Guess what, Linux also doesn’t “come with” multiple DE’s, it just gives you the ability to install and use a different one.
Oh come on. Your restatement means the same thing. Install a different distro and you can have a different DE.
And yes Windows doesn’t give you the choice. I said that in my initial statement that customization is often in conflict with consistency.
Having choice is always better.
Yes but you can’t then also claim that all Linux distros are consistent.
I have argued that vlans do very little for home users.
Vlans with firewall rules mean that every room in your house has a rule that you have to go out the locked front door before going back into another room. But if an external threat can bypass the front lock, having a rule that everyone inside has to use the front lock does nothing. Either the front lock works in which case everything is safe or it doesn’t work in which case the rule to use the front door lock every time you go from inside room to inside room does nothing.
Nintendo is laughing at Layden.
Oh sure, but you don’t know until you let them try.
Fortunately most are rejecting looking like a creep.
optical computer
Optical computers were debunked a decade ago in an ieee article. Visible spectrum photons are 100 million times larger than electrons which means the transitors need to be gigantic. Even gamma rays are 1000 times bigger than electrons.
My phone isn’t implanted in my skull. At least not yet.
Windows doesn’t come with multiple Window Managers that you choose from like Kde vs Gnome. Windows programs have access to the same standard Windows toolkit for menus and dialogs. A program has to go out of its way to not use the standard libraries. That is usually only seen in programs that are using ported Linux gui libraries under Windows. Whereas in Linux, there are multiple GUI toolkits and multiple Window Managers meaning there is is absolutely no standard for any apps.
respect for the user, consistency, customisability,
Customizability, absolutely. But Linux has a distinct lack of respect for users (from a GUI perspective) and consistency. Customizability is frequently in direct conflict with consistency. Different distros have different GUI’s. The apps in the distros use different toolkits for their development which yields wildly inconsistent GUI’s inside the programs.
Saving a file to a folder of your choice
What program are you seeing that?
I use Linux and Windows and don’t see that. I just checked with saving a file in the Windows version of Orca (3d slicer), Save brings up the standard Windows dialog that has all the folders on the left panel and the contents of the currently selected folder on the right panel. It’s virtually identical to the Save dialog box of Orca under Ubuntu right down to dividing local directories on top of the left panel and network share on the bottom left.
That’s the default Save in Windows. A program has to go out of its way to avoid the standard Windows Save dialog box which is the same problem Linux programs can have.
What’s worse is the reverse and it happens more often: Posting a job and then hiring from outside rather than promoting from within.
Because no manager wants to lose their low paid competent worker. So instead they hire the outside person for the senior position.
Can you imagine the downvotes and likely bans if someone did the equivalent in a Linux thread?
, it said that it was repealed and superseded in the 70s.
It absolutely did not say that.
17 U.S.C. § 109(a) from 1976 clarified the earlier laws without changing them at all. It even specifically mentions video games. That is if you buy a video game you have the right to resell it (dispose).
Courts have since ruled that the law and 17 U.S.C. § 109(a) don’t apply because you bought a “license”.
But that doesn’t change the law or 17 U.S.C. § 109(a) which was even clearer that someone who purchases music or a video game has the right to resell it.
Court rulings aren’t law.
A cheap way to start is noip.com. You can get a domain name for free, you just need to check in every 3 months to say you are still using it. It’s big enough that many routers support it.
After 2 years of checking in every 3 months I paid for their next tier of service where you don’t have to check in and get multiple domains etc. So their free service marketing worked.
The law you linked is 100 years old
Laws don’t expire unless specifically written to expire. Do you not believe in the right to free speech because that law is 250 years old?
Nor was it superceded 50 years ago. The case was in 2012 and wasn’t ruled until 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_LLC_v._ReDigi_Inc.
because you’re making a copy (which first sale doctrine does not allow you to do)
You aren’t necessarily making a copy. You are transferring a license to use. Steam restricts duplicate license usage.
The law was about digital copies of music without DRM. Given that Steam restricts duplicate licenses, that court ruling doesn’t necessarily apply. And a court ruling isn’t a law. That’s why I claim Steam is breaking the law. But they get away with it because they have the billions to sue anyone who fights for the legal rights. So no one has tried.
Ownership of your person which includes your organs is covered under constitutional rights, not property rights.
people with organ transplants don’t own the organs they bought.
You didn’t buy the organ you got transplanted because federal law prohibits all organ sales.
TIL people with pacemakers don’t own their hearts.
??? A pacemaker is device implanted to maintain regular rhythm. If you purchased one from the manufacturer, you could sell it to someone else.
“Only multi player content”
So content was removed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1909
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
That a new law was created to say “if it’s on a computer you don’t have rights” doesn’t mean the public should meekly accept being screwed over. It’s the same as the current anti repair laws.
If I don’t let you resell something you bought that’s ownership. I’m not talking about illegal copies. I’m talking about transferring the license to play the content you purchased.
If I take something back that you bought, even if I give you a refund, that’s not ownership.
How about you buy a house, then when you go to sell it, the builder says you can’t. Or you are living in a house that you bought and 5 years later the builder says, we are taking your house back, here is what you paid for it.
That’s not ownership.
I don’t think you understand how big these data centers are. They are the size of entire cities. A Tesla crash would have the effect of a single car crash in Manhattan.
Ubuntu ships with Gnome. That you can change it is actually the point I was making.
I replied to this:
With the statement that consistency is often at odds with customizability.
Your claim was this:
Windows apps do not have as much inconsistency as apps on Linux because of the lack of customizablity. A Windows developer has to go out of their way to avoid the standard Windows libraries to make their app look unique. Linux apps are all different because there is no way to make them consistent. Even if you try to make your app consistent in say Gnome, someone is going to be running KDE.
Consistency is almost always at odd with customizability.