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by bostand 10y ago
Fair enough. But I am still wondering why linuxbrew exists to begin with. I mean, I understand the point of having snap or flatpack in addition to native distro packages, but linuxbrew?
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by bostand 10y ago
I really don't get why someone would want to change platform while doing his damnest to keep things exactly as before. Instead of, I don't know... embracing the changes? Maybe try something new?? I mean switching to Linux but
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by bostand 10y ago
Wait, gnome has a video player? Why would anyone user anything other than videolan VLC?
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by bostand 10y ago
I've always been curious about *bsd on laptops. What laptop are you using and exactly what does/does not work for you?
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by bostand 10y ago
What is the battery life of the smaller-battery configuration? I wouldn't care less about its beauty if it has a good keyboard, a good screen and not awful battery life... With that said, you are the first one ive heard saying the new
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by bostand 10y ago
Microsoft has also a digital whiteboard product line that looks like oversized surface tablets. Very expensive and very popular I've been told.
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by bostand 10y ago
Now that's some real CI for you... But given the complexity of this, I wonder how many of those builds were seriously broken.
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by bostand 10y ago
Is this a 15" laptop? I recently realized that a modern 15" can be much more ergonomic yet almost as small and light as a 13" from a couple of years back.
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by bostand 10y ago
Actually, Barra was a big fan of Chinese food. Half of his social media posts were about his food adventures in China.
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by bostand 10y ago
> Agents arrested Mr. Mikhailov with a theatrical touch, placing a bag over his head in the midst of a congress of senior intelligence agency officers in Moscow and leading him from the room Wow, remind me to never work for the FSB. &quo
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by bostand 10y ago
But from my experience this is exactly how people are using touchscreen laptops in meetings. I don't see the point of adding a sticker to your laptop when it already can be used as a whiteboard with the added benefits of digitalisation
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by bostand 10y ago
Yeah, but do they get free food and candy? :)
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by bostand 10y ago
Or you can use a laptop with touch screen and/or a digital pen... And Google and microsoft have note taking apps that makes your hand writing searchable. Edit: wow, some people on HN really dislike touchscreens...
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by bostand 10y ago
Given the CES announcements from Lenovo, Samsung and asus I can only assume 2017 will be even worse for Apple. Laptop with 25 hrs battery? Give me two please!
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by bostand 10y ago
What's wrong with Chinese food?
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by bostand 10y ago
How much can you trust these lowend box providers? I talked to one guy who was utterly incompetent and another one who was really shady...
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by bostand 10y ago
I have both and can't really say which one i like most, they are both great. There are however a lot of cheap ideapads and lenovo chromebooks with really awful chiclet keyboards. Avoid at all cost!
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by bostand 10y ago
That looks really good, thanks! I assume it works as a proxy?
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by bostand 10y ago
amazing?
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by bostand 10y ago
Google created the technology they were making money of. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
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by bostand 10y ago
As owner of one of their excellent products, I couldn't care less about their private valuation. (btw, mi is owned by their employees)
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by bostand 10y ago
I wonder if the qt lite stuff can make future kde distros significantly smaller...
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by bostand 10y ago
What happens if you just reinstall a standard win10 image from usb?
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by bostand 10y ago
Lets hope Steve remembers to do the right thing (tm) this time. Edit: in particular, next time someone in his organization does/says something incredibly stupid I want Steve to stop it right away instead of waiting 2 years...
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by bostand 10y ago
Some of the most fanatic Haskell supporters I have met have been university professors that have not written a single line of "production" code in their life. They thought Haskell would eventually rule the programming world becaus
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by bostand 10y ago
Do you happen to have a link?
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by bostand 10y ago
It is very hard to get hold of one in west for anything close to the original price.
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by bostand 10y ago
I second that! Furthermore, the latest chromebooks from Asus and Samsung are a bit more expensive but have a touch screen and impressive battery life (15-25 hours)
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by bostand 10y ago
I am not surprised that a Docker core dev wants to run everything in containers, just for the heck of it. What does surprise me is the increasing number of hack-haters on the hackers news.
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by bostand 10y ago
you can run Ubuntu core the pi, which is kinda similar to coreos.

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