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by thedriver 3y ago
iPhones end up being cheaper in the long run. They get software updates much longer than almost any Android phone, and at least here even small cities have local shops that repair them. It's also just a superior user experience. I wish
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by thedriver 3y ago
It's especially funny when some people complaining about this probably make 200k a year in silicon valley, then think that someone else should work for free to supply their company with software that they can use to make a profit.
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by thedriver 3y ago
>When the source changes, you get those as well. No, it does not say this. It says that if someone gets a piece of software, a binary for example, they must be given the source code it was built upon on request. It does not say that they
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by thedriver 3y ago
You can still learn it for free with the developer subscription or CentOS Stream. A company building it's entire infrastructure with the free derivatives isn't "learning" anymore.
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by thedriver 3y ago
Yes, someone can buy RHEL, request the source, and then share it away. And they can do nothing about it. However, it doesn't mean that Red Hat is required to keep doing business with them, or that they are automatically entitled to rec
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by thedriver 3y ago
I'm actually with Red Hat on this one. There are many other great distributions that you can use, such as Debian. People are just angry that they can't get an exact copy of a paid product and 10 years of support for free. If there
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by thedriver 3y ago
Some of the comments here seem absolutely ridiculous. What is the probability that a perfect flute just happened by accident and survived until this day? For whatever reason, a lot of people have this fixation that humans were somehow signi
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Another Opinion: 5G Fails to Deliver on Promises and Potential(techblog.comsoc.org)
2 points by thedriver 4y ago|0 comments
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by thedriver 4y ago
>Do you run it at your home or on some VPS? I run it on a rented dedicated server. Yes, it's pretty expensive, but I also use it for other stuff and this is a hobby for me. >My current VPS is on DigitalOcean, which asks for $100&
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by thedriver 4y ago
Nextcloud is fantastic. I'm personally running it on a Debian 11 server. I like the web-ui more than for example onedrive or gdrive, and it's not even that hard to setup.
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by thedriver 4y ago
Yeah. Owning and driving a car is becoming really expensive. It's understandable that people will avoid it if they are able to. Also, I'm pretty sure that many "anti car" teens still know someone, like their parents or a
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by thedriver 4y ago
>With hardware remote attestation there will no longer be any point in even owning an android phone anyway. Android is obviously inferior to iOS in every way but the whole point was you could have control over the machine and do whatever
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by thedriver 4y ago
>I find it curious that archaeologists or historians (?) seem to take a lot of things like this so seriously and assume everything has some sort of symbolic meaning, rather than just some teenager scribbling on a page or painting his han
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by thedriver 4y ago
Humans weren't fundamentally any different back then. Bathroom wall graffiti has been discovered from ancient Roman ruins.
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by thedriver 4y ago
You can pretty much take US tech salaries and divide them by two, and you get something that's pretty typical in western Europe.
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by thedriver 4y ago
Could it be possible to create an open-source license that allows hobbyists and researchers to use the software for free, but would require commercial users to pay? Or does something like this already exist? Of course, enforcing that might
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by thedriver 4y ago
>The tech industry is desperate to somehow frame a period of time where it took advantage of low interest rates to recklessly overhire and overinvest as something that created entitled workers. But in a way, didn't it do exactly tha
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by thedriver 4y ago
I'm not sure if it's that much better, but I've been thinking about moving to some "non big tech" search engine such as https://gigablast.com
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by thedriver 4y ago
On the other hand, another way to have more financial security is to save and invest money. That way you have time to figure out something new if your current job ends for whatever reason. If you get paid relatively well, like many tech wor
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by thedriver 4y ago
Even something like Debian with the Mate DE can be pretty lightweight. Modern web crap is really the biggest resource hog for most users.
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by thedriver 4y ago
Honestly I think that this article is just stupid. The writer basically complains that he can't find counterculture in mainstream media outlets and mainstream social media. Is that really surprising?
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by thedriver 4y ago
Totally agree with your last paragraph. If something is being praised in the mainstream media, for example, then I don't think it really is a counterculture. You give two good examples of counterculture. Both of those go against the va
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Are there any robust and easy ways to keep two or more computers in sync?
1 points by thedriver 4y ago|1 comments
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by thedriver 4y ago
Tabs are not that bad
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by thedriver 4y ago
I don't find this surprising. Like the article mentions, living expenses have been quickly rising, and at least over here it has made many people (including me) think about our personal finances more. Combine that with the fact that sm