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   by abrowne 8y ago

   Doesn't hardware accelerated graphics on Firefox on Linux require modifying a preference? AFAIK you need to go to about:config and enable layers.acceleration.force-enabled. (This is speaking as someone who uses Firefox on Linux as my m
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   by abrowne 8y ago

   And some non-public ones, like the Minneapolis Institute of Art https://new.artsmia.org/
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   by abrowne 8y ago

   Yes, that QtWebKit revival is interesting and worth watching. I haven't followed, but I'm still not sure if it's up-to-date. This blog post from a WebKitGTK+ (with a section about QtWebKit) developer from 2017 is the best inf
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   by abrowne 8y ago

   There's also Falkon, now a KDE project, which I prefer. The UI is more like Firefox, and it's QtWebEngine-only, which is maintained, unlike QtWebKit these days. https://www.falkon.org/
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   by abrowne 8y ago

   Is it really a phone with no cellular connection? Not that that is a bad thing in itself, and we don't really have a good name for it [edit: time to bring back the PDA?], but I couldn't replace my phone with it.
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   by abrowne 8y ago

   Doesn't USB require the data connection to allow it to negotiate higher than the base power level?
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   by abrowne 8y ago

   I and l (capital i and lowercase ell) look the same or nearly the same at normal sizes. So I'll stick with Source Sans Pro or Noto Sans.
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   by abrowne 8y ago

   > Those who see no ethical problem with small gifts to public servants should try imagining how they would feel if they were litigants in a civil trial and discovered that the judge trying the case had accepted even a free cup of coffee
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   by abrowne 8y ago

   I believe the default font is Noto Sans https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    Agreed except each app won't need a copy of QtWebEngine on disk.
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    I'm surprised they employ that many , not that few!
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    It's getting better, especially since the Ubuntu people took an interest since it's the only option on recent GNOME even under x11. There's even a gsettings option to disable tap dragging, my personal peeve!
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    AFAIK the police specifically didn't release the names.
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    Since we're on the subject, saying "a French" sounds wrong to me (American native English speaker), even though the same construction is OK for other nationalities. (E.g. "a German" is OK.) You're better off w
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    It's correct in French typography. Same with exclamation and question marks and quotation marks. It really should be a narrower, non-breaking space.
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    I posted some better info in a reply to a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746779
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    Ah, sorry — that'll teach me to post when I should be asleep. The author of the blog has discussed it a few times. This is probable the best summary: https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/the-true-story
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    I also enjoyed Longitude when I read it, but it's been described as "suffer[ing] however from a major flaw, it is a distortion of the real history it is claiming to relate." https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    Because not all art is intended to be accurate — it might be symbolic. The linked example shows blue/purple clothes, which were limited to the elite. Like the article says, this is used to show a royal status, not that it was what he a
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    I was in London last month but that doesn't make me British.
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    If you want the Qt one, make sure to use KeyPassX C , the active fork of KeePassX. https://keepassxc.org/
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    The link is to the discussion of the article. The article is https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/21/apple-dan-riccio-on-201...
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    From a brewery in the historical center of Bruges to the outskirts IIRC. Which allows a working business better transport links so it can stay in the center to help avoid the city becoming completely Disneyland.
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    WebKitGTK+ is active. QtWebKit was replaced by an embedded Chromium (Qt Web Engine) sometime after Nokia sold Qt. There are attempts to revive QtWebKit, but I don't think it's up to date, even on security patches only.
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    Unfortunately they are the only option for fiber in the part of Minneapolis where I live. It's slightly better than Comcast.
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    There was a blog post I can't find now when they announced Edge that they had to pick a E- name and an E logo otherwise literally millions of people would no longer know how to access "the internet".
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    Lyft recently acquired Motivate, the bike share company. I know they run the NYC bike share and now the Minneapolis one.
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    Ah, so that must be why there's sometimes a delay to click to accept a download in Firefox!
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    Correct, the 2015 has force touch, which is how they fit the 99.5 Wh battery.
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    by abrowne 8y ago

    My home laptop is almost 10 years old now. With more RAM and replacing the HDD with an SSD, I keep trying and failing to justify replacing it.