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[hf_139]

Don't use GNOME, it's bad.

Avoid gtk if you can.

[hf_139]

If you distribute a modified form of a GPL-licensed program, or binaries from it, then you must also make your modified version of the program available...

[hf_139]

Nothing forces those large corporations to leech off of those OpenSource projects. If they would contribute back or donate accordingly, none of those...

[hf_139]

This is why you have to go for a GPL license since the beginning.

Both Apache and BSD licenses are just seen as free labour for corporations....

[hf_139]

Here i was thinking that they would do their own js engine.
Because it's kinda expected, as it is the critical part....

[hf_139]

jpeg2000 is seen when a texture for a 3d model needs to be transferred over a network during play. Like loading as you look at it.
Imagine player...

[hf_139]

Yes, i am fine with that one.
Since i am not living in China, it doesn't affect me at all whether or not Xi Jinping knows that i am listening to...

[hf_139]

I don't know about you guys, but i never got into those power mode things and p-states and whatever.

I have a shell script that uses cpupower...

[hf_139]

The good thing about the chip war is that we might see cheaper, better and more secure Chinese CPUs in the future.

That American and Israeli...

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mitigations=off i915.mitigations=off

[hf_139]

I wouldn't call whatever GNOME advertises as "proper desktop apps".
Their music player Amberol is literally a rip-off from the mobile...

[hf_139]

That marketing brabble applies to Windows 8 as well.
Or do you think Microsoft was not trying do create an optimal desktop environment and didn't...

[hf_139]

GNOME made their big design decisions based on "professional UI designers" (who know it better than those pesky users), at the same time Microsoft...

[hf_139]

Tremendous progress, maybe the 15 year old wayland will become usable within the next five years.

[hf_139]

Nobody uses Windows 8 anymore, so why would anyone use GNOME?
Use a modern DE instead or wait for COSMIC.

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yikes, sorry, but i do want to have decent image quality and i am not interested in a mosh of compression artifacts.

Image formats that got...

[hf_139]

xz is a good format and i am not going to move away from it just because the NSA asset RedHat tells me to. The company that runs XKeyscore and PRISM isn't...

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yes, which explains why corporations like Google and AWS are outraged about the license change and spearheaded forks.
If redis wants to go for a...

[hf_139]

Not gonna use it, because of the BSD license, which basically turns you into a free laborer for corporations, while the GPLv3 forces them better into...