This seems like complaining that the BSD license does exactly what it intends to do.
This seems like complaining that the BSD license does exactly what it intends to do.
I think the point was, simply, that there was a clear moral path (albeit a difficult one) and he chose…not that. And someone innocent was harmed as a result.
True. Some just lay their eggs in someone else’s nest and go “good luck!” It’s hard to characterize the behavior universally across an entire class. But I wouldn’t say what’s depicted here is very typical.
It’s also, in my experience, very rare for passeriformes to run Arch Linux.
Not an accurate depiction of birds…after the helpless phase birds become fledglings where they leave the nest but are still dependent on their parents for food. Social structures vary a lot by species but many remain with parents for quite some time.
Meanwhile I click that “shut down anyway” button immediately. Fuck you Outlook.
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How exactly are they spinning showing ads in the start menu as a thing that a user would want?
I take your point, and I’m sure you’re right about the banks’ rationale, but in my own view it does not seem like it should be the banks’ decision to make.
It just means you need to trust apps that you give root access to, or only give elevated privileges during the very specific times when apps need them. Root isn’t something people who don’t know what they’re doing should be messing around with, I guess. But I’d think a lot of people who root their phone know and accept the risks.
Isn’t saying that allowing apps to have root lets them access anything just describing what root is? A rooted phone doesn’t have to give superuser access to every app.
Alright I won’t argue about that specific version’s point, but this is basically a template for constructing a strawman argument.
Back in my day, the only thing in /usr/games was fortune, and we liked it.
Yep. I remember at the time I saw a lot of advice saying “you know you might want to seriously consider just installing your distro from scratch with a newer version.” Tracking down all of the dependencies (some of which had to be installed as binaries) was a very manual process.
Edit: Oh and another fun aspect of that time period was that since downloads were so slow on a modem, if you wanted a newer version or to try out another distro, you would go and order a cdrom from a place like Walnut Creek.
Back in the day, I upgraded a Slackware install from kernel 1.3 to 2.0. That was a fucking adventure.
The fun part about back then was that if your machine wouldn’t boot or if you couldn’t get your modem or pppd working, you probably didn’t have another internet connected device so you might have to drive somewhere with a computer…or try to figure it out through books.
I’m not even sure that’s a nonnative speaker thing, I’ve definitely heard native speakers say this.
Linux hasn’t been a daily driver for me in a long time, but there have definitely been times where, after researching a question about how to do a thing in Linux, I ended up saying “you know what I’m just not gonna do that thing.”
I get what the meme is. It does not align with my personal experiences.
As someone who works in tech, my stereotype of “average tech worker” is going to be more like a guy named Praveen (there’s two Praveens on my team right now). But tech tends to have a lot of diverse backgrounds, since tech jobs usually care more about what you can do than where you’re from or what school you went to.
Gotta say I’ve never really understood this meme.
“Unpaid work” is pretty much all OSS development. “Here’s a thing I made, anyone can use it for whatever they want as long as they give credit” is a very simple philosophy. Not everybody who works on OSS is opposed to the existence of closed source commercial software, and rather a lot of people don’t like viral licenses like the GPL. Really out of line to call people who contribute their time and effort to making free software available to everyone losers just because you disagree with their choice of license.