digi_owl

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by digi_owl 8y ago
While not at guaranteed, killing the data wires (or shorting them) makes the device think it is dealing with a charge only port. Thus various companies have made devices that conditionally apply said short. Here is one example: https:&#x2F
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Yet again something M-I complex adopts a norse term...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The layers of VMs and interpreters involved in this gives me vertigo...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Dosbox?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I think you would be better off getting Windows 3.x going in Dosbox.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I really with the FOSS world would take backwards compatiblity more seriously, but all i hear is "we lack resources" when it is more correct to say those rainbow haired devs think C and such stale and boring.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I dunno about broke, if they had backported the DirectX stuff to XP there would not have been a breakage. But MS tried to use DX10 as an upsell of Vista, thus making DX9 the last directX version on XP. What we ended up with was a whole host
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The underlying Windows platform still allows for external installs. And the other big names, EA and Ubisoft, already operate their own storefronts. Android technically allows for the same, see the existence of f-droid for example, but the e
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by digi_owl 8y ago
My, likely flawed, understanding is that the Chinese trust the government more than the west have a history of doing. The mentality is something more like a family elder, if i have understood things correctly.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Ah yes, visual stories 2.0...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Seems like gaming has long since hit an "eternal September" as producers are spewing out ever more impressive tech demos. I have long since taken to killing every graphical effect game devs can think of throwing into a game (if th
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by digi_owl 8y ago
User friendliness is a smokescreen, it is about being upstream friendly. This in that now you get the kitchen sink of dependencies on each install rather than them actually having to care about API stability (not that they did much in the p
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by digi_owl 8y ago
It depends. If you use the NDK you have to make sure you can build for both x86 and ARM (the play store will hand out the relevant variant silently). Also, Google have done some serious work to ensure at least some backwards compatibility (
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by digi_owl 8y ago
> It's like they looked at everything bad about Chocolatey/NPM/pip/AUR and just ran with it. Basically they did just that. The only "desktop" devs left in Linux land are really cloud devs that dabble in desk
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by digi_owl 8y ago
IMO proprietary lags way more because you do not know if your chosen framework (unless it is Qt, heh) will function 5-10 years down the line with minimal investment in updates. The Linux kernel is everywhere thanks to Torvalds (overly late
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Want things to make it into STABLE distros quicker, do not break APIs because the latest bling bling framework/language/whatever got released!
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by digi_owl 8y ago
And most of that come out of upstream not having a farts care about API stability! Thus distros have to work around that by freezing lib versions and any software depending on said lib version for the support period of the distro release (5
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The FOSS of today is as much driven by buzzword bingo as the big corporations (perhaps so much of it is made by people working for big corporations now a days). And the really big buzzword in FOSS these days is containers. In large part tha
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by digi_owl 8y ago
AV1 will win if torrents adopt it...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Reminds me of an article on crows, and how some that were slackers most of the time would step in to take care of the young when the more active members of the group got ill.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Something like Delta Chat? https://delta.chat/en/
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I am of two minds about this. While i want to see the x86 desktop get a serious contender once again, it has risen on the back of a very open and modular platform. But ARM based products are virtual black boxes by comparison. Thus i worry i
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I can't help wonder if we lost something in our race for realistic real time 3d rendering.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Reminds me of some years back when a single driver was added to Linux that allowed it to support 100+ models of webcams. This because every damn brand and model used the same internals, but had different USB IDs. And we should not forget th
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Computers at its core have no clue about offense or defense, that is in the realm of context (and lawyers).
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Reminds me that i have a "fun" one here. Two tablets, both using the same Intel internals (as best i can tell), but one has a non-functional SD reader while the other works just fine. The difference between them is that one uses 3
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by digi_owl 8y ago
From personal experience, any site will render quickly of you kill the 10+ externally sourced JS frameworks it loads (or it will just show a white on white page that you can throw reader mode at). Frankly what went wrong was that print medi
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Gets me thinking of an episode of the original Connections, where the host muses about how computers will make corporate management mostly obsolete. He envisioned them doing little more than sitting idly around waiting for the computer in t
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by digi_owl 8y ago
As i recall, most heroin overdoses happen when someone tries to get clean, slips, and ends up injecting a dose based on unknown purity and fails to account for their loss of tolerance.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Sounds like a variant of the mops and sociopaths problem. https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

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