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by danieldk 6y ago
There is Glade. But some GNOME people seem to recommend against using Glade? https://blogs.gnome.org/christopherdavis/2020/11/19/glade-no... I have used GTK several times, but Qt always felt far more ple
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by danieldk 6y ago
In VBS environments, the normal NT kernel runs in a virtualized environment called VTL0, while the secure kernel runs in a more secure and isolated environment called VTL1. https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog&#x2
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by danieldk 6y ago
In Windows, enabling virtualization actually reduces attack surface. E.g. it is used to protect against kernel-level malware: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-virtualisation-is-c...
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by danieldk 6y ago
And there are still a lot of relevant European companies. ASML, STMicroelectronics (which is Swiss, but is spread across many EU countries as well), NXP, Infineon, Bosch (sensors & semiconductors), etc.
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by danieldk 6y ago
Well, it would certainly make may day live easier if we had Microsoft Office, the Affinity Suite, and Lightroom on Linux, which would probably have happened if Linux was the dominant desktop.
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by danieldk 6y ago
Indeed. Unfortunately it seems nobody in the traditional Linux ecosystem outside Red Hat (and perhaps Canonical's Snap) is really interested in meaningfully improving UI application sandboxing. Flatpak is often met with outright hostil
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by danieldk 6y ago
It's great that UWP apps are sandboxed, but they're a minority of the apps people use. It's not just sandboxing of UWP apps and Windows Sandbox. Recent Windows 10 version have a feature called 'Controlled folder access
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by danieldk 6y ago
That does not refute the point. M1 uses the AArch64 ISA, so for the initial port, the existing AArch64 support in OpenJDK can just be used. Sure, they can make optimizations now or in the future for ARMv8.6-A or the Neural Engine (if they a
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by danieldk 6y ago
Not quite, it is almost AArch64, plus some additional goodies. It is AArch64, it's not like it's an incompatible ISA. The fact that it has extra platform features does not slow down the initial port. I am also not sure what &#x2
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by danieldk 6y ago
Apple Silicon (as you know) is AArch64. Given that OpenJDK already had AArch64 support (e.g. through years of Linux AArch64 support, but also OpenJDK for iOS) and macOS support, I would bet that it is mostly a matter of making the build inf
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by danieldk 6y ago
Well except that they can benefit from many years of Linux (and Windows) on AArch64, as a result of which OpenJDK is already ready and optimized AArch64.
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by danieldk 6y ago
That joy has subsided in recent years with performance on Mac Intel. [...] This release makes the IDE so incredibly fast! Indexing dependencies happens magnitudes faster than Intel version. These must be macOS issues or problems with the
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by danieldk 6y ago
Don't get me started. The ones I had experience with in The Netherlands were also terrible. On a MacBook Air 2012, my 'f' key would always get stuck. I went to our local Apple authorized service provider, which was also the s
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by danieldk 6y ago
You should pay for how much is being contributed. Well, this simply isn't how it works in capitalism. Garbage truck workers also contribute a lot to society (wait until they go on strike for a month). However, the job is paid badly,
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by danieldk 6y ago
Apple is merely allowing users to OPT IN to tracking. I think opt-out tracking (if opt-out is even offered) with personally identifiable information is probably not even permitted under the GDPR, especially the broad, unnecessary cross-ap
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by danieldk 6y ago
They optimized for battery life by sacrificing some performance. That's basically what they did. And even then, I have various family members who are still on a 6S, because they feel it's fast enough. A 5 year old phone that sti
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by danieldk 6y ago
They'll need to manage their own app store as I can't imagine they'll have gapps//shims out of the box, but that works in their favor if they wanted to do another mobile play. When the new EU fair market regulatio
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by danieldk 6y ago
I think they meant 'tiny' in terms of uptake/traction.
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by danieldk 6y ago
There is a nice blog post that describes this: https://brauner.github.io/2018/09/08/thinkpad-6en-s3.html I recently bought a T14, which also has this option. (It enables S3 sleep.)
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by danieldk 6y ago
one or two Dell models, the aftermarket "Linux Laptop" vendors, maybe a sliver of others Lenovo also certifies ThinkPads for Linux: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd031426-linux-fo...
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by danieldk 6y ago
consumer demand for malware-free (but not vendor spyware-free) platforms is driving this in a big way The thing is, you can eat your cake and have it too. Various distributions (e.g. Ubuntu and Fedora) already use secure boot to verify th
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by danieldk 6y ago
Older AMD CPUs, such as the K5 were RISC CPUs with an x86 decoding frontend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K5
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by danieldk 6y ago
I hope something changes there, For stable releases, there is an RFC [1] that proposes to push back the .03 releases to .05 and the .09 releases to .11. This will align the release cycle of NixOS after that of Ubuntu and Fedora. Hopefully
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by danieldk 6y ago
I am sorry that you had that experience! Broken as in cannot be installed should not happen too often. PRs are built in CI and failing builds on Tier 1 should be a reason to reject PRs. Hydra currently lists ~4700 out of ~91000 packages fai
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by danieldk 6y ago
It also depends heavily on the machine; if you use GNOME then you've got another big chunk of GNU in there, but in my case the only major part that I actually use frequently is GNU libc, a subset of the GNU coreutils (which I'd v
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by danieldk 6y ago
I don't want to deal with somebody's computer suddenly being borked halfway across the world with no way to assist. Fedora Silverblue could be interesting alternative to regular Fedora then, since you can boot into or roll back
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by danieldk 6y ago
So, where does that make Fedora Rawhide fit?
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by danieldk 6y ago
Wait what? Googling the user name that I am replying to leads to: https://github.com/baddox San Francisco, CA
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by danieldk 6y ago
Which scenario is better for Intel? - The server and desktop markets move to ARM. The AArch64 instruction set becomes the default that people develop and deploy on. Optimizing for x86_64 CPUs becomes an afterthought. Intel only sells CPUs t
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by danieldk 6y ago
Faster isn't just convenience. It's also lower power consumption for the same compute, which means a smaller/lighter battery, or longer runtime at the same weight. As has been discussed in various threads the last few weeks

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