Wow. Someone should warn the owners of LinkedIn that Microsoft may steal their data!

> I'm on RedHat's side here. And I'm a open source purist, by and large

Purist my ass. A corporate bootlicker is what you are.

> The FOSS community is perfectly capable of producing a robust operating system [debian.org] without the assistance of Red Hat or any other for-profit entity.

The existence of Debian and other capable distributions is completely besides the point.

The point is that Red Hat is trying to do a legal end-run around the GPL, and other free software licenses, violating the spirit if not the letter of those agreements. It seems they want to take from the open source community but don't want to share back and are fine with destroying perfectly legal and valid RHEL compatible Linux distributions in the process.

> If you need enterprise support or binary compatibility with RHEL, then give Red Hat some money.

No.

> But IBM just wants even MORE money and thinks it can monetize the FOSS, itself

Yup, this is the thing. Those last few dollars they are potentially leaving on the table by the existence of freely available RHEL compatible distributions, they want those too, and they don't mind breaking the open source social contract (if not by the letter, certainly in spirit) by doing an end-run around the GPL and severely harming the community to get at those dollars.

> I would just like a time before Google, Amazon, Facebook, marketers, advertising companies and similar. It's the bat-shit evil companies destroying the Internet.

You mean the time when Microsoft was destroying the Internet?

The Keyboard Company in the UK stocks Unicomp keyboards.

See: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.keyboardco.com%2Fcat...

As for feeling, I have a 1991 Model M SSK and a 2016 Unicomp Classic. They don't feel or sound exactly the same, but the Unicomp is still unmistakably a Model M. If you were to type blindly on a number of IBM, Lexmark and Unicomp Model Ms of various vintages, I don't think you could pick out the Unicomp.

Spoken like someone who has never played football in his life. Football is a very physical sport, and tackles, even legal ones, can fucking hurt and will have you writhing on the ground in pain for a while, even if there is no serious injury. You can compare it to stubbing your toe, it's not a serious injury but you are going to need a few moments to catch your breath.

To give you an idea, here is a picture of Mandzukic' ankle after Pickford (legally) challenged him for the ball in Wednesday's semi-final. He scored the winning goal after this. According to your rule he should have gotten off the pitch and his team should play on with 1 man down. How's that for ruining the game ...

And yes, some players dive when there's no foul, or embellish it in order to get the foul, but trying to game the rules happens in any sport.

They also track you via cookies when you're not logged in.

Try this: create a clean browsing profile, don't login to any google services from it, then go to youtube and watch some videos on a particular topic. Next time you go to youtube, you will get recommendations based on your previous activity, even though you don't have an account.

> that 40 year old code based designed around a 386

It's less than 30 years, and you can say exactly the same about Linux.

I'm not sure about that assumption. I have about 10 different mechs that I swap around regularly, but only 2 computers that I use them on regularly. It's nice that the keyboard layout is the same whatever keyboard I use, regardless of what dip switches are present.

Nowadays I mostly use my IBM Model M SSK at home, and I have actually remapped the caps lock to the Super_L key because being from 1991, of course it doesn't have a winkey yet.

Eh, you should set that in the keyboard layout of your OS, not with a dipswitch. (ctrl:swapcaps option in xorg)

That said, RealForce does have such a dipswitch too and even an extra swappable keycap for ctrl on the capslock position.

Yes both the pok3r and HHKB are very nice, but going to a 60% keyboard may be too big of a step for a full size KeyTronic user :)

What do you mean with control key in the wrong place? They almost all have them in the left bottom corner...

There are plenty of good keyboards, much better than a mushy Keytronic. You just have to know where to look, and be prepared to spend the money.

I'll give you some hints: RealForce, Topre, Filco, Unicomp.

> Apple doesn't do that

But the point is that they can because you have basically given them the key to your computer.

VSCode is not meant to be a full blown IDE. It's an editor, and competes with other editors like atom and sublime.

So what do you do when a systemd update comes in? Just leave the system running?