Redoubts

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by Redoubts 8y ago
> That's unrelated to what other people might want. Sure it is. The more capabilities you enable, the more things become supported or expected. Giving more freedom to side load apps means developers would expect more users to do so
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by Redoubts 8y ago
This is kind of a ridiculous reply. Is the only solution then to admit that Linux is "done"? Because it sounds like there's no room for change, even when change is communicated and multiple options to avoid it are provided.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
> Maintaining of all these special cases requires lot of knowledge. Distro maintainers need to have a lot of knowledge about their init system. There's no way out of that. It's probably something everyone should know a little a
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by Redoubts 8y ago
> And this is apparently now being connected to a national database. And yet we still don’t get a national id. This is the worst of all worlds outcome.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
> That's ridiculous. It's as though EETimes is pretending there have been no Ryzen keynotes in the past. Does this site have any reputation? I'm also unimpressed with publishers who make statements like >> The first
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by Redoubts 8y ago
> Stuck with Source Code Pro for many years and even today, not sure any other aliased font looks and works as well as Source Code Pro at almost every size, from the smallest onward. It just looks clean to me. This has easily been my fav
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by Redoubts 8y ago
Is this even that compelling? X forwarding always sucked for me unless I was on the same switch as the source device.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
> because the compiler/interpreter abstracts that detail away This assumes the first point though.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
Sounds like the people you know don't want to do entry level reading on a $1000 purchase.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
Just use zsh.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
> XR, XS, X max... Which iPhone has a notch? All of them. > Which one has a home button still? None of them. > So whats the difference <>S is the refresh, same as it's been for years. Max is the physically larger size, w
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by Redoubts 8y ago
How is it hard to discern X vs XS compared to 7 and 7S?
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by Redoubts 8y ago
I suppose one could say the same about the AirPort, but those met their demise anyways.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
Not to mention the project description and update is phrased incredibly weirdly. > So that the answer to these questions is meaningful, one must first have an elementary grasp of the manner in which microcomputer software in general, and
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by Redoubts 8y ago
> Headphone jack, expandable storage, replaceable battery (that's been gone for a while, but still), hardware buttons... I never wanted these things. > As far as headphones, 2 pairs of bluetooth earbuds, fully charged, won't
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by Redoubts 8y ago
Indeed, my desktop has at most 5 icons. Yet everyone I see has a screenful of overlapping items. It seems like chaos. If I have > 10 tabs open, I feel stressed because it means I'm not actually completing tasks. Anything more than t
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by Redoubts 8y ago
And what if the Apple phone is better still than an Android 4 generations “ahead”? And people complain iPhone buyers don’t look past marketing...
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by Redoubts 8y ago
Well, you can still buy last years iPhone from apple for much cheaper...
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by Redoubts 8y ago
Yes, America sucks at urbanization.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
San Jose is a 1 million person suburb.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
If there's an ABI for drivers, then all phones can promise (more) OS updates with less work.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
It would be surprising if Fuchsia followed linux by not having a stable ABI for drivers. Setting up a stable interface would make it easier for Google to label that "not my problem."
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by Redoubts 8y ago
Why a "Special" Investigator? This isn't law enforcement investigating itself.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
Don’t we have satellites broadcasting super accurate time, now?
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by Redoubts 8y ago
Languages without ADTs and Optionals just feel impoverished.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
Wow, I think they marked Culver City as Beverly Hills on their map.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
>But that does not negate the other 85% If 15% of military spending was such a wild blunder, what’s makes you so sure the remaining 85% is solid spending?
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by Redoubts 8y ago
Given how far California has swung in the other direction; yes, yes I do.
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by Redoubts 8y ago
> People are surprised when seeing the Activity section in Google's account details, then freak out about Google tracking their location. For the curious: https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
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by Redoubts 8y ago
A lot of laws that are ruled unconstitutional don’t seem to get repealed, just ignored so I’m sure there’s quite a bit of dead weight on the books. Ex: https://law.onecle.com/massachusetts/272/21A.html https:&#x2

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