Not only don't we but we especially don't need it to be based on compiz. I've already been down that road. It's all but abandoned. It's way too flaky for prime time. Went back to KDE, much better.

We've seen enough stories about national government misuse of these camera feeds to assume there's no "exclusive access" provision in these contracts.

Are the cameras not paid for by the city?

I'm old enough to remember when Japanese products had this exact same reputation. I'm really surprised at how short-term some people's memories are - especially a lot of our leaders, who are old enough to also remember it.

Microsoft is running it.

I was watching some old episodes of Forensic Files and you could see the 911 system was running OpenVMS.

Dumping Windows laptops and switching to Mac was cheaper according to IBM. https://www.cio.com/article/23...

The article is 10 years old now but it saved massively on support costs even though the initial purchase price was higher.

In our department, the vast majority of our staff do 90% of their work in a web browser. A handful use a separate email program (Outlook, unfortunately), but most are in Gmail. They also occasionally use MS Office, but that software's crappy interface is equally bad regardless of platform. So I have a hard time believing switching them to Macs or Linux boxes would have any deleterious impact on their productivity, except perhaps in the very short term as they learn the OS' interface.

And, since we do have a number of users on Macs already... it's not as if our desktop admins would be dealing with an unfamiliar management setup.

Our group's desktop admins are considering making this switch right now, actually. It's got nothing to do with "increasing productivity", it comes down to per-unit costs plus positive experiences with those staffers who are already on Macs. The group has been long-time Dell customers on the Windows side, and what I'm hearing from them is that Dell's business laptops have gotten more expensive than the equivalent Macs. FWIW they have various reasons they've rejected Dell's competitors in the Windows space.

That's fine, but it doesn't matter who does, because congress explicitly didn't give them this power. It's not a matter of debate (the debate already happened) and it doesn't matter who appointed the person who doesn't have the power to do this.

All I'm saying is that jamming is illegal so it's not an improvement over just cutting them down, which is illegal. It seems to me to make sense only either to just cut them down, or render them temporarily inoperative with a bag which might be legally better than cutting them down.

For a while they blatantly copied Apple with the window buttons in the upper left corner with the same colors. I just looked at some new screenshots and again they’re copying Apple with the dock.

Literally one company makes the lithography machines.

The secondhand market is also a dumpster fire. Used hard drive prices are up and sellers are pulling ram from previous gen servers to gouge people.

Which government? The US (relevant as it's where Google is located) does its best to do everything through contractors. It would have to be through some international body, like the United Nations. I can't imagine that not slowing development to a crawl and leading to some other corporate browser taking over and creating the same problem all over again.

There are some motherboards which will let you use DDR4 with an AM4 processor, and AM4 processors have made sort of a comeback with AMD bringing back production of some higher end parts which remain competitive.

Though I actually built this as the AM5 stuff drove down the prices rather than going back and doing it, I run a 5900X (12C24T 3.7-4.8 GHz) and it remains a beast given the costs. I use 4x CP16G4DFRA32A.C8FF for 64GB dual channel, and the mainboard is an ASRock B550M PG Riptide. It's been absolutely solid, though ASRock has had some lemons and the RGB on this board is lousy.

At work I run Windows 11 on 4GB. If I leave it running for more than a few days then office windows stop drawing correctly, and don't even get me started on Acrobat.

I own a 2C4T Zen+ laptop which came with 4GB, I was able to get a matching SODIMM on ebay for about $15 and it's also dual channel which is especially nice for a unified memory machine. It's running Devuan with KDE and it's absolutely fine for any task I'd want to do on it. But it would cover my needs for Windows, too. 4GB doesn't, and didn't with Linux either.

My desktop has 64GB. This is the first time I've ever built a computer which appreciated.