| === rsalveti_ is now known as rsalveti | ||
| AlanBell | interesting looking HP all in one with Ubuntu on it | 16:37 |
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| AlanBell | http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/hp-launch-ubuntu-all-in-one-pc-for-349 | 16:38 |
| AlanBell | skype and adobe reader preinstalled | 16:39 |
| AlanBell | overall the description seems accurate and pretty good | 16:40 |
| AlanBell | "HP recommends Windows." just above the purchase button, but meh | 16:41 |
| Pici | I wonder what support resources they provide for it. | 16:44 |
| Calinou | AlanBell: all in one | 16:50 |
| Calinou | can you see? | 16:50 |
| Calinou | shit mobile hardware inside | 16:50 |
| Calinou | do like the real men, build a desktop | 16:50 |
| Calinou | where you put actual parts and no noname stuff | 16:50 |
| Calinou | you can upgrade these too | 16:51 |
| Calinou | AlanBell: btw, they're being paid for their famous "x recommends windows" ;) | 16:51 |
| IdleOne | such hostility | 16:58 |
| AlanBell | Calinou: yeah, I know how it works, it is actually worse than the fact that they are paid for it | 17:16 |
| AlanBell | they get audited and if every page of every brochure and every page of their website doesn't contain it then they lose their discounts and co-marketing funds | 17:17 |
| Calinou | IdleOne: I'm hostile to people who make poor computer choices | 17:19 |
| IdleOne | It rarely gets you the desired outcome though | 17:20 |
| IdleOne | least in my experience | 17:20 |
| rasher | Hi, so. I find it mildly offensive that the download page shows me a skull graphic if I choose not to donate. | 17:32 |
| rasher | Loud noises. | 17:32 |
| IdleOne | link? | 17:33 |
| rasher | http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/questions?distro=desktop&bits=64&release=latest | 17:33 |
| IdleOne | is this before or after you click the Pay with paypal button? | 17:34 |
| IdleOne | I see no skull | 17:34 |
| rasher | move all the sliders to 0 | 17:34 |
| rasher | same graphic is displayed briefly (until the browser moves on) if you click "Not now, take me to the download" | 17:35 |
| IdleOne | hmm yeah I see | 17:36 |
| IdleOne | I suppose you could email canonical at the contact us link | 17:38 |
| IdleOne | it does seem odd they would use a skull for $0 | 17:39 |
| Calinou | rasher: there's a "download for free button" if you're scared of .pngs | 17:41 |
| rasher | Calinou: you mean the "Not now, take me to the download" link? That still changes the icon to the skull (while the next page loads). And I'm not scared, I just think it's rude, considering Ubuntu is built on mountains of free software. | 17:43 |
| Calinou | it's a joke | 17:44 |
| Calinou | skulls don't always mean "u dead" | 17:44 |
| Calinou | if you're not happy, enjoy your debian with its rusty, stale or broken packages | 17:45 |
| rasher | Huh? I realise it's a joke, but it's a bad one. | 17:45 |
| rasher | Do you have any useful input? | 17:45 |
| Calinou | lol, debian user's excuse, saying people are useless | 17:46 |
| IdleOne | doesn't appear to. | 17:46 |
| Calinou | IdleOne: I know a lot of debian users which use the same kind of excuse, just go to #debian-offtopic @ espernet, see by yourself | 17:47 |
| IdleOne | What does that have to do with Ubuntu? | 17:48 |
| Calinou | ubuntu is based on debian | 17:48 |
| IdleOne | Calinou: are you trolling? | 17:48 |
| * Calinou presses K | 17:48 | |
| Calinou | please don't ban me :( | 17:49 |
| IdleOne | Don't act like a fool :) | 17:49 |
| IdleOne | Anyway, rasher I am not personally bothered by the graphic but I can see why it would bother some people. best advice I can give is contact Canonical and explain your concerns | 17:52 |
| rasher | Yeah, I just might. | 17:52 |
| Calinou | more like, they're even requesting donations... they're a company | 17:53 |
| Calinou | if you don't want to donate: no "ad" is going to make you change. just like any other ad | 17:53 |
| rasher | I never said I don't want to donate. | 17:54 |
| AlanBell | seen the Mir thing? | 18:43 |
| AlanBell | rasher: there is a bug about the skull thing | 18:44 |
| IdleOne | skimmed the specs real quick | 18:44 |
| AlanBell | well in theory it is all openGL to put stuff on screen | 18:44 |
| IdleOne | I'm not technical enough to make an informed decision on it | 18:44 |
| AlanBell | so things like dropshadows will be *actually* shadows rather than the abomination that is the top panel shadow at the moment | 18:45 |
| IdleOne | What I did get from it is that somewhere around May 2014 I should maybe expect my desktop to explode | 18:45 |
| rasher | AlanBell: Sweet, thanks! (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website-content/+bug/1066792 for the curious) | 18:45 |
| ubot5 | Launchpad bug 1066792 in ubuntu-website-content "Donation Skull-Icon is Inappropriate" [Undecided,Confirmed] | 18:45 |
| AlanBell | I am not expecting the bug to get fixed any time soon | 18:48 |
| AlanBell | I think that doing a transition from X to mir in a rolling release will be . . brave | 18:49 |
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| === rsalveti_ is now known as rsalveti | ||
| === evilshadeslayer is now known as shadeslayer | ||
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