If you can’t get rid of the firmware blobs, isolating them seems like the next-best option to me.

AFAIK, RYF was designed with the goal of changing the market by influencing what consumers demand. If some commercially viable device can attribute its success to RYF, then a big company might aspire to get RYF on its devices… and the big company can pressure the upstream manufacturer to provide blobless hardware (perhaps by releasing the source material for the blobs, for example).

I admire the FSF’s optimism enough to give them money.

I have been working on different things at different times. My strengths and weaknesses ebb and flow based on the focus of my work, but I recognize my inability to know it all at any given time.

Hi, a Zotac user here. CPU is a bit slower than I expected, but overall I’m very happy with my setup. Zotac CI527 is cheap, well built, and silent!

It seems like the best Zotac fanless PC is the ZBOX-CI549NANO-P which uses an i5-7300u. The author of the post installed an AMD Ryzen 5 1600.

2 cores/4 threads vs 6 cores/12 threads.

Thanks for the link! A few thoughts:

Wow, Zotac is really bad at selling silent computers. They have a ton of models and I don’t see a way to see only passively cooled models.

The silent PC crowd are all about x86 at the moment. I wonder how ARM fares here. Are all end user ARM machines like Raspberry Pi? (Its CPU is too slow and it has bad IO connectivity.)

I think it’s usually because “that’s what work is buying me”.

Can anyone show me a laptop that doesn’t lose to a macbook in any of these categories?

• performance
• price
• form factor
• fit and finish

I’ve run Linux on a Macbook because my employer wouldn’t give me anything else. Reason was: effort of IT team vs my effort of running Linux.

But pretty sure my effort was extensive compared to what their effort would have been :)

16:10 screen, wide-gamut display, correct ppi (X1C is too low, and the high-res Dells too high).

The last ThinkPad (of which I have many) to have a 16:10 screen was T410, which is now 8 years old.

Personally, there’s no other modern laptop I’d rather use, regardless of operating system. To me nothing is more important than a good and proper screen.

If anybody comes up with a laptop that has a 4:3 screen, I’ll reconsider.

I don’t think many people buy new Apple hardware with the intention of immediately wiping it and installing Linux.

My MBP, for example, is running OSX because I need it (or Windows) to use Capture One photo software. When I upgrade to a new machine I’m going to put Linux on the old one and use it for everything else. I did the same thing with my iMac years ago.

I personally still think the build quality of Apple laptops are better than the alternatives. The trackpad in my old MBP, for example, still feels better than the trackpads I’ve used on newer machines from other brands. The performance and specs are less important to me as long as it’s “fast enough” and the build is solid.

All that said, I’m not buying any more Apple products because their software quality has completely gone down the toilet the last few years.

In this case I didn’t really have a choice. I had tried asking for a PC before I started this job; but they tried to get me in really fast and provisioned a Mac without even asking me. My boss made up some bullshit about how you have to have them for developers laptops as the PCs the company bought didn’t have the specs (16GB of ram and such). I’m really glad I got Linux booting on it and not have to use it in VMWare (which does limit your max ram to 12GB and doesn’t give you access to the logical HT cores).

But yea if it was my personal laptop, I wouldn’t even bother buying a mac to being with. My recent HP had everything supported on it with the latest Ubuntu or on Gentoo with a stock kernel tree right out of the box.

I got given a macbook so I had no choice what laptop to use so I installed linux on it and it works well enough.

Please don’t get overboard. This response draws in a lot of unrelated things that didn’t happen here and we generally react on actual issues. Many of the things you describe have not happened, so it’s no use to bring them into the discussion. For example, no one mentioned trigger warnings, it’s you introducing them. (we can have a trigger warning discussion elsewhere, I find them useful for $reasons, but have had no practical need here)

As useless as I find an NSFW or sensitive tag, keeping the discussion at a serious and constrained level is also important. It’s a valid point to raise, please don’t make it seem like is not.

My stance on the issue is that your title made it sufficiently clear what the topic of linked post is.

This is not about what any of us may think—it’s about what our respective employers may think, and I’m pretty sure they are, with few exceptions, pretty conservative on the issue.

I don’t think your slippery slope is very compelling. What’s being proposed is a single tag to broadly indicate to employed lobsters—most of us, by all indications—that a given story could generate awkward conversations with one’s boss. I think it’s pretty clear what “NSFW” means, and objective criteria aren’t required—the suggestion mechanism will handle edge cases just fine.

A rather sanctimonious response to someone who just wants to be able to look at a programming site at their job. If you think it could be NSFW, then mark it, if not and someone does they’ll mark it. I was the one who made the comment on your post, and I read the article at home. It’s really great that you work at a place where you can scroll through titles about dildos or are willing and wealthy enough to get fired out of principle. To those of us without those liberties, you sound like an asshole.

I agree. It’s impossible to come up with a consensus about what is “sensitive” and what’s not. I think that by looking at the title and the URL that is being linked to, a reasonable person should be able to decide if it’s “safe” for them to open the link. If it’s borderline, then don’t open it or click the “save” button and view it at home.

Hey, I agree with your position–just running the process. :)

From https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF

one really cool side effect of having a remote-friendly team is that it makes it normal for people to work from home occasionally – one person on my team has kids and he’ll pretty frequently work from home so that it’s easier for him to pick up his kids from school or something, and it’s not an issue at all since half the team is remote anyway :)

My commute isn’t quite as bad as yours. When I started my current job, I negotiated the expectation that I would be working from home about half of the days. I now work from home 2 days a week some weeks and 3 days a week on other weeks. My commute is still terrible half the time, but on average it’s not a bad commute. I would phrase it as “I’m feeling burnt out because of my commute and I don’t think I can keep doing it 5 days a week for much longer. I would like to begin working X days per week from home so that I can continue to work for the company”. This doesn’t send an aggressive ultimatum, but it signals that you’re probably going to quit soon if they don’t accommodate you. If that doesn’t work, it’s probably time to find a new job.

Sure. It was the standard #ac130d that’s used around the site, but I’ve dimmed it to #740804.

Alternatively, change the bar into a conga line of lobster emojis.

People who mess around with exposed engines on test stands are familiar with those kinds of hazards, and (usually) operate them in controlled environments (garages), where catastrophic failure is a calculated risk. Full scale afterburner tests probably represent the extreme end of this, but here’s an example of a hobbyists small scale mock up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHEHMFbEH8I

Here’s a full-scale afterburner test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj4w7i-TqsE

+1 for adding that tag

I until recently would have agreed. However, I think that Conversations on Android showed that you can make a good client that people seem to be able to agree upon. Having something like that (a dominant, fully featured, yet simple to use) application, maybe web application could make things better again when using XMPP.

If not I hope that Matrix picks up some steam. It looks promising, however I think it’s too early. Currently the clients are very rough around the corners and only techy people seem to use it. That’s not a complaint, other than against myself, for not helping out - or not having time to.

This is all based on the assumption that the major reason for not using XMPP is the lack of easily working desktop/mobile sync, especially in combination with encryption. OMEMO to me is the best thing that has happened in a while.

I’ve sometimes thought that the only reason we have good email interoperability is because there was no profit in running email systems back when the standard was written.

It seems that there’s no way to create a commons once a market develops. (I’m happy to be proven wrong, and would love to see counterexamples!)

XMPP is evolving with the times. You can now get end-to-end encryption, and mobile-friendly optimizations that minimize polling and save battery life.

Android client: https://conversations.im/

iOS client: https://chatsecure.org/

Eventual codebase unification: https://chatsecure.org/blog/chatsecure-conversations-zom/

Riot/Matrix isn’t XMPP but is similarly open: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/riot.html

Not to mention KakaoTalk, WhatsApp, and LINE, which are crazy popular in places that aren’t the US.

You listed Snapchat twice!

I think there is a slight difference with iMessage. When it comes to the Mac app, you could plug in all sorts of services that had XMPP as their baseline. This fell apart over time as Facebook, Google, etc. all closed up and in the High Sierra version of Messages you can only add smaller Jabber/XMPP services.

For a lot of those services, they did start out as open XMPP services, but it’s likely the case that they realized they didn’t want the competition on the client side.

I think part of the issue has been XMPP’s lack of adoption of new market features, and how hard it’s been to keep up with the pace of innovation throughout the entire XMPP federated network. If those challenges can be made simple, I’d expect there to be an increase in adoption. I don’t know if that would be enough to start chipping away at the network effect however.

like a shell script wrapping it ? :^)