Articles Backlog

I had quite a few articles saved that I wanted to talk about, but most are from so long ago that I don't feel it would be entirely worth writing a separate post for each one any longer, and it won't follow the usual format.

• Intel/Lenovo prevents Linux users from installing Linux on Yoga notebook:
• It wasn't the best idea, and they did remedy the problem, but hopefully they learned from it.

• OpenOffice devs debate retiring OpenOffice:
• Honestly, Apache shouldn't have touched it and left it dead. I haven't looked into this further since the articles, but I'm hoping they decided to retire it and let LibreOffice reign.

•  Apple Airpods:
• There were quite a number of people not happy with Apple's decision to pull the plug on the audio jack (pun partially intended), and there are other manufacturers also following the path. I do like having a headphone jack for headsets for when I do send/receive calls on my mobile phone, but I'll have to adapt when it's time to replace the Nexus 5X that I have. Other than that, it doesn't bother me all that much, considering I have a digital audio player for my music.

• Windows 10 Anniversary Update:
• Luckily I didn't become victim to this (Yay for utilising Windows less than one percent of the time!), but it still didn't look good on Microsoft to release a large update to have it cause problems on a majority of PCs.

• Overnight phone charging:
• I had always charged my phone overnight at 500mA to have a fully-charged phone for whenever I left the house so that the battery would last the longest time possible. Things changed with the Nexus 5X, since it uses USB Type C. Since the device communicates with the charger on the amperage it would like, I now use a Type C charger and let it decide the best amperage (whatever it may be).

• Ubuntu server hacked:
• The article is titled "Here's another really great reason to never touch Linux". The article title still gets me riled up, even though the article is written sometime last July. It seems like the writer isn't too familiar with the Linux universe, which is much more vast than just Ubuntu. Ubuntu is Linux, Manjaro is Linux, Fedora is Linux, but most importantly Linux is not Ubuntu. I would have been more settled if the article title used "Ubuntu" and not "Linux", but no sense in beating a dead horse.

Well, I think that takes care of the list that I can see from my saved articles. It seems like the articles I've been wanting to talk/rant about are slowly declining, but only time will tell though.