Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-04 Thread Ansar Mohammed via talk
IMHO, this is a very important issue that the entire community needs to stand behind. Please have a look at the CBC documentary to get an idea of what is at stake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FImwMpA9ENg On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 7:29 PM Mauro Souza via talk wrote: > Not you, not me, but

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-04 Thread Mauro Souza via talk
Not you, not me, but people do. Like I never ever wrote a kernel module, but people did and this very list is thankful for all that people. John Deere and its customers are on a war, because they buy the gigantic machines and have to pay a fortune to JD send a technician, plug in a laptop, and go

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-04 Thread Don Tai via talk
who repairs anything these days? I don't know anyone else, besides myself that is curious enough to even open the case. Or use a multimeter. Or sewing machine. Repair is a fringe, hippie thing now. On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 16:59, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 2:27 PM D. Hugh

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-04 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 2:27 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > This is a private member's bill so it is unlikely to pass. > > > >

Re: [GTALUG] Pine Book Pro

2019-03-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 04:00:04PM -0500, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > That was a feature of the original Pinebook. I don't think they're going to > change it. I guess it's a bug of the original pinebook then. Besides they say the Pro is entended to be a full use machine, while the previous

Re: [GTALUG] Pine Book Pro

2019-03-04 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 15:52, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > Never mind delete, who thought moving the '\ and |' key? Swap it with > delete which is hardly ever used, but | sure is. Eek. > That was a feature of the original Pinebook. I don't think they're going to change it. Stewart ---

Re: [GTALUG] Pine Book Pro

2019-03-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:22:20PM -0500, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > It looks like Pine64 are releasing Pinebook Pro, a laptop that I'm actually > willing to pay money for and then use. > > https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093=43850#pid43850 > > > Specs: > >

[GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-04 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
This is a private member's bill so it is unlikely to pass. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org