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I purchased the new ARM laptop Surface. It’s wild how they attempt to optimize Windows.

>Ads in Outlook. Want to remove? $2 a month.

>Want to use Windows productivity software? $100 a year.

>Want to use more copilot features? $20 a month.

>Want to game? Please use our subscription Xbox service.

Etc etc.
> could detect that it's being emulated

Down the rabbit hole...

> buy a Windows ARM computer

You can still get Surface Pro X (16G/LTE) on Amazon for $800
Now you have to collect those fines. Good luck with that. Only true frictionless solution is fully state funded.
Thats fine for a simple cavity, get a filling and brush more often; but sometimes you have a three-holed sphere to put on one leg at a time, like anyone else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_of_pants_(mathematics)
Enterprise linux distributions pin package versions through the entire "major" release. They get security backports and often feature backports (for the first few years) but nothing which would change an API or ABI - for 10+ years.

As such, the answer to your question is "pretty much everything". Wildly different kernel, libraries, etc.

In theory it would be nice to roll upgrades like you suggest, but there are huge swathes of industry for which it's not a practical solution.
There's a notable difference between fucking up the filter efficacy lifetime expectancy - meaning there are filters that were expected to work - and "I don't care" venting toxic fumes straight out the window like a Breaking Bad meth homelab or a Dark Waters dig dump cover up.

A GP scenario doesn't mean there's no blame either, but it's markedly different than the Dark Waters scenario described in the Mastodon thread, the latter which does read like it's using all the incendiary social media tropes.

Which one it is in reality I don't know and certainly won't claim I do.
I didn't vote on this, however I'm not surprised.

Corporations should not be the gatekeepers to our accounts.

I cannot use my Apple account because even though my credit card is on the account, my email and postal address, however the phone number has a typo so they won't help. I luckily haven't lost any data but it's also the parent account to my kids accounts, so they are also basically unmanageable. I don't post on here to complain, Apple has now lost my and my family's custom because they don't care enough, but the more we talk about this the more people should be aware that there are plenty of silly ways that you can lose access to data stored with them and you should export everything.
There was a push for a gated system here, some years ago. The vendor tried to sell it on massive cost savings...and was publicly humiliated by a bunch of geeks with an Excel table. Turns out, installing and running the gates would, at best, bring parity with random ticket inspections+fines - while impeding passenger flow as a bonus.

It's not necessarily a matter of education: just the feeling of "not worth freeloading (at the price), I'm likely to get caught anyway" is sufficient.
Being touted as an escape every single time there is a new Windows version for the last 30 years.

Meanwhile Steam has to use Proton, and is nonetheless around 2%.
It's pretty dang close. The only games I've had problems with in recent years were non-steam.
Once Overwatch died and everything I was playing was in Steam I found myself rebooting into windows a lot less often.

Getting your hardware working right is still the biggest problem. The games work great, occasionally audio/video driver issues necessitate some fiddling. (advantage to the Deck is that this goes away.)
One obstacle is that at least one of the major console vendors prohibits using anything other than C++ plus their official compiler. So shipping on that platform using i.e. Rust, Swift, C# is currently against the rules. (Unity gets an out here since they compile C# down to C++ using IL2CPP.)

I expect some studios are just quietly breaking the rule and not telling anyone, but I'd be worried, personally.
not sure if it's true (i haven't tried installing anything later than 23h2 i think), but i heard that oobe\bypassnro doesn't even work anymore

https://x.com/TheBobPony/status/1797517797624598988
Wicked Engine replaced Bullet with Jolt physics, immediate performance gains
At some point you have to think you'd be better off selling at a loss and reallocating the funds, especially if there are tax implications of being able to show a loss in business inventory (which you may not be able to if it's just some guy buying a box of watches and not an actual business venture).
> Imagine being kept in jail with the pretext "you are not yet fully informed of what is out there, so we're not letting you go out for your own good".

Isn't this basically what school is for children?

I don't think it's crazy that people might have a range of preferences for how "locked down" a device or ecosystem is. One end of the spectrum might be Linux phones and the other might be those Jitterbug (?) phones for old people that can only dial a few preset numbers. Android would be more towards Linux and Apple more towards Jitterbug.

But I do think Apple should be more transparent with their users, and has generally been "maliciously complying" with these regulations.
There's also Mint, which is the boring 0 effort option. Don't run it myself because I like rolling release distros, but for a Windows refugee it may be welcoming: https://www.linuxmint.com/
The economics of purchasing new are fairly simple, you walk out of the store with something worth more than you paid for it.

The people in the secondary market take all the risk by paying an inflated price that may go down and the risk of fakes.

It reminds me of the Rolex market.
For things like IKEA furniture there often is a good engineering reason to do things in a specific order that is not obvious. For furniture this is okay - nobody does it often (or if you do it is a few things that you memorize the instructions for).

Transit has different considerations though. It is critical that doing the right thing is obvious without reading instructions. Someone might have an important meeting to make and the time to read the instructions (or wait for the person in from of them to read the instructions) means they are late. Or (worse?!?) that time spent in line is annoying enough that someone decides to buy a car. You can somewhat get around this with more fare machines - but they are expensive and take up a lot of space. Fortunately we have human-machine interaction specialists who can tell you how to make a fare machine that is easy to use correctly without needing any instructions.
It's so far behind though. Linux still doesn't support VRR or HDR.
They charge up front with their margins.
Looks like even push notifications can be too pushy! The LA County Health Department got breached because someone got so many login alerts they just gave up and hit "approve." Cybersecurity lesson: sometimes, less is more.
We're on a tech forum, where people probably need less handholding with tech gear than the general public does.

And, once no longer a newb, Debian is easily one of the best distros to be in, for many purposes, long-term.

Why not start with one of the most popular and principled distros, and see whether it just works for you?

From there, if your eye ever starts wandering towards some strange other distro, you have a well-informed good baseline to compare against.
Would this be maybe their biggest target so far? If so, the $50,000 which has been offered seems a tad dreamy.
Nearly $109M in deposits held for Yotta's customers vanished in Synapse collapse
On a test rig you can reasonably expect batteries to catch fire, actually you want to know how much you can put them through - the key thing is to check if battery samples catch fire sooner than intended (i.e. specs + significant safety margin).

Otherwise, you get scenarios like cheap Alibaba e-scooters, hoverboards and e-bikes catching fire from using batteries that weren't tested that rigorously.
It is Windows gaming on top of Linux kernel.
I wouldn't bet against it ever happening, mainly because there is already a pretty advanced highly scalable meat manufacturing biotechnology process called, you know, the actual animal. Wouldn't recommend betting against a thing that already exists, it's not like fusion where we don't have small viable energy producing reactors yet (the sun doesn't count). Timeline though? Who the hell knows. Progress in biology has been unbelievably fast over the past few decades in a really unpredictable way (sometimes rapid improvements in existing technologies, sometimes unexpected breakthroughs that open up new horizons). Maybe the core challenges to replicating what animals do will take another 30 years to figure out, maybe a breakthrough will happen in the next two months, who knows. But a bunch of random chemical reactions kicking around for 3 billion years figured out how to make meat so don't think it's unreasonable to think we'll be able to figure it out too.
Markdown is not a typesetting engine. It is a markup language. What pandoc does is convert the markdown syntax into LaTeX syntax and then run a TeX engine to produce the desired PDF.

Typst is a new entry in the document typesetting field.
Proton has massively changed the game. I'd say the time since 2018 has had more advances in usability than the 25 years before it (for "normal" people), effectively making any "you've been saying this for X years" argument moot.
Cryptographers' Feedback on the EU Identity Wallet
I did it yesterday on a brand new Surface 7 Copilot+ Laptop (such a dumb name…).
Oh ok, still a bit strange to post here but in that case don’t take it too hard. Getting banned from a big platform for no reason or a silly reason is like a right of passage nowadays :)
> If you have to verify the details of the work you outsource

Yes, they have to verify. Verification is necessary whether or not the component is sourced through a supplier or in-house. Verification happens after the sourcing step. And yes, you are criminally liable in the supplier case if your supplier commits fraud and you knew about it, as is the implication here.
That part of Sunnyvale and Santa Clara used to have many silicon fabs in the 1980s and 1990s before they all shut down.
Probably because they don’t have the same needs that you do?

My primary machine is a laptop and it’s very powerful without me having compromised on its portability to any meaningful degree. I don’t have a need to use any other machine, because it’s a laptop, and I can just bring it with me. I enjoy the myriad benefits of not doing remote development, such as not requiring a stable internet connection at all times.

In 2024, the benefits you propose are vanishingly irrelevant.
Last I checked the cow doesn't have a problem producing steak and thermodynamics applies to that too so not sure what the argument is here
Sort of does. Can't imagine it's a typical experience and makes me wonder what's so unusual in this case. There are always bad experiences with support but usually systematic tire fires indicate some other issues.
Is Oracle committed to actually supporting the distro with security updates and so on? I was under the impression that it's simply a bug-for-bug compatibility rebuild from RHEL sources, which aside from rebuilding effort, the majority of support work was still done by RH.
In that case it should be owned/regulated by the govts. In India's UPI has multiple banks talk to multiple consumer and vendor apps in one ecosystem standardized by govt agency. and it is damn good compared to other systems.
There’s just no way very many people would pay for a Mac upgrade program. The iPhone one works by having you pay the monthly installment price for the phone forever. That’s usually in the $30-40/month range, which many people can stomach in exchange for guaranteed new phones every year. But Mac installment prices are $200+ a month. There just isn’t a market for a laptop subscription that costs as much as car insurance.
I believe you are mixing up free software with copyleft.

Permissive license are also free software licenses.

(but indeed, the FSF and GNU projects, who defined free software, also push for copyleft for the reasons you mention).
I wouldn't mind if Microsoft didn't keep breaking Windows PIN and Windows Hello.

Enabled it on a private PC but a different account (a work one) owns the Office license, and now Windows knows that there is an account that owns the Windows license and a different account that owns the Office license.

Result? All kinds of fun that looks like this https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window... and has many many recommended answers, of which none worked.

What did work, was removing the work account via Accounts > Work or School, and falling back to a local account and password for Windows. At least I can sign in to the machine again.
Yes. Gaming, app development / testing for Windows, Powerpoint use (cloud powerpoint was one of the most atrocious experiences ever when I tried it.) It's down to three use cases. Everything else happens on Linux.
As of the last Asahi Linux update at the beginning of this year, they had caught up with M2 series only.

https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/
There are some real-life applications already, eg https://www.norsepower.com/passenger/
Yep, that's why there are no more prop trading shops.
"counterfeit" in this instance doesn't seem to mean that it wasn't titanium, or that it was the wrong kind of titanium, but that the origin of the titanium was falsified.
"Show me the incentives, and I'll show you the results." - Charlie Munger

It used to be that companies existed to transfer value to shareholders by doing something. In the case of Boeing it was making airplanes. They build you an airplane, you pay them for it, they had a list of rules to play by in order to reduce the costs of making that plane in order to make a profit.

Boeing's incentives are to transfer as much value as humanly possible to its shareholders. They've made sure that large parts of their C-Suite, managers, executives, etc. are in on this by giving them shares.

Those people have decided they don't want to play by the rules anymore. There's little incentive for them not to. If the Biden administration gets voted out in November, most of these regulatory and law enforcement pushes you've seen here of late (Adobe, TicketMaster, etc.) are going to go away because the people in charge at companies like Boeing have participated in regulatory capture. Thus, there are no more rules.

You have to start throwing those people in prison (or worse) for the rest of their lives and make compensation in unrealized gains illegal if you want this to stop.
> Many experts are skeptical about the criminal group’s announcement. The Federal Reserve is a high-profile target, and a data breach could have serious repercussions. Many believe that the group’s announcement is just for attention.
Yes, the kernel was too old so my Ryzen didn't perform great.

I could have gone through enabling backports, but I could also have just gone Fedora and not have to mess around with things I shouldn't need to.
I like that aspect about this project as well. On the other hand, it's quite easy to see how following these directions to the T will take an enthusiast multiple hours to setup.

Many existing smart doorbells do actually use the existing wiring and chime of the doorbell. An example is the Google Nest Doorbell.

So in terms of "wasting what you already have" what you're wasting by going with a typical consumer product is basically a button that you can buy from Home Depot for $4.98.

Now, obviously, someone interested in this project is probably not interested in having a proprietary Google camera on their door. But in my experience most people who want their doorbell to be "smart" actually want it to be a security camera and a two-way communication device so you can relay information to the person who is ringing the doorbell. Otherwise, what good is it to know that someone rang your doorbell when there is no other information? That amount of information is just like a random timestamp, at that point I'd just keep my dumb doorbell.
Compute-Optimal Context Size
Currently nobody has a monetizing solution other than ads next to the chat. I think OpenAI will come up with a service that puts ads right into the chat. Head of Ads at Microsoft/Bing already said they're looking at options. Then it would remain free. And with "enshittification" in mind a pro version will eventually include ads, too.
Nobody believes me but I remember my first independent footsteps; I wanted to investigate the water stain on the concrete I'd just seen my dad make earlier, as it was gone now in the heat.
Proton is Windows PC gaming with a Linux kernel.

It is only a moot point for those "I feel good to use Linux kernel to run Windows on top" kind of feeling.

While ignoring it is still Windows games that are being written, by game studios targeting regular Windows deployments, and those same studios might even have Android games written in OpenGL ES/Vulkan, that they won't bother porting to GNU/Linux.
Agreed! I wrote a blog post about this a couple years back.[1] A few things I think are going on:

- layout and hyphenation algorithms on the web are worse (or often disabled!)

- the lines are often too long

- the site's margins aren't as strong as with print design

These factors combine to produce the mess you're describing.

I've spent so much time reading justified text in print that I do like it in general. But I think until places like NYT or Medium adopt it on their websites, it's probably not up to snuff on the web.

(edit: formatting)

[1] https://maxwellforbes.com/posts/web-justified-text/
I don't know about that but mitochondria can and are modulated by a variety of factors and of course, they include dietary components.

Mitochondrial Modulators: The Defender
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9953029/
This paper refers to '61 mitochondrial modulators which are able to protect the mitochondria from toxic insults and/or improve mitochondrial function.'
That'll only buy you several months. IIRC OL7 EOL issue in December, unless you pay for extended support while you do your work to transition to a newer OS (please, please don't rely on extended support, unless desperate, switch to new versions.)
A low quality “gotcha!” article from an Android fan blog looking to forever stoke the flames of some decades-old stupid OS war.
I would encourage anyone who is comfortable with reinstalling Windows (or knows someone, I am about to do this to my partners PC) to go with the LTSC version of Windows. 11 LTSC is even out now if you want the most compatible version for gaming (I have seen some arguments that there are features in 11 that make games run better but I have yet to be able to really confirm this).

Gives all of the advantages on compatibility (particularly for gaming, I even installed LTSC on my Steam Deck) with having a seriously stripped down version of Windows.

Microsoft is very careful to make it seem like LTSC is so stripped down that it really only works for kiosks or similar devices, but it is perfectly capable as a general computing device. It is possible to install things that it is missing fairly easily, like if you need the Microsoft store (windows store? don't remember the name) to use the Xbox app it will prompt you to install the missing components.

Edit:

Since I got a couple comments about the license. I should have included that here. There is a github project for activation.

Since it is perfectly viable but removes a lot of the crap that Microsoft wants to push of course they don't make it easy to get. But personally if I already have a legal copy of Windows 11 I have no moral problems with using this script to activate LTSC Version.

Getting the ISO is easy with Microsoft providing them free to download.

Edit again:

Instead of replying to every comment regarding to just switch to linux I will edit my post here explaining why I have not.

First off, is for me Windows is primarily for gaming. So compatibility and performance are my number one priority.

Proton is great but you can't beat the compatibility of just using Windows. Never need to worry about an update breaking something or a game not working. It just does. In at least a few cases performance is even better on the LTSC version compared to SteamOS on my Steam Deck.

I also don't want to be restricted to just using Steam for games or needing to jump through additional hoops to play from other stores.

I play video games to relax, that isn't a time that I want to be tinkering or messing with my computer if something goes wrong.
Apples vs Oranges. In my opinion, there will only be action if the military/security elite think the current boeing leadership is a security risk.
"counterfeit" can mean many things, and in this instance it doesn't necessarily mean "the material was wrong" so much as "they lied about where they got it on the provenance paperwork"
As others here have mentioned, why React?

More specifically, I know that Roblox uses lua(u) but I assumed this was all for scripting. React is a tool for building UI.

How do you use React inside Roblox? You can build UI? I'm trying to wrap my head around my clearly mistaken assumption that what was possible in Roblox was writing lua-ish scripts that handle events in Roblox and then alter the game flow. That's very different from a full UI element that manages state and presentation, which is why React was so exciting (ten years ago).
It is past time for the US to start hitting back at the EU. To start with they need to cut funding and become hostile to products made in the EU.
Pro can still get around it, as Pro is not actually a consumer edition. To get around it with business editions of Windows you select the option to add the computer to a domain. The domain join process doesn't happen during OOBE, so you're prompted to make a local account. Then you can just carry on without joining a domain.
It's an excelent point, that Apple used to understand better than most other computer companies: technology for technology isn't worth much, the user needs to be at the center of it.

That's why people moved to macs even as they didn't have the faster processors or better hardware. Specs were only numbers, and macs had attractive user features.

Now we're on the other side, where keynotes heavily rely on performance and technical prowess, and yes I'd totally see them come up with a mid-air floating iPad with absolutely no story behind it, the same way we have an m4 iPad Pro with no software to match it.
If I'm working and living next to a place with a ton of EPA violations around weird chemicals that may be dangerous, what good is it to me whether some other company elsewhere has a similar number of violations?
I am not as cynical as others about the compromises Apple is willing to make to grow, but it is worth noting that Tim sure does talk about services a lot: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-reports-second-...
Please quote the part of the DMA that lists which specific APIs companies are forced to implement.
Meta comment: that’s the third comment I see this week with “quasi” emojis. Is this becoming a trend?

o_o
Bringing Sails Back to Shipping
Which console vendor is that?
That Python app is a popular demo for Cosmopolitan. It's what I would have chosen for that demo, too! It's handy because it outputs a little bit of information about the current architecture on the first line when you start the shell.

There's some interesting background on it in this issue: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/141
There is no "default PATH", the default is inheriting the parent process's.
Are there trade-offs with this?
In this case "moving on" means adding in social media "share beacons", which just so happens to load their 3rd party cookies and analytics scripts, and shuttle that web traffic information back to the motherships.

No thanks. I'll stick to RSS.
Mentioning the other person's name is a personal pet peeve of mine, after having met too many people who seem to think that doing so repeatedly somehow gives them a powerhandle over the conversation.