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by ccouzens 4y ago
Indeed. On an external screen that would be most comfortable at about 125% MacOS will only offer you 100%.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
You can with Samsung Dex. I also did so using my pixel 4a (which doesn't normally support video out), a usb displaylink adapter and this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.displaylin... But
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Don't forget that even supported phones can have unpatchable hardware bugs. For example checkm8 back in 2019.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Sounds like project treble. I don't know how much of a success it has been, and I don't think it has been used to multiboot a phone or to boot a more standard Linux. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017&#
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by ccouzens 4y ago
If you could proxy the page to SVG without Javascript, couldn't you also proxy the page to HTML without Javascript? Either way, you'd probably want your proxy to wait to for any onload Javascript to run before snapshotting the pag
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by ccouzens 4y ago
If you print to PDF, you'll have the page's print css applied. And it is probably paginated. If you go direct to SVG the capture will use the screen css and not be paginated.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Presumably not all keys? If you receive a phone call while locked presumably the phone can still access the address book to display the contact name and photo? And music playing apps can presumably access their database of music to play son
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by ccouzens 4y ago
To be fair, it's the permission model that's not kept up with use cases. On a multiuser system sudo makes a lot of sense.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Sudo feels like a broken concept to me because it's there to protect the machine and other users. But these days many computers are only used by one user. Everything I care about on my computer is readable by my user and a program runn
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by ccouzens 4y ago
I don't get it either. I do own a smart watch, but I don't use it in the typical manner. I don't ever want to see notifications on my wrist. People seem to think it's ok to read notifications in situations where looking
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by ccouzens 4y ago
The iOS 12 update mentioned is for webkit https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213428 Depending on your Android version the equivalent is either webview or Chrome. The requirements for which are Android 5 and Android 4 re
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by ccouzens 4y ago
> - Application-centric (as opposed to window-centric) task management Thanks, but MacOS can keep that. It was one of the more frustrating parts of using a Mac in my opinion. It would be cool if MacOS offered an option to chose. Probably
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by ccouzens 4y ago
I've found apenapi generated clients very helpful with statically typed languages and very unhelpful with dynamic languages. For dynamic languages I'd recommend using an http library directly. Consider the code without a generated
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by ccouzens 4y ago
I maintain a project that converts from a specific API mostly documented in XSD to JSON schema. For the specific API I'm interested in XSD and JSON Schema are mostly equivalent. Quite probably it isn't true in the general case. Ch
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by ccouzens 4y ago
My understanding of this issue is that it could also affect badly done end to end encryption. Open source is also a good start but it is certainly no guarantee as not all code is audited even when open.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
And how does Firefox deal with it on other platforms? (Windows, desktop Linux, Android Linux)
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by ccouzens 4y ago
I've read but not written any c since learning rust. I've written some c years ago. I do feel that if I were to write more c now it would be better for me knowing rust and having a feel for designs that pass the borrow checker. Un
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by ccouzens 4y ago
How do you tell if something is advertising? Is a sportsperson wearing a brand because they like it or because they're being paid to wear it?
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by ccouzens 4y ago
I meant movies not songs. Eg https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-martian/id1039586890 Which is the same price as some games Eg https://stadia.google.com/game/human-fall-flat-stadia-edit
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by ccouzens 4y ago
You can use Google takeout to export your game saves. I've used it to export my cyberpunk 2077 save but I haven't yet tried importing it into the Steam version. I would have thought that because destiny 2 is an online game, the sa
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Google and iTunes allow you to "buy" films and TV. I don't think they're as successful as Netflix, but they're not unsuccessful.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
> I get stuck in a catch 22 where there's no network drivers for either the Ethernet or wifi so you wind up downloading some drivers off a sketchy site to put on a USB stick just to get started. If you've got an Android phone a
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by ccouzens 4y ago
The original site can set Referrer-Policy: no Or Referrer-Policy: same-origin To avoid sending its url to third parties. Of course it requires the original site to configure itself that way and doesn't help with the user's prefere
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by ccouzens 4y ago
> Imagine a device that you can connect to some peripherals including a monitor (possibly with its own GPU), then you undock it, put it in your pocket and move on to the next place - your home or your work with peripherals ready to use.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
> Refine your audience. > Reach new customers or reengage the customers who know you. You can also refine your audience by gender, age, and location. https://searchads.apple.com/advanced
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Doesn't local storage expire if you don't use a site for 7 days in Safari? https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki... ("7-Day Cap on All Script-Writeable Storage" heading a
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Couldn't better search and discovery by achieved today by building a curated website that links to the Apple app store?
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Use the website rather than the app. Links from the web app will open in your regular browser.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
They do. There are ads in the play store (labelled), ads in the Google news feed (labelled), ads in Gmail (labelled and similar to the ads in the web version). But no ads in what I would consider the daily experience (home screen, lock scre
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by ccouzens 4y ago
A lot of double fine games are on Linux. Hopefully Linux support continues for games funded post MS purchase. https://www.doublefine.com/news/mac-and-linux-baby

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