I'm glad that they have 2 RISC options - one RISC-V whose motherboard was made for them by a third party, and more recently, and Arm which too was. Both were tested by Jeff Geerling, and turns out that both are underpowered. They would do well as development platforms for people writing software for Linux (or BSD, RISC-OS or anything else). Hopefully, there will be more powerful Arm and RISC-V CPUs in future

I no longer trust either Apple nor Google. On my Android phone, photos that I had taken decades ago are there saved on my Google drive, but the same account no longer shows them in the Photos app. I'm really suspicious, which is why everything of mine has been backed up to my SSD, in case I ever need them

You never know when these companies will brazenly turn on you. Best to have it kept on physical storage that's in your possession. Remember: "cloud" is just a glorified term for someone else's computer!

Precisely! While on that subject, my M1 MacBook Air only intermittently recognizes my 1TB Sandisk SSD. Otoh, it has no issues recognizing a USB thumb drive inserted in the same thunderbolt port. As a result, I have to copy the photo folders from my iPhone into my Windows laptop, and from there move it to the SSD

If somebody already has an iPhone and a Mac, one should be able to use the latter as a backup for the former, instead of moving it to any cloud

If they are to comply w/ the SCOTUS order, then doing what you suggest is not an option. Since SCOTUS ruled that it was illegal for them to have charged tariffs in the first place (a decision I strongly disagree w/), the only course of action left to the administration is to reimburse everybody who paid the tariffs. Not play Robin Hood w/ the proceeds

Yeah, I'm not thrilled about this administration being bought & paid for by the likes of Qatar, but on this one, since they had lost at the highest court of the land, they don't have a choice but to refund it. Unless they were willing to get it voted by Congress, but there, the Dems today are anti-tariff (b'cos Trump is pro-tariff, never mind the Dick Gephardt era when Dems used to be fervently pro-tariff), and there are still residual Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans who are pro-tariff, thereby probably giving Trump a minority in Congress on this issue

Wouldn't that be "John Apple"?

Apple does make great computers, phones, iPads, watches, etc. But one simple thing they could do, which wouldn't cost them anything but make their devices more useful, would be to give customers the option of picking any alternative cloud storage service (or even their own homelabs' storage solutions), instead of locking them to iCloud

Currently, iCloud gives one up to 5GB of free storage, but that's easily taken up by just an iPhone backup. If one has other devices so that the same data is available to all of Apple's devices signed onto that account, this turns out to be a bottleneck. For $0.99 a month, one can get that bumped up to 50GB. However, considering that iPhones now come w/ minimum 256GB and Macs w/ 1 or 2TB, one does have to pay monthly just to sync devices for which one has already handsomely paid Apple

Of course, it costs Apple money to procure such storage, which is why they need to charge customers in order to ensure that it's not a money sink. So my suggestion - exit that area completely (or retain it for customers more than happy to pay and don't wanna roll their own), so that people can sync their Apple devices if they want w/o an iCloud account. Another option, if Apple doesn't want to do that: enable Airdrop b/w Apple devices on the same account, so that I can offload my photos and entire WhatsApp chats from my iPhone to my Mac before wiping the former, w/o overwhelming my iCloud storage

I think anything from the last century is ancient history. The era when there were more CPUs than just x86, Arm and RISC-V

Except that Brave is a completely privacy focused browser, which is why they are doing this. If they are selling something and protecting your privacy and securing your devices, then trusting them is nowhere in the league of trusting Google, Microsoft, Mozilla or even Apple

This is more of a branding issue. If one ran the entire suite of X/Open tests that are needed to attain Unix certification, are you aware of any that would fail, if tested under Linux?

Under the most traditional definition - running USL code - there is almost nothing left except Illumos and OpenIndiana - that can be called Unix. Certainly not NetBSD or FreeBSD or any of their forks.

Maybe b'cos it's the top performance *nix/Posix subsystem out there, w/ a CPU multi-chip module that beats anything from AMD, Intel or Qualcomm out there. Without the baggage of things like systemd, Rust, Gnome and so on

It doesn't - not as the historic company. Freescale, for instance, is a part of NXP. The phone business was sold to Lenovo, which still uses the Motorola brand while manufacturing phones

Right, that's why he'd doing what he can to prop up the islamic regime. Right now, due to this war, countries like India are getting a special pass from the US to buy Russian oil, so that oil prices don't spike even higher. But once this war is done and both Iranian and Arab oil starts flowing back into the markets, it'll be easier for the US to reassert the sanctions on Russian oil, making the Ukraine war even more cost prohibitive

Whether they charge something or give it away, what Brave should do is have customers enter a list of e-mails and phone numbers that get covered by that purchase, so that one can use the same subscription on various devices

I know that RMS had been kicked out as the head of the FSF, but one point he always made about the word "Free" in "free software" was the "libre, not gratis" argument: people are allowed to sell free software. Once one allows that, one can't claim that a seller can't have a tiered pricing structure, if you will, where the price is $X if one uses the software w/ the license as-is, vs $(X+Y) if one wants to change the terms of the license

I know that the FSF likes throwing its weight around, but it might want to remove any "Free-means-libre-not-gratis" essays of RMS from the GNU site, if this is the stance they want to take in order to prove how anti-Ruzzian they are

Just like them buying Russian oil, even while pleading for the continuation of NATO