Yes, the anti-trust lawsuit should culminate in one part of a tech giant being sold to another tech giant.

Lol, pretty much every elections gets audited. It’s just not interesting because it’s routine and the results rarely change.

Logically, yes. But humans aren’t purely logical. They’re gonna have sex without access to birth control, even if they don’t want a kid. Not all of them, but a lot of them. So why not just let them have both control?

I didn’t know that! From the other comment, sounds like it’s basically fixed.

Nice, good to hear.

Does it still have that weird problem where you’re not allowed to modify surfaces because of the way you created them? Last time I tried using it, I couldn’t create a mirror copy of a shape and then edit the mirror. I could only edit the source, which then applied the changes to all the parts.

Is the Arizona factory supposed to be state-of-the art? I had heard we were more concerned with just getting any kind of chip production stateside, since most electronics don’t actually use the latest chips (missiles, toasters, etc.).

You’re hanging out with the wrong people.

Didn’t BlueSky come up with their own federation system because… Fuck you?

I mean, what was wrong with using the ActivityPub standard?

That’s the same advantage all the other options have, too.

This man ran into the weirdos on Mastodon. I’m over there hanging out with people posting about ass-pennies and no one cries “content warning!” You’re the one who decides who you follow and who follows you. If your hanging out with folks too sensitive for your liking, that’s on you.

The issue becomes when things are developed with a mix of public and private money. I’m not saying we shouldn’t tackle the issue, only that it can’t be as simple as public money = public resource. If that were true, nearly all of us would be required to work for free, since we got the majority of our education through public funding.

Edit: It seems everyone ignored the generalization I was replying to. Yes, in terms of code it’s actually relatively easy to require that a publicity funded project be open source and leave it at that. The business can decide if they want to write everything from scratch to protect their IP or if they want to open up existing code as a part of fulfilling/winning the contact.

In terms of other partially government funded projects, like the pharmaceutical example given, it’s much more difficult to say how much of the process and result are thanks to public funding. That’s really the only point I was trying to make, that it can get very hard to draw the line. With code, it can be relatively easy.

Extremely wrong. The ideal A:Z ratio is more like 1:4.

I would say for Linux Mint Cinnamon you really only need to be able to follow directions. Just make sure you have an external backup of all your files in case it turns out you can’t. You’ll have to type some stuff into a command-line interface (I think) but the Mint Cinnamon website has links to step by step guides. Also, you know, make sure you’re either committed to getting rid of Windows, or have the ability to re-install, in case you mess up.

But really, at this point, it’s pretty dang easy.

Is it replacing the windows key or is it in addition to the windows key? I use the windows key for a few different shortcuts.

100%. When Windows drops support for Windows 10 I’m jumping ship to Linux Mint Cinnamon. I tried it out on my old laptop and liked it. I even liked that neat hot corners thing you could use.

They seem to be saying that Russia also has a massive military budget, but ours is way way bigger. The money we spend actually is worth it. We have the best military in the world by every metric you can come up with.

Good Lord that should be a thing.

Yep. Corded tools don’t need to be charged. Love it!

Is the chrome OS not full-fledged? I used it once ten years ago. Seemed fine.