the paragraph above without context doesn't strike me as weird or eccentric. seems more grandiose narcissism which makes someone very dismissable, rightfully
Some weird nations will make you president with such a big gift of god°!
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I feel like one thing that is still holding Linux Desktop and any initiative like this back is that we don't have really high quality linux laptops on the market.
We have some people like System76 doing great things, but not in Europe and for all their great work its not the highest quality stuff from China with some serious limitations.
For all the things the European Union funds, from chip manufacture, HPC and many other project from large to medium to small. Why have we not seen a made in Europe Laptop/Desktop/Phone for the bureaucrats and engineers who do things like running states and building weapons and so on.
A fair amount of EU money goes into a lot of these distributed system and internet projects. And I'm not complaining, but we are spending a lot of time trying to make our system secure from everything other then direct attack. The fireware in the new notebook doesn't seem better then in the one before, in fact worse in some way.
We have most of the software, we have most of the things needed to do these things. An Open-Source computer for Europe (and anybody) would be a real counter-point to most of the other models out there.
In such an environment a real AppStore for Open Linux desktop could actually be a really good thing.
What is the base data for your analysis? Is this data available?
And how did you come to the conclusion that "missing high quality linux desktops" are the thing "holding back" Linux?
Is this based on some statistical work you did?
If we talk about feelings - did you ever have the feeling that corruption, lobbying and blackmailing could play a role?
BTW - why do you think Linux is missing high quality desktops? I am working with very high quality Linux desktops since many years and I wonder why people are using such low quality desktop OS that are sold commercially.
If you are using Ubuntu Pro(free or not) Debian isn't really an alternative.
Also I am not sure if Debian is as fast as Canonical in patching CVEs.
I like Debian, but after (free)Ubuntu pro, it really became attractive for me as a small server operator, its even better than free RHEL.
Would you please like to explain why it is better? Thanks!
Yes, and it’s absolutely terrifying. I know at that point I wouldn’t feel anything but it’s depressing to know that everything you have, and will ever know, could be destroyed in an instant.
But that is life - you will die at the end. This is not a reason to be depressive, there is a way to find freedom accepting the volatile nature of everything. Enjoy your life, do not harm anybody and do positive work.
Is NixOS a cult? Every time someone posts about Linux packaging, there's a "you should just use NixOS" comment.
Although it provides its own solution to the Linux packaging problem, it's a single solution that comes with a whole load of baggage with it. It is not the panacea its proponents wants us to believe it is.
Your comment is unrelated too the parents comment.
References to slavery in America, even references to movies of freed slaves struggling to free others are generally unwelcome. It’s not something most people want to be faced with when they just came for a simple technical discussion.
What are your facts about what most people want?
Did you do some statistical work in this field?
It would be interesting to see your results.
As a competent HN reader you certainly are basing your view on some facts?
On a Linux system, how to secure a system so that users are not able to run binaries they downloaded from the internet?
How can application whitelisting be achieved?
Does Flathub come with any features that help with that?
They exhibit all the characteristics of bokeh and sensor glare, and it’s speculation that they are anything else.
As for instrument measurements, the track that turns out to be a bird is identified as such mainly by simply correctly interpreting the instrument data.
So we’re back the square one. All the ‘smoking gun’ evidence turns out to be a damp squib and now we’re just expected to believe unrecorded ‘radar measurements’ and eye witness accounts.
Simon H, your inter-galactical mission has failed!
People of planet earth KNOW, that YOU and your friends are HERE and we will not submit to extraterrestrial leadership!
Your denial of an obvious fact is evidence of you being part of the extraterrestrial gang that tries to stay in the dark - but it is too late, you can hide in Antarctica or in the oceans, we still know that YOU are here!
BTW - would you please like to support us in building better polyphonic analog synthesizers? This technology is stuck in the 80s and we still have limitations in total voice count and number of modulation sources - we need some serious evolutionary jump in this area. Thanks!