mentat2737 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Telegram better than WhatsApp?
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mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence
I'm an happy GNOME3/Wayland user, with a few extensions GNOME3 is very good.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Desktop]
- HEADLINE: Join Wayland
- DESCRIPTION: Instead of reinventing the wheel with Unity8/Mir, please join Wayland development and maybe join forces with Linux Mint and switch from Unity to Cinnamon or MATE, with Flatpak supports for desktop apps.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Windows 10 Cloud’s UWP Walled Garden Bypassed, Allowing Win32 Apps To Run
Wait, so you are telling me a not-even-in-beta software is not secure?
That's a very important news!
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: BSDploy – FreeBSD jail provisioning
It was said already in the past, and I agree.
Naming.
Too many letters in a *BSD, too scary. Linux is more toy-ish and thus more appealing as a name.
Plus the UCL vs BSD legal war, which shifted much of the community towards Linux.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Git-scm.com status report
Just a note:
> The deployed site is hosted on Heroku. It's part of GitHub's meta-account, and they pay the bills.
So why aren't they just using a GitHub page for this?
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: KDE Slimbook
Because it's a Spanish company.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: 20 years as a Debian maintainer
Wheezy was my last one as well.
I fully migrated my personal laptop to FreeBSD (as TrueOS) a few weeks ago, after using it as my second OS at home.
And because I need Linux for work, I migrated to Devuan on my workstation, as I need to use Ansible and Docker in a stable way as part of my DevOps job.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development
What would you suggest then?
In my experience, only Thinkpads and Latitudes have provided me satisfying user experiences.
Except XPS 13 and Macbook Pros, which I tried and I don't like the feeling.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development
I bought a T420s a few months ago.
I am selling my much newer MacBook Pro retina now, as the Thinkpad is so much more functional, the keyboard is amazing the feeling of the machine itself is fantastic.
I am thinking to buy a X260 brand new because I need a newer CPU and better battery life, but for sure I'll only buy Thinkpads or Latitudes (I have one at work, amazing machine) from now on.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Portainer, a UI for Docker
Why should I use this instead of Kubernetes?
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Carrie Fisher has died
Watched two days ago. Lovely, I really liked it.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Carrie Fisher has died
She is one with the Force, the Force is with her.
source: the comments in that thread.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Ubuntu still isn't free software
I'm in Europe and even some non-tech know what a Linux Mint is. And a lot of newbies I help to install Linux on their laptops explicitly ask for it as well. Many are lost with Ubuntu/Unity interface and are much more happy with Cinnamon on Mint.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Ubuntu still isn't free software
Mint is already killing them on the desktop, how long before a "Mint server" arrives?
And yes, Debian for servers, but some people wants more up to date software.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Windows 10 in-place upgrades are a severe security risk
Nope, Gnome Software can upgrade systems now.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen
Also, a few years ago Xamarin actually ported Android (then 2.2. IIRC) to Mono/C#, as a test for Java->C# converters, and the result was faster than Android/Java.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen
Nice.
Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Why Twitter Must Be Saved
Twitter will be absorbed by a big one (possibly Google), so no need for this kind of posts.
And if it dies, let it be. Another one will come up.
mentat2737 | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft offers Apple users $650 off to trade a MacBook for a Surface
Agree... No love for EU users :/
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With Telegram your data ends up in Germany.
They are Berlin based and against the current Russian government AFAIK.