Schneier himself just asserts that "big players" like "Google, Facebook, and Yahoo" are, in some unspecified sense, doing cross-device tracking, while fuzzily linking it with a horrid and invasive...
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Schneier himself just asserts that "big players" like "Google, Facebook, and Yahoo" are, in some unspecified sense, doing cross-device tracking, while fuzzily linking it with a horrid and invasive...
I doubt Google's doing anything quite so cleverly insidious, but then, they don't have to. When your e-mail, calendar, map service, default search, web browser, and phone operating system are not...
I normally use a pretty maccy desktop theme, but felt like something different.
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Being Unix-like does not make a thing open source. Routers are e very likely to contain s some proprietary code. It doesn't matter, but my understanding is that they generally do.
Yeah, I have to admit that I've probably misused the phrase "planned obsolescence" quite a bit myself. When the people who drive the most sales are (naturally) the people who are able and eager to...
It's equally unsurprising that Google would offer a plugin for Linux systems and Microsoft wouldn't, because Google's writing a Linux-based plugin anyway for their own devices and might as well...
I hate to bang on about this, but when we talked about Skype having a webapp now?
Yeah, it uh ... it has the same three buttons that Hangouts does, but two of them are greyed out with the tooltip,...
There's apparently this CHIP thing at $9 that's basically the Pi Zero with OOTB networking and other handy extras. Component video instead of HDMI, for some reason, but apparently a more complete...
Well, terminology first, the cloud != the web. I mean, particularly when you're talking about cloud storage and syncing services, the whole point of which is often to have little hooks into native...
Ah, I see. I'd only ever played with Microsoft's online version of Office through a trial subscription to 365. I do, perhaps regrettably, use Docs for most things and Libreoffice for a few.
Skype...
Yes, that's a much more accurate assessment. The only legal way to run MS Office on my Ubuntu machine is through Office 360. That's using cloud apps as an OS-agnostic distribution platform. Or,...
"Cloud apps that you access offline" only sounds like a contradiction in terms in most situations, but in this case, it actually is. If all the processing is happening locally, then it doesn't change...
Oh, I know. The prevalence of cloud-based software can only move at the speed of broadband access penetration.
Of course it does. It probably should. Users are undeniably giving up a particular notion of data privacy to make use of these services. And those users continue to do so. The real, tangible benefits...
I'm still astounded that people actually talk to their phones. It's very strange to me. Bluetooth headsets are very nearly the ideal interface for the actual task of talking and listening to a phone...
That assumes that the computer itself is the expensive part of the device that you need to move around and that contains all your data. I don't think the first part (the board is the expensive bit of...
What, no. He's referring to the ARM architecture the Pi uses, which a typical mobile SOC is, and a typical desktop is not (using x86 instead). Software for 32 and 64 bit flavors of the architecture...
Most excellent. Thank you. = ]
Would it be sensible to think about using something like this - either the Zero or another Pi - as a thin client for an LTSP setup?
That sure is a restatement of something you've previously said in the thread.
An HTPC is another thing entirely. And doesn't push up on any hardware limitations to speak of. If anything, I think HTPCs are due for a turn to become more popular.
But you're talking about...
... Yes, that is the stereotypical construct to which we are referring. Insofar as there are people who can realistically be categorized as such, it's a dying breed. There's also a split between PC...
Oh boy.
In reality, that segment of game consumers is only going to become more difficult to define going forward.
You can't very well expect to play the DVD using a typical tablet, either. Let's bear in mind that a quick glance at something is almost always going to overestimate short-term change and...
What exactly are you using your computer for? I don't mean that as a general "what do people use computers for," but you, personally?