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Comment Re:flying adjectives everywhere! (Score 1) 26

What precisely makes it "active" as opposed to inactive?

"They are actively “eating” matter, which lights up as it swirls toward the black hole."

And calling it "supermassive" is actually kind of contrary to the point of the story (that it's surprisingly small), no?

No, because it's still a "supermassive" black hole which just means it's much larger than a normal stellar-sized blackhole (a blackhole resulting from a single star).
"The black hole within CEERS 1019 is more similar to the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy" which still makes it a "supermassive" black hole, just not nearly as large as the one's we've seen before at that age & distance.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/g...

Comment What does any of this even mean? (Score 1) 129

"Screven and Coekaerts suggest that "if an incompatibility does affect a customer or ISV, Oracle will work to remediate the problem."

So basically, "Oracle will work to remediate the problem." They're not forking RHEL they're not working with IBM to provide some kind of compatibility with source, they'll "work to remediate the problem" if one comes up. That doesn't mean shit, lol why is this even a story? This is essentially an Oracle fluff piece with no change to the situation at hand lol.

Comment Re:Thanks Microsoft (Score 1) 260

I mean, we're mostly in agreement besides what look's like you missing my point about it being "intuitive." And I suppose to go further, I don't think there's a "we" who "want Linux to compete" on the desktop, and of course we all know it will never _actually_ compete on the desktop vs Microsoft for reasons that go beyond the scope of my argument.

Comment Re:Thanks Microsoft (Score 1) 260

Those who don't use mission critical software or aren't totally opposed to taking a week to re-learn where stuff might be? Bad is a subjective term and there's probably no use in you or I arguing semantics lol. See my other comments in reference to Linux Mint as far as "steep learning curve" elsewhere in this thread.

Comment Re:Thanks Microsoft (Score 1) 260

That'd be true if "Linux Desktop" was a monolithic company competing with Windows to produce a user-friendly desktop. I don't think Plasma/KDE or for that matter any of the other "desktops" have failed -- they objectively produce a working intuitive experience. For a lot of users you can pop in a disk of Linux Mint point them to the browser and Libre Office (or just a browser to access whatever from the web) and they'd hardly no the difference.

It would take a company with a lot of money and dev time to produce a smooth-as-possible transition experience from Window to "Linux Desktop" for a large section of users to be happy, and no company will do that because what would be the point? But that's not to say "Linux Desktop" is a failure that's just asinine, I suppose depending on perspective.

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