Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 6y ago
So do Android devices, I'm using a Samsung SIII from 2012 as 'work phone' when doing rough work on the farm etc. The device runs Android 9 (LineageOS 16), I have not felt the need to update it to 10 yet. It has a user-replace
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
In what way is open source Android a lie? I never used any other version, I do not have a Google account, nor do I have any Google-proprietary software on my devices yet they still run all software - including the Swedish "BankID"
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Yes, that is why the remark about cancel culture is spot-on. Debate centres around opinions which are shared and discussed so as to end up with a winning argument or position. Dialectic centres around people voicing opposing opinions to try
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Paul from Apple seems to be a bot, not a human. Hello [user], the is [serial_number] from [company] [division]. It was nice to speak with you today. I have researched the [subject] for you. [{select summary from issues where
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Just use single-correspondent mail addresses for signing up, i.e. weirdwebsite-myname@example.org and strangesite-myname@example.org (using a hyphen instead of a plus sign to get past unhelpful mail address sanitizers), add a regex for
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Not good, it only serves to increase the precedent for hijacking unrelated concepts for political purposes. Language has meaning, twisting that meaning to ascribe negative connotations to terms is divisive and counterproductive. Calling eve
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Youtube has ads? I never see them since I never use the Youtube site directly, only through an intermediate like youtube-dl or streamlink and programs which integrate this type of functionality, NewPipe on Android, etc. Once they start spli
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
You can on Intel-based machines, as far as I know it is not clear yet whether you can on ARM-based systems.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
The tradition of Santa Claus comes from a whole host of pre-Christian Nordic, north-western European and Slavic traditions with different mythical figures which got distilled into St. Nicholas in the Netherlands and taken to the new world b
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> But if you adopt MLK’s views like this, can I take it that you then support reparations and civil unrest in response to racial oppression Why would you think that? MLK was his own agent and so am I. Just like he agreed with some of the
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
You got that backwards, when you make a claim which in your opinion is representative of a given fraction of a population the onus is on you to prove that it actually does represent these people, not on those who cast doubt on your agency f
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
The reply is to your question as to whether ... etymology [is] more important ... than the people who are telling you they find something offensive... .
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Just make sure not to use this stylesheet when describing the route towards a distant planet so as to avoid ending up in a smoking crater instead of in the promised land.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
The people who claim these words are offensive are a tiny fraction of the total population which, if the reasoning those offended people use were to hold true should be offended. When it comes to the use of terms like master/slave an
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Please don't capitalise the term 'black' here, leave that to political pamphlets like the New York Times (who seem to be the ones who started this). The more people start identifying themselves with their inalienable characte
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Are they going to rename their servers as well? The word 'server' comes from the Latin word 'servus' which means slave . Also, the word 'twit' has several meanings which might not fall so well with certain peo
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> My wife didn't respond, of course. She immediately looped in her admin and explained what was going on. Fortunately that was the end of it, but it's not hard to imagine someone getting caught up in a similar situation and it
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Ghee, whiz, whod'dathunkit that opening up access to papers would lead to more people having access to papers which they'd then use to write more papers in which they cite those papers they read. Even if you have institutional or
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> In some sense, commercial software is the devil you know. No, older, established projects or products are the devils you know, whether they're free software or proprietary products. Take for example Debian Stable which is, as it
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
No, I do not know that, actually. It seems to depend on whether those people have someone at hand to introduce them to alternatives for the play store and the Google Services Framework (et al). Show them an Android device with F-Droid (or A
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> there are usually no layers of open source that might make behavior difficult to understand Ehhhh.... this in contrast to closed systems where there are layers of closed source which lead to all sorts of unexpected behaviour withou
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
It helps to understand COBOL in the context of its environment: punchcards containing a single line of code, hierarchical (e.g. IMS) and network (e.g. IDMS) databases, the intended application being business data batch processing on mainfra
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
That's odd given that I've used nothing but AOSP-derived Android distributions since I got my first Android device. There is no Google-proprietary software on any of my devices, most software comes from F-Droid, some of it I bui
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Unfortunately it is as closed as other iOS devices and as such a no-go for those who value their freedoms. If Apple were to open up iOS to the same extent as Android is open - i.e. the basic system is open, on top of which proprietary serv
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Great, point me at the source repo so I can build my own distribution with a few things removed, some changed and others added. What? No source? Really? But you said there was no more reason to get Android devices...
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
One word, and I'm not even religious: Amen! A few more words: this new-found fixation on skin colour (and gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and all those other identities picked up or made up by those who practice interse
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
That is a matter of user education comparable - but not equal - to what is keeping 'the year or Linux on the desktop' always somewhere in the future. The difference is that LineageOS (et al) is more or less identical to (the bette
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
The Android update model is very different from the iOS model since many Android vendors only support their devices for a short time, often no more than 2-3 years where Apple provides updates for a much longer period. This is offset by the
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
[only ever so slightly tongue-in-cheek] May I suggest a name for that branch which does not conflict with other uses and is generally understood by most developers? master Merriam-Webster gives several definitions for this word, one
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
The same can be achieved using 3-wheel kick bikes of the type often used in hospitals or bicycles. They're cheaper, they give the staff a bit - but not too much - of a workout, they rarely break down and you never have to update any fi

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