phone.

He also asked me if he should get a 3rd party power adaptor for his macbook (I said no, he ignored me because his wife is cheap), and it was this cheap POS that actually ended up forcing him to doa $600 repair AND get an apple power supply.

I spent years working on consumer PCs - normal people dont have time or inclination to deal with all this crap, just like they don't want to learn to repair their own air conditioner.

Consumers who want/need easily replaceable batteries already don't choose an iPhone, so all this in mind, I suspect the numbers don't add up for this argument.