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munchlax commented on Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?    · Posted by u/breezk0
timemct · 2 months ago
'They' is also used when gender is unknown and has been for a long, long time.

Person_1: I found this great blogger whose writing I think you'd love.

Person_2: Oh, really?! What do they write about?

munchlax · 2 months ago
Only in English.
munchlax commented on Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?    · Posted by u/breezk0
ranger_danger · 2 months ago
I've literally had someone get upset that I used "they", you can't win with some people.
munchlax · 2 months ago
Perhaps because they is plural. Plural is reserved for the royal family in some cultures.
munchlax commented on Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?    · Posted by u/breezk0
diffeomorphism · 2 months ago
Weird windows centric view.

There shouldn't even be a question where to put things much less a "wherever you want". Instead you want a sane, sensible standard.

munchlax · 2 months ago
There exists makefiles that don't allow DESTDIR, as in

  mkdir derp
  gmake install DESTDIR=$PWD/derp
Distribution maintainers have to patch this :(

munchlax commented on Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works   acma.gov.au/phone-numbers... · Posted by u/nomilk
lisbbb · 2 months ago
Man, I miss the days when telephones were just telephones. The world just seems less mysterious now.
munchlax · 2 months ago
That was almost never the case. We just didn't know any better
munchlax commented on Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files   github.com/ventoy/Ventoy... · Posted by u/wilsonfiifi
bombcar · 2 months ago
ChatMBR.
munchlax · 2 months ago
I've replaced all my GPT disklabels with Sun disklabels because I refuse to let them talk.

UEFI still boots. Spec said it can boot from fat in an eltorito floppy image and sun disklabels sit in the second or so sector. Spec also said it abstracts the type of volume so all boot methods always work for all drives. ISO images don't use the first 4kB so it doesn't see there's disklabel at all

So now I can mount the ssd as iso9660 but there's also partitions on it of which the third spans the entire drive (of course, because that's the c partition)

munchlax commented on Tell HN: Azure outage    · Posted by u/tartieret
DaSHacka · 2 months ago
I agree, but because the coffee is crap
munchlax · 2 months ago
And ridiculously expensive
munchlax commented on Keep Android Open   keepandroidopen.org/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
Dead_Lemon · 2 months ago
I'm not sure about the NewPipe angle, as Grey Jay exists (Backed by FUTO/Louis Rossman) on the Play store, which has ad-block and sponsor block incorporated into it. Google is just being malicious towards opensource and privacy, under the guise of security
munchlax · 2 months ago
Not neccesarily a guise of security, but perhaps a different means of security. E.g. securing stock investments, profits, monies, etc. Nothing is 100% secure, you can't be in the void and still call it a void, etc
munchlax commented on Keep Android Open   keepandroidopen.org/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
xigoi · 2 months ago
> why bother with walling off if you can't get paid?

To destroy competitors of Google apps such as Aurora Store or NewPipe.

munchlax · 2 months ago
I bet those are just a rounding error to their profits.
munchlax commented on Keep Android Open   keepandroidopen.org/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
morshu9001 · 2 months ago
I get that requiring attestation for downloaded apps is wrong too, it's just this website says "it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google" which seems incorrect from what you're saying.

Edit: Oh I get it, "develop for the platform" means develop and distribute. Maybe it's just me, but seems like an important difference.

munchlax · 2 months ago
I think it is and it doesn't just end there. It's develop and distribute binaries.

Everyone is still free to develop and distribute source code.

munchlax commented on Keep Android Open   keepandroidopen.org/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
heavyset_go · 2 months ago
Even phones from Motorola require you to literally ask permission to unlock your bootloader via a form on their website, which they then unlock remotely or you enter some generated code.

Other manufacturers do the same, where you have to wait a period of like 45 days before being able to unlock, and then have to ask permission on their website to unlock your bootloader.

munchlax · 2 months ago
And good lock unlocking anything over 5 years old because the updated website doesn't support what you've got. Been there, it sucks.

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