An oligopoly is a market in which pricing control lies in the hands of a few sellers. As a result of their significant market power, firms in oligopolistic markets can influence prices through manipulating the supply function.
I’m considering Macs and Chromebooks to be competitors. Maybe they aren’t since those systems are very locked down, but eh, not much practical difference IMO.
wait what did he do? did he become a chud?
I mean, advocating for a twm and terminal for normies is a bold move, but sure.
as long as it gets people to try it and see its not bad.
i checked the brazilian dell website and they offer ubuntu as a choice. i’m not sure if they are doing it by their own choice or by force of law though.
bolsonaro gutting this law wouldnt surprise me, but i don’t see it as relevant enough (at least right now) for them to even bother glossing over this tbh.
nowadays the install process on ubuntu consists of opening the driver app, selecting the nvidia driver, waiting around 3 minutes and rebooting when prompted.
sometimes things do break, but the install process itself is rarely the issue anymore, thankfully.
i wanted to say we still do but im not sure. its been a while since i shopped for laptops.
in brazil, we used to have a law forcing this to be a thing. back in the laptop days, it used to be reasonably common for people to buy one without with linux, and pirate windows later to save money. or because it was plain cheaper.
it turns out brazil fomented a big userbase for linux for a while there. free market my ass, microsoft is an oligopoly. if this ever gets widespread i’m pretty sure adoption will grow for the simple fact people will at least get to fucking try it. microsoft wouldnt take it kindly though.
sssssshhhhhhhhhhh don’t type this out loud.
covid sends its regards. “hey, 30k people died today of just this disease.”
its still a thing, that kills and cripples some people, but its like it doesn’t even exist anymore.
oh i love these things, we got a lot of the previous facelift to that one in decent numbers, kinda wanted one to drive pretty hard.
but in good condition such that it would not turn into a black hole for money, because they can sadly get crazy expensive to fix and maintain where i live. 10-15k usd sounds about right but its a huge amount in south america. like i can get new-ish proper car in great condition for that amount.
jokes on us, most peoples workweeks here is 6 days.
and some unlucky fucks will be looking at 10, 12 hour days. thats before considering the hours stuck in a packed bus because transportation sucks.
i wonder if europeans see old audis/bmws in a better light, since these cars are more commonplace over there (more commonly available parts, mechanics know its tricks, and all that)
i wonder if they are less run down or are simply just shitty cars everywhere.
i don’t know anyone who regretted getting a toyota. you ain’t either.
just make sure its in good condition.
i don’t think it qualifies as that reliable if rust killed it only 4 years later. car bodies can usually last decades…
unless it had serious unseen rust issues beforehand, or you were driving it in salt all the time.
i have a quad from like 14-ish years ago working pretty well with ubuntu. not the fastest computer on the planet but really usable.
gotta milk that cow now that skyrim is dry
linux is definetly not all of that anymore.
but yes, one step at a time, its time will come for ya.
this thread is giving me an urge to exercise and eat salad