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by blihp 5y ago
Either way, the Russian military leadership looks incompetent. I would think that it would be more important to Ukraine from a morale standpoint if the missile attack was the cause. To take out the flagship of the Russian fleet with a weap
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by blihp 5y ago
Sure, but the orders of magnitude of investment and resulting rate of progress aren't comparable.[1] Understanding the world/existence can't compete with cat pictures and blowing stuff up in video games. The consumer market
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by blihp 5y ago
You're probably going for things that are too large in terms of scope and/or scale and don't really solve any need for yourself. Think about bite-sized problems that will help you with your day to day work/hobbies and
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by blihp 5y ago
We would likely have gotten a lot farther, a lot sooner. It's not so much that the tech was advanced back then or directly transferable to what we have today, it wasn't and isn't. But we spent decades with individuals and s
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by blihp 5y ago
There's the rub: you're still there. At the end of the day, that's all they care about. They will keep pushing and taking until people start to leave and then dial it back just a bit . When all of the players are playing t
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by blihp 5y ago
None of these walled gardens exist primarily to keep bad apps out, but rather to keep users in. It's always been about the revenue share.
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by blihp 5y ago
That's OK, they'll refer back to posts like this if[1] they get burned once or twice. I think its the sort of thing most have to experience themselves before they believe it rather than accepting it's true up front. [1] Who
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by blihp 5y ago
Mice were available, just not generally that useful because so few applications supported them. Usually they came with a bundled paint-type program. IIRC, in the early days of Windows (i.e. 1980's probably into the early 90's) t
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by blihp 5y ago
/ppg
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by blihp 5y ago
Yep... there wasn't enough code or RAM to do anything fancy. If you had a spreadsheet of any real complexity (i.e. much more than a screen worth) it was not unusual to disable auto recalc as things got painful fast on a 1MHz 8-bit CPU
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by blihp 5y ago
It's only illogical in retrospect now that Unix/Linux 'won'. Back then, every platform had its own quirky OS and hardware. Of the bunch, I found the Amiga running AmigaOS the among the least quirky and illogical.
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by blihp 5y ago
A loaded up Amiga (i.e. add a CPU accelerator board, more RAM than most PCs could handle, specialized video processing cards etc) could get into the low end of workstation territory. But you are right that architecturally, they had more in
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by blihp 5y ago
They allow you to spend much less time thinking about resource constraints and/or performance optimization and just focus on what you're trying to get done and/or do more than would be possible with conventional systems. Wo
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by blihp 5y ago
In Google's eyes ads are the product YouTube sells to advertisers. Creators just produce the content that keeps viewers around between ads. Google does not see creators or those watching the content as customers.
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by blihp 5y ago
I had (still have, actually) a Quadra 840AV which was the fastest 68k Mac they ever made and it never felt this fast. If they emulated the actual performance of a 68k (and associated hardware) you wouldn't long for the performance it
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by blihp 5y ago
A viable business model. DDG has done a spectacular job of navigating the search space with arguably a very good product and look at how long it has taken them to get as far as they have. There isn't likely room for a 2nd DDG-type ap
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by blihp 5y ago
Those are just two options (I'm not a big fan of either)... there are a myriad of other options available.[1] While I disagree with your assertion that Linux desktops are not secure, I would agree that making them more secure is not t
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by blihp 5y ago
It's more often a case of misaligned incentives than being all that difficult. When your business model (both Google's and most 3rd party developers) depends on constantly streaming telemetry from a device to a server you're
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by blihp 5y ago
You underestimate how much other low hanging fruit there is. Yes, at some point using less integrated hardware (due to driver issues) will dominate but we are pretty far from that being the limiting factor.
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by blihp 5y ago
Sure, if you run (most of) them in their default configuration. However, they can trivially be made much more secure which is one of the appeals of Linux to some: you're not limited to whatever set of compromises a vendor decided was
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by blihp 5y ago
> GrapheneOS and AOSP are Linux-based and there are no closed source kernel modules. I ran AOSP builds for years and that's a half-truth at best. Sure for the kernel proper, you have the source. However, there are a fair number of
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by blihp 5y ago
For around the house/office, a two (or more) device solution is fine for many. But when you're truly mobile people generally want to minimize the number of devices they have to deal with. For most Linux users, including myself,
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by blihp 5y ago
The general idea behind any 'pure' Linux phone is to have a device that you can trust at least as much as a desktop running Linux. Security is definitely a key aspect for many. But it's also the flexibility of not being loc
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by blihp 5y ago
It absolutely works with Wayland... I just recorded a screencast yesterday with OBS on Wayland. The only thing that changes is you have to explicitly grant OBS rights to your display/window when it starts.
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by blihp 5y ago
nVidia is the dominant discrete GPU vendor, as well as having a fair amount of laptop market share, and their drivers haven't adequately supported it. It's rather difficult to flip the switch when a big chunk of your userbase can
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by blihp 5y ago
I remember the volunteerism as being a way for non-developers, who couldn't otherwise support a project, as being able to contribute to a project: write docs, triage bug reports, answer user questions etc. so that the developers could
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by blihp 5y ago
It's not as if this was something that started elsewhere and is being adapted to the American value system: Free Software / Open Source started in the U.S.[1] That's largely due to the fact that for the first couple of dec
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by blihp 5y ago
I wouldn't go that far: I've had issues with every major version upgrade so far and I've been using Linux for over 25 years. My experience with Ubuntu has been a bit bumpier with Ubuntu than other distros on desktops in part
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by blihp 5y ago
As a counterpoint I'm running on Ryzen 5000 with a RDNA 2 GPU on Debian which is working pretty well. (zero CPU/chipset issues and one GPU issue which I can work around) The main 'trick' to running hardware (mainly CPU&
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by blihp 5y ago
What's old is new again. It's not a generational thing, it's a market maturity thing. There were plenty of unique UI's in the 80's (every OS with a GUI had a distinct look and feel) and 90's (most OS GUIs had

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