Posts by alkasetzer 9 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Feb 2024
I've seen that several times when using multiple providers. It's the shared data responsibility model.
It's the customer responsibility to setup, correctly backups, the operator responsability is only that you are able to access said backups (not that they will restore your data, you may have misplaced some required key, the system software version changed and is no longer provided and you didn't update when they sent you all those pesky emails telling you it that, etc).
Although the major part of Mozilla funding comes from Google by setting Google as the default search provider, something that general users actually appear to want, it's also a fact that most of this money doesn't go to the development of firefox.
So if Mozilla drops the ball with firefox development, I consider it highly likeable that it could self-fund via donations and what not.
See: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-short-1209.pdf
As a owner of one ms keyboard and user of some in the past. Yes, they are boring but (the old hardware before this copilot refresh) good, the old wave keyboards were actualy really nice to use for extended typing.
As for ms phones, I had a lumia 530, from the time nokia was ms, and the phones were nice. The OS (win 8, 7 was crap and 10 was okayish but too heavy) was also much better than it's normally given credit to it. Yes it was "windows" but the ux was actually thought out (and easy to use single handed), in general consistent, which is something that android lacks even today. What it was lacking was apps, which may or may have not been an issue depending on the particular social media poisons one took.
Yes. This was obtained by checking the number of contributors to the redox kernel repo. Other repos have different numbers of contributors, the main (i.e. redox) has around 100 contributors (excluding commits for the same person from different emails).
The choice of just the kernel repo was to get a more or less apples to apples comparison with the linux kernel.
I may be wrong, but isn't the purpose of Redox (https://www.redox-os.org/) to be the Rust OS built on top of Rust by Rust developers?
I understand that the scope of Redox is much more than just the scope of Rust in Linux (i.e. the entire OS vs just the Kernel), even so the metrics for redox are:
* 9+ years in the making
* <50 contributors to the kernel only
So, while creating a Rust first OS (and kernel) is possible, I'm not sure that at this point there is enough developer mass to handle practical use of said OS (i.e. device maintainers). For OSes with a more limited support of hardware we already have all the BSDs (which for the most part work fine), Haiku and all the other niche OSes.
In any case this is FOSS and people are free to do what they want with their time.
I did something like you are describing, having a dual partition setup (win10+linux) and using virtual box raw disk access, when I was under one OS I just executed the other in a VM. I could then either run applications from within the vm os (using vbox seamless integration).
Then Microsoft released WSL. Afterwards Windows performance got worse due to Defender and so on, so I just ditched the windows partition and started using Office365.
Wine is great and all, but things not always work as they should, and it's sometimes easier to just migrate to another application than working through all that pain.
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