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Comment Re:Linux is cool now (Score 1) 116

It's even worse that this is ten years old because those painpoints still exist. It's ridiculous how difficult it is to even compile for a different version of glibc etc to the build environment, it's like doing a cross-compile. Windows and macOS make that easy. There are still two main package formats (which apparently /.ers prefer per the comments about Mint, etc). And Snap and Flatpak are bloated bandaids working around a shitty environment.

Comment Re: Selection pressure (Score 1) 96

I would hazard a guess that most Europeans haven't even heard of Novosibirsk either. I recently met the Russian wife of a parent at my child's school who also initially claimed to be from near Moscow (again, digging deeper, it turned out to be 500 km away.) And last month, one of my team members from near Novosibirsk (about four hours drive away) drove 7,500 km during his holiday. I said to him: wow, that's over 500 km a day, to which he replied: yes, but I was only driving for about five days of those two weeks. Everything is on a different scale in Russia.

Comment Re:Going for gold (Score 1) 261

In what way does it fundamentally change the product? Does it stop keeping food cold? Does it stop generating a shopping list and displaying it on the screen? What fundamental feature in the product description does it stop doing or fundamentally change?

Don't get me wrong, I'd be very unhappy if this happened to me. But, I think you're confusing fundamental with cosmetic.

If you bought a silver fridge and it changed it's colour without warning to red and no longer fit with your colour scheme, sure you'd probably be able to claim for a refund, or if outside that period, a repair or replacement. Depending on how these are ads function, that might be a difficult parallel to draw. Outside the window of time when you can change your mind for a refund, I would bet that most consumer laws don't give you any recourse. I would also bet that Samsung's lawyers reviewed the laws in the markets where they enable this, leaving your only recourse being to the courts instead the retailer.

Comment Re: in deathrace 2000 you get lots of points for (Score 1) 290

He wrote "my Country". That's incorrect. Try reading before replying. Are you German? If so, you probably should avoid the topic of capitalisation of nouns in English.

As for your last sentence whinging about Apple quotes, whinge on. It's a /. bug. Turning off smart quotes will still leave a plethora of situations like my currency symbol or ellipsis that result in a mess. I will not change this setting for one website. Get used to it.

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