Paianni

6 ms·

31.
by Paianni 1y ago
After the tablet fiasco in 2015 they've never been able to afford to staff their OS properly; the web browser engine still lags behind Firefox by a long way (using Gecko 91 currently).
32.
by Paianni 1y ago
The scenarios were calculated based on hypothetical 'policies' of a society and the availability of natural resources. The scenario (from the 2004 book) we are tracking most closely is no.2, i.e 'business as usual' but w
33.
by Paianni 1y ago
LibreOffice is ok for reading and making minor changes to existing files but I haven't used Writer or Calc for anything new in years. LaTeX and Gnumeric are my tools of choice.
34.
by Paianni 1y ago
The Transcend consumer cards are/were generally 'hybrids' - they would work in IDE mode if connected to such an interface.
35.
by Paianni 1y ago
The reality is that since the invention of ICs, electronic devices have become 'black-boxes' that the vast majority of people can't hope to understand the entire workings of. Free software licenses were never going to change
36.
by Paianni 1y ago
Be careful not to mix local customs and Sharia, very often they don't line up in Muslim-majority countries.
37.
by Paianni 1y ago
If they implement DisplayPort (or USB-C DP Alt Mode), I'm in.
38.
by Paianni 1y ago
This is trying to fill the gap between console Unicode editors (e.g mined) and the 'full-fat' editors typically built around GTK or Qt. I'm not too keen they decided to mess around with the Motif File selection dialog to make
39.
by Paianni 1y ago
As if your government ever had genuine ideals other than profit...
40.
by Paianni 1y ago
Nothing older than Nehalem and Bulldozer got microcode mitigations for Spectre, so I'd say running a C2D online would be a liability by now.
41.
by Paianni 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_Port#Comp...
42.
by Paianni 1y ago
I hope they stop superglueing the batteries inside the phones.
43.
by Paianni 1y ago
fvwm and cwm are window managers, definitely not DEs.
44.
by Paianni 1y ago
My point is that small button GUIs should be a choice for the people who want to put up with them, not something that's pushed for universal use.
45.
by Paianni 1y ago
No
46.
by Paianni 1y ago
They may not personally choose Devuan or GNOME but they might end up using them because an administrator chose them.
47.
by Paianni 1y ago
I suppose 'power-users' can put up with 'small-button' GUIs but I do think a general purpose GUI needs to be easy to use for people who aren't used to controlling mice and keyboards all the time.
48.
by Paianni 1y ago
I don't like GNOME's engineering or license, but as far as the UI and design are concerned I don't think anyone has topped it (minus the hot corner I guess).
49.
by Paianni 1y ago
The Devuan version may end up being the last that GNOME will run on...
50.
by Paianni 1y ago
Just in time to drop 32-bit x86.
51.
by Paianni 1y ago
Wasn't this patched out about 18 months ago?
52.
by Paianni 1y ago
At least some of them were people trying to hack X.Org to deliver an 'iPhone-like' experience on Nokia Maemo/MeeGo devices. The Jolla phone ended up being the first consumer device to ship with Wayland afaik.
53.
by Paianni 1y ago
Pretty much all CPUs from Bulldozer and Sandy Bridge onwards got microcode mitigations through 2018 and 2019. Just about everything older is definitely obsolete from an efficiency standpoint.
54.
by Paianni 1y ago
That means people who bought an Intel-based Mac Pro in 2023 will only have gotten security updates for five years after purchase. Wow.
55.
by Paianni 1y ago
So Metal and DirectX 12 capable GPUs are already hard requirements for their respective platforms, and I anticipate that Wayland compositors will start depending on Vulkan eventually. That will make pre-Broadwell laptops generally obsolete
56.
by Paianni 1y ago
If nothing else, spin it as 'experience'.
57.
by Paianni 2y ago
Finns (or at least, the successors to tribes that assimilated into the modern-day Finnish nation) were exposed to Christianity later than most of Europe. Pre-Christian religions generally held a higher regard for relationships with nature,
58.
by Paianni 2y ago
Well, except for natives (until 1978).
59.
by Paianni 2y ago
That landing page seems unmaintained, I think this is the main home page: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/
60.
by Paianni 2y ago
I discovered recently that a Raspberry Pi 5 would be faster than both my sister's and parents' PCs. Just a shame that all cheap ARM boards need proprietary kernels.

More ›