You need to reach out to the scientists to let them know! You could save lives with your insight!

Idk. I think using ai to learn Linux as you switch to it is fair ground. In the end they’re free from Microsoft. It’s a win. Just make sure they have data backups.

What are you talking about? Linux has virtually no backwards compatibility at all. Maybe one or two years max. The kernel is fine. The weak point is glibc.

You literally need to recompile applications constantly to stay compatible with glibc. Otherwise they just don’t work.

The good news is that distros are constantly providing freshly compiled versions of open source applications.

The bad news is that actual binary backwards compatibility is non existent. Try running a binary compiled in 2005 on modern Linux. You’ll just get a ton of glibc errors.

Windows lets you run applications compiled in 1995 on modern desktops.

Linux is great and it’s what I use. But we can’t claim backwards compatibility as a strength. Maybe a binary compiled today with musl might run in 2036 but musl targeting is quite rare.

Can’t speak for non-European countries but compared to European it’s bad. As soon as I cross the boarder into Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, or France all the trains are super punctual.

Funny note around this. When Swiss trains have delays on the German network they ROAST Deutsche Bahn, saying stuff like “Due to faults and issues on the German network outside of our control we are delayed by 30 min. One we cross the boarder we are expected to make up 10 minutes. Until then we will do our best inside the existing difficult circumstances”

It’s a major hacker community centric event. The biggest in Europe. It could be that the community just likes it. 🤷‍♀️

I don’t think it matters.

They are certainly a member of the community.

Choosing MIT over GPL is a political decision that empowers corporations at the expense of the community.

Yah companies can (and sometimes do) choose to give back to the community with MIT projects.

GPL/AGPL/LGPL/MPL 2.0 ensure that they do give back when they take.

I just don’t trust companies enough to use MIT.

Companies are allowed to participate in the community. They are wallowed to use community code. Companies donating servers and resources is actually a good thing. This includes Valve. The “greediness” you talk about isn’t a factor.

Also factually none of those projects you listed were started by IBM. Half of them were started by GNU foundation. The other half were started by Redhat before it was acquired by IBM.

The way Redhat made money was by taking community code and packaging it with support guarantees for other companies. Redhat took that money and hired people to further improve that community code they were packaging. I was at Redhat at the time.

Regarding freeBSD you are forgetting the literal largest user of BSD in the world. Netflix voluntarily gives back code to the community but they aren’t forced to.

Sony is the largest user of FreeBSD in the world. They take the code. Use it improve it and give nothing back. From the PS3 forward all of their devices are based on FreeBSD.

Microsoft also is a large user of FreeBSD in a way. When they couldn’t add a proper networking stack to Windows without everything crashing all the time they’re turned to FreeBSD. Microsoft ripped out the networking code and glued it into Windows 2000. From there we got XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, and now 11. All with community code taken and used to fight community coded operating systems.

I guess it all comes down to how you see companies. If you believe that companies will always act in the interest of the community even at the expense of competitiveness I can see how one might see MIT or BSD licenses as adequate.

GPL, LGPL, and MPL on the other hand force companies to give back when they take.

I don’t trust companies enough to use MIT. I choose GPL, LGPL, and MPL.

If a company intended to give back to the community there is no reason why they would not use GPL, LGPL, or MPL. They intend to tie back anyways. Right? MIT just lets them keep their taking but not giving options open.

I know I do.

GPL forces mega corps to give back when they use community code.

MIT just lets companies take community code without giving anything back.

GPL code is code for the community by the community. Meta crops can use the code too but they have to give back.

Choosing MIT over GPL, LGPL, or MPL (all community oriented) in my book is pretty close to corporate bootlicking.

Same. I have been using Kagi since before they added AI features. I didn’t use them then and I don’t use them now. The price is the same.

By far the best search engine in my book. They even have a fediverse search mode.

I’m not trying to argue with you. I’m letting you know why it’s informative to know when accounts are from .ml.

You are allowed to disagree.

Yes yes I know. I got nothing. But then again I’m not trying to argue with you.

Maybe to people inside .ml it isn’t informative, but to people outside of .ml it really is.

For people outside of .ml it’s like hearing “just look the manager in the eye and give them a handshake. Then you’ll get the job!” This advice just comes off as weird and disconnected till you realize the person is a boomer. Then it clicks and you realize why they have such a bad take.

Like .ml not all boomers have weird takes but if you see a weirdly disconnected take on job hunting knowing the poster is a boomer is informative.

Same with weird pro Russia or pro china takes with .ml.

When people outside of .ml see takes like “Putin is waging a just, defensive, war against Ukraine!” The take is so bad as to be disconnected from reality, then you realize the poster is .ml and it snaps into place. Just like the boomer situation.

Again not all .ml have such bad takes, just like not all boomers have bad takes but when you see such a bad take knowing helps clarify things. It’s informative.

I hope this helps you understand even if you don’t agree.

But it is informative. Not all accounts from .ml are weirdly pro Russia or China, but if an account is weirdly pro Russia or pro China it’s probably from .ml.

Good move I think. :)

It might be my lemmy client but when I go to that link I just see a basic steam next fest post with a Linux picking section from a different user.

What am I missing?

If you don’t mind me asking, why did you choose Zorin? How do you hear about Zorin?

I’d recommend giving Niri a shot. It works quite well for me.

That’s not actually true. Technology connections made a few videos about it.

Beta bs VHS: https://youtu.be/hWl9Wux7iVY

The broadcasting Beta format was basically a whole different format compared to that you could get at home. Completely unrelated.

Studio Beta https://youtu.be/hGVVAQVdEOs

Why is it ideology when it’s community focused code, and bigger picture when it’s corporate friendly code?

gnu/linux user space phones please hurry!

Why? He was relatively contemporary and lived a pretty normal life relative to most of us compared to the historical figures.

That and he was a mega sexist who made the lives of women in science much worse for literal decades.

https://youtu.be/TwKpj2ISQAc