On the one hand, this is possibly dubious in that things that aren’t generally considered to be part of defence will be used to inflate our defence spending numbers without actually spending that (i.e. it’s just a PR move)

But on the other hand, this could be immensely useful in telling the NIMBYs to fuck right off. What’s that, you’re opposing infrastructure improvements, new housing, or wind turbines? Aw, diddums, that’s too bad. This is deemed critical for national security, and thus the government can give it approval regardless. Sorry Bernard.

The right advice but with the wrong motive lol

They listed Flatpaks first, then Snaps second.

I imagine they did it to avoid listing 10 different packaging formats, only to have comments saying “omg you forgot about XYZ package type”

I don’t like Snaps either, but it’s undeniable there’s a lot of Ubuntu users out there, and most of them use Snaps.

Americans say “86 [thing]” to mean “get rid of [thing]”

I thought Trump and Elon had a major falling out?

Actually now that I think of it, news about that fizzled out very quickly. Did they silently kiss and make up behind closed doors or something?

FFS an air fryer is a heating element, fan, and thermostat.

Why are any of them being built with online connectivity and data harvesting capabilities in the first place?!

I can afford to pay the protection racket, I just choose not to.

I guess there’s no reason not to post to other sites as well?

True. The best laptops are the ones that let you set a charge limit in the BIOS.

For what it’s worth, though, the exact same happens to UPSes

If you only need a basic server, laptops are AMAZING.

• Full x86 software support
• On the rare occurrence you need to directly interface with it (as opposed to through a webgui on another machine) you have a built-in keyboard and monitor.
• They have a god-damned built-in UPS

One codebase across all OSes and OS versions, no dependency issues, easy to push updates.

I’d prefer a native app myself, though.

Most likely one of the commercial ones that offer support and contractual guarantees of security patches, uptime, service, helpdesk support, etc.

So likely Ubuntu, SUSE, or RHEL.

Any of which would be a very welcome change and a benefit to the Linux community compared to using Windows.

I know this phrase gets trouted out a lot (possibly to the point of being fatiguing to hear), especially when it comes to MS, but this is a textbook case of their Embrace, Extend, Extinguish mantra.

Have an open standard (Embrace)… add a bunch of non-open components (Extend)… to fuck over compatibility with competitors and prevent them from gaining market share (Extinguish).

If you want to be a photographer, get a camera.

🤦‍♀️

Even professional photographers don’t have their cameras on them at all times, nor are they as convenient for just whipping out and taking a picture within 1.5s.

Plus, cameras are expensive and they’re another thing to carry around (idk about you but I don’t have infinite pocket space) and they’re another thing to keep charged, whereas you have a phone with you at pretty much all times anyway, because they’re effectively required for modern society.

You may as well be saying you don’t understand why phones can play music when you can get an MP3 player, that you don’t understand why they play videos because TVs exist, that you don’t understand why they have web browsers and plenty of apps, because PCs exist.

I stick to my guns and I’m on the internet and computers to learn to educate myself, not to dick around with stupid shit.

He said, on this Lemmy thread.

And we have to be weary of open source

Ah yes, that nefarious Open Source software. Tell me more about the evils of FOSS, Mr Balmer.

I don’t actually like this redesign tbh, but come on, people do care about design and UX.

Nobody said we need pretty UX design, it’s just nice to have, and that’s fine. Not everything needs to be furthering the development of XYZ. Beauty is fine, aesthetics is fine, art is fine.

But yeah, I don’t have an Apple device and likely never will, so this specific instance doesn’t matter to me.

IPhones are way buggier than they used to be.

I’ve been using Wayland since 2018 and not had any issues aside from when I briefly tested with an Nvidia card.

Wayland is more than ready for 99% of people, and has been for a while. Whenever I use Xorg it feels janky.

E: I also had issues with screen sharing, actually. I forgot about that because I rarely have to do it.

For example, coming into effect in 12 days, on the 20th of June, for smartphones and tablets:

• Durability: Devices should be resistant to accidental drops and protected against dust and water.

• Battery longevity: Batteries must endure at least 800 full charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their original capacity.

• Repairability: Manufacturers must make critical spare parts available within 5 to 10 working days, and continue offering them for 7 years after the product is no longer sold in the EU.

• Software support: Devices must receive operating system upgrades for at least 5 years from the end-of-sale date.

• Repair access: Professional repairers must have non-discriminatory access to any required software or firmware.

They will also have to include a sticker on packaging that has standardised information on it concerning energy efficiency, battery life, repeated drop test results, battery endurance in charging cycles, repairability score, and water/dust protection rating:

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While this is true, it’s absurd to think that IBM in the 1930s/1940s is anything like IBM or RedHat (which btw is ran completely independently from IBM) now.

Based on this line of thinking, all German companies that have existed since that time are Nazi. Ford is nazi. Etc.

The leadership of IBM, and even moreso RedHat is completely different in 2025 than during/preceding WW2.

I’m an opensource and free from corporate shit software lover. Try to avoid everything related to corpo (Redhat, Ubuntu…)

RedHat contributes more to the Linux desktop than anybody. It is impossible to avoid their work, they do so much.