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by bscphil 5y ago
The difficulty of figuring out exactly what you need to do is part of the problem. It's hard to shake the feeling that you don't really grok the build system. But in any case it's never been as easy as just running that one
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by bscphil 5y ago
Yeah, I'm vaguely aware of various wrappers that try to make the process easier, I should probably give those a try. Building an existing package is certainly very easy, but I've had problems trying to download the source, apply a
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by bscphil 5y ago
I'm excited to see someone is working on this. I have considered switching from Arch to Sid in the past, mainly so that I could run the same OS on all computers and because I like the DFSG. Two things have stopped me: * It's so mu
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by bscphil 5y ago
No, I agree totally with that. I think that the situation that exists, while unfortunate, is pretty understandable from all sides.
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by bscphil 5y ago
This is unfairly downvoted IMO, because I think you're actually hitting on a very important point. Linux users tend to be enthusiasts, people who love software, and also primarily interact with a community where the "developer&#x2
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by bscphil 5y ago
Steam is quite generous about refunding games, either because you purchased them accidentally or they didn't run correctly or any other reason, as long as you don't have more than a few hours in the game. I think that's a muc
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by bscphil 5y ago
> On the other hand most linux gamers know how to run games under wine, so I really don't see any advantage for a developer to make a native linux version. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've never bought a game because it
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by bscphil 5y ago
> I said that Bing is one source used to derive the results DDG returns. No, you said it was one of many . Implying that there are other sources that users are likely to actually encounter in practice feeding the search results page. Th
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Is 95% really not acceptable? Moreover, is any search engine really at 95% success rate? I certainly have never gotten that high with Google, even back in the days when Google Search was good. Nowadays it's like 85% or so. About
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by bscphil 5y ago
It really was the most convenient messaging has ever been with Google. Basically equivalent to iMessage, with the added convenience that I knew way more people on Hangouts than iMessage anyway. Plus the Google Fi integration was perfect.
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Can one still benchmark Windows? Most proprietary software requires explicit authorization from the seller nowadays. Yes, you can still find Windows benchmarks, they're all over the web in fact. The Phoronix test suite supports Wi
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by bscphil 5y ago
> It's not space age technology, solid state storage has been consumer technology for 2 decades already. You're exaggerating. The first really plausible SSDs to appear in consumer PCs appeared in around 2006 or 2007, so maybe 1
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by bscphil 5y ago
As I read that email, it seems to be saying the opposite: > We know when the underlying storage is solid state - there's a "non-rotational" field in the block device config that tells us the storage doesn't need physi
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by bscphil 5y ago
Do you have any benchmarks illustrating the difference?
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by bscphil 5y ago
This mostly skims over two additional issues that add whole additional dimensions to the mess that is Google's messaging services: * How / whether you're allowed to integrate SMS / phone messages with web based chat (wha
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by bscphil 5y ago
Exactly. Which to me is why the parent complaint is a bit silly. If vertical space is at such a premium on Mac laptops supposedly, why then does the default Apple UI [1] consume such an enormous amount of vertical space? This is many, many
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by bscphil 5y ago
Just the other day, I was talking about the difficulty of monetizing an app I wanted to build with my partner. We agreed that the app had an extremely small target audience - university types for whom the app would provide hundreds of dolla
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by bscphil 5y ago
> But we still have a long way to go to halt the rise, as each year more CO2 piles up in the atmosphere. We ultimately need cuts that are much larger and sustained longer than the COVID-related shutdowns of 2020." "Cuts" m
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by bscphil 5y ago
> The sense in which this definition is "strict" is based on ignoring that N-point perspective is just a tool for drawing lines parallel to the coordinate axes with correct perspective. The thing is, the author claims that stud
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by bscphil 5y ago
That's not necessarily true. The biggest reason that people don't opt in to things voluntarily is because people are lazy, not because they've weighed the options and decided that opting in doesn't benefit them. (See the
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by bscphil 5y ago
> The provider and about 1% of contributors get the real lions share, the rest are fighting for scraps This is a good point and a much bigger issue than I was initially thinking. Even if 100% of my YouTube ad money and premium subscripti
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by bscphil 5y ago
You can change the window title in X, though chances are the window manager will just change it back next time it's refreshed. xprop -f _NET_WM_NAME 8u -set _NET_WM_NAME "New Window Name" I'm not sure why anyone
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by bscphil 5y ago
For me, vsauce exists in the mental zone I have assigned to things that are clickbaity popular science. Sort of the same place as the "I fucking love science" network. Likewise, I've never actually seen a single video, so I s
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by bscphil 5y ago
> I'm a little surprised they chose dynamic over static linking. Yep, it's worth noting that the vast majority of closed source games I've encountered on Linux are static linked. For what it's worth (as a big proponen
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by bscphil 5y ago
> My statement about Linux's awfulness included an opinion qualifying phrase, theirs did not. Why do I need evidence for a subjective opinion? I disagree. I do not read this statement as containing an opinion qualifying phrase about
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by bscphil 5y ago
No. In Wi-Fi protocols, the client never sends the password to the AP at all. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11i-2004#Four-way_han...
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by bscphil 5y ago
I detest it for this reason. Well, that and the fact that it's a closed source service leaching off content on another website and slapping ads on top of it. The only thing worse are those awful video downloader bots. I have opted out
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by bscphil 5y ago
> when I come out and say the experience sucks and the very next reply is "actually it is great" it is hard not to read that as evangelism. Let's review. You said that the Linux desktop experience is "awful" and
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Yeah, sorry, the openjdk situation sucks. It's an "extra" package, which means the maintainer is a community member rather than being part of the Arch core group. This is incorrect. Packages in both core and extra are ma
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by bscphil 5y ago
> I noticed that the two bugs they linked [1] [2] This is misleading and in fact not even strictly true. They link three bugs, not two: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633459 This third bug was not due to

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