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Comment Why would I care? (Score 1) 296

I've been using Linux as my primary desktop OS since 1993. I worked as a technical editor focusing on Linux and Open Source for a number of years at iX Magazine and Linux-Magazin in Germany. Also, I worked in IT consulting for 25 years, specializing on Linux, Open Source, and some other Unix. For decades I have been hearing this "will XXXX be the year of the Linux desktop?". Do I care? Frankly, no. Open Source has always been about choice. May others use (and frown upon) their Windows or Mac boxes. My choice was Linux, and will remain so, mainly because I hardly have a use case for something else, and Linux does nearly everything that I need it to. If occasionally not, KVM and Virtualbox are my friends.

Comment Re:Facepalm (Score 2) 72

That's not quite accurate. FR24 does not have any raw radar display, so what does not transpond ADS-B you (as in "FR24 user") simply cannot see at all. Military aircraft usually switch off ADS-B during a mission or have no transponder at all (which is documented on the FR24 web site). In Europa, civil ATC can add raw radar to the normally computer generated display within their area of responsibility (AOR) in case the CG display fails for some reason - after all, their job is ensuring air safety for civial aviation, and then you had better be aware who's around in your AOR. And military air defence does use raw radar by default. (Disclaimer: I worked as as an air defence officer in a NATO radar station for a couple of years, so I did have some exposure to the usual procedures.) You mileage may vary in China, though.

Comment Facepalm (Score 1) 72

As if military aircraft squawked ADS-B. In Europe, they don't, typically, except if under civil ATC control. But indeed, China is empty atm on FR24, which it wasn't when I checked last.

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