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  • Imagine a beach of infinite length with one lemonade stand on it.

    Where do you open a second lemonade stand to maximize sales if people will buy from the closet stand?

    The answer: next to the first stand. Everyone to the left of your stand will find you are the best option and everyone to the right will choose the other.

    This model explains why two political parties along a spectrum can end up not too different from each other in an attempt to capture the most votes.





  • Gimp already runs OK on ChromeOS, so I would expect the same on Android soon.

    Because Linux runs in VM on ChromeOS, there were some annoyances and there will likely be some on Android.

    Maybe they fixed it, but for a long time Linux on ChromeOS couldn’t access Yubikeys because Google choose not to expose those devices to the container.

    And some keyboard shortcuts and mappings couldn’t work because again Google limited what the container was allowed to see and control.

    And if certain kinds of problems happened, you ended losing both the apps and your data inside the Linux container.

    Yeah, it will be cool to run desktop Linux from your phone. But if doing Real Linux Work on Chromebook doesn’t appeal to you, don’t expect it to be better on Android.









  • Control+C is used to kill a process in the terminal and that shouldn’t be overwritten.

    Agreed. The post didn’t suggest that.

    Seems unnecessarily complex when Control+Shift+C works just fine.

    For people already using programmable keyboards global copy/paste shortcuts are a nice perk.

    I spend nearly all my day in a browser or a terminal and as I use a terminal and browser that already support this, the effect is 99% complete.