just saw a post on tumblr with comprehensive guides on how to use foss software to play audio and how to pirate audio and use slsk because of frustration with spotify and half of the guide is about why they should install linux and it had 200,000 notes
My friend used to use Spotify, but recently he dumped it because it has added new "feature" where you can't even change a song or something if you are not using premium (I'm not sure about the details). So he's using ViMusic (libre software for android) now.
I pulled the trigger and bought my brother a Slimbook laptop as a Christmas present. I've only read good opinions about this Spanish brand and, on top of that, they send it to you with GNU/Linux preinstalled.
Nice! Wish there were companies doing this in India as well. Of course the laptop must not require any non-free software to function, otherwise what's the point.
First I should make it clear that I don't know much about them except that they sell laptops with GNU/Linux pre-installed. Also I'm not questioning your decision about buying from them because it's your choice. So please don't get offended 🙂. Here's little elaboration of what I mean:
Sure you can remove any software you don't like, but I'm concerned about the hardware. Say it has fingerprint sensor and wifi. Both of which works fine when I bought the laptop. But will they keep working, when I install one of these distros[1] who exclusively only ship free software (and no non-free driver)?
IMO a company that's selling GNU/Linux preinstalled, should make sure that the hardware doesn't require any non-free drivers to work. Or if they do require, the company make it explicit ("Wifi wouldn't work without non-free driver"). By doing so the user will know what they are buying.
In the case the some hardware require non-free drivers to work, then why should I buy from these companies (presumably at higher cost) instead of Lenovo, Dell etc.?
Waited 2 hours in a saloon to cut my hair. Just before it was my turn, the guy behind me in the queue bribed the barber and went ahead of me! When I asked him about this, he said he doesn't "remember" who was next. I left immediately.
I have been going to that saloon (and to that barber) for 20+ years! I'll never go there again!
Hackers: Heroes of Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
(The first and the last part). These parts describe the early days of computing (and free software) at MIT AI Lab and under the circumstances under which free software movement was launched.
Goodreads URL: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56829.Hackers (purchase URL omitted for ethical reasons)
Free software, Free society, Third edition by Richard Stallman
This is a collection of essays by Richard Stallman founder of Free software movement. It also talks about dangers of software patents and other threats to free software. This book is also libre.
It's been 4 years that I'm using the GNU system and ~5 months I'm using it exclusively (no android). Thanks to work of thousands of people who work on it to make the system better each day!
GNU has changed how I see and evaluate software, and also greatly influenced my life and career choices! Long live GNU!
The book (Computer Organization, Tanenbaum) mentions some secondary storage mediums like Magnetic disks, IDE disks, SCSI disks, RAID, SSDs, CD-ROMS etc.
Trying to understand each of them but some of things don't make much sense. Can someone recommend resources that explain these, preferably with lots of pictures?
Someone who has same name as me, contacted me on Telegram to request that I change my Github user name so that perse can use it instead. I don't know what to do. I don't use the Github account much only for occasional bug reports and patches.