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Comment Re: Sold his stock (Score 2) 80

Thus Dell was correct at the time. Apple was suffering an identity crisis in the mid 1990s before Jobs returned. Brilliant people, umpteen side projects that never stuck because of dysfunctional management.

Ironically, they did have the prototype modern iMac back in 1989 with SE/30 running A/UX. Had they stayed the course with A/UX 4 ported to PowerPC (converging with AIX), they could have sidestepped the complete mess that became Taligent and Copland.

Comment Re:Year Of Linux On The Desktop (Score 4, Insightful) 182

Phoronix posts some decent stuff but a lot of it is clickbait, trying to taint Linus as some sort of dictatorial sociopath. The kernel has survived more than three decades because its founder still gives a damn about code quality.

A couple of dozen contributors, one big merge and the maintainer probably didn't write or review the helper function that Linus got annoyed about. This right before the release.

Just because it compiles and 'works' doesn't mean you should ship it and as a maintainer, he'll do a more thorough job next time.

Comment Re:Wrong tool for the job anyway (Score 1) 11

What OS does Google use internally?

Because if you wanted to 'dog-food' you'd sternly encourage pretty much every employee to use Chrome OS, hence the Linux and Android containers, with the option to spin up a virtualized container for specialty work, including Windows 11 (whose support someone unofficially demoed on a Pixel phone.)

Steam OS then seemed like a perk for their employees but it's built on Wine, so as an incentive to get whatever Windows apps the company uses running sans W11.

Comment Re:It was still Our Tube in those days... (Score 1) 125

Depends on the channel. If it's music videos then yeah, [some obscure TV show that uses this on their soundtrack brought me here ] adds nothing.

But if I want to Google informational content such as cooking, history, science, language learning, solving a Rubik's cube, raspberry pi clusters etc then the comments often illuminate. Even Slashdot with its flame-wars has some gems; the audience has sat through 2 decades of my prattling anecdotes...

Anyhow, I'm really surprised there is not already a YouTube Kids app that restricts content by potential self-harm.

Comment Re:Nonsense. (Score 1) 80

My country, like America has a very car-dependent culture.

At 10:30 on a Saturday morning in winter, I'm back from my stroll to the supermarket. Round trip 4km 5,500 steps with $AU40 worth of groceries. Do that 3 times a week and that's almost Google's 150 'heart points' for the period.

My brother and mother who drive everywhere, well...

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