brazil mentioned! does itautec still makes pc’s?

someone’s gotta have the brains. too bad that people here in the brazilian government are ditching FOSS after investing in them for so long.

nothing new. here in brazil many manufacturers, dell included, would ship laptops with linux and then people would shove a pirated windows copy on it.

i know it’s wrong to make assumptions, but it seems that, on top of all that rust/c war, her partner was undergoing some serious problems. it seems that she chose to prioritize her personal life and assessed that developing those drivers wasn’t worth all the harassment in this situation.

another day, another dem in lemmy truly believing that his country is an immaculate, flawless crystal, that just happens to be tarnished by the evil chinese and russian… gop ended in power regardless of its own bigoted, prejudicious (white) people, bloodthirsty elites and a political-economical system that rewards cronies. blame just those inhumane, eastern, mongolic-looking people from beyond the sea.

oh, these third world dictatorships with no consideration for individual freedoms and human rights…

no, wait.

there are a number of countries that are neutral and unlikely to sanction anyone else, though one might argue about their democratic credentials, with a minor or major stretch. brazil, mexico, chile, colombia, costa rica, uruguay (just to name a few in latin america), andorra, malta, san marino, india, south africa…

the point that really got me was “I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression?”.

in the end, it’s nato-stan all day long. tired of this.

the first contact i had with linux back in mid-90’s brazil was with my isp’s login terminal, which displayed some arcane text reading “red hat linux version x.x”. after that, during my father’s final years working in bank of brazil he had to deal with cobra’s homemade distro in his workstations (cobra had developed an unix in the 80s that run on m68k’s, so no surprises here). it was an absolutely esoteric system to those who only knew the dos/windows 3.11 duo, since w95 only arrived in our country in numbers only in 96. the thing really caught on during the early to mid-2000’s, with faster and cheaper adsl connections, and with them, abundant knowledge and downloads available to any script kid.