The "plug door" is just a normal door without a handle. It attaches and closes just fine with no bolts. The bolts are to secure it in the closed position, but that is where it normally wants to be anyway. Missing the bolts means it will stay closed, until the pressure differential finally works it open.
It IS a regular door. It simply opens and closes. The bolts are to secure it in the closed position.
The door opens like a normal aircraft door. During installation there is no difference whether a door will be normal and possible to operate or locked into place. Everything is the same.
It's not until the door is no longer used during installation that it is locked in place using bolts which ensure it can not slide out of closed position.
The door is not actually bolted onto the fuselage. The bolts keep it closed. If they are not mounted, the door can slide open, which is what happened.
K-UX and EulerOS used to be UNIX 03 certified, so Linux can be UNIX certified. K-UX certification lapsed in 2019, and EulerOS did not renew certification in 2022. But they both passed certification.
The main reason nobody bothers with that is that it's very costly, it's time limited, and it only applies to a specific build and set of components. And... nobody cares anymore, outside of a few companies which have regulations that software require specific certifications. But those are rare these days.
Heck, even Solaris isn't certified any longer, and it's used in military and aerospace applications. Certification is no longer particularly interesting.
No, that's not HIS story. The company MADE THE STATEMENT. That's not a story. That's WHAT HAPPENED.
There is no way to twist this to that the consultant somehow did not inform the customer about the situation, when they made a statement addressing the finds.
And trying to twist that into "his story" shows magnificent inability to analyze events.
The customer not only received the information, BUT ISSUED A STATEMENT based on the information after fixing it. It's right there in the text.
The problem the consultant had with that was that the statement was vastly understating the severity of the problem. He spoke out about this. That's why he was reported to the authorities.
That is most definitely the case. I play mainly tactical and strategy games, and even the ones that have console ports which work fine with controls on console will often have really lousy controller support in Windows. As you note, indie titles are the common exception.
Just because a title is cross platform doesn't mean the control scheme has been well done in the Windows port.
Often the better choice on the Steam Deck is to use the Switch version in Yuzu instead of grappling with the control scheme of the Windows version.
Steam Deck runs Linux, and performs very well running games. The reputation of Linux on gaming is improving rapidly, and deservedly.
The main issue with games on the Steam Deck is usually using a controller to play. Lots of Windows games do not handle that well, unfortunately.
Yes, Gnome was always heavier, and remains heavier to this day. It's pretty bad. The Pop OS fork is for some reason better in my anecdotal experience. But both were pretty heavy back around the 00's, compared to what many distros would default to shipping.
Today, of course, neither comes close to Windows in heaviness. Though Gnome certainly tries.
I work at a high tech company, and of everyone I associate with there, exactly one person uses a Mac outside the office. More people use Solaris, to put that into some perspective.
Windows is irrelevant in the cutting edge sectors, yes, but it has always been. That doesn't matter. Microsoft's bread and butter isn't in the cutting edge sectors, but in established companies, and there you will find that all desktops and lots of back end run Windows, often with proprietary solutions on top built on Microsoft products (even if the actual implementation often is in a third party tool). Those places will not switch out their systems. And startup companies that grow will have to connect to other systems in other companies, such as insurance and other service providers, and will adopt Windows environments for that purpose since it's just so much easier to use what the others are already using.
Even where I work, where most develeopment and deployment is on Linux and Solaris, the business side is running on Windows with Windows products on the back end. And there is no push for, or incentive to push for, a change. Those systems will remain for decades, and guarantee income for Microsoft.
That's how things are all over. There are shims between mainfram systems and databases running on Windows, with the front end Windows software connecting to those databases. The database may in some cases get swapped out for one running on a *ix OS, but the front end remains on Windows. There are business systems entirely on a Windows stack. They're locked in, and not changing out. And lots and lots of in house business critical systems running in Excel or (if yer lucky) Access. Those are not going away, and they are usually completely undocumented and impossible to reimplement in something sane.
That's where Windows will remain relevant. No matter how much startups and personal users step away from it.
KDE was heavy in the late 90's and early 00's. Since the 10's to now it's been middling to low resource use, comparatively. Sure, it's heavier than running a raw WM with no or minimal daemons, but it hasn't been on the heavy side for a long time now.
Windows on the other hand has just gotten heavier and heavier. I don't even know what they're doing with all that CPU. Many services just chomp it down without appearing to do anything useful. And using a spinning disk is nuts, it just never gets to park and sleep, even when not running any applications.
My parents got sick of having to deal with Windows and its weird updates that kept breaking things, so I installed Linux for them six years ago. Since then, there has been zero support needed except I do the occasional LTS version jump for them.
Both Android and Linux are way more functional than Windows in that regard. They just work. With the difference that Android can't be upgraded after a while due to planned obsolesence by the chip manufacturer.
No one in their right mind uses Windows desktop, you mean. I have no choice but to use it on my work mail and skype station, and it's really crummy these days. On the workstation I do real work, I can run Linux, and it's so much better it's not even funny.
At home I also run Linux. And now, when I game, I use a Steam Deck. Everything just works, and it's really sweet. Best of all, no ads in the start menu, and no phoning home except if I want it to.
Your sig line sums it up well. You can't tell a skipping CD from Philip Glass' music. You also can't tell AI drivel from poetry.
They got rid of all consequences. There is no punishment. No cap. No restriction.
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