digi_owl

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by digi_owl 8y ago
Mostly thanks Torvalds accepting just about anything into the kernel, not wanting to play politics if someone rolls a kernel with some drivers that are not GPLed, and keeps a strict API/ABI stability. Above the kernel it is a wild west
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by digi_owl 8y ago
rolling new rather than maintaining is epidemics within the Linux world. One that most users are insulated from thanks to the hard work of distros for the most part.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Or simply detect when piped and leave the color out, as just about every sane cli tool does it.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Poking at ip and its sub-commands reminds me of poking at the serial interface of a Cisco router, and not in any pleasant way...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
More and more it seems that smaller users of Linux gets the shaft to placate the needs of the cloud behemoths...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Ah yes, how did i forget...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Cloud, big data, "AI", i wonder what will be the next "me too, look at me" kind of buzzword for the corporate world...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
And yet the UX people, particularly around Linux, wants to bury the _nix cli so damned deep...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Also, how much can a mass arrest further someones career...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I am honestly not sure these things needs to change. At least not until we have input systems that are superior to keyboard and mouse (and no, touch screen so far is not).
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by digi_owl 8y ago
In a sense, the introduction of the CD-ROM was the ultimate example of an industry going gaga over some new tech. Not only did we have the likes of the CD-I, we also had games that tried to make use of full motion video to either replace or
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by digi_owl 8y ago
both actually, the hot tab showing a few more than the best tab.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Supposedly that partnership lead to the only time, until recently, where Nintendo characters appeared outside of a Nintendo system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i_games_from_The_Legend_of_...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
On an possibly unrelated note it seems my account has developed an issue where the front page tabs only shows articles from the last 12 hours, at best.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
But it also allowed skill with the game to shine by getting further on a single quarter.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Would 3D glasses help? Or is the issue how to deal with the mass of the various layers and organs?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Yeah userspace mess is one i lament getting to know, because it has soured me on the whole Linux-on-desktop thing. Frankly that part is a large contributor to "consumer" Linux never got any traction beyond Google going all out and
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by digi_owl 8y ago
> 32bit version only since of obviously needs the 16bit subsystem And afaik, MS only retired the 16-bit subsystem because AMD64 can't switch between 64 and 16 bit modes. You can either run it in 16/32 or 32/64 modes, but n
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by digi_owl 8y ago
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii... Simcity supported in Win95 by allowing a use-after-free bug (if i am reading it right) to continue working. You get something similar in Linux b
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The CLI stuff, yes. In large part thanks to Torvalds holding everyone to strict rules. Higher in the stack, not so much.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Not always great on desktop either, unless one have a movie width screen...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The basic problem is that it is "labeled" as a form of quote...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
> In February 2016, 30% of the network of the largest mobile operator in Norway, Telenor, became unstable due to "Unusual SS7 signaling from another European operator". Supposedly this happened because the other telco had hired
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Like watching an abused spouse returning to the abuser hoping it will be better this time round...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
And limitations. Woz did his thing under much the same constraints as Tramiel held the Commodore engineers to, keep the chip count, and thus the price, down. Every time Woz added a chip, he carefully looked for very way he could use that ch
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by digi_owl 8y ago
BTW. I recall an experiment that found that to get someone to associate a virtual hand with their real one, the researchers had to prick the real hand at the same time as the person see the virtual hand getting a prick.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Reminds me of the Jurassic Park PC game where you could look down and check out your character's gender. Given that you had to enter pin codes by setting the hand to pointing mode and move around with the mouse, i wonder how it would t
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by digi_owl 8y ago
What other platform?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Question is why they are ripping out fully working settings dialogs then, before the replacement ones are in. Never mind the number of "power user" tweaks that are locked behind arbitrary "professional" licensing or plai
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Sadly MS having been hiding those tweaks in Win10 for some reason. The registry keys are still present though, so with the right third party tool i can still crank them up to make using explorer with a touch screen that much better.

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