Theoretically they are supposed to have an adversarial relationship with the Congress and the president, but…

Probably gets off on telling those “suckers and losers” what to do.

Cognex Barcode Scanner is not open source but it is the best. It’s basically just a demo frontend for a commercial barcode programming library so they are not trying to monetize the app itself. It supports everything! Not just QR code but every kind of barcode. I used to work in logistics and I used it to scan all the different barcodes on shipping labels.

When you scan a barcode you can choose to open, copy, share. Open launches your default web browser. If the barcode isn’t a URL, it all give a search option and you can configure your preferred search engine. It can scan images from your gallery or use your camera. But the important part is it won’t do anything with the scanned data until you tell it to.

It makes more sense when you realize he’s negotiating not on behalf of the best interests of Ukraine or the USA but on behalf of Putin.

Jammie Thomas had to pay over $9000 per song she shared on Kazaa and that was like 15 years ago. Inflation + millions of shares should mean billions of dollars owed to the publishers… Plus obviously deleting or forfeiting ownership of all the models trained on that data, naturally.

I’ve been using solid black desktop background since the 90s!

Gentoo. Literally the entire system is a build environment. Imagine a single environment that’s capable of compiling thousands of different packages and managing dependencies etc.

When IBM killed OS/2

Funtoo is dead after this month

https://forums.funtoo.org/topic/5182-all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end/

Looking-glass.io is what most use for that

कमल is the word kamala written in Sanskrit.

My “main” OS timeline was:

• Apple II/C64
• MS-DOS
• OS/2
• Linux

Technically I used windows 3.1 at times in DOS and OS/2 for some specific piece of software, but it was never what I primarily used and I don’t consider Windows 3.1 a proper operating system, it’s just a desktop environment.

Not sure exactly when, but I know by 2000 I was fully on board the Linux train.

Started using Linux in the days of floppy boot and root diskettes. Lived through the days of hand-crafted SLIP scripts for dial up internet. The days of needing to pay for working sound drivers. Manually calculating modelines in Xfree86.

I have primarily used Windows at work, probably been 99% windows and 1% Unix/Linux. I have had windows laptops and virtual machines for certain specific use cases but it has never been my main.

Gentoo has binary packages now, so install can be quite fast.

When they say it’s “just a few bad apples” they always completely miss the point.

One bad apple can spoil the barrel.

Tried Wayland about 5 years ago to see what all the hype was about, with Nvidia proprietary drivers, got a black screen. Could never get beyond that. Went back to xorg.

Tried about 3 or 4 years ago, with amdgpu drivers, no black screen this time but chrome would not work and a few other programs didn’t work right or at all. There may have been special builds or wrappers to work around some of those issues but I had no interest in dealing with that at the time, so I went back to xorg.

Have not felt motivated to try again as I haven’t had any issues with xorg. I’m using Nvidia drivers at the moment. I also heavily use turbovnc server with virtual gl and not sure how (or if) that’d work in combination with Wayland.

I haven’t had to even think about the fact I’m using xorg or screw around with the configuration in like 10 or 15 years. It just works, for me and my setup, anyway.

I have used Linux as my main for 20 years, but I have a dedicated windows computer for games (hooked to my TV in the living room). A lot of my steam games work in Linux nowadays, but the windows computer just works without fuss. I use it ONLY for games and turn it off when I’m not playing anything.

Ironically some older games (older win95/98/XP era games) work better in Linux under wine or emulation…

I have also used a windows vm with gpu pass-through to play games on my Linux machine, though I’m sure a lot of your anti cheat would probably not allow that. I don’t bother with that anymore since so many games work in Linux with proton.

For non-gaming use I feel that 99% of dual boot scenarios should probably just be virtual machines instead. I have a windows VM I fire up for proprietary software or work related stuff when necessary.

Android retains emergency alerts for the lifetime of the phone, even after they’ve been viewed/dismissed. They can be seen in the settings app under emergency alert history.

SSHFS is shipped by all major Linux distributions and has been in production use across a wide range of systems for many years. However, at present SSHFS does not have any active, regular contributors, and there are a number of known issues (see the bugtracker).

The current maintainer continues to apply pull requests and makes regular releases, but unfortunately has no capacity to do any development beyond addressing high-impact issues.

When reporting bugs, please understand that unless you are including a pull request or are reporting a critical issue, you will probably not get a response.

I am not a statistician or professional survey monkey but AFAIK 300 responses would be like 5% margin of error which seems pretty normal for this kind of survey.