The South Phoenix Fry's ain't lookin' so hot either.

I was in about a year ago and it still looked fine, but I stopped in to look at graphics cards back in November, and...there was one. One graphics card, in the whole store.

The home appliance section still looked decently stocked, but the rest of the store was a ghost town.

I read somewhere that they own most of their stores, so they could be keeping them open while they look for buyers for the property. Don't know if that's true but it would explain why they're still in business even though they're empty.

I worked at Intel briefly in 2015. I remember there was a post on the company blog about how they were addressing their declining revenues by...unveiling new logos and redesigning the packaging they sold their microprocessors in.

The comments were mostly polite variations on a theme: "This isn't going to fix our market problems." This was before Ryzen; Intel already had an absolute lock on the market for people who buy desktop processors in boxes. There was absolutely no way a new box was going to increase their market share one iota.

Obviously the real reason for the decrease in Intel's marketshare was Atom's failure to get a foothold in the smartphone market. But, y'know, it's a lot easier to redesign the packaging you sell your desktop processors in than design a chip that mobile device manufacturers want to use.

It reminds me of the old joke about the guy looking for his keys under the streetlight. "No, I dropped them over there, but the light's better here."

Anyway, then they laid off 12,000 people.

I'd say GNOME 3 is pretty different from Win8/10.

The problem isn't that it's not different enough. It's that it's different in ways I don't like very much.

(I think it's a perfectly fine desktop for the HTPC in my living room, though.)

I've been happy on linux mint for the last, I don't know, decades?

I doubt it, since Mint was first released in 2006.

And is based on Ubuntu.

My experience is a bit different. I switched my grandfather over to Mint a couple of years back (he'd stuck with Windows XP and Office 2003 way past their security support date), spent a little time setting MATE and LibreOffice up to look as much like Windows 98 and Excel 2003 as I could, and it's mostly worked pretty well for him.

LibreOffice has been a pain point for him; there's a lot of stuff he knew how to do in Excel that he hasn't been able to figure out in LO. But I honestly think that switching him to a later, ribbon-based version of MS Office would have been an even sharper learning curve for him. (This is a guy who does not like change; he used a Mac Classic into the late 1990s.)

Just FYI, AMD graphics drivers are great now. There is a very good open-source driver that should just work out of the box on most modern distributions.

But yeah, setting up AMD graphics used to be absolutely awful.

Because I am referring to people's job title, not their intellect.

I haven't bought an Apple product in years so I have limited experience with the direction the Apple Store has gone, but a close friend recently quit his Genius job after a decade, and he complained more than once that Apple hadn't just de-prioritized Macs compared to iDevices, but had also de-prioritized teaching Geniuses basic computer skills. He told me about a specific case where a customer brought a Mac in for something like the third or fourth time, and described persistent random reboots. My friend immediately and correctly guessed that the cause was probably bad RAM; every Genius who had previously worked on the computer had simply re-imaged it and sent it home.

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The GPL is basically saying "No Closed Source Forks". By that definition, Google, Amazon, and are plenty of others are in clear violation.

But contracts aren't governed by what they basically say, they're governed by what they actually say.

The simplest solution is probably to rewrite the GPL explicitly so that it does say "No Closed Source Forks" and make it a requirement that all Forks are publicly available on something like github.

That's not simple at all; it would apply to minor changes made for personal use, which was never the GPL's intent. (And don't let RMS hear you recommending that people use Github.)

As noted below, the GPL has been updated to cover software that's accessible on a public server; that's the Affero GPL. But the GPLv2 was not written to be forward-compatible with later GPL revisions, so GPLv2 software can't be forked and then published under the Affero GPL (though I believe GPLv3 software can).

It was also written in 1991, with no conception that software would be run entirely on a server and therefore avoid the copyleft restrictions by not being copied or distributed. And unlike the GPLv3, it didn't permit software originally published under v2 to be forked under a later version of the license (meaning the MariaDB devs are stuck with v2 because that's what MySQL was published under; they can't, for example, switch to the Affero GPL).

These are, as ConfusedVorlon noted above, "legal bugs, not legal features"; they're unintentional oversights on the part of the GPL's authors.

Thanks, that's useful information. It would seem that Scroll is of limited utility if all it does is block ads; I already have software that does that for free.

That said, I don't mind paying $5 a month to support sites I read regularly, but I've got some immediate questions about Scroll's analytics. Certainly it will include some amount of tracking -- I assume I need to be logged into Scroll for the ad blocking to kick in, and obviously it's going to use some sort of analytics to share its subscription fees with platforms that people use -- but I want to know, specifically, what data it will collect from its users, whether that data will be decoupled from those users' accounts, what data it will share with the news sites that it partners with, and whether it will also share that data with any other parties.

Since the study notes that a treadmill doesn't seem to be as good a predictor as pushups, do we have any idea what other exercise would be the equivalent of pushups?

I used to do pushups every day, but stopped after I started developing wrist pain.

Next you'll be telling me that my call isn't important to the people who put me on hold for 45 minutes.

Why is that funny?