And yet, in my area the only alternative to Uber is Lyft. A taxi won’t even show up if you call dispatch.

New laptops don’t have optical drives. I don’t think there’s a single manufacturer that still has them.

Hell, most new computer cases (much to my chagrin) don’t even have 5 1/4" bays.

I think webrings are bigger than ever right now, they’re in a pretty massive renaissance

If we have an AI that’s equivalent to humanity in capability of learning and creative output/transformation, it would be immoral to just use it as a tool. At least that’s how I see it.

Meanwhile the teacher was thinking, “interesting tactic you’ve got there, admiring your art in the middle of a test”

I have most certainly had OS installs (from every vendor) that worked flawlessly for a while. Why are you pretending as if those don’t exist?

I think AAC is the only major music codec that’s still patent encumbered though

And? Why does that matter?

Is nicotine not a drug?

Nicotine is no better of a drug than many others you probably wouldn’t want kids taking. Just because it’s a vape doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly addictive.

Where is the mail server getting incoming mail from?

I don’t think he’s much of an Amiga guy, he’s a C64 guy. The words in an Amiga CPU have a few too many bits for the 8 Bit Guy :P

Officially sanctioned by Microsoft!

I use LibreJS with few exceptions. If I need to use a site that requires non-free JavaScript, I’ll use a private browsing window or (preferably) Tor Browser.

It would be cool to pay a monthly subscription, that’s then distributed among the software I use or have installed. That could be integrated into a package manager even. I don’t know if any Linux distro does something like it.

I’ve been thinking the same thing lately. It would be cool if at least there were some sort of metadata maintainers could include on packages saying, “if you want to donate money, upstream accepts donations at this link: <…>”. Then I (or someone else) could put together a tool that helps you track what upstream projects you’re donating to.

I understand that isn’t nearly as easy as just a subscription though. The issue I see with that is legal - you’d need a legal entity specifically for accepting payments and disbursing each upstream project’s share, plus all the accounting and such that goes along with it. I don’t see why it couldn’t be shared across multiple distributions though. Upstream packages could create an account with the funding service, then distro maintainers could include some sort of Funding-Service-ID: gnu/coreutils metadata and a way to upload a list of Funding-Service-IDs to the funding service’s servers.

I think that would be doable, but it would require buy-in from distributions, upstream maintainers, and someone who could operate such an organization. Not to mention users.

Which came later, Windows XP, ME, or Vista? Sure, you probably have that memorized, but if you didn’t it wouldn’t be immediately obvious. That’s just a problem with using codenames instead of numbers, nothing to do with unserious names. At least Debian releases have reasonable version numbers alongside the codenames, unlike some other operating systems!

Sadly yep. Micro Center is just about the only PC component supplier I’ll buy from nowadays, but I have to drive like 4 hours to get to my nearest one

I work for a major network infrastructure company. We can choose from Windows, macOS, or Ubuntu for work laptops. I chose macOS, but I’m probably going to switch to Ubuntu with my next laptop refresh since a lot of our internal tooling works better on Linux.

Can’t get me this time! Between last time and this time, I successfully removed Windows from all PCs in my life.

You aren’t stuck to Fedora with Asahi, I’m running Debian on my M1 Pro MBP