This was my first exposure to Linux - one of the PCs in high school had it installed. (I had read about Linux before then, but not had a chance to try it)

It had a little foam Tux in the box, and I got to keep it:

Initially I didn’t see it on the package in the image, so before reading the article it looked like a prank product, just an empty case to hold your eSIM.

Sounds like a clear failure to have a reasonable API. I’d think apps shouldn’t have to guess based on aspect ratio, they should be told in some way which layout to use.

That typo reverses the meaning by being one letter off.
(It had said “diy cooking paint”)

I’d say very slightly past that. Quantum computers do work right now, but it’s the same way the Wright brothers’ first plane worked: as proof of concept and research, but not better than existing tech for solving any problems.

And it’s not that they fail to meet expectations of the designers, as far as I know they do exactly what they are built to do as well as predicted with the tech we have. Just the press is expecting more.

Software and hardware support definitely counts.

I would also guess that probably a lot of Microsoft enterprise stuff like active directory group policies likely aren’t supported well, but I don’t have enough knowledge to back that up.

I want to use GNOME as what it does works great, but it lacks a whole list of features I use.

Watch the list actually get longer over time.

Sure they are, but system apps are still installed in the immutable space initially, which is the important thing, that updates to it can’t go there.

I don’t know how desktop immutable systems deal with that.

Another prominent example is Android. Sure system apps can be upgraded individually – by storing the new version in a restricted part of the ‘user’ partition – but otherwise the system files are strictly read only until a new ‘image’ is ‘flashed’ to it by the update system or a power user with debugging tools. In the past, a common use of root capabilities was to remount the system partition as read/write and then change files on it directly. It’s more complex now.

That’s also why system apps can be rolled back to the stock version, and can sometimes be disabled, but can’t be directly uninstalled like user apps. Only the updated version on the user partition (if there is one) can be removed.

What is it? Even the article does not say

Wayland is still too broken for him?

I think I now know where I’ll order my next computer from.

After the first 4 words of the title I was assuming it was intentional - Glad it doesn’t seem to be, but HP’s reputation is just that bad.

Yeah, but “2nd place” (if it’s even that) is so far down that many of us including me haven’t even heard of it before.

Speaking of details wrong:

most downloaded local news app

• 50,000,000+ downloads

Meanwhile Google News (which does local):

• 1,000,000,000+ downloads

Not that it affects me, but is there already a ksetwacom planned?

True.

I just thought of a potential partial solution:
There could be companies that rent spaces in parking lots (with charging) specifically for automated cars, located just outside cities and commercial/industrial areas. Might even be useful to people in apartments or otherwise without a place to charge at home.

These would be closer to where the car needs to go later than all the way back home, and ideally on lower traffic routes.

I’d double my gas usage during the week

More likely power bill I’d think - I haven’t heard of anyone working on an autonomous gas powered car or even hybrid. Also a few states won’t even be allowing sales of gas cars in 11 years

But since it takes 10% of the space (vram, etc.) sounds like they could just start with a larger model and still come out ahead

It does feel that way, but…

“Linux 4.20 was released on Sun, 23 Dec 2018”

About 5.5 years.