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[–] shrugs 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Funny enough, I'm working in IT in government exclusively with Linux for the past 20 years, which shows that indeed it's possible.

There are a few reasons I don't believe a petition like this will change a thing though

[–] shrugs 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why don't you explain in detail what you mean with "No."?!

Until then you are just a troll wasting all our time.

[–] shrugs 10 points 3 days ago

Exceptionally well written and interesting blog post. Kudos to FrostKiwi!

[–] shrugs 2 points 3 days ago

How about Google mandates open drivers for Android devices, so that other systems, like pure Linux without the android crap, would be able to run on every device?!

This would have a much greater impact than splitting google into multiple smaller companies that still try to milk us dry and collect all the data about us.

Just a thought...

[–] shrugs 1 points 1 week ago

I have used paperwm in the past. Scrollable tiling WMs are an interesting concept that I would like to see more often.

[–] shrugs 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

So, while the Infinite Monkey Theorem is true, it is also somewhat misleading.

Is it though? The Monkey Theorem should make it understandable how long infinity really is. That the lifetime of the universe is not long enough is nothing unexpected IMHO, infinity is much (infinitely) longer. And that's what the theorem is about, isn't it?!

[–] shrugs 5 points 3 weeks ago

After casting an open invite for people between the ages of 18 and 60 who previously had a mild case of COVID-19, Romano-Silva and colleagues in the preliminary study tested a group of 130 volunteers comprised mostly of women with a mean age of 38 years

Doesn't look like a balanced test group to me. Do they have any idea what might cause these cognitive deficits? Or is it just wrong self evaluation like this stupid vaccines cause autism study from 1990?

Don't take me wrong, COVID was horrible and all to real, but I don't believe these 1 in 4 people with mild cases have long lasting cognitive deficits bullshit. At least not if it is "proven" with studies like this

[–] shrugs 7 points 4 weeks ago

That's why they invented docker

[–] shrugs 5 points 4 weeks ago

[email protected] explained above:

The original post only gave half the explanation. It’s not that lead exists in general, it’s that lead exists within zircon crystals.

Under normal circumstances that would be impossible, zircon crystals strongly reject lead atoms as they form. There’s no way to stuff lead into the crystal lattice in the quantity we find them there. But uranium and zircon go together just fine, we just have to wait for it to decay into lead. The trouble is it takes ~4.5 billion years for just half of those uranium atoms to turn into lead. So any zircon crystal we find with half as much lead as uranium must be roughly that old

[–] shrugs 2 points 1 month ago

Linux is pretty forgiving. You don't even need to use dd, if you know what you are doing you can create a totally new partitioning format and just copy the files. Since getting the fstab just right in that case is more error prone, just using dd is simpler. If using dd, don't worry, you can resize partition afterwards.

[–] shrugs 23 points 1 month ago

Look: it's a hat

[–] shrugs 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So then open source drivers and firmware should be mandatory. It's insane that this fully working phone isn't usable any longer just because the manufacturer wants to sell new stuff. They should at least open source the drivers or firmware if they stop supporting it. What a humongous waste of resources.

I know this is the same for all devices. Microsoft is killing old PCs without TPM to push Windows 11. You can still use linux on those devices though, android seems to be way more short lived.

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