Nein?

He wants a percentage of profit for usage of registered trademarks

I’m on top of things when I have the time to be informed at work. I’m not doing all research after hours and might not always have time for it at work, so sometimes we too are rather reactionary.

Preach. Got a benz from 2009 that has all the features I want (heated seats, automatic climate control, rain sensor, etc) and none of the things I don’t want (remote connectivity, spyware, subscriptions).

electric robotaxis can help reduce co2 emissions and decrease the total amount of cars. This is good.

microsoft need it just as much if not more. Hope it happens to both.

Opensuse is a very good and somewhat underrated choice imo

I agree.

They’re a for-profit company, ubuntu pro is supposed to entice business customers. You and I get introduced, because canonical hope that we might use ubuntu profesionally and they gain a new customer. I don’t hate it personally, but I see why people don’t like it.

It’s free for personal use though. Canonical have turned ubuntu rather corporate, but let’s stick to the facts.

running “winget install firefox” in an elevated powershell gets you a better browser without ever opening edge. but then you still cannot uninstall it and all the other shit about it still stays active.

Malware disguised as legitimate software getting served as ads.

Just a few months ago people were shown faked websites for obs studio when searching for the original. They should vet whose ads they’re serving instead of just certifying certain corporations.

this is a good idea to hotfix a stupid problem.

Sinkholes can be negated by manufacturers using static, hardcoded dns addresses. Be careful and check traffic regularly.

mozilla has joined the enshittification train. Ditch them until they reverse course.

I’ve not looked into it, but it’s probably pitched as a feel-good way of supporting artists.

Friend of mine has a Merc that detects oncoming traffic and auto-adjusts the high beams to not illuminate other cars and it works really well. But there is always a short delay, so for half a second oncoming drivers get to enjoy the power of the sun.

No. AMD and Intel have a bunch of legally binding agreements that allow each other to manufacture CPUs that are essentially 100% compatible architecture-wise. You can install any OS on an Intel CPU, replace that CPU with one from AMD and expect things to work just the same (talking compatibility, not performance) and vice versa. The 64bit extension for the x86 architecture was created by and is patented by AMD. Intel are able to use that extension in any of their processors without paying royalties, but AMD are the owners of that specific technology. The contracts between these two companies also dictate that those contracts need to be renegotiated in case either company gets bought out, which makes me think that qualcomm would only care about buying intel because it would allow them to essentially permanently deadlock all negotiations and thus kill the x86 architecture, immediatly handing the entire CPU industry to ARM and, going by market share, themselves.

Change in leadership would also mean that the deal with AMD would have to be renegotiated, meaning that intel under qualcomm would not be legally able to create new 64-bit CPUs.

They hope to incentivise customers to use intel foundries by splitting them off. Intel compete with AMD and nvidia in many segments, so neither of these companies would want to manufacture their products at intel. But turning their foundries into a separate company could maybe change that (probably not). Their foundries also bleed money like crazy, separating them could stabilize share prices for the ‘main’ intel brand.

I disagree. Native packages are still a bit more hassle-free, but snaps have gotten really good by now. And you can do some things that debs can’t, like setting up an entire nextcloud installation with a four-words-long terminal command.