We were never mysteriously silent. Just because you didn't see it covered on FOX or Breitbart, doesn't mean it didn't happen.

This, I made the mistake once of letting a Gaslighting jerk slide and I ended up leaving when it became clear that the non-confrontational approach just fed his bullshit. You have to put a stop to it immediately or walk, there is no middle ground.

This, I have very fond memories of my N900. It was a little rough around the edges when it launched, but the potential was there. I would take a Nokia handset with Android, but I really hope they have their sights set a little higher than that.

There is no such thing as a comfy chair left in the US from which to observe the shit show.

Didn't you know, that is how the authors of the study measured productivity.

I don't know if anyone actually believes that this changed with Obama... The US government was actively against its citizens long before 2008.

But 'Merican or European made spyware is fine?

Don't get me wrong, I won't touch Opera with a 10 foot pole either but the acquisition didn't change that.

This is what I had feared, Ubuntu is moving to the Windows version of "handling" the library dependency tree. Now that every damned application carries around all of its dependencies I will have to update all of them to fix what would have been a single new package install.

And how/why is it better than deb/rpm/tgz?

I found this: https://insights.ubuntu.com/20... but is it full of marketing speak without any real information as to what a snap actually is and how it is better. Sounds kind of like Canonical doing the not-invented-here thing for packaging.

and not completely terrible at it, only moderately bad.

I do like how they managed to call their customers idiots in the same announcement.

Just sayin

No, but this is the trade off people make when buying devices like the iphone/ipod. Clearly people value having the fashionable/trendy/"Just Works*" that Apple provide over being able to fix something that is broken. Until that trade off tilts harder against the consumer it will continue to be made.

* - For some values of "Just Works"

It is interesting to me that I cannot tell if you are a Republican or a supporter of Hillary Clinton. I suppose that speaks volumes about the Clinton campaign.

Because it breaks the 4th wall you insensitive clod