I have the same model waiting to be built and went down this rabbit hole. Part of the problem is that the British tank museum read some descriptions of people who operated in or around the tanks and they all said something like "duck egg blue" or "sky blue". So when it came to paint their preserved Matilda tank they painted it with a best-guess shade that people later argued wasn't correct, but because it was in a museum it must have been right and it's been replicated on models and depictions ever since.
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Glad to see some political commentators catching on to this too.
Surprisingly measured comment section on that article (at time of writing). Given how harmless this software is it's a pretty easy conclusion of "if it puts you in harm's way, don't use it", and as the other commenter here says, it can always be forked if people don't like the political messaging.
I tried looking for communist/socialist podcasts recently and exclusively found people talking about theory and history and very little about current organisation efforts.
Anyone I talk to about this agrees that the IP theft itself is not a problem but the difference in punishment between the big tech companies and the average person. If someone in a basement had made chatGPT or equivalent, they'd have been put in prison for life, or fined into oblivion. OpenAI does it and suddenly one of the richest companies in the world says "if anyone even thinks about suing or holding them to account we will defend them with our literal army of lawyers". Then China does it and suddenly IP matters again.
Yeah I feel this even as a millennial. The tech we grew up with was exciting, constantly improving, generally not exploiting us, always getting cheaper. For gen z they've grown up when tech was abundant but always getting worse, more expensive and more exploitative.
This is why I went back to totp rather than notifications. Drove me nuts about a year or two ago. Support couldn't do anything then either.
Or Musk for that matter
Famously optimistic!
It's hard to say and depends on the audience. I'll assume we're going for absolute beginners to Linux. In my opinion (long time Linux user, very aware of the hardware I'm using), there's not good enough explanations for why some of those actions are necessary. The GPU driver one for example will be a bit alien to someone who has decided to try to keep their old laptop going through changing from windows to Linux. How do they know that they need the drivers? What will installing the drivers do/what effect will it have? What's a proprietary driver? What's open-source?
Actually this is something that bugs me in general about beginner-targeted Linux instructions, we tend to mention and encourage the use of things like "the open source driver" or similar without explaining what that means. Yes, we generally would prefer open source drivers, but in some cases they are significantly worse. Most people aren't ideologues, they just want their shit to work. Yes encourage people to use the open source driver, but don't tell them that's their only option. If they need their device to actually work they probably have to use a proprietary driver sometimes.
Instructions for specific applications like timeshift would benefit from screenshots. Yes the gui could change but it makes it easier for readers to see what is happening and determine for themselves if they've opened the correct application.
For the snapshots, firstly what even are they? What is timeshift? Why are you telling me to do these things? When do I need to do this again? How would I restore from a snapshot? I could suggest similar criticisms for most points.
Overall there are useful points here, just needs more justification or detail to flesh it out.
Subheading makes it clearer that it is talking about the services rather than the phones
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The article covers this.