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Comment Not really a "desktop" use case, but (Score 1) 192

At the moment there are 5 Linux computers running in my household, all headless:
  - ADS-B plane tracking on Raspberry Pi 3
  - FT8 amateur radio monitoring on Asus Tinkerboard
  - Octoprint 3D printer server on Orange Pi
  - WeeWX weather station on Raspberry Pi Zero W
  - Discord bot on Raspberry Pi Zero W
Granted, this is not a typical household. I just want to make a point that there is more use for Linux than just desktop.

Comment Already bigger (Score 1) 105

It is already bigger than Windows. Just look at your Task Manager and sort by Memory. I see 300MB taken by Teams, 5 times more than Skype for Business or Outlook.
This may be anecdotal evidence, but the boot time my work laptop doubled after Teams was installed on it.
In terms of CPU cycles consumed, it is also one of the bigger ones - 20-25% of i7-6600U when running an audio-only meeting between 2 people.

Comment Re:In the absence of Federal leadership... (Score 1) 267

Believe me, I don't like the Soviet way of doing lots of things. I experienced them firsthand.
However, the basic health service was one of the very few things the super centralized Soviet government handled decently. This included swift coordinated response to pandemics and mass inoculations.
This is a complete opposite of what Russian federal government is doing now. There is no coordination and no real financial support to local authorities.

Education

'Ban All Watches From Exams To Stop Cheating' (bbc.com) 136

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: All watches should be banned from exam halls to discourage cheating, says an inquiry into the extent of malpractice in exams taken by pupils across the UK. Smart watches, connected to the internet, are already banned from use by students taking public exams. But the review, commissioned by exam boards, says it is becoming difficult to distinguish between hi-tech and traditional watches. Review chairman Sir John Dunford called for a "blanket ban" on watches. The Independent Commission on Examination Malpractice, set up by exam boards to investigate the prevalence of cheating in public exams in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, says that overall there is a "very low level of malpractice." "It can look as if it's a time-telling watch and actually, you press a button and it becomes an email-type watch," said Sir John, a former head teachers' union leader. "If you don't ban them all I think you're giving a very difficult job to invigilators who are looking round an exam room. So I think the obvious thing to do here is to ban watches."

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