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These camels have double reinforced backs. And they already swapped knowledge of their business processes and control over critical data for a slightly cheaper (year 1) it contract. Stupid camels.

I don’t know where the idea that there is a winner and a loser for everything came from? Probably the same dicks that invented patent trolling. Anyone can do anything if they put their minds and resources to it, and doing a good thing after someone else is not a loss.

China is just getting on with doing their thing, slightly more responsibly and sustainably than most who developed before. Usa and other 'wannabe usa’s (like where i live) seem to be content doing their things less responsibly and less sustainably.

It’s not China ‘winning’ in this scenario, they’re trying not to lose too much, or, to postpone losses, but are likely to have significant losses forced on them nonetheless.

I think it’s more of a “dickheads wantonly shitting on the fan scenario” than a “winner takes all”.

Basically liquid nitrogen? I guess its a question of how much energy you have to put in to get it to expand rapidly enough. Presumably just exposing it to atmospheric conditions will be quite a slow expansion.

But maybe , at scale, that’s enough to get astable flow into a turbine.

It doesn’t sound quite as convenient as pumped hydro (in terms of controllability) but if you don’t need a lake at top of mountain, then that’s cool.

Yes, humans be like to dumb do; and their bosses, often, do dumb like to dumb dum do-be-do, so hard that they don’t even know what they dumb be doing.

But whatever they’re doing, its happening 3.9% faster now!

I don’t do banking on my phone. I hardly do any apps really so can’t advise - pretty much just co maps, libera reader, vanilla music player, and vlc. So mostly I’m just using f-droid apps.

I’d guess you might need to install at least microG or even full blown play services to use a lot of fancy apps…

Mine run on lineage v24 which is based on android 17.

I just bought 2x sony experia xa2’s off ebay for £15each - so as I have some back ups for if i lose my other one. Unlockable bootloader so long as sony keeps its developer website thingy open. lineage os (dependant on above) . headphone port. micro-sd card slot. decent size. I don’t see any downsides - i don’t understand why people get rid of em. Maybe they don’t know about lineage OS.

£300 for a fucking phone ? good on you if you can afford that.

Yep, and most “security vulnerabilities” are just humans, especially the ones who are not motivated (compensated) enough to give a fuck.

meh, it’s his toy/joke project, he can break it if he likes. If you don’t like it, then Fork it.

For five years all I ever heard was . . .

Are you sure you know who it is in the bubble?

I dunno where you live but when i hear the same thing three times, i usually try to move my ears a bit.

yep, user friendly, easy install, gooey install, proprietary drivers; extra stuff.

i think they were aiming to loss lead, capture user base and ultimately get some b2b sales - oh well :( OP author even ignores stuff like Lubuntu and Xubuntu, which i assume canonical have at least some contribution to. OP gets downvote from me, worthless article.

He just needs about treefiddy.

Those are balls.

This close, they always look like landscape. But nope, you’re looking at balls.

Buy a phone that lineage os support then. Way more options than pixels. Pretty cheap used, you just have to accept one from a few years ago. and make sure that any required bootloader unlock from oem can still be done.

He did scam money out of govts and banks to help pay those hires though. It turns out that scamming is the most valued skill in the world.

I’ve never seen the waste management on these. I guess you just dump it all in Flint, MI or somewhere else that can’t afford lawyers.

They’ll have cameras and gps though. So be careful, the cops might protect it more than humans. Catch it in a faraday cage maybe.

Breaking onedrive? I’m confused. It’s like that thing in Southpark “How do you kill that which has no life?”

Most people - especially those without critical thinking - are clicking buttons in browser based CRM systems. Or using some other web-gui hold their hand and query or transact with a database. OS makes no difference to them.
Even my very slow public sector org has moved most of its database interfaces to web apps by now - though i think there re still two important native windows (probably DOS) applications.

Apart from those something like Chrome OS or OSX would probably be best for them - they just need a stable, up to date web browser.

with cloud storage, and even MS pushing people to web apps, even paper pushers working via documents can still just use browser for stuff, and many are.

Lots of people i work with suck so badly at MS Word that they don’t even know how shitty the web version is. They literally just click stuff and if the OS opens a web interface, then that’s what they use.

Most of these people use androids or i phones for lots of things, so they certainly are capable of using things that are not windows - they just learn what buttons they need to click to do what. Like they would’ve in the 70s/80s with a unix terminal. Or in the 30s if they were operating a telephone switchboard.

Yeah , most of the people in our IT don’t know how to use windows, much less teach anyone else about it.

They just try, and often fail to lock it down so that people can’t break it. They remote in and make something slightly less bad and say, “well that was all setup wrong”. but they never teach anyone a thing - or apparently learn how to use install all this ms shite they buy before they force it on us.

I think that’s the real issue with linux. IT people don’t want to learn it, and learn how to secure it - because many of them - especially the mamagers have got imposter syndrome about windows or something or stockholm syndrome, i dunno…

At least when they fuck it up with miscsoft they can often blame MS - and often they’ve got a reasonable case ans MS does seem to keep fucking them over with updates.

Yeah “fag” is fine in context such as: “I’m just nipping out for a fag” “Can I bum a fag?”

But you can’t say it to, or about, a person, well, unless you’re a homophobe.

‘faggot’ is almost always a slur though, you’d better be in that rare circumstance where you’re very clearly referring to a bundle of sticks otherwise, no.

I guess ‘nip’ is also occasionally a racist slur for Japanese, but normally quite innocent; just something quick. or a pinch, or a wee dram.

Vaguely related, you might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari. A few British slang terms migrated out of queer-creoles into more mainstream usage , possibly via popular radio and tv.