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by curt15 5y ago
An air force general had this to say about the F-35 a few years ago[1]: "If I do not keep that F-22 fleet viable, the F-35 fleet frankly will be irrelevant. The F-35 is not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22"
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by curt15 5y ago
Does Brave have the resources to maintain a fork of Chromium once upstream moves to Manifest v3 (which would kneecap uBlock origin)?
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by curt15 5y ago
I seem to recall reading that IOCP was a killer feature of the NT kernel. Does Linux have something comparable? The article also doesn't suggest how Windows would retain its legendary backward compatibility if it were to switch to a Li
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by curt15 5y ago
"good" according to whom?
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by curt15 5y ago
Our local Walmart photo centre uses a Epson SureColor P8000.
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by curt15 5y ago
The vaccine is mandated as a condition for employment. Is it different from universities requiring vaccines for their students (Indiana University already won a legal challenge -- https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/08&#x2F
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by curt15 5y ago
It's also a lot easier for a virus to burn out when there's limited international travel.
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Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are seeing work for mainline Linux kernel support(xda-developers.com)
28 points by curt15 5y ago|3 comments
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by curt15 5y ago
>As a user, I'd like to give Krita/Libreoffice permissions for ~/Documents and Tor Browser permissions for ~/Downloads. I don't know yet of a user-friendly method to achieve that. The filesystem permissions are a
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by curt15 5y ago
Flatseal gives users a GUI to manage the permissions of each app. Would that address your concern?
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by curt15 5y ago
>Everyone should realize that basically, CCP is a gang. And as you would expect of gangsters, to get leverage on someone they go after the person's family (e.g. https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgxdv7/c
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by curt15 5y ago
Grid view works in Chrome but not Firefox.
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by curt15 5y ago
Or animations that stutter. Smartphones have been managing consistent 60fps animations for years now, and MacOS is similarly smooth.
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Btrfs on-disk format changes planned(josefbacik.github.io)
3 points by curt15 5y ago|0 comments
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by curt15 5y ago
>All you are doing is teaching your kids to hack into their own device (speaking from experence) That doesn't seem like a bad skill to foster.
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by curt15 5y ago
My pet peeve is the recent move of the dash to the bottom of the screen, thus requiring users to first move their mouse all the way to the top left corner, then all the way to the bottom just to switch apps.
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by curt15 5y ago
That's because dnf metadata is massive compared to apt's. If you're installing something on Fedora for the first time, dnf needs to download about 100mb of metadata.
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by curt15 5y ago
Regardless of the numbers, how do you explain the unprecedented strain on healthcare systems? When was the last time hospitals requested refrigerated trucks for storing bodies?[1] When was the last time that states had to ration care under
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by curt15 5y ago
>Portability: Snaps works on most distros. The sandbox doesn't work on any distros that aren't using the latest AppArmor, such as Fedora and derivatives. Flatpak tries to solve the same problem at least for desktop apps, but wi
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by curt15 5y ago
Automatic updates are great until they kill your running app [1]. Flatpaks can be updated automatically through gnome-software or a cron job, but the user can decide whether to enable automatic updates. Snaps will forcibly update after 60 d
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by curt15 5y ago
Does its sandbox work yet on distros that don't use apparmor? Last time I checked, snap apps were essentially unconfined on Fedora, and sandboxing is one of snap's most important selling points.
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by curt15 5y ago
Installing software on MacOS is only convenient when it is distributed as self-contained .app bundle. Only self-contained GUI apps are distributed this way. Managing software that comes in ".pkg" files is strictly worse than using
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CERN IT recommends standardizing on CentOS 8 Stream [pdf](indico.cern.ch)
3 points by curt15 5y ago|0 comments
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by curt15 5y ago
>I can't understand how can it be possible that, on Windows, whenever I run out of RAM the OS kills whatever process is consuming too much and the computer keeps running flawlessly. I've long wondered this too. How does Windows
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by curt15 5y ago
I wish I could use Firefox full-time, but for some reason Zoom's web client supports Gallery view only on Chrome/Edge.
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by curt15 5y ago
>Personally, I'm over 30 now. I once watched one of my riends using Ubuntu install security updates and be confused by their patch to firefox to pop up a "I'm broken now" dialog. Screw that. I'm turning the di
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by curt15 5y ago
When my friend used to work there, he was issued a macbook pro which was used mainly to ssh into his Linux workstation from a Chrome tab.
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by curt15 5y ago
>I wonder if the author realizes that the biggest threat to Linux on the desktop is the possibility that all of the mainstream browsers will drop support for it. This seems unlikely since most Google employees use Linux workstations.
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by curt15 5y ago
Isn't Lustre designed specifically for ZFS as its backing filesystem?
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by curt15 5y ago
The Surface Pro 4 had that problem for months after its release. https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/4hnhuz/just_took_m...

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