Xatolos

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Offer left hand to shake?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Should have just left it in, and been able to get the soldering done twice as fast.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

More likely he feels emboldened. After the whole saluting thing, so many jumped to his defense that he most likely feels that he doesn't need to hide it as much anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

But we are talking about the average user. And the average user uses their smartphone as their main computer. What you as a single person isn't what the subject is. You've gone off topic.

The average person is most likely using their Android (Linux) device as their "desktop". The year of the Linux desktop has been a reality for years. They use it to call, make appointments, email, send and receive official documents, sign those documents (DocuSign), photo for business reasons and expenses, etc... I used to do inventory and order management on mine.

"Smartphones are the most widely used devices globally, with 5.3 billion users.... Laptops are used by 1.8 billion people... Desktops, with 1.2 billion users globally"

Android is based on Linux, true but it is hardly a desktop environment

Technology changes, and with it comes it's shape and form. Many would have told you that a GUI is hardly a desktop environment before. What makes it "hardly a desktop environment"? And don't say "I can't do my job" because again, we are talking about the average user, not you.

I've seen businesses run completely on Android. Most POS units are Android. They do sales, ordering (from supplies), employee payrolls, time sheets, a whole business.

What else would it need to do, that the average user would want/need, to make it more "official"? "carrier/Google from a privacy/enshittification perspective" Pretty much every OS is having this issue, and devices can be purchased without carrier controls (I bought mine like that.)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's just the child being so damn cute.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thing is, he is alienating every US ally, while trying to become allies with Russia. So if they try to do a coup of the entire country in 2 years while the US has no allies but Russia, no country would be able to help as it would internationally be seen as a "foreign invasion". Only allies would be globally allowed to enter (in this case Russia) which wouldn't. Any other country that attempts to enter would be declaring war/an invasion, with the US and Russia declaring that they are tempting WW3 since they aren't an Allie and so have no reason to be getting involved (in accordance to international law).

(It's what's happening in Ukraine now, no country is sending troops because it can quickly turn into WW3. MAGA is learning from Russia/Ukraine and will use what it's learned to do the same thing.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

When was the last time you used a desktop?

For most people, their smartphone is their computer, and (globally) Android is the top used one. Android is a version of Linux, so every year for quite a while has been the Year of the Linux "desktop".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

We also all know how much in charge of the White House he is too.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Trump: This is all Biden's fault, and the Democrats.

MAGA: clapping and cheering

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OSX was never really open sourced. If you tried compiling it, you'd have found it wouldn't work because it was incomplete.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Vulkan has hacked in support, but not official support. It's like saying that because I can hack in Flash on macOS, that must mean that it has tons of support. Two different things.

And macOS is Unix certified, but that doesn't make it Unix (I know, it's complicated...) To help show this, EulerOS (from Huawei) is a Linux OS.

EulerOS is a high-security, highly scalable, high-performance, open enterprise Linux operating system

Its was also Unix 03 certified, just like macOS. Even though it's Linux, not Unix.

 

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