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by akr 8y ago
Thank you for the kind words! Your simulation looks fantastic. I am frequently amazed how compact fluid simulations can be in practice. Definitely something I am going to aspire to reproduce on my own.
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by akr 8y ago
(Author here) Thanks for the interesting links! I agree that there is much that could be optimized. The choice to use vertex buffers was driven by the overarching goal of implementing the whole thing in GLSL. It really is just a small playg
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by akr 12y ago
> Every German will upvote this comment Please stop generalizing people using their nationality. I am a German and I certainly do not agree with your views.
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by akr 13y ago
I don't have any experience with Nokia devices other than the N900 so I can not comment on the N770. But I remember reviews from the time the N900 was released were the touchscreen was not really praised but commented on as much better
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by akr 13y ago
For someone who is still using the N900 as his main phone this is a great development. Altough the Jolla phone promises an equally open stack it sadly lacks the harware keyboard.
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by akr 13y ago
That is simply not true in my experience. The N900 screen is neither blurry nor barely responsive to finger touch. But the hardware is / was not the most interesting point about the N900 anyway.
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by akr 13y ago
This. I really would like a small netbook type ARM device which runs a normal Linux distribution and doesn't cheap out on battery capacity. The Samsung ARM Chromebook comes near but it could have a better display, casing and keyboard (
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by akr 13y ago
Same here - but I hope that Jolla can produce a viable N900 replacement for the future. It seems to be the only Linux based Smartphone platform currently in development that offers and is based on a "normal" Linux environment.
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by akr 13y ago
The government may publicly take a stance against the NSA programs but in reality it not only wishes to, but is actually implementing simmilar programs in Germany (see "Bestandsdatenauskunft"). I doubt that any real action will be
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by akr 14y ago
Sounds like something that should be possible with http://unhosted.org/
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by akr 14y ago
I think so too - you normally don't need wifi etc. on such a device. The one I use is the original first one and I wouldn't use the newer ones. If I remember correctly they even need active cooling...
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by akr 14y ago
I also use a small ARM server (SheevaPlug) since about two years and it can hold up easily to VPS hosting. It runs everything I would run on a "normal" server (Lighty, Dovecot-IMAP etc.), but needs nearly no power in comparison.
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by akr 14y ago
I host my Blog on a SheevaPlug from home. Additionally it runs an IMAP Server and some development stuff. In combination with the ARM Port of Archlinux it works pretty well - even with the small uplink my 2Mbit connection offers.