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byTough Love
03, 2026 @08:04AM
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Attached to: 'IPv6 Just Turned 30 and Still Hasn't Taken Over the World, But Don't Call It a Failure'
Say Microsoft released Windows 11 but 30 years later, half of all Windows users were still using Windows 10. Would you call that A) a failure or B) a monumental failure?
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byTough Love
2026 @03:33PM
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Attached to: 'IPv6 Just Turned 30 and Still Hasn't Taken Over the World, But Don't Call It a Failure'
OK, IPv6 is not a failure. It's a monumental failure. Perhaps the greatest and most expensive failure in all of technology history.
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byTough Love
9, 2025 @08:13PM
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Attached to: Rust Is Coming To Debian's APT Package Manager
You seem confused about how Debian's technical stewardship works. Technical directions are determined by involved developers, and only if consensus cannot be reached among developers then the Technical Committee may be called upon to resolve the dispute. There is no one man in charge of this process, your paranoid rant notwithstanding.
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byTough Love
2025 @12:34PM
(#65738630)
Attached to: Windows 10 Refugees Flock To Linux as Zorin OS Claims 'Biggest Launch Ever'
What has us government website visits got to do with game consoles?
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byTough Love
18, 2025 @08:53PM
(#65735404)
Attached to: Windows 10 Refugees Flock To Linux as Zorin OS Claims 'Biggest Launch Ever'
Linux already has sustained user base.
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byTough Love
18, 2025 @08:49PM
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Attached to: Windows 10 Refugees Flock To Linux as Zorin OS Claims 'Biggest Launch Ever'
Agree that Gnome is shitty, but fortunately installing KDE is trivially easy, and it doesn't suck. You can even keep both if that floats your boat.
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byTough Love
15, 2025 @12:41PM
(#65726882)
Attached to: Nearly 40% of Kids Under 2 Years Old Interact With Smartphones, According To Their Parents
So? My 8 week old kitten interacts with smartphones. Catches mice. Also speed dials random contacts.
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byTough Love
09, 2025 @12:30PM
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Attached to: Germany To Allow Police To Shoot Down Drones
The acronym is AA. Consider trying to use the same language as the rest of us.
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byTough Love
08, 2025 @11:30PM
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Attached to: Germany To Allow Police To Shoot Down Drones
"Falling debris" is Russian newspeak for "drones that hit their targets and blew things up". Which they are not allowed to admit, so they blame the fire and smoke on falling debris.
AAC? Airway Allocation Control? Got your TLAs mixed up?
Germany makes one of the best anti-drone weapons, the Skynex system, an autocannon. But the military is constitutionally restricted to defending the country against external threats, and Germany does not share any borders with Russia. The federal and regional police are officially responsible for controlling drones, but until now, are not legally allowed to shoot at them. Soon that will change, your glib comment to the contrary notwithstanding.
How exactly the police will exercise this new power is a great question. They certainly won't go off half-cocked and out of control, that is simply not typical of German police. They won't be blasting at them with Skynex autocannons, those are heavy military weapons not available to the police. Maybe shotguns or rifles. First they will try to bring them down with ECM, probably. They may experiment with laser systems, which really aren't ready for prime time but kind of getting there. But I think what we're about to see what is Germans tend to do better than just about anybody - get busy and invent some fantastic new machinery designed expressly for the job. Given the urgency, this could happen pretty fast.
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byTough Love
08, 2025 @10:45PM
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Attached to: Germany To Allow Police To Shoot Down Drones
Good thing they ignore the anecdotes of random slashdotters.
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byTough Love
30, 2025 @06:40PM
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Attached to: Boeing Has Started Working on a 737 MAX Replacement
This is why Boeing killed people: trying to sweeten the sales proposition by eliminating the expense of recertification for a new airframe. Instead, by flimflammery, they tried to pretend that the Max has precisely the same aerodynamic characteristics as earlier 737s without the big high-bypass engines duct taped onto an ancient airframe that simply can't fit them in any safe way. Costly mistake both in lives and dollars. High time to put that creaky old design out to pasture and redraw from a clean sheet. Maybe have a computer more powerful than a hand calculator in it too.
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byTough Love
26, 2025 @05:47PM
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Attached to: Amazon Fire TV Devices Expected To Ditch Android for Linux in 2025
Android isn't JUST Linux, but it uses Linux as a base
So, exactly as any other Linux distribution does then.
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byTough Love
er 24, 2025 @05:23PM
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Attached to: Qualcomm CEO Says He's Seen Google's Android-ChromeOS Merger, Calls It 'Incredible'
With the usual crap desktop and lack of keyboard navigation? Just asking. Also with the usual 100% project ownership and lack of interest in user feedback? Thanks, but no thanks.
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byTough Love
r 18, 2025 @12:14AM
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Attached to: China Is Sending Its World-Beating Auto Industry Into a Tailspin
Now those cities are filled and productive
Are you sure about that? Newsweek says from 65 million to 80 million housing units across China are estimated to be empty
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byTough Love
16, 2025 @04:35PM
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Attached to: Waymo Gets Green Light For Airport Service in San Francisco
Tesla needs an answer to this, to keep their stock fraud going. Remember when robotaxi was going to justify Tesla's P/E being twenty times too high?
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