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My employer uses Windows Enterprise and it also had Candy Crush and other crapware preinstalled. IIRC one of my coworkers wrote a script to remove the bundled applications.
How are these machines HIPAA compliant when your OS vendor can push random software to them?
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I guess you're assigning "walled garden" to macOS, but macOS is still UNIX underneath, and you can run any open software you want on it. I still think it's an excellent option for the privacy conscious. There are plenty of free software based operating systems that will take your money. Red Hat seems like the most obvious one.
Good points. With macos, you need to buy the hardware, and the hardware locks you out of using Linux lately. You also have to spend like crazy on pre-upgrades since everything is soldered in. Then they fight tooth and nail to keep 3rd party repair from being viable, so the apple store says you need a fully new machine and yet the guy down the street can fix it for $700 (would be less but everything is soldered). The…
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It's still a package manager, and it still has dependencies, but the dependency chain is "flat" such that it's always comprehensible and you'll never be stuck modifying large parts of your system to update one program. I see it as similar to Windows's Visual C++ and DirectX runtimes in that regard. I hear you on installing to different disks, though. Appimages are also an option, but I've found they have a tendency t…
Unfortunately that's a problem with they way Linux is structured, or rather it's lack of structure. There's no consistent base system that can be relied upon like you have with other platforms. The community seems unwilling to deal with this issue, some outright deny that it is an issue. One thing that would be interesting would be to use flatpak "runtimes" to provide a target base system for AppImages, but I don't t…
I don't really think it's an issue though, if you really want portability you shouldn't rely on any software provided by the distribution unless you want to depend on that specific distro.
Flatpak runtimes are basically interchangeable base systems, it seems silly to commit to any one in particular when you can use any number in parallel.
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1998: I'd never connect a Windows box directly to the Internet. Hackers might break my computer. 2018: I'd never connect a Windows box directly to the Internet. Microsoft might break my computer.
Oh man I get just a glimpse of what the Windows team has to deal with when applying patches it's absolutely insane. Never in my life have I had to worry that yum update was going to trash my system.
All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd
Why not give your money to the Free Software Foundation or your distro's donation page to encourage software that respects your freedoms? https://my.fsf.org/donate
Thanks for sharing the link :)
All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd
I used to think that being open-source was enough to avoid being spied on but it is not. Ubuntu showed this with the Amazon search issue [1] and is apparently collecting telemetry with 18.04 LTS [2]. My understanding is that Brew also gatherings telemetry by default. Enabling telemetry collection as the default setting needs to end - even if it is well intentioned. [1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2226648/ope…
I wish the fsf distros could get more contributors. I understand why corporate contributions aren't aimed in that direction, but I wonder why Trisquel doesn't have more hobbyists pitching in.
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Sorry, but Outlook 2016 is broken compared to 2013. I am forced to use it at work with exchage, and it has weird bugs that simply did not exist in the 2013 version. i still dont think it supports the iCalendar/calDAV standard either.
They support it, but in a very strange and broken way (lots of MS-specific fields with poor documentation). IIRC from my time trying to do appointment sending from line of business app, if you send someone an ICS attachment with the right MIME type, Outlook treats it as a regular appointment request.
It's too easy to write a backhanded comment regarding this issue, but it's just really annoying.
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Good points. With macos, you need to buy the hardware, and the hardware locks you out of using Linux lately. You also have to spend like crazy on pre-upgrades since everything is soldered in. Then they fight tooth and nail to keep 3rd party repair from being viable, so the apple store says you need a fully new machine and yet the guy down the street can fix it for $700 (would be less but everything is soldered). The…
For desktop I would say SUSE is the way to go. You can get different levels of support. Much more worth it than Windows license - which is the price you pay to get Microsoft stickers on your machine (and to have their spyware on). Calling MS support was the worst experience ever for me. You shouldn't really use RHEL as a desktop OS (they even dropped KDE recently). On servers if you have the money RHEL is the best yo…
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To be honest, if a tool could run a scan over all my github contributions, and then use that to find a really well matching job, that might be potentially very interesting. Finding a job which is a good match for your skills and interests is hard. If most of your contributions are public then making use of them would be potentially beneficial so long as it wasn't super creepy.
The problem with that is the same as every other time anybody is trying to exchange something for something else: sturgeons law. The greatest developers are not on the market and the companies worth working for don't need recruiters. Ads can be great in a (very) few areas: nobody is going to talk about a new great tampon or condom. Heck most people haven't even heard about the menstural cup, but other than things hum…
Not sure about that part...at this point most companies that are growing at a significant rate use recruiters. They may be internal recruiters (but even then they often use a minimal amount of external recruiters too). All of the companies we all know (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, whatever) use recruiters, most VC startups do, and a portion of small to medium size companies also do.