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by DCKing 5y ago
Wayland doesn't solve fractional scaling. It doesn't support fractional scaling and instead renders surfaces at 2x and scales down, resulting in a fuzzy image with higher resource consumption. It's better than nothing, especi
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by DCKing 5y ago
There's a lot of assumptions in the comments that Nintendo is behind this. If you don't know much about DraStic, that would be a likely explanation. However, in the specific case of DraStic, that is not the most likely explanation
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by DCKing 5y ago
You're asserting more parts of the urban legend, but there's zero evidence this is true for anything that's not a mid 00s era dumbphone.
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by DCKing 5y ago
There's an urban legend that the baseband processor is an all governing, closed source backdoored bad actor in your phone. This may have been true for 2005 era dumbphones, but in reality your smartphone's radio is attached like a
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by DCKing 5y ago
On many Android devices, especially Pixels, devices being 'locked' is not the problem at all. It is that historically Android was built to fundamentally different from mainstream Linux, and it is hard to make mainstream Linux work
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by DCKing 5y ago
A slow death over 10+ years can happen whatever Intel does. Doesn't make this a particularly big cojones move either. One needs quite a crystal ball to predict such slow deaths, especially when it's going to be decade where chip p
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by DCKing 5y ago
> The company's internal manufacturing operations can survive only if they figure out how to outperform competitors. Is outperforming competitors necessary for Intel's survival? There's plenty of fabs in the world doing qu
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by DCKing 5y ago
This blog post focuses on some superficialities of how their DE's apps will look slightly different. That's understandable for first impressions. I do hope these superficialities don't have all of System76's focus, as th
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by DCKing 5y ago
I'm not saying it's a clear cut case. I'm just saying that we should view this in a different light than past antitrust cases.
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by DCKing 5y ago
Antitrust is not about monopolies. It's true Facebook is not a monopoly in the classic sense of that word. Antitrust is about anticompetitiveness. Big tech and especially Facebook is in this new situation where they're causing ant
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by DCKing 5y ago
Apple really has no business getting in the way of this - it would just hurt them on a general purpose computing platform like Macs are. It's quite likely this isn't specifically for Asahi Linux. Some BSDs are also working on boot
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by DCKing 5y ago
> But Microsoft would have to work with Apple and allow drivers to be written for the M1. Yeah to be fair I don't actually think that's going to happen. Someone needs to bear the burden of developing/maintaining a Window
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by DCKing 5y ago
Precisely. Somehow on Windows I feel OpenGL has always been regarded as more of a developer/professional thing, and Vulkan lives in a similar space. Microsoft would shoot themselves in the foot explicitly disallowing Vulkan, but it see
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by DCKing 5y ago
It's worth noting that all devices that you can buy with Windows on ARM - those running an ARM version of Windows 10/11 on a Qualcomm chip - don't have Vulkan drivers available. Just DirectX - and an OpenGL compatibility pack
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by DCKing 5y ago
> x86 is at step 10000, ARM at step 5000, power is at step 0. I agree with your general point, but I do believe that Power is the most "practical" ISA after x86 and ARM - albeit it's a distant third, it's definitely n
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by DCKing 5y ago
There are barely any economic incentives to make the Linux desktop usable. I can't name anyone whose income would be dependent on people being happy with a Linux desktop to any significance. It's a miracle it works as well as it w
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by DCKing 5y ago
Think I may be mistaken here. Would be good if ""Intel 4"" can compete!
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by DCKing 5y ago
> In fact, TSMC has already started making 5nm chips called the Apple M1 Pro. This is not a recent development. TSMC has been mass producing 5nm chips for slightly over a year now. The first 5nm chip on the market was the Apple A14 (iPho
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by DCKing 5y ago
I don’t know. I’m saying that custom rom use kernels that make your phone work. In the best case that involves shipping 1) the driver and firmware blobs the vendor provided while supporting the phone and 2) a kernel that is binary compatibl
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by DCKing 5y ago
Not so sure about that "running circles around". While the M1 Max will not beat a mobile RTX 3080 (~same chip as desktop RTX 3070), Apple is in the same ballpark of its performance [1] (or is being extremely misleading in their pe
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by DCKing 5y ago
I'm not sure I'm the one confused here. Not really willing to get combative on what security priorities one should have, but I'll stick to mine. > I had my nexus6 on kernel 4.9.3. I find this very hard to believe, as no ev
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by DCKing 5y ago
That’s a lot of handwaving you need to do to get a tiny company to support phones beyond their suppliers intents - especially the SD660 equipped Fairphone 3. This is stuff given as the reason that Google moved away from Qualcomm for. Given
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by DCKing 5y ago
> So, Nexus6 released in 2014 will be able to run the latest android, fully security patched including kernel (which is not that important), till about 2026. This is getting to borderline misinformation here. Sorry to have made you dig i
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by DCKing 5y ago
I love Fairphone’s promise, but execution is another thing. Fair warning here is that I’ve seen the experience with a Fairphone 3 up close, and it wasn’t up to my standards in terms of camera and software bugs (caller ID has not worked for
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by DCKing 5y ago
No, I’m talking about the Linux kernel. You can check this for yourself. Take a look at the roms distributed on LineageOS as the example project and see if they include kernels that are up to date in any way. For older phones outside of ven
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by DCKing 5y ago
That’s all great - but don’t lure people too much into a false sense of security. While your Nexus 6 may run a shiny new version of Android, underneath it runs a crusty old 2017 kernel full of holes of different sizes. The community is grea
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by DCKing 5y ago
> The long tail of Android features that exist only on Samsung devices would probably surprise you. We have different tastes in phones, which is okay. I wouldn't really normally respond to this, but I think this quote highlights _wh
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by DCKing 5y ago
I'm aware of Google's scanning. I'm even inclined to support them doing that. What I like about the standard Google Photos/Dropbox/OneDrive approach is that it's no secret you upload your photos to their comput
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by DCKing 5y ago
Unless you have more recent info (please correct me in that case), that's not quite correct. Last I heard was that Samsung's promise has been 4 years of updates [1]. I recognize Samsung as being well clear of the rest of the pack
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by DCKing 5y ago
Thanks Google. Think I’ll be buying this. I want as little to do with Google’s services as possible in my life, but they really deserve credits for making a modern usable smartphone that is reasonably open. There is just one single feature

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