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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
nospam wrote:
In article , Roger Blake wrote: The BSDs have much to recommend them but Linux tends to have better hardware and application support. no it definitely does not. Just don't bother to tell us that you can't read. Because that is way beyond your capabilities most hardware vendors don't bother writing linux drivers. the market is much too small to be worth the resources needed. most software developers don't bother writing a linux version. the market much is too small to be worth the resources needed. lately, the focus is ios and android. there may not even be a mac or windows version, never mind linux. |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
On 2018-06-01, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
nospam wrote: In article , Roger Blake wrote: The BSDs have much to recommend them but Linux tends to have better hardware and application support. no it definitely does not. Just don't bother to tell us that you can't read. Because that is way beyond your capabilities Good luck in booting BSDs on recent hardware -- press any key to continue or any other to quit... |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
On 2018-06-01, oOze wrote:
- Using Nouveau in Debian prevents wake from sleep or returns a screen with corrupted graphics. Nouveau sucks, though graphics drivers are such complex beasts that I give the developers their due for coming up with something that works at all. (Unless you've worked in software development it's hard to appreciate just how difficult it is to get these stoopid machines to do anything useful.) The proprietary binary Nvidia driver works quite well in most cases but since it's out-of-tree with the rest of the Linux distriubution there is always the potential for problems to develop. Best-supported open-source video for Linux is Intel. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com Don't talk to cops! -- http://www.DontTalkToCops.com Badges don't grant extra rights -- http://www.CopBlock.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
Melzzzzz wrote:
On 2018-06-01, Peter Köhlmann wrote: nospam wrote: In article , Roger Blake wrote: The BSDs have much to recommend them but Linux tends to have better hardware and application support. no it definitely does not. Just don't bother to tell us that you can't read. Because that is way beyond your capabilities Good luck in booting BSDs on recent hardware You are talking to "nospam" In short, you are talking to heated dirt. Dumb beyond any imagination |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
On 6/1/18 3:18 PM, Roger Blake wrote:
On 2018-06-01, Snit wrote: Which is great -- and it does for many. Curious: what type work do you do with it? I do a lot of system and network management work, mainly with internet-based servers (web servers, mail servers, etc.). Used to do software development years ago, but transitioned to sysadmin type work. In some cases I do build software from source (Makefiles are still in use, and still look like bursts of line noise inside!), even make modifications, but I don't get involved in major development projects any more. Yeah, for that type of work Linux seems an excellent choice (as if I thought it was not you would immediately jump to GS/OS to please me!) I'm very familiar with the tools available on Linux for doing system administration and network management tasks, many of which are descendents of ancient Unix programs. (I can actually use my circa 1981 Unix BSD 4.1 manual as a guide to many of the common programs still in use. In a lot of cases all that has changed is adding new command-line options. Scripts I wrote decades ago still work with minor tweaking to accomodate new versions of utility programs.) I do some work with Windows servers and workstations as well, which is why I subscribe to some Windows newsgroups. I might be more willing to move to Linux if I was, for example, a programmer. I do a fair amount of work with images and videos (mostly screencasting and other educational videos). For the work I do Linux is not as good of a fit. As far as I know there are no professional-quality video or photo/graphics editing tools for Linux that you can buy. Correct. I do not do high end video editing, but the work I do is benefited greatly by features that do not exist on any software I know of for Linux (hiding / showing / replacing the mouse pointer, showing hiding keystrokes, sometimes highlighting windows, etc. -- all in post processing). Plenty of good screen recording software on Linux, but because of this limit and my own familiarity with my tools of choice I generally run Linux in a VM when I record it. So Windows or OS-X are going to be the best platforms for that. The GIMP is good enough for my own minimal photo editing needs, the simple Openshot editor for video. GIMP would handle a fair amount of my image editing needs but there are a number of things I do which are better handled by Photoshop. On the other hand, ffmpeg is like a Swiss army knife for doing media conversion, and is even used under the hood by a lot of Windows-based conversion software. And a lot of macOS software, too. I have used multiple GUI wrappers for it over the years and sometimes even run it in the command line (I am not a big command line user but recognize it has advantages over the GUI and use it when it fits my needs). -- Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again. https://youtu.be/H4NW-Cqh308 |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
On 2018-06-01, Melzzzzz wrote:
Good luck in booting BSDs on recent hardware It tends to be especially problematical with laptops. Companies like Intel, Broadcom, Nvidia, AMD, LSI/3Ware, and others have released Linux drivers for at least some of their hardware; in some cases providing source code, in other cases not. HP provides Linux printer drivers, as does Brother and Samsung. In many cases where no vendor-supplied driver exists, open-source developers have reverse-engineered drivers with varying levels of success. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com Don't talk to cops! -- http://www.DontTalkToCops.com Badges don't grant extra rights -- http://www.CopBlock.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
On 6/1/18 3:21 PM, Melzzzzz wrote:
On 2018-06-01, Peter Köhlmann wrote: nospam wrote: In article , Roger Blake wrote: The BSDs have much to recommend them but Linux tends to have better hardware and application support. no it definitely does not. Just don't bother to tell us that you can't read. Because that is way beyond your capabilities Good luck in booting BSDs on recent hardware Well, a derivation of it does... macOS. -- Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again. https://youtu.be/H4NW-Cqh308 |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:40:22 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
Doomsdrzej explained : On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 05:53:42 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio wrote: In article Anonymous wrote: https://betanews.com/2018/05/31/consumer-privacy-concerns/ When it comes to android apps, just get a firewall and block the apps wifi and cell access. I personally use NoRoot Firewall Why not do it correctly and just remove the appropriate app permissions...? https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...hirts.firewall You can easily block each app individually. The only thing is, you have stop the firewall to download something from the google store or use a browser. Then just restart it. Riiight. That's linux thinking right there. Don't fix it - block it and screw up everything while wasting CPU cycles and battery. SMH. Linux, to me, is basically like a used Pontiac which might actually get you from point A to point B, but requires to be fixed on a monthly basis. Patently ridiculous statement. He obviously doesn't even have a driver's license. You have to have a Class A driver's license anyway to drive heavy wehicles over 10.5 tons. He has apparenyly at one time tried to drive a Linux, but couldn't even get it into first gear. He filled the fuel tanks with gasoline also, not knowing it runs on diesel. This caused him to immediately give up on Linux and crawl back to Windows. What a stupid analogy. -- I go fishing; I catch nothing. I go to orgies; I catch everything. |
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On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:16:07 +0100, Mike Easter wrote:
ooze wrote: I'll be honest with you though: I don't like any of the operating systems on the market more than I do Linux. Windows and Mac OS' lack of customization bother me as well as their insistence on essentially slowing down the operating system to help manufacturers sell more computers and processors. Linux is better in that respect despite the many bugs but it's the attitude of the people using it that constantly alienates me. You people are like fanatical Muslims in that any word critical of your operating system is reason enough to behead the person who speaks it. Some people obsess on 'my OS is better than your OS' wars. Personally I got over that after the Atari ST vs Amiga wars. Many many people use both Win and linux for one thing and another; and Chrome OS and/or android for another thing or other. There is more than one tool in the box. I'll stick to the one 90% of the population uses. More programs available (no I won't say "apps", those are for phones), more help available, more compatibility with everyone, .... -- Is it true that DNA stands for the National Dyslexia Association? |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
On 2018-06-01, Snit wrote:
On 6/1/18 3:21 PM, Melzzzzz wrote: On 2018-06-01, Peter Köhlmann wrote: nospam wrote: In article , Roger Blake wrote: The BSDs have much to recommend them but Linux tends to have better hardware and application support. no it definitely does not. Just don't bother to tell us that you can't read. Because that is way beyond your capabilities Good luck in booting BSDs on recent hardware Well, a derivation of it does... macOS. macOS works only on Apple harwdware. No AMD. -- press any key to continue or any other to quit... |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
In article , Melzzzzz
wrote: Good luck in booting BSDs on recent hardware Well, a derivation of it does... macOS. macOS works only on Apple harwdware. No AMD. it works on non-apple hardware, including amd, although requires a little tweaking. |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
In article , Jimmy Wilkinson Knife
wrote: I'll stick to the one 90% of the population uses. More programs available yep (no I won't say "apps", those are for phones), app is short for application, a term that dates back at least to the 80s, probably even earlier more help available, more compatibility with everyone, .... yep |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
On 6/1/18 3:44 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:16:07 +0100, Mike Easter wrote: ooze wrote: I'll be honest with you though: I don't like any of the operating systems on the market more than I do Linux. Windows and Mac OS' lack of customization bother me as well as their insistence on essentially slowing down the operating system to help manufacturers sell more computers and processors. Linux is better in that respect despite the many bugs but it's the attitude of the people using it that constantly alienates me. You people are like fanatical Muslims in that any word critical of your operating system is reason enough to behead the person who speaks it. Some people obsess on 'my OS is better than your OS' wars.* Personally I got over that after the Atari ST vs Amiga wars. Many many people use both Win and linux for one thing and another; and Chrome OS and/or android for another thing or other. There is more than one tool in the box. I'll stick to the one 90% of the population uses.* More programs available (no I won't say "apps", those are for phones), more help available, more compatibility with everyone, .... Use what you like. I tend to look at quality of tool for the work I do over the popularity of it... but sometimes those are the same. -- Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again. https://youtu.be/H4NW-Cqh308 |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
On 6/1/18 3:44 PM, Melzzzzz wrote:
On 2018-06-01, Snit wrote: On 6/1/18 3:21 PM, Melzzzzz wrote: On 2018-06-01, Peter Köhlmann wrote: nospam wrote: In article , Roger Blake wrote: The BSDs have much to recommend them but Linux tends to have better hardware and application support. no it definitely does not. Just don't bother to tell us that you can't read. Because that is way beyond your capabilities Good luck in booting BSDs on recent hardware Well, a derivation of it does... macOS. macOS works only on Apple harwdware. No AMD. Correct (well, at least in any licenses way!) -- Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again. https://youtu.be/H4NW-Cqh308 |
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Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
On 6/1/18 3:57 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: I'll stick to the one 90% of the population uses. More programs available yep (no I won't say "apps", those are for phones), app is short for application, a term that dates back at least to the 80s, probably even earlier Right. It is the term Apple has used since AT LEAST the start of the Mac. more help available, more compatibility with everyone, .... yep -- Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again. https://youtu.be/H4NW-Cqh308 |
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