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BobHoward posted:when suspdish worked for endless, endless was still working on that blob shaped cheap appliance computer, which appears to be mostly memoryholed on their website as much as i have an legitimate affinity for weirdly shaped blobputers, i have the cynical belief that stuff like olpc and endless probably get vc funding for the sole reason of pre-seeding the next generation of h1b candidates/walking tax credits basically the "learn to code" meme but on an international level also lol at the deeply patronizing belief that poor people in developing countries are too backwards for regular computers and need special ones with big jelly bean lookin buttons and stuff, rather than like. access to clean water and food
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BobHoward posted:this one weird trick bootstraps third world countries into prosperity! lol
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This California Man is Giving Computers to Poor Africans and the Globalist Elites Are FURIOUS
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Voodoo Cafe posted:basically the "learn to code" meme but on an international level
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spankmeister posted:This California Man is Giving Computers to Poor Africans and the Globalist Elites Are FURIOUS
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in other news, hans de goede just revived your old logitech wireless keyboard https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/24732.html
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i like how every one of these dumb os’ assume that the user has never used a computer before
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there's already a great solution for 'super-cheap but low-powered computers for educational use in developing countries' and that's the raspberry pi
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fritz posted:there's already a great solution for 'super-cheap but low-powered computers for educational use in developing countries' and that's the raspberry pi have you tried using it as a desktop because the performance of that is a bit lacking though I don't know how it stacks up against olpc and similar efforts plus there's the ruggedness issue, along with a lack of screen and keyboard
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fritz posted:there's already a great solution for 'super-cheap but low-powered computers for educational use in developing countries' and that's the raspberry pi on the one hand yes, such a great little thing for the tinkering self-expression kind of computing. for preparing a workforce you kind of need windows and office and such in practice though.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:on the one hand yes, such a great little thing for the tinkering self-expression kind of computing. for preparing a workforce you kind of need windows and office and such in practice though. This is Microsoft propaganda
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xtal posted:This is Microsoft propaganda even if i am wrong it aligns with what the intended users believe. which by an large is all that matters.
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This may be a Wendy's but I didn't order a double down
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Private Speech posted:have you tried using it as a desktop because the performance of that is a bit lacking I use a raspberry pi 4 running Ubuntu sometimes and it’s fine, certainly way better in internet browsing than the pentium mmx I grew up with relative to that online era.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:on the one hand yes, such a great little thing for the tinkering self-expression kind of computing. for preparing a workforce you kind of need windows and office and such in practice though. xtal posted:This is Microsoft propaganda unless their self-esteem is so unbelievably low that they aspire to be a windows janitor, the only thing most people need to know about whatever os they are dealing with is how to open whatever applications they need to do their job The_Franz fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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The_Franz posted:unless their self-esteem is so unbelievably low that they aspire to be a windows janitor, the only thing most people need to know about whatever os they are dealing with is how to open whatever applications they need to do their job even in 2021 children are not born with the ability to e.g. use word if they have never seen it before in their life. and microsofts hold on day-to-day office computer use is pretty strong almost everywhere in the world. the belief that you can just push linux on the desktop onto kids in poor countries and it'll all be great is an idea built mostly on prejudices. if anything it is an experiment far more suitable for e.g. america where there is more room (both economical and in time) to actually experiment.
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Posting on my favorite blogging site, somethingawful.com, that my Manjaro install has nuked itself out of nowhere.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Posting on my favorite blogging site, somethingawful.com, that my Manjaro install has nuked itself out of nowhere. how did you manage to kill a manjaro? 
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google says a manjaro is an arch linux and honestly what did you expect with a knock-off of a hobby distribution made by children?
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pseudorandom name posted:google says a manjaro is an arch linux and honestly what did you expect with a knock-off of a hobby distribution made by children? While Arch could be used by children it's a bit of a stretch to say it's made by them
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xtal posted:While Arch could be used by children it's a bit of a stretch to say it's made by them does it make you feel better to clarify that to manchildren
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It's made by people who wanted Gentoo, but not really Gentoo.
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i had to go back to arch because fedora breaks too often, debian is too old, and ubuntu is, well, ubuntu. i have pop! os running on one machine but i barely use it. what linux do you use?
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Currently trying out Fedora 34 on bare metal because why the hell not. And this Gnome implementation is a pretty big improvement over the last Gnome based WM I tried. Very snappy. I have 32gigs of memory so even if it does use a bit extra memory it doesn't really affect me at all. I do like how Gnome 40 handles the virtual desktop UI implementation over KDE. I also really didn't need the gazzilion of settings available on Plasma. Honestly I'm pretty happy with the default Gnome UI with a couple of tweaks, 1: Adding back an icon tray 2: Adding the maximize/minimize buttons to the top of the application window. My one WINE application doesn't seem to be seeing the sound devices though. That may be due to Pipewire now being fully implemented in Fedora 40. I'll have to look into that further. H.264/5 playback seems to be broken when using a video player that's installed through a flatpak. I assume this is due to the sandboxing.
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mawarannahr posted:i had to go back to arch because fedora breaks too often, debian is too old, and ubuntu is, well, ubuntu. i have pop! os running on one machine but i barely use it. what linux do you use? Lmao
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i use debian stable + fluxbox on my desktop and laptop. its always worked and the oldness doesnt really bother me
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proxmox host, debian VM’s
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confession: i installed ubuntu 20.whatever lts out of boredom on my "gaming rig" a couple months ago on an ssd i had laying around, just to see how things are going for linux on the desktop. things did seem to work pretty well and i was surprised that the best drivers for my gtx 1070 were installed automatically. i was even able to use the web version of apple music just fine. sound worked. havent booted into it in a few weeks because it only has a couple games and.. well yeah i may nuke it to reclaim the space but it almost works. biggest issue was when i scaled my 4k display differently than the other display and that screwed up full screen mode on apps.
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Sassafras posted:The First 20 Million Is Always The Hardest". Apparently there's a movie too The movie isn't really about computers for poor people or linux. It's about an "ideas guy" who has the unique and ingenious "idea" to make the fastest personal computer ever. Also it's the smallest. And the the most beautiful. (His art-student girlfriend sculpts it out of clay.) And it has a 3D holographic projector. And a 3D holographic touch interface. Oh and it also only costs $100. The ideas guy doesn't have any ideas about how to make any of these things work. Instead, he has the idea: "Wouldn't it be cool if we made a computer like that? Why hasn't anyone else thought of this? ". It's ridiculous and laughable, but somehow I find the movie truly endearing and I like it a lot. It would fit a double feature with "Electric Dreams". 
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Captain Pike posted:The movie isn't really about computers for poor people or linux. It's about an "ideas guy" who has the unique and ingenious "idea" to make the fastest personal computer ever. Also it's the smallest. And the the most beautiful. (His art-student girlfriend sculpts it out of clay.) And it has a 3D holographic projector. And a 3D holographic touch interface. Oh and it also only costs $100. ah the computer equivalent of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvbQMqd0kEY
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Captain Pike posted:The movie isn't really about computers for poor people or linux. It's about an "ideas guy" who has the unique and ingenious "idea" to make the fastest personal computer ever. Also it's the smallest. And the the most beautiful. (His art-student girlfriend sculpts it out of clay.) And it has a 3D holographic projector. And a 3D holographic touch interface. Oh and it also only costs $100. i mean they already made the first season of halt and catch fire
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mawarannahr posted:i had to go back to arch because fedora breaks too often, debian is too old, and ubuntu is, well, ubuntu. i have pop! os running on one machine but i barely use it. what linux do you use? i used debian forever but just switched a few months back to fedora and it’s fine but dnf is slow af. i also disabled selinux i guess i’ll go to rhel sometime now that you can get those free 16 licenses or whatever
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my first linux was a red hat and my next (last????) one will be too. imagine 4 balls on the edge of a cliff
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Clark Nova posted:proxmox host, debian VM’s proxmox so good
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Gentle Autist posted:i also disabled selinux lmaoooo why would you admit this?
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my seedbox is not an enterprise
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