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Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by bserge »

fakedang wrote: post #172
deepstack wrote: post #167

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Apple has NOT being the same after steve is gone. It is MS 2.0 now! With better design and products of course, none the less the business practices are the same. Much this is enforced by the current economic and political system.

Not MS. MS today is much less into the anti-user, anti-privacy, rentseeking game, compared to Apple or Google. Apple today is M$ 2.0, as much as people here hate that trope.

Only because their attempts at copying Apple and Google fail miserably.

Otherwise, here's Windows 10, have it for free, hell, here's Linux on Windows, just stay on the OS, buy apps on the Store and see these ads! Also give us telemetry.

Side note: no one cares, but I finally tracked down the cause of a really annoying bug, hibernation due to "thermal event" (CPU "overheating") in Windows 10: It's because of using dynamic disks in mirror mode (perhaps in other modes, as well). Makes Windows 10 hibernate randomly. Converted disks back to basic, no problems. Took me a long freaking time to finally solve this.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by trhway »

>Your Computer Isn't Yours

Thus saith DMCA. The battle was lost when it become possible for arbitrary things on your computer to be declared a "copyright protection" and thus to be made off-limit to you under the harsh penalty of the law. This is what created walled gardens, locked down devices, etc. and made Apple and Google probably the biggest beneficiaries of DMCA and really made them into those large monsters.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by 6510 »

barrenko wrote: post #173
brnt wrote: post #161

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Even so, I install Ubuntu on a wide range of machines, laptops included, and I can't recall having any hardware related issues since, oh, 2005 or so? Parent must be very unlucky, or in fact not realise it is their tweaking and tuning that causes issues.

True, installing Ubuntu is probably simpler than installing Windows, it doesn't ask you a million privacy shirking questions.

Lets call this user-friendly.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by joana035 »

rsanheim wrote: post #128
damnencryption wrote: post #114

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> And before "have you tried this *nix distro??" comments appear, they are still too hard to setup and nowhere near as user-friendly for most people on an everyday basis. This isn't true. This perception continues to hurt the Linux community along with others. Use a properly supported -buntu distro and you are good.

I have. Many times. Every time I end up debugging suspend/resume, graphic drivers, multiple monitor, etc. I spend enough time changing config files for my job, I’m not spending my own time doing it just to get basic functionality working for workstations.

I'm happy GNU/Linux user for many years and I don't remember when was the last time I had to do those kind of things.

Choose a mature/stable distro and that is it. Be prepared to trade a bit of convenience for privacy in case of weird/non-free hardware/firmware.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by long_warmup »

ernst_klim wrote: post #170
forest_dweller wrote: post #90

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This is the same sort of logic that some people have that people shouldn't be allowed to make choices in life because they "might get it wrong". People should be allowed to make their own choices in what they believe to be their best interests and they should be allowed to get things wrong. > For most people, if there computer was ‘theirs’, it would be that way for about 10 minutes until it was pwned by a bad actor.…

> People should be allowed to make their own choices in what they believe to be their best interests > You should be able to run whatever you like on it. You are contradicting yourself. People are explicitly choosing iphone, a walled garden. Then you say that that's a wrong choice because you believe it's a general purpose computing device and should work differently. If people buy it then, well, they are fine with i…

> If people buy it then, well, they are fine with it.

I don't think people have much choice these days. If you want a smartphone then you will either get something from Apple or from Android people. There are other choices but are they mainstream? In my local shops I can't see anything else. Android or Apple.

That's why I'm buying PinePhone and going to waste lots of my life to make it fit my needs, but I hope once time is spent I will be happier human being ;)

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by indigochill »

deepstack wrote: post #182
fakedang wrote: post #172

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Not MS. MS today is much less into the anti-user, anti-privacy, rentseeking game, compared to Apple or Google. Apple today is M$ 2.0, as much as people here hate that trope.

MS is still the same, they just matured a bit. They just have to behave better in the open source community to attract the developers. I don't believe for a second that they are doing it for the benefit of information sovereignty or the development of tech and software. Their backdoor put a really bad taste in my mouth. Will try to avoid them if I can.

> I don't believe for a second that they are doing it for the benefit of information sovereignty or the development of tech and software.

They're doing it because the cloud is Linux and they need to get into the cloud because Nadella's vision for the MS OS going forward is a unified system that spans PCs, phones, tablets, IoT, everything, not just a desktop OS.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by joana035 »

long_warmup wrote: post #186
dusted wrote: post #179

Maybe your Mac isen't Yours is a more appropriate title? Though I'm cetain it's only a matter of time before we can no longer run Linux on new hardware :(

Well, I do hope for this, because there is market for Linux so somebody will pick this up :)

And those are true heroes.

It is an immense effort to make proprietary hardware to work well, specially Apple hardware.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by cassepipe »

arcticbull wrote: post #124
est31 wrote: post #112

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You are totally right that Linux is only a single digit percentage in user share if you look at all computers deployed world-wide. However, in the developer sphere, GNU/Linux is way more represented. In the Stack Overflow 2020 survey, 26% of people said they were using a Linux based OS [0]. This number has been gradually increasing over the years so further growth is expectable. It's less than one percent less than t…

Every company I've worked at for the last 10 years has developed exclusively on macOS. Linux is fine, but it doesn't just work, and it needs to in order to gain a foothold not just in the developer community but with the general public -- that's the lesson Android has taught us. Until it does it will not budge the numbers. It just won't. The real apologism here comes from the Linux community, who believes that by vir…

So I jumped to Linux two years ago. Since, I installed Linux Mint on five different machines, old and new ones. I just put the Live DVD. It boots. I launch the installer. End of the story. I honestly never ran into a problem. Not going back to windows anytime. Don't see what's so great about MacOs either.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by fakedang »

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #184
fakedang wrote: post #172

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Not MS. MS today is much less into the anti-user, anti-privacy, rentseeking game, compared to Apple or Google. Apple today is M$ 2.0, as much as people here hate that trope.

> much less Define "much". Windows 10 is a mind-boggling privacy invasion. It's just the other offenders attract more attention, that's all.

How about disable all privacy features on setup/installation? It's far easier than the amount of hoops one has to go through for Google.
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