starsinspace

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Does Fedora come with support for playing back common media formats these days? Last time I tried, it didn't even play MP3s, just showing some dialog box about how it can't play that due to patents or something. To solve that IIRC it was needed to add some 3rd-party repository (which is always a bit worrying with having to trust them) to install the codec packages. Is that still the case with Fedora?

starsinspace

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> Well, it worked on Star Trek.

IIRC the official explanation from the makers of Star Trek is that the displays look like simple touch screens, but they are actually overlaid with structured force fields, so for the users it feels like a physical button press.

starsinspace

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Microsoft is really shooting themselves in the foot with their terrible approach to privacy ever since Win10. Given that they earn money by selling actual products, they could stand right next to Apple as a defender of privacy if they wanted to (unlike Google, which has a business model which depends on data collection)... but they choose not to.

It's not so long ago, in 2011, they had this video, targeting Google's privacy problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x4_dozWkq0

Now they're no better than Google. What happened?

starsinspace

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> The US has it because its government is coopted by big media like Disney, MPAA, and RIAA and the average American is too ignorant / doesn't care at all about the death and stifling of culture that 100+ year copyright terms bring about.

Germany has many powerful media/publishing companies as well, and most people don't care. It's really a very similar situation.

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