Iolaum

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by Iolaum 8y ago
Out of curiosity, did you switch to something that has those things, and if so what is it?
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by Iolaum 8y ago
I don't know the details but I recall that using linux as a bootloader was a potential threat the ChromeOS people wanted to block with some patches to the Linux kernel that tied it somehow to secure boot that the kernel maintainers (Li
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by Iolaum 8y ago
I ll just chime in with something cool I heard once: Linux is very user friendly, it's just picky about its friends. P.S. Exclusive home linux user for 3 years and counting.
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by Iolaum 8y ago
> But then the kernel guys became upset because they couldn't see the insides of the drivers. I think you are misunderstanding how drivers and linux work. Being able to inspect how the code works is a technical requirement. Linux in
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by Iolaum 8y ago
It is an uninformed choice if you want to run wayland. That doesn't mean there aren't other factors at play. For example back when I was shopping for a laptop 2yrs ago, AMD GPU's weren't even available on most vendors.
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by Iolaum 8y ago
Digital life is increasingly becoming non optional. E.g. Try finding and booking a hotel at a metropolitan city other than your own without using a laptop or a smartphone.
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by Iolaum 8y ago
Remember that GPL is a product of the realities around the open source ecosystem when Bill Gates and Steve Balmer where CEOs on Microsoft. Moreover the situation with some android OEMs that don't provide source code for their devices
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by Iolaum 8y ago
The problem is when the readme file (or other marketing speak) says open source, so people think it's something that gives them the rights that OSI approved licences give, and then the license file says something else. For example, Mon
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by Iolaum 8y ago
Why not try Firefox today?
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by Iolaum 8y ago
Easier said than done.
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by Iolaum 8y ago
On the other hand HN users influence is much greater than their numbers because many of them are doing tech support for family and tech advice for friends.
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by Iolaum 8y ago
I think we 've reached the threshold of billions of phones by now.
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by Iolaum 8y ago
Not exactly android but if you buy a phone supported by LineageOS then you have that functionality from privacy guard. You can set various app permissions to always ask as well as other things such as (dis)allow an app to start at boot. As
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by Iolaum 8y ago
My phone uses android 8.1 API. I know about granular permissions but in practice this does not always work. For example the PlayMemories app from Sony - to use with Sony digital cameras - does not open at all (actually it opens to tell you
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by Iolaum 8y ago
Because mobile apps make our mobile phones data collection devices. When accessing a service from the browser you have a lot more control on what information it receives about you. I am not saying most users think like that, providing anecd
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by Iolaum 8y ago
I think this may be related to nvidia cards having problematic support in KDE under Wayland.
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by Iolaum 8y ago
They are not dumb, it's an information asymmetry problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry If all people knew how much of their personal lives they share, Facebook adoption and usage would have
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by Iolaum 8y ago
I don't know about Youtube's TOS, but Newpipe in it's github repo says that the app violates playstore TOS.
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by Iolaum 8y ago
A friend from the university used that line on his parents as an excuse for the state of his room. Luckily for him they didn't know enough physics to call him out on it because his room was not really a closed system.
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by Iolaum 8y ago
The main argument made, concerning the second law of thermodynamics can explain why we age but I am not sure it proves that aging is incurable. The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy increases in closed systems. A human is not
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by Iolaum 8y ago
Chaos theory is enough if you accept imperfect measurements, which would result in small changes in initial conditions. But you need quantum mechanics to prove that you cannot have perfect measurements of all the quantities involved in the
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by Iolaum 8y ago
This is not possible because of quantum mechanics. You cannot know the exact location and speed of particles in your brain and therefore cannot build a deterministic model to predict its behavior.
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by Iolaum 8y ago
That's true and, to me, has been brought on the spotlight from Microsoft practices around VSCode. On the other hand, for an OSS project, building the binary is not that hard.
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by Iolaum 8y ago
Ehm? You can just install firefox from the playstore and then ublock origin. (Privacy Badger is also recommended).
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by Iolaum 8y ago
I like snaps but I ve stopped using them because they auto update Windows10 style. In the snap forums a lot of people asked for the ability to disable updates in order to update only when you want. Integration with the software and updates
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by Iolaum 8y ago
Congratulations to SiFive for managing to do this !!
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by Iolaum 8y ago
If you are not uniquely identifiable but 99% of the users are that's enough to identify you. That's why US Navy funded the tor project. If their people were the only ones that could hide from other governments then those other gov
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by Iolaum 8y ago
Linux Kernel vs Windows NT kernel
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by Iolaum 8y ago
I think you should look here https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/ for more information.
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by Iolaum 8y ago
If you use snaps, be aware that they update automatically on their own. You have the option to set upgrade time windows but you cannot completely disable automatic updates and use your own custom solution to update and administer your syste

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