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Symbolic Butt posted:a terrible boss I once had told me to use aptitude instead of apt-get because "apt-get doesn't believe in GNU" your boss is just an idiot they're both dfsg-free, gpled frontends to libapt, another dfsg-free, gpl project
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In university I had a prof who wouldn't accept assignments if they were zipped rather than gzipped tarballs because freedom or something. He also did all his code demonstrations on overhead because he refused to use the windows pcs in the classroom or carry a linux laptop like all the sane profs because he they all need nonfree drivers to work.
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that's just hosed up
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that's the only justifiable argument against tenure
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ZShakespeare posted:He also did all his code demonstrations on overhead because he refused to use the windows pcs in the classroom or carry a linux laptop like all the sane profs because he they all need nonfree drivers to work. there was never a time when you *needed* non-free drivers for a linux laptop guy was just a crank
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Mar 21, 2015 20:02
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the kernel complains youre tainting it
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its your moral imperative to install non-free software on every gnu system you encounter
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atomicthumbs posted:my coworkers are putting together a linux distro to put on the older refurbished laptops so we can sell them for lower prices and because the other ones are crap and difficult
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Mar 21, 2015 21:15
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2015 year of hand rolled unsupported linux on the refurbished desktop
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Mar 21, 2015 21:16
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business plan: sell support services to people so poor they had to buy a refurbished laptop so old it needed its own linux distro
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Breakfast All Day posted:business plan: sell support services to people so poor they had to buy a refurbished laptop so old it needed its own linux distro isn't that what suspicious dish is doing
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Mar 21, 2015 21:19
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call it pooracle
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Mar 21, 2015 21:23
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the poor are extra exploitable, this is just good(misanthropic) business sense
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Mar 21, 2015 21:24
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pretty sure using an existent and supported linux distro might make more 'business' 'sense'
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ruby idiot railed posted:isn't that what suspicious dish is doing No.
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i wasn't arguing that in good faith. many idiots make forks for tenuous reasons that don't deviate from upstream. in any case i recall some small businesses pulling this poo poo in the past, rolling their own "distros" where the upfront cost is low, but charging cash for OSS utilities or shipping a bunch of broken poo poo and tying users into support contracts. parasitical e. these sorts of scams used to be fairly popular afaik (or maybe just here, the scam capital of north america). in the past if you were a desperate anglophone you could get a job hoodwinking people into paying money for repackaged oss software p easily OldAlias fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Mar 21, 2015 |
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pram posted:2015 year of hand rolled unsupported linux on the refurbished desktop
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Mar 21, 2015 21:36
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With XP dead, linux probably has made quite a few gains in the refurbished desktop computer space.
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pram posted:pretty sure using an existent and supported linux distro might make more 'business' 'sense' you wont get to call it red panda linux though. im guessing thats what its really about
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:there was never a time when you *needed* non-free drivers for a linux laptop lol @ using a laptop without wireless
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ruby idiot railed posted:isn't that what suspicious dish is doing no, suspicious dish's company is building new computers for people who are poorer than that
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ZShakespeare posted:lol @ using a laptop without wireless intel wireless is the best and also the best linux driver there are dozens of other free-as-in-freedom drivers but all you need is intel
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Mar 21, 2015 23:43
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eschaton posted:no, suspicious dish's company is building new computers for people who are poorer than that For context, our first computer is $189, and that's the Intel-based model. The ARM-based model, which I built the drivers for, is significantly lower cost than that. More to come super soon.
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Suspicious Dish posted:For context, our first computer is $189, and that's the Intel-based model. The ARM-based model, which I built the drivers for, is significantly lower cost than that. do you have goon discounts?
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Suspicious Dish posted:For context, our first computer is $189, and that's the Intel-based model. The ARM-based model, which I built the drivers for, is significantly lower cost than that. Your company has a top notch marketing music guy. The ting ting ting xylephone-esque sound at the beginning really causes you to expect something great. Still not sure what your product is going to be other than "a computer", but make a post when the wall of silence falls down.
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its olpc lol
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funny way to spell posted:do you have goon discounts? No.
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pram posted:its olpc lol Besides the fact that we're not kept alive by government grants. Our product is sold directly to those who are using it. We're marketing the people actually using the drat thing, not bigwigs at AMD.
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Suspicious Dish posted:Besides the fact that we're not kept alive by government grants. Our product is sold directly to those who are using it. We're marketing the people actually using the drat thing, not bigwigs at AMD. can you say whether or not the price includes a screen?
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The price is simply a computer, without a monitor.
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Suspicious Dish posted:Besides the fact that we're not kept alive by government grants. Our product is sold directly to those who are using it. We're marketing the people actually using the drat thing, not bigwigs at AMD. is there a backup plan in the admittedly extremely unlikely scenario that people dont want linux computers
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I'm sure your doing good work suspicious dish. If the business fails, I hope you fail up. How do you establish a competitive brand in dozens of languages?
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pram posted:is there a backup plan in the admittedly extremely unlikely scenario that people dont want linux computers No. SYSV Fanfic posted:I'm sure your doing good work suspicious dish. If the business fails, I hope you fail up. How do you establish a competitive brand in dozens of languages? Laser sharp focus on one market at a time, and then expand from there. The things we learned from that are going into our big launch.
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good luck, i unironically hope it's a good product that succeeds in the market
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Yeah, same. I really wish i could post more about what I'm doing, because some of the stuff we're building (which is actually completely separate from Linux and could make a really neat startup in its own right) is really awesome, but I can't share until it's ready to be announced. I want to tell the world about all of this, about the really cool stuff we're building, but I need to play it safe. I do know the launch date, though, and I'll keep you guys updated on whatever I do.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:there was never a time when you *needed* non-free drivers for a linux laptop id say probably up until around the time of the xorg split getting the secondary output to work on a linux laptop without proprietary drivers was a nightmare
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ahmeni posted:id say probably up until around the time of the xorg split getting the secondary output to work on a linux laptop without proprietary drivers was a nightmare it was really easy to make a secondary output work. it was impossible to make it work dynamically restarting X11 in order to hook up a projector was not a good user experience
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it's ironic how I posted here about cheap laptop computers being the main competitor to suspicious dish's computering things in brazil and now I'm one of the guys working on the linux for these exact laptops I feel kind of lovely, poor people deserved someone better than me to figure what the heck is going on with their realtek drivers but welp
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the important thing is that I got health plan now lmao
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(we're working on a laptop product right now as well. it's not going well)
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