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by dbeley 3y ago
They supported linux in order to have their own platform outside of Microsoft's reach (first through the Steam Machines, now the Steam Deck). Indeed the Mac support is lackluster, but it's yet another proprietary platform and Appl
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by dbeley 3y ago
That's not true, games without DRMs installed through Steam can be launched without having Steam running. It all depends on the publisher's policy, Valve is just complying.
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The Mangohud presets used by the Steam Deck(dbeley.ovh)
1 points by dbeley 3y ago|0 comments
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by dbeley 4y ago
Thinkpads will always have better keyboards, better connectivity and the trackpoint for them.
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by dbeley 4y ago
Yeah it's depends a lot on the model, I should have precised it's only for some models. Otherwise normal cassette players are still very easy to find.
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by dbeley 4y ago
Even today a big chunk of the music indie scene is still selling tapes as they are way cheaper to produce than other medias and they have that "cool" factor you don't have with CDs or vinyls (portability, format easy to share
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by dbeley 4y ago
Yeah it mostly has to do with the fact all the historical tape player manufacturers are either closed or moved out to newer technology. I researched a similar device some time ago and I only found "We Are Rewind" selling a "m
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by dbeley 4y ago
A refurbished Pixel 4 will fit your budget and is still a great midrange phone
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by dbeley 4y ago
You don't have to root your LineageOS install, I personally run a LOS device without root. I think some adblocking solutions need root so it might be a valid use case for some people.
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by dbeley 4y ago
I had the same experience with a AR-750s. The GL-iNet OpenWRT image with its fancy web UI had a lot of small bugs and required some reboot from time to time to be working properly. I completely resolved the issue by flashing the mainline Op
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by dbeley 4y ago
Yeah indeed I should have specified that the whole "mainline linux compatible" is mostly because the Pinephone and the Librem don't use Qualcomm (or worse Mediatek) SoCs.
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by dbeley 4y ago
AOSP is still a google-controlled project that requires a ton of blobs, whereas the Pinephone (and other linux compatible smartphones like the Librem 5) has an entire ecosystem of healthy linux distros (from Mobian to Archlinux) running as
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by dbeley 4y ago
Those figures are useless without power consumption.
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by dbeley 4y ago
So why is Tesla calling that feature "autopilot"?
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by dbeley 4y ago
Yeah what he doesn't show is the difficulty of learning all the quirks and features of the OP-1. Professional musicians or even hobbyists prefer to buy several specialized devices that do one thing very well instead of having a very ex
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The best apps for an Ungoogled Android Smartphone(dbeley.ovh)
1 points by dbeley 5y ago|0 comments
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by dbeley 5y ago
There is the Citroën Ami that has already been talked on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22438418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24856541
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by dbeley 5y ago
Yes very! I use the AR750S as my home router and I never had to reboot it manually in any situation. Though the updating process can be more streamlined, I had to redo all my configuration when updating from openWRT 19 to latest 21 (could h
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by dbeley 5y ago
By comparing https://www.gl-inet.com/products/ with https://openwrt.org/toh/start?dataflt%5BBrand*%7E%5D=inet the OpenWRT support doesn't seem to be 100% but almost all of them are. I persona
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by dbeley 5y ago
I've had very good experience with Gl-iNet products. They have good hardware, very good openWRT support (the official firmware is based on openWRT) and are beefy enough to be used as home routers even if they are marketed as travel rou
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by dbeley 5y ago
> But I also need a phone that does video calls, has a working browser, messenger etc The current Pinephone has almost all of that right now (desktop firefox run very well, messaging works - MMS too -, video calls works in the browser).
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by dbeley 5y ago
That's basically because they outsourced the design to a cheap chinese smartphone manufacturer. It was definitely the right choice as the Pinephone has basically zero hardware issues, unlike the Librem 5 or even the Fairphone.
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by dbeley 5y ago
In 6 months there have been tons of progress yes. Though I didn't have any issue with the touchscreen 6 months ago so your issue might lies elsewhere. You should try reflashing completely yours with Mobian or another well-supported OS.
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by dbeley 5y ago
What OS did you use? I use mine with Phosh (tested Mobian and Archlinux) and I don't have the same experience at all. The device is still severely underpowered though so the Pro version with a much better CPU is a welcome change.
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by dbeley 5y ago
Unlike the Z Fold 3 it doesn't kill the camera completely, you end up with a lower quality camera without its post-processing features but it's still usable.
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by dbeley 5y ago
Another happy user of a left-handed classic trackball here! It feels perfectly right in my hand, the 3d printed texture is fantastic and the qmk firmware allows a level of customization you will never see on more consumer-oriented products.
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by dbeley 5y ago
There are exclusive games made by some famous people in the industry, and it features a new gaming device: a crank.
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by dbeley 5y ago
> "isn't 100watts a lot of power?" <-- typed from gaming computer with a 1000watt power supply A gaming computer with a 1000 watt power supply will reastically have a 50W idle load. It's only if the CPU and GPU are
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by dbeley 5y ago
Hope it succeeds, the HN-crowd is obviously very tacky and already know some well established alternatives (used thinkpads, librem laptops, pinebook, MNT reform) that may be even better for a niche audience (open hardware, no management eng
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by dbeley 5y ago
Thanks to the Notepad++ maintainer for making free-as-in-free-beer software political. Free software has always been political but judging by the reaction here and on the github commit, its philosophy is becoming less and less vocal.

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