I didn’t see that. I got Oops All Asians when generating gay furry Nazis on Bing.

To answer further questions, it was in response to a post about how Russians are said to view Ukrainian.

Which is the propaganda? The posts touting Chinese achievements in tech, or the posts saying to beware of the Chinese milestones?

Both.

That’s funny because I just cancelled my Netflix.

I’ll shill for brother because it’s cheap, they don’t lock out generic cartridges, prints well on the network from Linux, and seem to last.

What they are missing on compared to HP is parts support. However, the comparable HP printer with parts support is twice the price and the parts are almost the cost of a new cheap printer.

Lexmark is okay too, I guess.

Why do you think all this legislation is floating around about protecting our children?

Hint, it’s motivated by protecting someone’s profits.

Banks will charge for record searched, FYI.

That’s cool. Looking again, the character in the image is Konoha, the main character in the anime. The dithering is an homage to one of the episodes.

Between the eyes and the dithering, were you inspired by 16-Bit Sensation?

This article is an ad for the site formerly known as Twitter. Is seemed to source an the information from tweets, but needed to inform us that each comment came from the dead bird site.

I remember these being suggested to me as a newbie a long time ago.

Please continue to learn! It’s great to bring new perspectives to play.

I kind of answered this elsewhere in the thread, but here is my answer to you.

If you are referring to basic OS level functions, they are super similar, but they are also wildly different.

Ubuntu is based on Debian. It is centered on keyboard and mouse input, often with touchscreen. It uses a Canonical kernel.

Android is its own flavor of Linux, entirely centered on touch input. It uses a heavily customized AOSP kernel.

While I think it might be entirely possible to install and remove packages to have one act like the other, they have wildly different kernels.

Here is a pretty lengthy write up on the subject by Richard Stallman.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/sep/19/android-free-software-stallman

Oh, I forgot about Chromebooks and ChromeOS. They are similar, but there are significant differences.

ChromeOS is based on Gentoo. It is centered on keyboard and mouse input, often with touchscreen.

Android is its own flavor of Linux, entirely centered on touch input.

While I think it might be entirely possible to install and remove packages to have one act like the other, we are comparing a different Linux flavor against Android.

Also, my answer is probably generic enough to answer OP.

Are you in a local user group, like a Linux club?

Are you talking about mobile OS? I can’t imagine using Android as a desktop.

The biggest differences are the available packages and the that Android is typically heavily locked down to prevent user access.

Thanks. It’s good to hear someone outline what I was thinking. I’m frustrated that the support response made it sound like we shouldn’t be using the software, but I guess I’ll get over it.

I suspect most of it leans heavily on ghostscript, so they are required to provide AGPL. They would like to obtain support contracts, so support requests are considered out of compliance unless they are paid. I find it interesting that they basically have AGPL+ were plus is whatever they have on their license page in addition to AGPL.

That’s how I feel. I’m not a legal expert either. The caveat to this is that there is a disclaimer on the legal page where you are directed to the AGPL that says that you may not, “Use PDFCreator within an application or service that is not licensed under the terms of the AGPL.”

I’m assuming using the software in a Windows environment is allowed as it is distributed as a Windows application. If you are using the software to accept print jobs to PDF in a manner configurable through the default UI without modifying the code or default files, I’m also hard pressed to call it a violation, regardless of the input application.

I think that the concern from PDFForge is that we were asking for assistance with a feature, which crosses the line in any sort of professional setting.

This is how I expected FOSS to function. If you get a chance, check out their license page, which directs prospective users to the AGPL and also has further restrictions on what users may not do.

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100% how I read their license page. It isn’t like we are using it within another application, just literally using it as advertised. Unfortunately, the email came off as advising us that the software isn’t intended for use without a business license so we are now investigating other options.