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Comment Re:boot ? (Score 1) 137

My laotop triple-boots FreeBSD, Manjaro Linux, and OpenBSD.
I power it down most nights. I certainly never cared about uptime.
I don't use a boot menu; it boots FreeBSD by default. I press a function key when I want to choose another OS.
Using the stopwatch on my wristwatch just now, I measured 7 seconds from power on to the FreeBSD logo.

Comment Re:The age of ecosystem (Score 1) 57

I've had about 11 Android devices over the years; I've installed custom ROMs on 3 of them, and rooted 2 of the others.
But I have never, never put a Google account on any of them. When you start up an Android device for the first time, it asks for a Google account, but it does let you skip that step. You don't have to hack it or anything.
That's just for people who want to use some of the Google servics, like Gmail, Google Photos, or calendar syncing. I've never done any of that.
Downloading and sideloading non-F-Droid APKs was a pain for a while, until the advent of apps like Aurora Store that let you get apps from the Google Play store without a Google account.

Comment Re:Analog clocks are an anachronism (Score 1) 251

It's odd to call something ubiquitous an anachronism. Sure, they're old, and other types have been invented since.
AM and PM are still the norm in the US; though most of us can easily parse "military time", it's unusual to see it.
Traditional round analog clocks are still simple, cheap, and everywhere. I can see four or five of them from my desk at work.

Comment Using personal data for ads is pointless (Score 1) 17

Meta has lots and lots of information about me and my friends.
But the ads I see on Facebook are utterly bewildering.
I get ads for software to run my dental practice, law firm, or church.
I get ads for preparation services for some social-work exam I've never heard of.
I get ads for audio engineering tools.
I get ads for addiction treatment services.
The list goes on and on. None of this stuff has the slightest relevance to me.
If you're paying to advertise on Facebook, I say you're probably getting ripped off.

Comment Re:I miss PC-BSD (Score 1) 32

My daily driver has been Plasma on FreeBSD for several years now.
This year I switched over to Wayland, and it's working pretty well. About as many quirks as I've seen on Linux.
I enjoyed PC-BSD back in the day, and I've used GhostBSD before. I understand the appeal of a distribution with a GUI already set up.
But it has gotten really easy to set up a GUI on FreeBSD.

My laptop's wifi is Intel AX200, which seems to be one of the best choices for FreeBSD right now.
There was a major speed boost in the iwlwifi driver from 14.2 to 14.3, and the new iwx driver in 15.0 seems to bring a big stability upgrade without a loss of speed.
On balance I'm happy with the direction the project is moving.

Comment Re: ADHD does not exist (Score 4, Insightful) 238

Why have any rules or standards at all? Just give all students full credit in everything.
If we're going to make college the last bit of preparation standing between "children" and the real world, at some point we have to require them to do something hard.

Comment Re:The source is there? (Score 4, Interesting) 33

This is the source to the first couple original infocom z-machine interpreters.
Valuable for historic purposes only.

False. The source code they linked to is the ZIL source code of the games themselves, as uploaded to GitHub (illegally at the time) by Jason Scott in 2019.
But this announcement totally ignores the fact that the source code of all of the other Infocom text adventures is there too, still illegally.

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