If they were more about UNIX than freedom, that could make sense back then. These days, you miss out on loads on of open stuff and are very much a third class citizen. After Linux and Windows, as the platform has neither freedom or a large user base. Macports seams to regularly have talks about how they are shunned and ignored.

That’s not fair. Multiple books of his books are award winning. Even if you only like one, the critics rate him. Other writers, rate him.

That’s the sequel to Ender’s Game. It is good, but it is Orson Scott Card.

Didn’t when I tried when on LineageOS. I needed that bank app for work, so got a Pixel and switched to GrapheneOS. The bank app works, and it is useful to be able to on and off Google Maps (because of traffic routing and search, when compared to Organic Maps). But LineageOS worked better. GrapheneOS has more bugs and a small community.

It’s a good read, but he then back on it all and went all Apple. So it’s a bit bitter sweat. Snow Crash is probably better.

Without right to repair, there will be planned obsolescence.

My Citroen EV developed an on board charger fault. It wouldn’t charge. The part was a “coded part” which meant it had to specifically programmed with my EV’s ID by Citroen at manufacture. It took months to finally be fitted and ready. So basically, not only does the coded parts system make service shit, but also means when the manufacturer is done making the part, the car is dead. You can’t swap parts between cars and there is no third party parts. It’s meant to be about car theft, but it’s very convenient it blocks competition and long product life…

Exactly. I don’t even think it’s that different to be honest, it’s just not identical to PS and comes from a different windowing school of thought.

The joke is Mac and Linux users, who aren’t actually effected, are incapacitated due to being busy gloating on social media.

It needs to be faster and more stable. Crashes and slowness are killer issues. Slowness is single core issue. You can see one core working it’s ass off, but the other like 15, sitting doing nothing. Plus it freezes during that often because it’s not async/multi-threaded enough. Crashes, well that’s just bad, but in this case it’s normally when even 48GB RAM isn’t enough. Bloody curved geometry from external sources with massive messes. Needs more exchanging files methods that isn’t mesh based. But also mesh rationalization tools are need too.

Meh, always done what I need and I find easy enough.

I’ve been in rooms for people forced to switch from PS to GIMP for corporate cost cutting. Every time I went to help someone on something else (animation or exporter related), I’d hear “GIMP can’t do X” and “GIMP can’t do Y”. I’d go over and show it could and how. It was never even stuff that hard. Layer stuff often. GIMP gets a lot of hate I just don’t think is justified.

It’ll catch on at some point. KiCAD did. Blender did. Many other FOSS apps have!

Gimp is intuitive to me. I grew up on RISC OS, not Windows, and only later learned Photoshop. Switching was easy for me, and that was before I got into FOSS. It was just free and legal.

I’ve seen lots of people from a Windows only background struggle with it. I agree it’s not like a normal Windows app. Maybe single window mode helps, but I’m not in a place to judge.

So teens learn about Tor & VPNs. This stuff doesn’t work. The higher you put the skills to get access, the more they will learn. Nothing motivates teens more than access to adult stuff. Maybe this is really a tech literacy policy.

As I said, “if this no other option”. And to be honest, that was once, for a few weeks before the new KiCad hit Debian repos. And only because hardware team wouldn’t wait to switch, so to open stuff, I needed it too.

I’ve been on Debian Testing for my own desktops for about 15 years now. Sometimes as a Frankendebian mixing in SID/unstable. Sometimes mainly unstable, but mostly just Testing.

It rarely breaks, but when it does, it’s a learning opportunity. Stable for servers and other people’s desktops. Maybe with backports. Flatpacks if this no other option.

You don’t get 100% solid and 100% new. Ever. With anything.

I know it is done when there is one bomb by some nutters, but it seams labour intensive. Not sure how well it scales to warfare.

So they have to hope they find details on fragments left. I literally have no idea of the odds on that.

And forced the hardware obsolescence nightmare.

And the big tech surveillance nightmare.

And the nightmare of the war on general purpose computers. (OK, that is more GNU and GPLv3)

And a few other nightmares!

Also, how is Russia to know which bit of equipment is attacking them, and where is it from?

Some of us use FOSS because of access to the source and the benefits of an all FOSS system. Not because it’s zero cost. This list is just zero cost and some happen to be FOSS.