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by danieldk 7y ago
But it's the other way around. Can you distribute a native application on macOS without Apple's blessing? No, you can't (not when Catalina will be out anyway). Yes you can: https://forums.macrumors.com/threa
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by danieldk 7y ago
Slower at an average of 50% looks acceptable to me for many applications. However, for me personally I wonder: what's the point? I would go from Linux -> glibc -> native application to Linux -> glibc -> Web Browser -> We
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by danieldk 7y ago
Perhaps in Apple's own backyard. In the Netherlands it's laughably bad. Cycle tracks? Mostly missing (in a country that has a huge cycling infrastructure). The map doesn't even have building outlines. Apple uses Tom Tom dat
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by danieldk 7y ago
Also interesting is that the SSD in the base model is still the same size as the SSD in the base model of the MacBook Air Mid 2013. Sure, the SSDs became faster, but it is quite insane that a model that is six years newer still comes with t
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by danieldk 7y ago
Theoretically yes (minus you are only one kernel vulnerability away from elevated access). However, a lot of Flatpaks take blanket access to the home directory or host filesystem: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aflathub+
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by danieldk 7y ago
But there are also large differences. Silverblue still uses a single namespace for all libraries (unless you count Flatpaks, which can bring their own dependencies), whereas on NixOS you can have many different versions of the same library
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by danieldk 7y ago
Walk into any random company, there will be many desktops. Sure, some applications are web applications, but they will typically also use Microsoft Office and a smattering of more niche applications. We happen to live across an office tower
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by danieldk 7y ago
What do you mean by 'maintained' automatically? Many flatpaks use their own custom compiled dependencies that are outdated. I took a frequently-used dependency used to decode untrusted data (ffmpeg). Many Flatpaks on Flathub use o
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by danieldk 7y ago
we wouldn't feel the need for sandboxing now would we. Applications have vulnerabilities. Sandboxes help as an additional layer of security for trusted applications. Of course, if applications are trusted and under control, a simpler
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by danieldk 7y ago
This is what Nix gets right. Even if static linking is used, if some dependency is updated, all packages that have that dependency in its transitive closure get recompiled.
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by danieldk 7y ago
Yes as an example of this: our daughter's school gives a form where you can indicate where photos of her can be used. This is probably required by the GDPR, but it is nice of them to do it anyway, and they try to hold up their end. We
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by danieldk 7y ago
It had the downside that if some bright light was coming from the other direction, the Apple logo would shine through your display. Example picture: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ruc03&#
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by danieldk 7y ago
Not really, If you have a standard app that can be dragged into the trash, sure. If you have a kernel extension, or a launch deamon or any application data you store locally you cannot clean up after yourself without a custom uninstaller.
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by danieldk 7y ago
And please, don't tell me "but Docker!" Docker, at present, isn't really usable with GUI applications yet. But Flatpak! Flatpak applications can be sandboxed and you can install/remove applications as one unit.
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by danieldk 7y ago
Do you have a source for human annotation of Siri recordings? Do they use subcontractors like Google?
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by danieldk 7y ago
Exactly. And for much smaller organizations and individuals, it is much harder to organize an alternative effort to this set of projects backed up by a big corporation (Red Hat). There are exceptions. Drew Devault and the rest of the Sway
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by danieldk 7y ago
Which video card/driver do you use? I have used Wayland for two years now without any noticeable problems. Before that, bugs in GNOME would often bring the whole graphics stack down. (This is on amdgpu and later intel. I had a lot of p
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by danieldk 7y ago
I love Arq. I use Arq to backup to a local server via sftp and remotely to B2 (which has very affordable storage). I have used Arq for many years, and regularly restore files through Arq. On Linux, I use restic, which can also backup to B2
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by danieldk 7y ago
I don't currently use FreeBSD, but I have fond memories of acquiring a FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD set as a kid. I was already tinkering with Slackware Linux, but FreeBSD was so much more well-documented. We did not have an internet collection, s
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by danieldk 7y ago
I think for a lot of kids the 'having your own computer' factor is nice. However, for our daughter we ended up buying (1) a Micro:Bit, which is much easier for kids to tinker with, especially with MakeCode [1]. Our 5yo daughter lo
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by danieldk 7y ago
If they were planning to get a cat anyway, then it would actually help.
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by danieldk 7y ago
I didn't read the article, because of a gazillion analytics trackers and popups. But the source is clear: Data released today show that the European-average temperature for June 2019 was higher than for any other June on record. [...]
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by danieldk 7y ago
It doesn't maintain any state - NixOps uses SQLite database which makes it cumbersome to share with other devs. Oh, that's really a nice feature! I use NixOps for managing some personal hosts and one work VM, but the local state
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by danieldk 7y ago
You can easily build Docker images using Nix. Benefits: (1) reproducability, if you pin to a certain nixpkgs, you always get the same set of packages; (2) layers don't have to be full filesystem diffs; (3) the image only contains the c
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by danieldk 7y ago
I can't say I am happy about where the Mac headed (though I have hope after the last WWDC). However, the Apple Watch and AirPods are absolutely stellar products. I love them both and wouldn't want to live without them. Both are po
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by danieldk 7y ago
I like the butterfly, at least more than the previous generations keyboards. However, the problems with the butterfly keyboards are inexcusable for the price of the laptops (along with one-week repair times). Luckily, my MacBook Pro 2018 se
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by danieldk 7y ago
Well, if you don't mind uploading your private live to the Google cloud, Lenovo, and whoever else paid enough to get stuff shipped on a Lenovo phone. For most people who do not want to spend much money on a phone, I just recommend them
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by danieldk 7y ago
I think the bottleneck for nearly everyone is the 256GB SSD, which is borderline insane for a $6000 machine. A 512GB or even 1TB SSD over 256GB is peanuts (well, unless you purchase the upgrade from Apple). 256GB does not store you a lot of
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by danieldk 7y ago
How does morph compare to nixops?
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by danieldk 7y ago
From the related discussion: I think it's important for us to move on in this discussion, so I'm going to reject this RFC. This RFC proposes to use the govuk data tool to aid people in getting local development repo. However, the

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