JeremyNT

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by JeremyNT 13y ago
The long and short of it: he bet everything on Windows Phone. I think you can envision a successful strategy that would have included Windows Phone, potentially even as the only platform they offered, but Elop killed off everything else
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by JeremyNT 13y ago
I encountered this, perhaps ironically, while attempting to deactivate my long unused Facebook account. I was able to log in using my credentials (which I store in a keepass database), but since the account had been inactive for so long (I
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by JeremyNT 13y ago
Interestingly, I suppose I have become accustomed to that kind of halo effect in high contrast situations (either due to something about my eyes or glasses), so I had no clue that the image was manipulated. It just looked like "normal&
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by JeremyNT 13y ago
This is the thought I immediately had. Cyanogenmod thrives based on a couple of very grey legal areas: - first, as you mention, the ability to install the "Google Apps" binaries, which include basic functionality (Play Store, goog
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by JeremyNT 13y ago
I find the GNOME project fascinating to watch. Many users, myself included, have railed at the removal of things we have grown accustomed to. Some time ago, however, I decided to just give up and go along for the ride. Why not? These people
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by JeremyNT 13y ago
Sure. There are multiple components, and I think it requires root (can't recall for sure): * Force the phone to enable bluetooth tethering on every boot with Bluetooth Auto Tether: https://play.google.com/store/app
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by JeremyNT 13y ago
I do the tethering thing with the Galaxy Nexus. There really is no need for a dedicated modem in the tablet, at least not in my case. I think one reason consumers prefer devices with their own modems is (intentional?) UI friction which make
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by JeremyNT 13y ago
One such piece of hardware being Fitbit, which only presently supports some Samsung devices (since Samsung apparently got tired of waiting and hacked in their own support). Perhaps we'll finally get full Fitbit support on Android devic
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by JeremyNT 13y ago
NB: as of "Attitude Adjustment," OpenWRT upstream now supports CoDel as well, so end users need not use cerowrt.
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by JeremyNT 13y ago
Author of the blog post here. My blog is intended for a small local audience, and I never intended it to "break" this story to the Internet. I wrote my post for a couple of reasons: - I wanted to add some context for my readers wh