witx

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witx ,

I don't buy that at all. If you read about Apollo, and before that, you'll see that simply this stuff is hard and many times you have things "half-assed" and just take the risk. Another case is the Space Shuttle..

With that said I think Boeing has been too unreliable for manned space flight. I don't trust much the "we're just taking time to gather more data" and this to me is the bad part about private companies: they have no compulsion to be truthful to the public.

witx ,

What are you on about? Yes they made sure their gadgets were easy to use, but Apple and Jobs were the pinnacle of "locking you in" on their ecosystem for the profit of it. Sure they weren't as careless about users when compared to Microsoft but they weren't too favourable of you using anything else. They invented this stuff.

witx ,

What do you even mean as serious contender? I've been using Linux for almost 15 years without an issue on CPU, and I've used it almost only on very modest machines. I feel we're not getting your whole story here.

On the other hand whenever I had to do something IO intensive on windows it would always crawl in these machines

witx OP ,

Thanks for your answers. I wasn't able to get what I wanted to work but that's because the device used broadcast for discoverability which doesn't work through subnets. I pivoted to something else

witx ,

I'm currently looking for a 13'' computer (or a small 14''), I'd love to support Framework as they are exactly what I'm looking to support... But, they still don't ship to my country and I don't want to spend so much for a laptop (and I don't need very modern features on a personal machine).

This means I'll end up buying a used ThinkPad to serve my needs for the next 4/5 years. Though, If they did ship to my country I would be spamming my employee everyday to buy them.

witx ,

They are power and space efficient, and usually very quiet. That's fascinating enough.

witx ,

It depends on your needs. I have minis that cost <100$ and have others that cost 500$. My cheapest mini has currently 3TB of backups of my personal things, so it serves my needs very cheaply. I don't need a GPU so it keeps the costs down.

witx ,

That's why Foss will always be better, and we need to support these developers. They also need to protect their software better from capitalist ghouls that will profit from it for free

witx ,

What I mean is better licenses that make sure you get paid if companies profit from it, and harsher penalties for those that get caught infringing the license

witx ,

Typical hackers

Screw that, go check the original definition of hacker. Those who do bad business with computers are "black hats" not "typical hackers"

witx ,

To me it feels like people romanticising their hobbies/escape activities. If they started doing it as work soon enough they would have lots of pain points and stress. Sure you don't have CVEs or libraries to update but the deadline for that chair or cabinet you were commissioned is coming and you can't just get the damn thing right. At the same time you have another customer complaining that you need to check some other stuff you've made that isn't working right .. see where I'm going?

I know a lot of people in the trades and they have very similar or analogous pain points as me in software.

Doing it as a hobby though? It's amazing. I don't really need a car anymore but I've been learning how to fix mine and it has been great

witx ,

Steve Jobs was an awful person, the brand was already cracked

witx ,

It's exactly the people that can have a choice who should be helping those who can't, don't you agree?

The fight for open software and hardware wouldn't be made by going around paraplegic people and bothering them about it, but by discussing it with the vendors and legislators.

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witx ,

imho Debian is far from beginner friendly. They will end up with a laptop without WiFi.

witx ,

If you choose

That's the key. A beginner will know very few things about that and giving him options will confuse them

witx ,

Yes! I've been telling this to friends who keep buying Chinese boards to use as routers and NAS ... wth

witx ,

Unfortunetaly, that does close to nothing when the issue is spyware on firmware

witx ,

I didn't say that

witx ,

I have no issue with subtitles on android or computer ....

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