I wonder if they’re really that stupid to give up this super-efficient means of soft power over some progressive things they’ve done or intentionally handing influence in parts of the world to Russia for a bit of money for themselves while taking a calculated risk of maybe having to retake control militarily (which is more costly but could be a problem for the next admin).

Even after they stopped producing phones, they could have made a killing licensing the patent to phone case manufacturers.

The article is absolute trash for not mentioning this. “Their iconic keyboards…” is the closest it gets to describing them.

Thankfully, there is a link to the patent at the end.

Abstract

A keyboard comprising a plurality of transparent keys. In use, the keyboard is attached to a device such as a mobile device, to overlie a display screen of the device. One or more images displayed on the display screen are made visible to a user through the keys, which may be pressed by a user. User input is determined by identifying a pressed key, and the image or part thereof visible through the key when pressed.

Basically a detachable keyboard of transparent material as a display overlay, providing tactile feedback while the LCD allows for backlit and customizable key labels. I don’t remember seeing a practical implementation of this IRL or in media but I might be too young for that.

⌀ U+2300 DIAMETER SIGN

He’s reasonably trustworthy. I trust his utility more than Micro$oft but less than Linus Torvalds.

CD drives were too big so drives were developed that only took half a CD, which is shaped like a C.

I wouldn’t be in the mood to start raising a child st 84

My class was on holiday in Romania to this village near Decebalus’ Danube Gorge in Banat and classmates, mostly from a city, were impressed by my woodcutting skills. I can chop the easiest blocks at this pace but only briefly… At best I could do about half that in 8 hours, while sweating like crazy and drinking 6 liters of water. I’d also catch a cold and need a week to recover. Also, I’d leave an assortment of gnarly blocks and chopped pieces on the ground, no way I’m loading even half of that the same day.

There is even a Windows (Powershell) example for Winutil:

Stable Branch (Recommended)

irm "https://christitus.com/win" | iex

Better than explaining how to make a .ps file trusted for execution (thankfully, one of the few executable file extensions that Windows doesn’t trust by default) but why not just use some basic .exe builder at this point?

Obligatory “they better make it a script that automatically creates a medium for silent Linux Mint installation, modifies the relevant BIOS settings and restarts” to prevent obvious snarky replies

I thought that the subscription money was what would keep them afloat for longer

You can assign them manually but to this day, they are the last to get used when auto-mounting drives.

Unix rules

Remember his name

Gavrilo 👏 Princip 👏

Tbh reformists like Maria Theresia and Joseph II did quite a bit to advance our society to the standards of Western Europe. Franz Joseph I caused stagnation again.

How are you expecting to get 10 years of experience for your entry-level job by age 20? You need that to succeed in the job market, and let me guess, you also wasted so much potential by passing up on that opportunity of being born to Linus Torvalds.

DuckDuckGo doesn’t track your activity so they only target ads based on your current query and technical details. They determined it would take 30 years to compile Gentoo on your rig so 40+ is a good guess for your age.

Still no audio. True Linux experience.

Fuck. My autistic self has enough problems already and recently I get all gender-questioning while hugging my Blåhaj (still comfortably cis by day though). Seeing articles that imply I am “at risk” of being queer does not help: I don’t want to go through the phase of finding out and potentially having to tackle the choices and processes involved before I sort out my ADHD-like symptoms. Trans folk REALLY is brave to have picked the fight against all the social norms. Should I unsubscribe from 196 to hopefully reduce the temptation to find out? Yes, I’m a bit of a coward.

Update: New definition for the Linux trademark and related terms!

As Linux is enjoying wider adoption among less technically inclined individuals, we are making changes to what we call the project and key components to make referring to them more straightforward and avoid gatekeeping.

Major changes:

Please make sure to update corresponding API calls and documentation when upgrading to kernel 7.x. You will be able to use deprecated terms during support periods on kernel versions 6.x.