Knowing how lazy and ignorant are people this is not a good news:
With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It – Slashdot
people are too much accostumed to rent things to understand how crippled they will be.
Mood
sudo systemctl stop irqbalance
sudo systemctl disable irqbalance
When “irqbalance detected”… not related, but my box regained its lost reactivity….. 🙂
HWE Hardware Enablement???
Yesterday my old and once-powerful laptop told me it felt abandoned. Today is the turn of the netbook:
Your Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is supported until April 2019.
When your old laptop reminds you that it’s really old and you have almost forgotten it
The End of Windows – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/
Well, an archenemy seems to be beaten, but the path to true freedom is still long and winding. The menaces have appeared, some friends turned into enemies.
Via dai social
Alfonso Fuggetta ha scritto recentemente su Medium “Perché ho deciso di lasciare Twitter e Facebook”.
Interessante lettura, molto condivisibile.
Avventure enigmatiche
Prenotate in biblioteca!
Oberammergau.
Curiosità soddisfatta:Oberammergau: da segnarsi come meta per il 2020
Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel!
I read “Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service” from – Slashdot and I wonder: is it the same old technique “embrace, extend, extinguish”, or the old black night is slowly walking the long and winding road to redemption?
Yet such large corporations shall not be dealt with as a single entity, as a person. It is perfectly feasible that a part of MS is really and earnestly friendly toward Software Libre and at the same time another part is subtly hostile.
TurboTax is an evil, parasitic product that exists entirely because taxes are confusing and hard to file. Worse than that, Intuit is one of the loudest voices on Capitol Hill arguing against measures that make it easier to pay taxes. Years ago, the Obama administration proposed a system of automatic tax filing, in which the IRS uses income information it already has to fill out your tax return for you. That would save millions of Americans considerable time and energy every year, but the idea has gone nowhere. The main reason? Lobbying from Intuit and H&R Block.
From Why I’m boycotting TurboTax this year – It’s an evil parasite that only makes your taxes more complicated.
I wonder how they would label italian tax system. I suspect they will think it’s a horrible joke