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by creshal 3y ago
It runs git, vim (or emacs, if you're feeling frisky) and docker, that covers a lot of software dev use cases.
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by creshal 3y ago
ChromeOS is surprisingly solid, between the Android and Linux support you can run basically anything short of heavy desktop games on it. For all the Chrome memes, ChromeOS's desktop environment is really snappy (even on a passively coo
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by creshal 3y ago
Yeah. The hardware is solid, but there's already been Chromebooks announced for this (or last) year's lineup with equal or better specs. And the AI features smell a lot like "we literally have no idea what AI is good for, we&
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by creshal 3y ago
> It feels a little weird and sad that an i3 is the bar to make something "plus" in performance. Compared to the Celerons found on some Chromebooks, it still counts. …but there were already plenty of i3 (or even i5, or even R7)
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by creshal 3y ago
There's no reason for that site to use cookies in the first place.
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by creshal 3y ago
For the intended education market I'd hope there's pressure to keep the used software reasonably well optimized for the sorts of hardware it gets used on. But the react zealots have swindled the whole world economy into funding th
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by creshal 3y ago
> but are the manufacturers going to provide firmware updates for 10 years? Typically, yes, at least for severe, headline-generating issues. Most others tend to be able to be worked around in Linux kernel drivers anyway (and usually bett
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by creshal 3y ago
> and never defined in the document. From the document's first part: > A Conflict-free Replicated Data Type, or CRDT, is an umbrella term for any data structure that can be replicated and modified concurrently across multiple si
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by creshal 3y ago
> Does Microsoft (plan to) run an ad business? Microsoft Advertisement is pulling in 10 billion dollars a year (~=5% of total) and Microsoft wants to aggressively expand it.
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by creshal 3y ago
Child pornography, ISIS, Wagner, Cartels, there's plenty of candidates that you really don't want to name in public.
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by creshal 3y ago
> Also, why exactly did we introduce IPv6 again? I sure wish my (small, rural) ISP finally did. They're still "evaluating" it.
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by creshal 3y ago
> Those are already minimal. This is too. If everything is minimalistic, nothing is.
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by creshal 3y ago
Leisure reading, sure. But if I'm doing research work referencing books, you bet I'll be having ten ebooks open on my desktop/laptop.
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by creshal 3y ago
• Code: Bloated react mess that's bigger than the entire internal storage of early e-reader hardware • Design: You get a full UI that's no more minimal than the Kindle desktop builds • Features: Again, fully featured, better than
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by creshal 3y ago
Keeping coordinates hidden to protect wrecks from looters is not an unreasonable policy to set, they'll do even more damage to the marine environment to harvest copper, bronze, low-background steels and memorabilia.
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by creshal 3y ago
I'm really curious what the current definition of "minimalistic" is.
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by creshal 3y ago
Why shell out for 1password with its history of security problems when bitwarden is free?
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by creshal 3y ago
The documentation states that > This API has the potential of being misused to access device signals to try to identify the device or user, also known as fingerprinting. Regardless of whether a user gives your app permission to track, f
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by creshal 3y ago
In an industrialized society, where your rate of digging gold out of the ground is fully decoupled from how well the rest of the economy is doing, you will be constantly adjusting the exchange rate. That will sooner or later lead to specula
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by creshal 3y ago
> From what I understand, the gold standard felt apart in WW1. Formal gold standards were only introduced in the 1870s. No matter where exactly you put the end date, it only existed for a shockingly short time frame, and has very littl
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by creshal 3y ago
Yeah, looks like this will be valid for just as long as it takes Schrems to drag it through the courts. Again.
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by creshal 3y ago
I'll take those over handling "I irreversibly deleted my everything, please undo (ps: I live in a country that makes this illegal)" emails.
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by creshal 3y ago
> More than just a refreshed set of graphics, Supernova introduces beautiful icons with a more consistent visual style unique to Thunderbird. Our new designs remain sharp and pixel-perfect at any density setting. Translation: We break wi
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by creshal 3y ago
I set QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qgnomeplatform in my xinitrc and don't care further, seems to work fine.
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by creshal 3y ago
It used to be that you have to fiddle with a lot of fontconfig settings to get decent rendering results, but they've been shipping mostly sane defaults for quite a while now. Hinting for some reason still has to be enabled manually, bu
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by creshal 3y ago
> I'd rather just have memory safety built in to the language I'm using—I'm not sure exactly what the equivalent is for passwords, but I don't think I would oppose it. It's a hard problem. I don't think pa
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by creshal 3y ago
It's far from being ready, but as usually Valve is making the most progress: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HDR_monitor_support
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by creshal 3y ago
Gaming on Linux is a joy these days. Less driver bugs than in Win10/11 in my experience.
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by creshal 3y ago
On Android at least, browsers can also provide the "embedded" overlay, and Fennec, Vivaldi, etc. all do, so it's not really necessary to mess with app settings, changing the system default browser is enough. On iOS, it's
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by creshal 3y ago
JavaFX/OpenFX is surprisingly decent these days, but it got suckerpunched by Oracle licensing for a long time and had a bunch of compatibility issues between releases that made upgrading painful. I probably would consider it now for

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