Comically, the organization with the worst history for virtualization now doubled-down on SAAS. This is certainly going well.

Familiarity goes a really long way. My mom still wants her PortalTV unit to answer to voice commands.

My mom and my wife’s mom have computers soon to be out of support. Windows.

They need something stable, but also that does all their normal stuff. I’d love something that updated cleanly like enterprise Linux, but gave them the win7 interface they had for so long (they complain about this one now).

So that’s your market. Yeah, a wine box would work well, and Nobara is nearly the winning candidate. But even it requires a lot of finagling for windows people, and I’d love something completely seamless so it’s easier to support.

They’ve only almost barely nearly shat out a usable Unix with hurd. Give them another few decades, my dude!

desktop client app for Linux

An app THAT DOES WHAT? You may as well be asking for “a food I can eat bite by bite”.

Still crutching on containers?

Violates ISO as well.

Click Communicator is phone purpose-built

The ad summary starts with a Russian accent but I don’t know where it goes from there.

They reversed that policy

For now.

Careful with the ugreen: I found if you get the cheaper option, you can’t hot-swap a disk anymore. They don’t make that really clear.

Upgrades between major versions - since they can be radically different - is generally not an effective feature.

Having said that, conectiva’s apt-rpm could upgrade and downgrade between major versions; and it worked really well!

Got a version without docker?

I got this s10 refurb in the first year it was available. I think that’s 5 or 6 years so far.

Anecdotes as worthless as they are, I think the new battery charging settings will give a few more years yet.

Oh, so an iso27002 failure, then.

The core insight: OSS monetization was always about attention.

As an Open-source contributor and former owner of several projects, I’m embarrassed.

If you came into Open-source to become rich or famous, you’re a selfish fool. Code for the sake of the code.

A ir-gapped - Entirely self-contained. Runs without internet access, external services, or tracking

Yet, has a dockerfile.

Which is it? Iso27002 or no?

If it really was so bad then all major distros and DEs wouldn’t be actively working to switch.

I’m laughing in Systemd.

I work 100% remotely, and my day job doesn’t even have profile pics. When we meet, it’s a dozen cartoon images or memes as faces. No cams, no pics.

The side gig I’ve had for 20 years has never had a pic. These people wouldn’t recognize me if I walked in the office one day.

Why should I? We don’t see a value.

Container crutches. Ew. And if a dev can’t spell self-hosted, then I don’t trust them to do it properly.

Canada would be happy to receive many of these skilled refugees. There are programmes now for medical workers, and if global companies prefer American timezones for worker surveillance, then have I got news for them !