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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The original interview is no longer available, but here are references.

Microsoft CEO and incontinent over-stater of facts Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," during a commercial spot masquerading as a interview with the Chicago Sun-Times on June 1, 2001.

Ballmer was trying to articulate his concern, whether real or imagined, that limited recourse to the GNU GPL requires that all software be made open source.

"The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source," Ballmer explained to an excessively credulous, un-named Sun-Times reporter who, predictably, neglected to question this bold assertion.

https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/24/top_10_steve_ballmer_quotes_from_microsoft_history/

"Ballmer: I may have called Linux a cancer but now I love it" https://www.zdnet.com/article/ballmer-i-may-have-called-linux-a-cancer-but-now-i-love-it/

"Former Microsoft CEO Ballmer does about-face on Linux technology" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-ballmer-linux-idUSKCN0WC2RA/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Have you ensured that your setup will pass email authentication processes?

It has been a long time since email from random hosts is accepted for forwarding or delivery. This Wikipedia may help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_authentication

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The BBC News RSS feeds seem to be at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10628494 The page content seems to be old but the feed contents looks up to date.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There is another piece in their library that may be more appropriate "AI Took My Job"

https://app.suno.ai/song/14572e0f-a446-4625-90ff-3676a790a886/

[EDIT - fixed missing words]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I would look for a printer that supports Web Services for Devices (WSD) or Airscan (eSCL). These protocol allows you setup a scanner without installing a driver.

Here are a couple of starting points for sane-airscan. I discovered it long after I had installed the drivers for my all-in-one.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SANE#Sharing_your_scanner_over_a_network

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man5/sane-airscan.5.html

https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Have a look at the size of the Finnish waste repository.

"They'll hold a total of 5,500 tonnes of waste," says Joutsen. "So Onkalo will take all the high-level nuclear waste produced by Finland's five nuclear power plants in their entire life cycles."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230613-onkalo-has-finland-found-the-answer-to-spent-nuclear-fuel-waste-by-burying-it

The Finnish repository is designed with a life of 100,000 years. Homo sapiens (i.e us) have existed for about 300,000 years.

Article about the problems warnings that will comprehensible in 10,000 years https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200731-how-to-build-a-nuclear-warning-for-10000-years-time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Chrome reports the memory a tab uses if you hover over the tab. Look at the task manager within your browser. Try clicking on the burger bar, then "More tools" and "Task Manager" within the browser.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Tweaks application has a switch to enable maximize buttons on windows https://itsfoss.com/gnome-minimize-button/

Gnome has workspaces. I currently 3 workspaces open. I regularly have four or more open. https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-workspaces.html.en

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Go to https://rpilocator.com/ and filter by your "region" and check for yourself. Most models seems to be available. The Rapsberry Pi 5 is available for pre-order from a number of suppliers.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have pre-ordered one for delivery in October. If you look at https://rpilocator.com/ you will find various models in stock at the official price. The Raspberry Pi clearly isn't the tool for you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

YMMV, but here are some reasons

  • Some people prefer to use Linux.
  • Some software runs better on Linux than Windows or Mac (e.g. Docker runs natively on Linux but on Windows and Mac the Docker desktop creates a Linux VM to run Docker on).
  • You have a portable, local development environment without Virtual Machines.

I have a laptop that belongs to my employer and a personal Linux laptop. It is quicker to use the Linux machine than to work out if I can now install WSL 2 or find a Linux instance to do some Linux work.

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