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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by UncleMeat on Saturday September 28, 2019 @01:12PM (#21101524)
I'd wager that fewer than 1/100,000 humans on the planet could feasibly build Gentoo from source.
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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by edoceo on Saturday September 28, 2019 @01:34PM (#21101655)
I've done two "stage one" builds of Gentoo. I'm not super skilled but, I had a lot of time and reference material. My bet is that folks could but would not want to. There is significant time cost.

Also, I'm still using one of those original builds on my laptop - upgraded of course...still mad love for my daily driver.

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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by shrimp_emoji on Saturday September 28, 2019 @01:57PM (#21101812)
>folks could but would not want to.

And so they never learned, and so they "can't".

In the same way, I can't use Gentoo or vim or compile either or ski or... :D

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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by inimino on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:32PM (#21103801)
It's a pretty automated process. I'd estimate 1/10 of all people who can use a computer and install software at all could do it if they wanted to and had sufficient time.
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