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marcodiego
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Using your last breath of life to fix a bug or why I love free software: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78514#c19
Although I really like open source ideas, the humane, social and altruistic principles of free software are very beautiful. Reading this bug report a long time ago certainly influenced me on the software I choose to use.
I love the simplicity of the C programming language although I admit it is far from the most adequate tool for most of what I do.
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- marcodiegoThe simple fact that they have to deny it, meaning such an absurd is widely considered plausible, is already a sign of their reputation.
- I thought that was fixed after MGLRU.
- Please check the relates wikipedia article. Updated to reflect recent secure attention key in the linux world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attention_key
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- Just one example: Around 2009 I met Thiago Vignatti. His master thesis was about improving X so it was easy to use in a multi-seat setup (2 monitors/keyboard/mouse) so a single computer could be simultaneously used by two people.
He later worked for Nokia, Intel and eventually his own startup related to VR.
During his time as a Google summer of code student, his project was to paralelize X code so it could run in multiple threads, making better use of modern hardware with many cores. His project failed. The reason: X code was so bad that paralelizing and making it thread-safe required so many locks that it ran slower! It was a better idea to start from scratch. I remember, at the time, taking a look at the source code and asking him why there was a X86 emulator built-in in X source code. His answer was that that was required to run some video BIOS on non-x86 computers, namely Sun workstations. That was the level of legacy code in X.
This is just an illustration of many problems X had. Vignatti was one of the X devs that migrated to wayland development. Many other core X devs did the same. People saying that X is fixable, that it can be improved or what else... These people may be right, but I trust X core developers more than these people when the subject is X development.
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- AFAIK, using linux instead if windows fixes the problem.
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- If you're using android, you can easily share files over local network (or using your phone as hotspot) with this app: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.MarcosDiez.shareviahttp/
If you're not close, telegram fork allow easy sharing of files too.
- Most of what are called "dumbphones" allowed easy file sharing over bluetooth. Even the cheapest ones.
- Around 2008 I saw two girls, not too versed in technology, share a mp3 song over bluetooth. At the time I thought that if technology finally arrived at the point where "normal people" could be able to do things that required lots of technical knowledge just a few years ago then we were very close to a future where technology could be a giant enabler of powers to everyone.
I am really ashamed by how wrong I was and how WE allowed things to became so artificially limited.
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- > install Windows 11. This came with the laptop. And the installation makes installing Linux feel easy: I had to do so many weird tricks to avoid having to create an account with Microsoft during the installation.
The way secure boot evolved is disgusting. Specially because, at the time it was becoming popular, people we're warned that was more a tool of control than for security. Having to install a proprietary OS to install another should be forbidden.
- > Technically Asahi Linux isn’t facing a much different situation than standard Linux distributions as they relate to x86 hardware.
Very very different.
> There are thousands of PC components that don’t provide any sort of Linux driver where contributors reverse engineer those drivers.
Increasingly more rare. Maybe that only happens thèse d'ays on extremely specialized hardware.
- > they literally don't do anything to prevent you from running another OS.
Like not documenting their hardware? Like making Asahi Linux becoming a multi-year reverse engineering project that may possibly never achieve perfect compatibility?
> They make it easy to run Windows
On apple silicon without virtualisation? Sorry, didn't know that.
- Apple does not support running other OS's on their hardware. This is bad in many senses but it is specially bad since it weakens competition and reduces incentives for Apple to improve their own OS, meaning it is bad even for their users in the long run.
If you choose to buy hardware from apple, you must consider that you're encouraging a behaviour that is bad for everyone, including yourself.