yea the IoT version will still be supported until at least 2032, and they will probably keep extending it with ESU at some point too

https://zorin.com/os/

American general population are not intelligent enough to posit this. Signed, an American

I think this is actually why history repeats itself… the majority of people just aren’t smart enough to learn from past mistakes.

Not letting people have opinions you disagree with makes me suspicious of how willing you would be to oppress others.

unfortunately if everyone shouted all the good free stuff from rooftops, they would be gone.

How so?

I don’t think it is possible.

I also think people are blowing this WAY out of proportion and don’t even realize their own hypocrisy.

Extreme example: Jewish people happily drive Ford cars, even though Henry Ford was the only American mentioned in Mein Kampf, specifically for his hatred of Jews.

owner of said product has openly stated that they hate your very existence

Of all the things that didn’t happen, this didn’t happen the most.

What’s the benefit for them?

Not being targeted by a President.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/business/ceos-trump-revenge-nightcap/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/politics/trump-prosecute-political-opponents/index.html

Why they wouldn’t want to please previous administrations?

Those administrations weren’t targeting them.

I think it’s always about the money, plain and simple. If there is a threat to their gravy train, they will bend over backwards to keep it going. Otherwise, they don’t care about you.

I find it disappointing that people interested in privacy would have such little respect for a private individual’s right to have their own thoughts.

Ding ding ding.

It seems the vast majority of people do NOT want to allow speech they don’t like, no matter the consequences. That requires too much forward thinking. Excuse me while I watch history repeat itself…

does echo 3 | sudo touch /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches change the available RAM at all when this happens?

They might have pure motives but I have to wonder just how useful that is realistically. The rest of the world does not seem keen on following in their spirit.

The posted link does not appear to contain the same statement as what I read from the SFC:

Steck’s work showed that despite being a “Lesser” license than GPL, LGPLv2.1 still guarantees users the right to repair, modify and reinstall modified versions of the software on their device.

This is why I believed that the lack of an anti-tivoization clause was being somehow retroactively applied to v2.

So LGPLv2 doesn’t actually allow tivoization in Germany now? Am I reading that right?

how does this compare to https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF ?

You may be right, I don’t have enough experience talking to new programmers in order to comment on that part specifically, but I do think a sizeable portion of existing C++ devs who don’t want to use rust exist, and this may now be a problem moving forward, especially if the C++ committee keeps dragging their feet and never adopt any new safety extensions.

Personally I think the swift syntax is much more familiar and friendly to existing C++ devs, but its popularity does not seem anywhere near rust’s level for some reason, but maybe now that a truly cross-platform version has been released, it might gain some traction… maybe.

Perhaps it depends on what people are used to. I use C++ regularly and I find rust syntax much too painful to look at.

From what I have seen, FSF has their head so far up their own ass that there’s no point.

Taking bets on the number of useful contributors about to tank.

I would rather be beautiful because then I wouldn’t realize everyone else around me is so unfathomably stupid.