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by Paianni 2y ago
I used to carry a Nokia 6310i with a new battery and it couldn't make it to a month without a charge. Maybe 2 weeks. My 235 4G can last about a week on standby. I'm not sure what the expectation is in the sort of places you'r
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by Paianni 2y ago
I suspect that would be offset by efficiency gains on the infrastructure side. And thanks to smartphones, people are used to charging their phone every night, so it doesn't feel like a hindrance like it used to. Incidentally, 3G capabi
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by Paianni 2y ago
The main one, and the one I'm using now, has a Radeon Pro WX 5100 which is a Polaris card from about 8 years ago.
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by Paianni 2y ago
All of my PCs except an old MacBook Pro have a BIOS, not UEFI. Two are from 2010, one from 2008, one from 1996.
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by Paianni 2y ago
There were native builds of Word and Excel for Alpha that came with 4.2 and 97, but nothing else non-x86 except for the 'pocket' versions that came with Windows CE.
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by Paianni 2y ago
You would probably like Gnumeric, though that project is very Unix-specific.
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by Paianni 2y ago
Neither TPM 2.0 or 1.2 is required for a Server 2025 install. Microsoft could easily disable the restriction is they wanted to.
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Google Search requires JavaScript as of today (except Lynx at least)(google.com)
4 points by Paianni 2y ago|4 comments
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by Paianni 2y ago
For a while it seemed touch and go but this rule seems to be thoroughly enforced now except for a 'whitelist' of browsers that does not include Firefox, Chromium or Netsurf.
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Qallunaat - Why White People Are Funny (2006) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by Paianni 2y ago|0 comments
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by Paianni 2y ago
Opera 11 (Dec 2010) had 'tab stacking'.
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by Paianni 2y ago
I have a 235 4G and I'd say the firmware is 'quirky' but not particularly buggy in the five months I've had it.
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by Paianni 2y ago
Dual carriageways are ok for cycling when the AADT for a particular road is below about 30k. Above that, cyclists would be an impediment to traffic flow as a following motorist would be waiting a long time for a safe gap in the second lane
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by Paianni 2y ago
> Maybe if you're stuck in a classroom with unmotivated people, or your classmates are much slower than you, or the class is huge and your teacher doesn't give a shit about teaching. But in the absence of a severe case of some
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by Paianni 2y ago
Qualcomm may have the market but Apple has the profit.
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by Paianni 2y ago
I think everything from Pentium Pro (except Bonnell-based Atom), AMD K5, Cyrix 6x86 and VIA Nano onwards is vulnerable.
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by Paianni 2y ago
Most GPUs and iGPUs have had H.264 decoders for over 15 years. In theory any computer with a PCI slot can play 1080p with no frame drops.
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by Paianni 2y ago
Maybe this varies by location but at least in the UK, adults can usually leave the grounds of their place of work during a lunch break. Not true for school kids. And the difference in population density between schools and offices is usuall
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by Paianni 2y ago
They still provide directions on downgrading the TPM check from 2.0 to 1.2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/ways-to-install-...
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by Paianni 2y ago
All business are built on relationships, technical competency can but doesn't have to be a means to that end.
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by Paianni 2y ago
Teaching English will just reinforce Anglo-American hegemony.
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by Paianni 3y ago
If the eMMC failed then the board would become a brick until the associated chips were desoldered and replaced.
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by Paianni 3y ago
eMMC makes this a hard pass for me.
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by Paianni 3y ago
nPOPuk?
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by Paianni 3y ago
Maybe offline web development on old, perhaps proprietary, hardware platforms? Security and the risks of running untrusted code wouldn't matter so much.
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by Paianni 3y ago
Maybe open it up and disconnect the antennas?
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by Paianni 3y ago
The figures past 2015 don't seem to include basic phones.
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by Paianni 3y ago
S60 5th edition was a disaster for Symbian's and Nokia's reputation, especially the N97 incarnation. Its main issue was a lack of GPU acceleration for the GUI which wasn't really resolved until the Belle era, by which point i
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by Paianni 3y ago
If they can get Horse Creek out the door, I'm interested, if not, I'm not.
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by Paianni 3y ago
To be fair, the secondary technologies available to support the preferred model now are far more advanced than what Quartz Extreme (in macOS) and DWM (in Win. Vista) had to use, and there's no longer a need to provide backward compatib

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