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by danieldk 5y ago
There's also a Linux driver provided by the company for this model. Are Linux drivers still a thing? Both our current and previous printers could be used without setting up any drivers through AirPrint. The new printer also scans wit
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by danieldk 5y ago
You are setting up a strawman [1]. I reacted to the grandparent who stated: Debian packaging has a nice feature too in that you can check the source used to build it, and any of the packages will be reproducible. Which is demonstrably fal
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by danieldk 5y ago
Do you have a threat/security model? Perhaps, the project is not aiming for world dominance. But if it is, it would be nice to have integration with a secure element to store secrets, application sandboxing (so that a chat client canno
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by danieldk 5y ago
You are ignoring the main point of the grandparent. Even excluding the possibility that an upstream is compromised. Who is going to check all the patches by hand in debian/patches ? If someone is going to insert vulnerabilities, they
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by danieldk 5y ago
Debian packaging has a nice feature too in that you can check the source used to build it, and any of the packages will be reproducible. So if you don't trust any of the Builds on the Mobian repository, you can actually check them all
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by danieldk 5y ago
And Apple has been (re)writing more and more applications and frameworks in a safe language (Swift) for years now. You just don't rewrite hundreds of millions of lines of code overnight.
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by danieldk 5y ago
they damn well better have a long-term plan to replace their bug-ridden kernel and other important low-level systems I think they are slowly going in that direction, e.g. by moving drivers to user space with DriverKit (which AFAIK unfortu
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by danieldk 5y ago
Also, it I think meming is a bit of a stretch. Of all the desktop operating systems (macOS, Linux, Windows), macOS has had the strongest security push. E.g. integration of the secure enclave throughout the system for protecting secrets, r
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by danieldk 5y ago
while I generally avoid Appstore as much as possible for Mac apps Interesting, I do the opposite. When something is available in the Mac App Store or through other means, I will generally buy it in the App Store. Why? Application sandboxi
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by danieldk 5y ago
> I love Linux, but it's still like a glass house. One simple terminal command out of curiosity will basically force you to reinstall the OS. Counterpoints: * Fedora Silverblue provides an immutable base OS with atomic updates/
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by danieldk 5y ago
I'm really surprised popular numerical computing Python packages don't already have optimized hardware back-ends for things like NumPy I think it is hard to beat modern BLAS implementations for common operations. E.g. Apple Acce
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by danieldk 5y ago
This has gotten a bit better. Last time I checked, MKL now uses Zen-specific kernels for sgemm/dgemm. Unfortunately, these kernels are slower than the AVX2 kernels. But at least, it does not use the pre-modern SIMD kernels for AMD Zen
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by danieldk 5y ago
Haven't seen this either. Both my wife and I are on M1 MacBooks.
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by danieldk 5y ago
Yes, there are no speakers connected to the system.
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by danieldk 5y ago
This is funny, but I prefer my computers silent. Semi-related: I can hear the inductors on my NVIDIA GPU, which is somewhat useful. When I am training deep learning models, the coil whine follows very regular patterns. Also, the pattern cha
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by danieldk 5y ago
Was also surprised when it wouldn't let me use an external webcam while connected to an external monitor. What do you mean? Using an external webcam while connected to an external monitor works fine. (Source: I have been using such a
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by danieldk 5y ago
I loved Space Quest 4. I still remember that near the end you are at some mainframe and is has a faux Windows 3.1-like interface. I think you had to drag some stuff to the trash to free up mainframe memory. There is also a Space Quest 4 ico
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by danieldk 5y ago
The problem from what the grandparent post, is why legalize sales but not production? These are largely historical compromises. It doesn't change, because the conservative right-wing parties (e.g. CDA and VVD) generally want to compl
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by danieldk 5y ago
I think they are pointing at an acceleration of the situation. Last summers have been relatively hot in West Europe as well, resulting in people buying airco’s [1]. Of course, people using airco's speeds up global warming (unless the e
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by danieldk 5y ago
Little Snitch: % systemextensionsctl list 1 extension(s) --- com.apple.system_extension.network_extension enabled active teamID bundleID (version) name [state] * * MLZF7K7B5R at.obdev.littlesnitch.networkextension (5.
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by danieldk 5y ago
At my work we all use google meets and only zoom for some external customers, the experience seems to be much worse with zoom in general regardless of the OS I strongly disagree. Zoom on macOS and macOS works very well (I currently use it
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by danieldk 5y ago
We use it on servers, so it makes sense to use it on the desktop too for maximum dev familiarity and compatibility, since it now works well there... I am always surprised by these things. I mean, even trying to use something widely-used (
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by danieldk 5y ago
What exactly is wrong with "scaling" on Linux? I use Qt apps on Plasma and everything just works. Nearly all my displays are HiDPI now. If you use 2x scaling (or other integer scaling), everything is fine. If you need fractional
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by danieldk 5y ago
The EU is a much larger market than the UK. If you are an international company that cloned their database, not offering your product in the UK because you could be sued is a loss. However, not being able to offer your product in the EU is
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by danieldk 5y ago
I had a Windows 10 Pro laptop for the last 7 months or so (but ditched a few days ago it because Windows has become so terrible) and the two times I installed it, I definitely had an option to create a local account. At some point it was in
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by danieldk 5y ago
That's the common refrain, but making a new product doesn't put it front and center at a Google I/O keynote or push it as the official new Google strategy. You'd think that C-level executives have a word on what is annou
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by danieldk 5y ago
Fastmail supports CalDAV (as does iCloud).
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by danieldk 5y ago
Maybe I am old-school, but I still prefer (perhaps outside tourist use) a Garmin GPS handheld, especially for cycling, hiking, and geocaching. Benefits: (1) battery life for 15-25 hours with the screen on (for popular models such as the gps
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by danieldk 5y ago
I think build reproducibility is a cargo cult. Most people here are debating you on the security angle, but in the case of Nix (and Guix) there is another important angle - reproducible builds make a content-addressed store possible. In N
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by danieldk 5y ago
I think convenience and price are the largest factors. Netflix costs less than a Blu-Ray for 'all you can eat' and you do not have to think about logistics (find/purchase a disk). Blu-rays do have copy protection, but AFAIK M

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