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by bstar77 5y ago
I recently put my Dad on Linux. Elementary was a disaster- compatibility and app issues did us in. I'm so happy we moved on because I did not realize that we would have had upgrade issues too.
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by bstar77 5y ago
This is just a frontend to Wine. Most stuff tends to work unless it's doing strange things and has unusual dependencies. Some resources: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... https:/&#x
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by bstar77 5y ago
I also find it amazing that my 1970's vinyl setup sounds better than my modern setup (multiple homepods). I definitely have a reverence of that tech which helps improve my experience. I also suffer from the paradox of choice... the mo
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by bstar77 5y ago
Apparently I'm barely human enough to get through those Captchas.
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by bstar77 5y ago
If you look up Robert Peip, he's detailing a huge amount of what he's doing as he builds his PSX core. It's a combination of work done on emulators, getting expert feedback on the MiSTer, previous work on supported chips and
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by bstar77 5y ago
I just don't remember the details. As I said earlier, it's likely I made a mistake, but the process was not clear and I was not notified when my instance expense ballooned to something I clearly wasn't expecting. I never ha
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by bstar77 5y ago
It's possible that was the issue, but I estimated a 20gb storage partition. Maybe usage was to blame, I know the server was inefficient with reads and writes.
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by bstar77 5y ago
After my experience 3 years ago, I will never use them again. I priced out an instance that estimated around $30/month via their calculator. Instance is indeed around $30 for the first 2 months, then I get a $200 bill. I don't k
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by bstar77 5y ago
It seems the worst thing you can say about Vivaldi is that it’s closed source. I actually really like Vivaldi when I want a bloated browser experience (sometimes I do). I’ve been jumping between Vivaldi and Qutebrowser on my Linux box. Q
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by bstar77 5y ago
Read the whole article, his tone changes.
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by bstar77 5y ago
"But David Kanter, an analyst with Real World Technologies, said Intel is being more cautious than in the past. The years of delays resulted in part from the "hubris" of tackling multiple technical problems in a single genera
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by bstar77 5y ago
NPM was born out Bundler for Ruby. Node doesn't require you to use npm, but they are bundled together now. There are other popular registries like Yarn.
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by bstar77 5y ago
Node is required because that's what is used to compile the JS on the command line, it's a nodejs process. Once that's complete, any web server can serve the newly produced JS/CSS/HTML files. JS is interpreted by th
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by bstar77 5y ago
Basically what Dragonwriter said. Without getting into the weeds of where webdev was and where it is now, we have made some massive progress. One of the huge improvements was moving to JS compilers (Babel/Typescript/Flow) that n
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by bstar77 5y ago
jQuery has had its share of dangerous vulnerabilities. https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:jquery
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by bstar77 5y ago
https://parceljs.org/getting_started.html If you have a use case as simple as the author is advocating, this only take about 15 minutes to grok. If it takes longer then you probably don't have enough front-end experie
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by bstar77 5y ago
You are literally criticising Webpack for its best features. Identifying outdated libraries and potentially dangerous vulnerabilities is a huge plus for Webpack. Do you think just because you include a CDN lib in the global space vulnerab
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by bstar77 5y ago
Parcel is literally zero configuration, maybe that would have been a better solution for your usecase. You need to understand some Webpack basics for it to be functionally useful, but all the criticisms of Webpack could easily be levied ag
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by bstar77 5y ago
I respectfully disagree. If you take 15 min to understand the basics it becomes trivially easy and the productivity you gain going forward is massive.
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by bstar77 5y ago
I agree with the author that jQuery was essential for the time. Abstracting away browser compatibility issues in the era of IE6 was a wonderful thing, for sure. The problem is jQuery has no business being used today unless you have to main
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by bstar77 5y ago
I agree that instant games are and will continue to be desirable for a sizable audience. Correlating that to Adobe Flash completely lost me. My NES games are instant and that preceded Flash by decades. In fact, I think the 8-bit era inspi
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by bstar77 5y ago
This has always been my reservation. If you have all the knowledge in the world, but only expose the transgressions of people and institutions you have a vendetta against, how does that improve anything? This is why we have crackpots like
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by bstar77 5y ago
She gives away "another" £2 billion and there's still room for judgement.
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by bstar77 5y ago
That's pretty much the point I was making. The whole community has to buy into the value of education. If you are getting harassed by your peers because you are reading a book for enjoyment, you are likely going to stop.
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by bstar77 5y ago
I'm referring to things like "Nicole the Math Lady", "Kahn Academy" and other supplemental education resources. Even Wikipedia can get you on the right track with any topic. Since I homeschool my son I don't
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by bstar77 5y ago
This is pretty much what I came to say. Both of my parents came from very poor families, but they both valued education very highly. My brother and I may as well been born into a wealthy family since we both got every educational resource
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by bstar77 5y ago
Yeah, seems like a missed opportunity since the Mac/Linux crowed would eat this up.
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by bstar77 5y ago
I love bandcamp. I have bought a decent amount of music through there (including physical media) and artists tend to really show their appreciation. I almost always get signed CDs, hand written thank you notes and other unsolicited freebe
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by bstar77 5y ago
I'm also a 1password customer and curious how the attack vector of spoofing the 1password input icon can harm the user. They might be able to get your master password, but that doesn't mean they gain access to anything. Also, I n
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by bstar77 5y ago
I don't want to be an Apple apologist, but I don't think you can lop them into the same dysfunctional privacy strategy that google operates under. Apple is using user behaviors for advertising within Apple's ecosystem, but th

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