<html><head></head><body>I'd personally fund Thinkpenguin way before System76, just because they don't use NVIDIA, but i noticed the new Galago Pro laptop doesn't as well. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 April 2017 10:15:40 GMT+03:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Lyberta <lyberta@lyberta.net> wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> There is a line that you may cross after which there is almost no<br /> return. If the whole world is extremist and fascist, then you fix it<br /> with extremism and terrorism.<br /></blockquote><br /> y'know... there's a famous black civil rights activist who, when<br />faced with a fascist / aparheid "law" he was accused of violating,<br />responded "go ahead and arrest me: because if i comply with your law<br />it's far worse than *anything* you could do to me by putting me in<br />prison".<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind<br /></blockquote><br /> you know that that saying actually means that if you take someone's<br />eye, then *yours* will be taken, right? it's *not* giving you the<br />"right" to respond with violent force against violence: it's a<br />*WARNING* to you that violence committed is a downward spiralling<br />trap.<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Fuck. I hate this world, I hate myself.<br /></blockquote><br /> i have a wise friend who very kindly gave me a definition of stress.<br />he said it's when people make a comparison between the external<br />(perceived) world and their internal view, cannot cope with the<br />difference... and seek to blame the EXTERNAL world. "i hate your<br />tie!! yesss... it's the *tie's* fault!" :)<br /><br /> ironically i had never considered before the scenario where the<br />"target" of the emotion/stress *was* actually your "self".<br /><br /> lyberta, do look up eckart tolle's story, it's very very funny (and<br />relevant). ok ok i can't resist telling the tale: he was an academic,<br />in some of the worst (bitchiest) back-stabbing in-fighting for funding<br />and "status" academic environments it's possible to be in, and it was<br />really *really* getting him down. so one day he woke up and said to<br />himself, intending to kill himself, "i can't live with myself".<br /><br /> except, the academic in him went, "hang on a minute, what the hell?<br />what the hell is the damn difference between this "I" and this<br />"myself"?? in that stupid sentence! *I* can't live with my "self"??<br />wtf??" and the sudden and revelationary recognition of the incredible<br />cognitive dissonance between two "things" - two "selfs" - in his mind<br />which he *wasn't even aware were separate" resulted in what's known in<br />the trade as a "kundalini whiteout".<br /><br /> when he came to he found he was still sitting on the bed but he could<br />perceive things in a totally new way. i won't go into the rest of the<br />story but he's now one of the western world's best known "spiritual<br />masters", so his books (including audio books) are well worth reading.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> And anyway something that is not widely known: when arm netbooks started<br /> becoming a thing OEMs were putting linux on them( of course). Microsoft saw<br /> a very threatening market emerging and raged hell upon them that if they<br /> kept doing this the sales of their other models would suffer due to them<br /> removing the OEM discount on the windows license.<br /></blockquote></blockquote><br /> i heard they were just out-and-out blackmailing companies. i've<br />heard a lot of these stories.<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> After that they proceeded<br /> to change the model so instead of charging per machine they charge per<br /> model. So basically even if you buy e.g. a Dell Lattitude with Ubuntu<br /> preinstalled and then wipe it and replace it with an FSF approved distro<br /> YOU ARE STILL PAYING THE WINDOWS LICENSE. Now some people might disagree<br /> with me, but for me libre software is a war against oppression and is<br /> directly competing with microsoft etc( disagree as in that we do not<br /> compete but exist to fulfeel our own needs). So just for this reason, if<br /> you need to buy an x86 computer and a libreboot model is not an option it<br /> is better to buy a system76 instead of e.g. a dell or a thinkpad and then<br /> install gnu/linux on it.<br /></blockquote><br /> Interesting observation.<br /></blockquote><br /> agreed.<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have bought Dell laptop with Ubuntu<br /> preinstalled as it was the only model with GNU/Linux distro I could find<br /> quickly.<br /></blockquote><br /> well, now you're aware of two other possible companies: system76 and<br />thinkpenguin. yay!<br /><br />l.<br /><br /><hr /><br />arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk<br /><a href="http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook">http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook</a><br />Send large attachments to arm-netbook@files.phcomp.co.uk</pre></blockquote></div><br>
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