Recent content by emphy

In Europe they are fairly restricted geographically, with biggest presence in the Benelux area. Ahold used to be much bigger, but nearly bankrupted itself by growing too fast in the early 2000s, then sold of most of what it had acquired.

In related news, Ahold Delhaize (Food Lion, Hannaford, Stop & Shop, Giant Food in the US) have shut down large parts of their IT infrastructure due to a "security incident": Source: https://newsroom.aholddelhaize.com/ahold-delhaize-takes-precautionary-measures-following-cybersecurity-incident/...

We have seen what happens when big-tech ships linux: it's called android. If linux were shipped by default on desktop, it would eventually be plastered with manure at least as badly as windows is, which would defeat the purpose of the entire exercise.

Depends of what one would classify as an "issue", doesn't it? At the moment, it will do fine for the light use case it is claimed to be aimed at. However, it also restricts you to such usage and potentially reduces its useful lifespan where a few low-cost tweaks would have mitigated that...

Not everyone is in the luxurious position of being able to choose their OS, and no one can choose the OS of every single person and organisation that they come into contact with.

About the supposed user friendlyness of apple's software: last week, during an online lecture, I had the privilege of seeing one of the most intelligent people I know being reduced to gibbering idiot by his new macbook. This is someone who has been using a mac for well over a decade. Most...

That may mitigate the privacy invasion for me, but im(not so)ho the people who stay with microsoft/google/apple software still deserve their privacy. Apart from that, how long do you think it will remain feasible in our societies for individuals to offpunk big-tech?

By now, it is safe to assume that you get the better game if you wait at least a couple of months after release. Even for the most lauded of games. Has the added advantage that most of them will be on sale by then. The superior product at lower price, what's not to like?

Got me wondering: just how big/small is that list of PS5 exclusives?

Education theatre has problems educating people. Next they'll write that water is wet.

KDE developers at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFAO3b0AeZ0

If apple is happy with the performance profile of the current neo with a16, I don't think they would see a need to change the cooling for an a19pro based version.

They are also pulling an LG with their new watch. Because permanently spying watches is what we needed on top of the tv's.

Real in the sense that it would be trivial to implement, hypothetical in that they haven't been caught doing it yet.

Except when he claims with a straight face that apple laptops are properly cooled for the hardware.