I see no difference between this and any other "lost cause" gofundme campaigns. It is completely within Apple's rights (and habits) to mess around with this guy's work by changing firmware blobs' or verified boot behaviour just enough to break whatever he creates.

The best he can hope for (and I think he does) is that it'll be a neverending paid gig of cat and mouse games with Tim Apple. Probably followed by a cease and desist DMCA letter if he gets too close to full support.

We've had the means and the know-how to avoid this for at least 15-20 years. Instant daily/hourly diff snapshots replicated (via pulling) to remote machines. Run as much as you can on a server accessed via web browser. If windows software is required, it should be storing data only on NASes (that do the snapshots) and the actual windows installation should be cloned from an image daily (or on demand). I understand this is oversimplified but it is the general gist of it.

With every new android/ios version, real time notifications are less and less reliable. Most of my unprompted interaction is to wake the phone up so that notifications can arrive.

This is my thinking too. If I buy the 128GB version and pay for accidental damage insurance, it's way past sensible purchase.
By "sensible" I mean it'll outlast 2+ android midrangers while providing better user experience (including updates), better photos and higher resale value.

If you're a games studio exec with half a brain, you know it's stupid to ignore 100 million ps4 consoles out there. It'll take years for ps5 market to reach that size. So I'm not surprised new games will be released for both generations.

According to insurance companies' statistics and UK Police's "national speed awareness course", unless you're in a movie escaping a tornado/avalanche/meteor shower/swooping vampires, it's ALWAYS safer to brake (bleed energy) in emergencies rather than accelerate.

"the world of Slackware" was almost lost a few months ago when Patrick could no longer live on thoughts and thank-yous alone. If you support this sanity, show it by joining his patreon. It's still only about 500 people and the future of the world of Slackware still isn't totally certain.

If you can explain how, I'm pretty sure you will have earned yourself some kind of award. I can pretty much guarantee that unless it's a "proudly chinese brand" selling from their own "proudly chinese store", it is 100% fake and product description is a work of fiction.

To me, the biggest disadvantage of consoles is no access to cheats/trainers. I don't play a lot but when I do, I want to relax, so I use trainers for unlimited ammo and sometimes health if it's a particularly difficult level. Do consoles have any of that? Before anybody objects, I don't play online multiplayer games, only open world RPGs or FPS. In online games I'd stand no chance against 16 year olds.

> .....and they could care less.

soooo you WANT them to care less? Not more?

Wouldn't they be using JFS instead?
I personally am very grateful for systemd's logging. Among others, journalctl -xeu $somename makes my work a lot faster (not having to search and rgrep). As far as reliability is concerned, any file corruption results in new file being created and logging continuing. AFAICT, this is more reliable than rsyslog has ever been.
Yes, Poettering is creating a new OS and I don't like it either. I want to be able to pick and choose whether i want logging, dns resolving, dhcp client, network config, ntp by systemd or something else. Unfortunately it's being rammed down our throats as one do-all-thingamajig instead of a collection of little tools working with a single api.