Cortana was released nearly 12 years ago and I’m not sure the Solaris box lasted much longer. It was the only box that connectable remotely at the time and you put your assignments on it to be marked by TAs. The computer labs were all Linux and Windows though.
I suspect it was around because it mostly just worked and probably some greybeard had scripted it all up to connect to the various student systems and automatically provision accounts and things.
I’m sure it’s all Linux now.
No Canada, and even then it was a bit of a relic.
It was slowly being replaced by vagrant in some courses and I think after I left I’m pretty sure they replaced whatever hardware it was on with something running Linux.
I remember it was mildly annoying because the Java compiler on it was a bit old and different in some way, though I can’t really remember how.
Cortana being reinstalled after I “deleted” it was the impetus for me to swap to Linux in the first place.
That and I was a CS student and our assignments had to run on Solaris which is closer to Linux than Windows.
I’m of two minds on this.
In some respects people are learning new things everyday and your take is correct.
On the other hand it’s so incredibly easy to highlight some text and click search that it it shows a profound lack of curiosity and a lot of laziness.
As much as some people deride it Javascript is one of the most used languages on the planet.
This is basically the same as people thinking windows is less secure because it’s more often targeted.
JavaScript does have a bit of a problem with dependencies but it isn’t much different than other languages with built in package managers like rust. It’s just a bigger juicer target.
Oh yeah youre right, I was squinting real hard to try and read that on on a phone and was only looking at the bottom
Might be a single computer that’s just the primary display.
Nothing in that boot sequence is a deal breaker it’s just missing an Internet connection I think.
End to end encryption is meaningless when they control both ends…
K3S sorta makes sense in an enterprise environment but for the small one box use case it’s overkill and a pain to work with for little extra gain.
It has a tendency to break my USB audio after updating the kernel. I just have to remember the incantation to restart it though and it seems to fix it.
Mozilla exec compensation aside (relative to other tech CEOs it is pretty low) the reason they do this is because they are trying to make money in some way that isn’t the Google search box.
The other thing to consider is that even though a lot of people around here and AI skeptics loads is the general public are not and use it everyday and don’t think twice.
I swear the Firefox users have no perspective whenever this stuff comes up.
It’s always “why don’t they just work on the browser” or " I would pay for just the browser" ( they won’t, and even if they did most won’t and it won’t be enough)
Web browsers don’t make money. It’s why only chrome basically exists and that’s a cost center to support Google’s Internet ad hegemony and they spend billions a year on it.
I am watching ladybird and hoping they manage to coalesce the required amount of support to get something off the ground and keep it there.
I mean that’s just your choice of software installer at this point.
Endeavoros just has a GUI and installs KDE for me.
The end result for us is nearly the same thing.
It’s been yay on endeavours for its entire existence I think.
Install arch the arch way once or twice. After that use endeavouros because I don’t need to spend the time.
I mean I’ve been running an arch derivative for nearly ten years and the last time I got got was an Nvidia driver bug in 2020.
As much as arch talks about it it doesn’t happen that often.
Why the hell would I want snap?
Mint is Debian based but isn’t Debian.
Same with Ubuntu.
The reason people recommend mint is it’s easy to install and has a familiar DE.
I do? I don’t love Android TV but I only have so much time to fight to the good fight with shit.
I would like a less smart tv but I don’t want to by a 7 year old Nvidia Shield and suffered paralysis by analysis trying to decide on on an Android TV box.
So here we are, I use jellyfin on a smart TV
For all the fear mongering about rolling release distros I’ve only been burned once like 5 years ago by some Nvidia driver bug.
I still do the same thing though.
Ours didn’t have fun names., or at least not ones that were exposed to students. I honestly didn’t know too much about about them but I suspect at the time Sparc systems were one of the larger machines compute wise you could get outside of mainframes. So very suitable for a university multiuser setup.