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I guess this is one of the few things where China and the US fully agree.

If they’d let their people freely talk it would be way harder to demonize the other side.

Hard disagree.

If one person’s rights negatively affect another persons rights you can’t just rule one right to be more important in every situation. There’s gotta be more nuance than that.

No, I don’t really have a use for an A5 printer.

I’m also not sure if a spacebar-sized touchpad would be all that great.

Edit: I checked back on this post out of curiosity. Some people really are a bit dramatic when it comes to touchpads.

Are they the best pointing device ever?: No. Will they cause your fingers to wither away and your hair to fall out?: also no.

Especially not one time for a firmware update.

I’m looking forward to the pro-level backpaddling we’ll be seeing the next months.

I already have a computer with USB-C - legacy connectors on peripherals force me to buy dongles.

That’s why I want my computer to have both.

It’s definitely not as good as it should’ve been, but as long as PC manufactures include as many standards as possible it should play well with whatever standard the peripherals are using.

Until it doesn’t.

Didn’t they have issues with previous MBPs where they’d charge slower on one side than on the other without apple acknowledging it?

But that aside Apple is pretty good ad supporting mostly everything. Other manufacturers are way worse in that regard.

But I already have peripheral devices with older connectors. This just forces me to buy dongles.

Also, USB-C can only “do it all” on paper. In practice you have multiple sockets on any given device that support different subsets of the standard. If you’re lucky, the capabilities are printed right on the device or in the manual. If you’re unlucky you’ll have to figure it out yourself.

I guess they could start saving money by not paying their CEO millions/year.

That’s a bold move.

They’d better make sure the phone holds up and doesn’t break within half a year or something.

They both implemented ways to detect each others tags and warn their users.

Afaik that’s as far as it goes.

I had a motorola z3 play a few years ago.

Software quality was pretty good. Security updates were sometimes 3-4 months behind and would combine a few monts when they did get released. When I contacted them about it I was told that not all security patches google issues apply to them. I don’t have a way of verifying that.

With “normal” updates to different Android versions they where also slow, but I guess that’s normal with most Android vendors.

The biggest bummer with that phone was that they killed the module-feature halfway trough it’s livecycle in some regions. (You could snap modules to the back that would add additional stuff like a 360° Camera or a bigger Speaker)

There is an official lineageos build for the z3 play which still gets updated I believe. Even very recent motorola phones get lineageos pretty soon after release. (Not shure tho if that includes all or just the flagships)

“Lazyness and entitlement” is a weird way of spelling “doesn’t want to contribute to mass murder of civilians”

Oh, I see. I had it on different disks with one efi partition at the start of each. Windows didn’t like that.

Why do we need 24GB of RAM in a Phone again?

Windows will leave your EFi linux boot alone.

I wish that was True. Windows loves to overwrite boot partitions during major updates in my experience.

Not sure if I would call it a threat.

Congressman Seth Moulton prposed to do this in May '23. Taiwan obviously wasn’t happy about that proposal.

Then there’s also a statement by former National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien from March '23 where he said that “I can’t imagine they’d be intact” after an invasion of China.

The 2nd one is a bit nebulous but doesn’t talk about reunification but about annexation.

Yes, but that stems more from the fact that the Republic of China (aka Taiwan) and the People’s Republic of China both lay claims to be the real China.

You can’t really declare independence from yourself.

Also the PRC would probably attack immediately if the ROC gave up their claim on being china.

X is old and very hard to maintain. A lot of rules about how displays work have changed drastically since X became a thing. X went along with most of those changes, which meant the introduction of more and more hacks to keep it running.

Over time X became worse and worse to work on and people realized that it’s easier to write something new from scratch instead of trying to fix the decade-old technical debt in X.

That new thing was Wayland and over time most if not all people that where interested in working on desktop compositing pivoted away from X.

Wayland (as it is always the case with new software of that size) didn’t hit the ground running. It had various issues at the beginning and also follows a different desig philosophy than X.

Despite a lot of issues being fixed some people are still very vocal about not wanting to use wayland for one reason or another. While some of those reasons are valid, most come from ignorance or laziness to adapt.

Anything that isn’t debian-like. I’m just very used to It and can’t make myself learn anything else.