Dunedan

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by Dunedan 7y ago
Well, the trend kept going. Nowadays you can get pretty small feature phone, like the following one I just picked randomly from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/L8star-Bluetooth-Headset-Earphone-Sup...
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by Dunedan 7y ago
What makes KaiOS powered phones stand out from other feature phones is that they support 4G, which gets more and more important as network operators continue to shut down their 2G and 3G networks.
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by Dunedan 7y ago
Extremely unlikely. The beauty about RISC-V is that it's open source and royalty free. Both arguments aren't that relevant for Apple, as they got an architectural license from ARM which gives them full access to everything and all
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by Dunedan 7y ago
> Tangentially, on Android every app you have run at least once can know your phone number through standard APIs. How would that work? As far as I'm aware an app either needs explicit permissions (READ_PHONE_STATE) or the user gets
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by Dunedan 7y ago
That doesn't prevent Google from collecting information about you. Even though you don't actively use Google on your Android device, doesn't mean it doesn't phone home and reports information to Google. For example, if y
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by Dunedan 7y ago
Back then Lenovo made a really good parody of the original MacBook Air ad ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHXgIH9eaHg ), showing the advantages of their ThinkPad X300: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnOCUk
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by Dunedan 7y ago
What you quote is not related at all to what Thunderbolt cables support beside Thunderbolt. It just states that you can use Thunderbolt to transmit DisplayPort signals. By that you're utilizing the Thunderbolt alternate mode to tunnel
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by Dunedan 7y ago
> What are you talking about? Birthrates in developed countries are below replacement rates. If anything, in developed countries, more people should be having more kids. I believe that you have to look at that from a global perspective a
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by Dunedan 7y ago
> There is a reason single-page apps became a thing, so I'm not clear why you think a page refresh for every user interaction is somehow a good thing. So the reason I always hear is performance: Less HTTP-requests, less latency, the
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by Dunedan 7y ago
We had to use Haskell as part of our CS studies in university in 2006 and I believe it was already used there for some years. From my perception Haskell isn't more mainstream now than it was back then.
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by Dunedan 7y ago
Maybe they'll use that opportunity to also fix the cursor key layout to resemble an upside down T again.
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by Dunedan 7y ago
> The power brick had a 2m detachable line-voltage cable, and fixed 2m low voltage cable. 2 + 2 = 4. I can sit 4m from the wall and charge using only the power adapter that came with the computer. Still the same with the USB-C power adap
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by Dunedan 7y ago
> Anytime I sit in a train, I wonder why they have not done so for the last 30 years or so. My guess: Ease of installation and for stability reasons. Bolting the seats to the outer frame probably requires much more consideration than sim
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by Dunedan 7y ago
> I'm sure all cyclists have stories of missed collisions with pedestrians because pedestrians could not hear an approaching cyclist and assumed the road was clear. As somebody who cycles a lot (>4000km/year) in a major Euro
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by Dunedan 7y ago
Most electric vehicles emit such a whine, but Tesla's don't. While I up to now thought that was caused by superior engineering I now wonder if these vehicles already carry such a sound generator instead.
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by Dunedan 7y ago
> Notarization is not “mandatory”. You can still turn it off. While it might not be mandatory for users, it is for software which is supposed run seamlessly on every Mac, isn't it?
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by Dunedan 7y ago
Thunderbolt 3 allows 40 Gbps in each direction using two 20 Gbps channels for each direction. As a protocol driving a display is mainly unidirectional, DisplayPort 2.0 simply uses all four channel for transmitting the data to the display, r
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by Dunedan 7y ago
That reminds me of a race condition I encountered a while ago: There was this massive Java application processing hundreds of parallel requests per second. For each request it wrote a line with billing information into a log file. Those lin
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by Dunedan 7y ago
As this post talked a bit about the history of computer networks I have to jump in and highly recommend "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet" ( https://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late-e
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by Dunedan 7y ago
PostmarketOS reminds me a lot about the approach Openmoko ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko ) took way back over a decade ago, except that they did have to build the hardware as well.
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by Dunedan 7y ago
A startup being able to spend 400k/month on AWS should also be able to employ somebody to keep an eye on the AWS cost and look for possible optimizations. If that's not the case I wouldn't blame AWS for the spent money.
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by Dunedan 7y ago
Wasn't it the other way around? Wasn't Storm killed by Spark? At least once Spark was out and gained traction, nobody in my bubble talked about Storm anymore. But I guess it depends on the bubble you're in.
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by Dunedan 7y ago
They should just offer the ability to display the OTP secret code directly there as well.
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by Dunedan 7y ago
> Linux hasn't had issues with the major wifi chipsets in ages. … except (ironically) if you use Linux on a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. In this case there are severe issues with the wifi firmware making wifi completely unusable: ht
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by Dunedan 7y ago
Have you come across a second issue with the screens as well, which causes them to develop moving yellow spots? (for examples see: https://gregsamborski.com/macbook-pro-led-screen-discolorati... )
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by Dunedan 7y ago
> Asrock generally supports ECC with Ryzen CPUs. APUs and Athlon 200GE ($55) do not support ECC. Do you have a source for that? My current understanding is that Asrock only officially supports ECC RAM for Ryzen Pro APUs/CPUs, but no
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by Dunedan 7y ago
That would be such a great system if it had an internal PSU. I'm so tired of all these ultra small cases which require an additional bulky external PSU. Apple seems to be the only manufacturer who cares about that.
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by Dunedan 7y ago
Authenticating users via typing isn't new. In fact it was already available more than 12 years ago. Unfortunately the original source isn't available anymore, but Bruce Schneier covered it back then: https://www.schneie
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by Dunedan 7y ago
The only Nokia phone running KaiOS so far is the Nokia 8110 4G ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_8110_4G ).
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by Dunedan 7y ago
> Why do I trust my WiFi cards disable pin, but not the "soft button" on my laptop that triggers it via the OS? I get that there is more software when it goes through the OS, but I trust that a whole lot more than the firmware

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