But was it really $115k each or was it $115k total i.e. $57,500 each? The wording is really weird: "That was on top of the $115,000 in salaries he paid in total each year to both employees"

In total each year, not to each employee. "115k total to both" sounds like the latter. (If someone is selling you concert tickets, "I'll sell them at $200 for both" is different from "I'll sell them at $200 for each")

I realize it's kinda splitting hairs & doesn't really change your point, but I'd be really surprised if fast food managers in the middle of Missouri were making $115k/yr each.

You have a hardware-based cursor?? If you make it blink more slowly can you use those idle cycles to mine bitcoin?

The house pays for itself many times over! They should have made it bigger...

They should be using open-source drivers anyway, then it wouldn't matter if their details are exposed.

You seem to be confused about what exactly generics are. They are not abstract types, and they are checked/closed at compile time, not runtime.

For anyone who remembers the 70s British series The Tomorrow People (that played in reruns on Nickelodeon in the 80s), David Prowse played a small role as an android painted in silver body paint on that series. I didn't make the connection until I was watching an episode on YouTube and saw his name flash by during the credits.

Here he is hitting his head on a cage during one of his scenes:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwhatculture.com%2Ffilm%2F9...

Very fitting addition to the dumpster fire that is 2020: the Year of the Linux Desktop was finally brought about by... Microsoft.

Pffft, you're speaking like some lowly civilization that doesn't even know how to send a quantum-entangled message instantaneously to the edge of the solar system.

Why on earth would you need 600 col... nevermind :D

Glad you enjoy the monitor(s), it does sound like an awesome setup!

Thanks for asking, I was really confused as to why this was "obvious" also but figured it was some sorta Apple walled-garden thing.

You must not have heard, Java's not dead, over 3 BILLION DEVICES RUN JAVA!!! (Also, would you like to install the Ask.com toolbar?)

Based on what? The .NET Core ecosystem is thriving. Microsoft's has been firing on all cylinders with regular updates, constant speed improvements, and first-class support for Linux and containerized apps.

Maybe it's a geographic thing. Here in the midwest, I've never encountered a company that used Java; all the large corporations around here run their backend on .NET and are regularly hiring more C# developers.

If you love your drone, set it free. If it comes back it's yours. If not, it was never meant to be.

Wow, tough crowd in here. If you RTFA (yeah I know, bear with me here) they seem very sincere about pushing forward the state of open source computer systems. No, they may not be fabbing their own chips or using your favorite Linux distro, but I'd think the Slashdot crowd would be more receptive of another player putting significant skin in the game.

I bought my dad one of their "Meerkat nettop" devices (IIRC), must have been 10 years ago now. I was tired of the endless phone calls about whatever Windows problem he was having that month. Yeah, I could have built him something for cheaper but having something supported by a real company was quite attractive and I felt much better about recommending that he spend his money with them as opposed to, say, Dell, where MS gets a cut.

It's been wonderful. Support calls have dropped to almost nothing. Once I had to reinstall Ubuntu when whatever LTS it came with ended support. But he still uses that system to this day, checking email and browsing the web.

Thank you, System76, for showing us that a real company can make real Linux-based consumer products and be successful. Best of luck on your new facility. Too bad your systems are so reliable, or I'm sure I'd be recommending my dad buy another one by now.

I was going to Google wth a "buyers premium" is and then realized I'll never be rich enough for that knowledge to be useful.