This is a case where the class is led by a moron. That person should be reported.

Piracy for the students was justified because they had no other option. But outside of this school, if I were you and I needed the software again, I'd definitely use Octave without question. (Or Python if I'm willing to learn something new.)

The point is, if you have free and open source alternatives, use them. You'll be better off.

This is the kind of things I like to hear!

Are you sure the distances are not swapped?

I certainly wouldn't think possibly badly written and indexed docs without crowd sourced helpfulness indicator where you may or may not find your answer is 1/4 miles, while a concise highly upvoted answer in stack overflow is 21 miles.

Search for "how to install Firefox in Arch". Snapstore page which asks you to first install snap from AUR, and then install Firefox through Snap is the second entry, I kid you not!

And they have same pages for Fedora erc.

This predatory behavior is to try and get any potential new Linux users to use their crapstore instead of their distro's package is disgusting and malicious.

I don't need an AI helper for my OS, thank you. (What I need is to drop the push on snap.)

With moves like this, they are really foreshadowing what Windows has become (who ironically is finally dropping Cortana now).

1. That certain community is beehaw.org by any chance? They also ask you to write pretty much an essay to join, and didn't accept mine.

Should I pull the plug and RE?

• Today my investments are 0.5% away from 3% withdrawal rate to equal expected spending
• Am invested ~50% in growth funds, 43% in S&P, 7% in bonds and money market
• If I work, I'll earn ~7% of my NW per year

Fastest growth happens with community of people who have growth mindset.

And gamers + owners of Steam Deck definitely have that! I mean we take apart our deck just to change the look of the thing - something that could be thought of as very risky by others is just another adventure, a new land to be discovered for us.

There are people.

No such radical change is expected. Am midway through my life, that is to say 45.

Just like YouTube is a left wing cesspool with cancel culture?

This except Ubuntu has fallen. Mint or PipOS are better now.

Damn it. Just when I bit the bullet and bought Diablo 4 on Battlenet. I bet whenever they launch Diablo 4 on Steam, they'll not just transfer my license it to Steam.

Edit: FWIW I'm using the Battlenet launcher with Lutris, and so far it's far less problematic than Epic. Hasn't yet forgotten my log in and asked for password again like Epic does every few days which is super annoying (pretty sure this is how they operate on Windows also).

Yeah!

Should be pretty easy to fake it.

Too expensive though.

Also increasing medical costs is part of the equation I guess. Aging is a pain. Hence I'm trying to balance retirement with some life left vs earning some more to make things smoother. Having said that, I sort of did take that into account.

I don't quite believe it, but secretly hope that the metric is correct and it's indeed accelerating.

Linux desktop has been ahead of its competitors, both Mac and Windows, for a while now. While Windows keeps getting worse and worse.

And now all games run on Linux desktop too (except Destiny).

May be people are slowly realizing and catching on?

Yeah, the reviewer definitely isn't the smartest of the lot.

Agree with this. I think we need to treat whether we empathize with the person separately from how corporates treat people.

Looks as though silencing individuals without records is becoming a trend, with the other notable news of Amazon banning someone for something they didn't do that I saw just a few days after I saw this news.