It's a cool idea and they stand for a lot of great ideals, but laptops are incredibly hard to get right, drivers are hard to get right, and they are a small team trying to support a large number of possible configurations. Hardware gets more complicated by the year: forget the CPU and various GPUs, just look at how many other devices in a modern computer have a full-on processor, e.g. fancy touchbars, displays, even hard drives! Hell, your CPU probably has its own secondary general-purpose processors for things like security, and our CPUs themselves get firmware updates now to change how their instructions function. They are doing great work, but the deck is so stacked against them that it's not funny.

Most space launch companies are inefficient and ineffective. SpaceX has the margin to pay these taxes, those unfortunates don't. If you want to kill competition in an industry, tax it enough that only the large corporations can survive the loss, and add some complicated regulations in for extra effect. No one else has anything close to what Starship may become, and further reduction in margins will ensure that SpaceX will have a defacto monopoly on non-military space launches while their competitors are strangled paying for FAA services that is disproportionately benefit owners of private jets and charter flights for the rich.

Was in 2018. Netcraft confirms it.

Chips and Dips, along with early Slashdot, had a bunch of Malda's personal links. Duckpins was an animation he made as an undergrad. He also linked a personal site for a couple of Windowmaker plugins that he'd written. I can't remember what the plugins were! I do remember that most plugins were mail notifiers or clocks.

I mapped ADVENT instead of learn Fortran 77, in 1981.

Some are here, even from Duckpins days. ;-)

I have huge affection for these beasts. I cut my teeth in High School on a DEC PDP11/70 and AT&T SysV, and a little RSTS/E in 1979-82. We switched systems by loading different cakelid platters into the washing-machine drives, and toggling the magenta keys.

I've thought about the Blinkenlights 7/10 scale emulator, tha uses an RPi, but I envy you and hope you have fun.

I wish you well, and try not to take the demise of this broken world so hard. The tree with these roots couldn't ever produce other fruits, despite our kind and generous fantasies of the 90's.

It's been a good 20 years or more we were friended here on Slashdot. I wonder what so many of those like Fidel Catsro, (H)elix1, SolemnDragon, CaptainSplendid, CyranoVR, and so many others have gone on to,

You can always find me on fediverse, tho' I am present only in bursts. @KingTherapy@jorts.horse - with all the commies and shit-posters.

Total garbage. This is a typical New Delhi TV article with a broad anti-China slant. The single source is from an "interview" on Jennifer Zeng's blog. Zeng is a well-known "human rights activist" actually a Falun Gong cultist, who has manufactured and juiced-up numerous bogus stories about China over the last 20 years. This is the sort of story that excites QAnon cultists and the rest of the Epoch News crowd, for whom Alex Jones is still a guilty pleasure.

The idea that software not signed by some entity in the country that they represent is installed any high-level official's phone is absurd. How did the world get this way?

How she was, not as she is... BURMA SHAVE

SLASHDOT FORTUNE on this page: "Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing."

Then you can use Ubuntu 22.04 with Vanilla-Gnome desktop. I added minor tweaks for comfort.

https://imgur.com/gallery/RemHCmZ

Teh Cricle?

Thank you.