Akip

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[–] Akip@piefed.world 53 points 2 days ago (5 children)

wow the bonus time lapse at the link is very cool

[–] Akip@piefed.world 15 points 4 days ago

On top of that only bigger stores will be able to hire people to work Sundays, while the local smaller shops would have to compete with paying more wages while the total amount of money spent in a month stays the same. People don't get to spend more money on stuff just because the stores open more frequently.

[–] Akip@piefed.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

looks at vertical monitor phones you say?

[–] Akip@piefed.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Getting interstellar vibes from the pic

MURRPH

[–] Akip@piefed.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

I mean we are kinda splitting hairs at this point, would you rather check, how to install something on a system that doesn't break, or check how to restore your system that broke from you installing something once the next major update came along. This happened to me before and from my experience that's exactly where the stability of immutable Distros shine.

Both can be argued for and against, I'm not saying one is better than the other.

If I were op I'd probably go cachyOS keep my eyes out on major e.g. fedora release updates and make at least manually important backups of the home folder. Just learn the feeling of Linux for a while. Given that OP stated they have little patience for fiddeling I'm sure they will come around to stable Debian or immutable releases eventually.

[–] Akip@piefed.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Far from it tbh, I'm mostly a newb in Linux wizardry too. Everything I learned from linux is by making mistakes and learning from those. If you go in with the expectation to never making any compromise or touching anything its not realistic imo. I thought this is the perfect opportunity to show how it's done in case someone is looking for the way.

I had multiple failed attempts with non immutable/ rolling releases before, they do break from my experience and the frustration that comes from those broken promises might lead to the frustrating Linux experience you described more so than stating realistic expectations. I'm not trying to trying to show that Linux is bad or complicated, I'm just trying to say, you learned windows for decades to make it yours, you have to learn a couple of things for Linux to do the same. Thinking different is not realistic.

[–] Akip@piefed.world -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (9 children)
[–] Akip@piefed.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Didn't want to set up an account for their website and I despise m$ but this link seems to be an exact copy at least from the first two paragraphs

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/canadian-government-spent-tens-of-millions-on-secret-palantir-contract/ar-AA24yuhd

Conservative MP, say that Canadian Special Operations Forces Command determined “that Palantir was the only supplier that could meet the key requirement” of the contract.

"At this time of the contract, there were few companies worldwide that had developed this type of software technology," Sadiku said in his statement.

Sounds very similar to what happened here in Germany.

CDU-led Ministry of the Interior. And agrees with the FDP: "To our knowledge, no comparable European software, which is ready to function in a timely manner, is available so far."

Setting up the contract before any alternative had even the chance to rival the now dominant market position of palantir and therefore creating another tech monopoly. New safer challengers wont be able to compete with security and privacy concerns now thrown out the window as palantir now sets the functionality bar... Why do politicians refuse to learn? If you don't own the infrastructure, you will be extorted later. UGH.

[–] Akip@piefed.world 6 points 1 month ago

The different requirements were known for years. But showing up with no alternative to the press conference now that the deal is finally busted and releasing solo statements instead of a joint one of macron+merz just shows incompetence IMO.

[–] Akip@piefed.world 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

second this, used to buy them with kraken but it now requires an ID which kinda defeats the whole anonymous purchase

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