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by digi_owl 9y ago
Google, Microsoft, both wants to put us in a cage and milk us for every cent. Perhaps even Apple, but their cage seems to have a bit more gilded...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And it demonstrated how valuable binary compatibility across generations were, as Windows have never really gotten off the ground outside of x86. This in large part because of corporate and consumer demand for being able to run their existi
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by digi_owl 9y ago
It is very much a hands on distro, for better or worse. More akin to Gentoo than Arch, and far removed from the likes of CentOS or Debian Stable. That said, rolling your own recipes is relatively straight forward. And with the /System&
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by digi_owl 9y ago
What seemed to sink Wave as that Google dropped their support for a federated internet. Keep in mind that Wave backbone was XMPP, the same XMPP that powered Google Talk, and could in theory allow any number of Wave instances around the worl
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Not sure if anything really can replace email. After all it is a store-and-forward transmission system with arbitrary length text and inline attachment of binary data. all this makes individual emails self contained. Various proposed replac
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I may admit that i find the Gobolinux solution interesting. Basically wrap the language specific managers, and integrate the result into the Gobolinux directory tree. https://github.com/gobolinux/AlienVFS
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Containers is basically a way for devs to get admins out of their way. Rather than have admins complain that something broke when some push-to-prod devs are running amok, said devs can just point to their containerized snowflakes and tell t
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I ran into a claim some years back that the original republican notion of freedom that the US system was based on was "freedom from coercion". With coercion defined as the threat of physical, economic, or other harm. Thus the poin
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by digi_owl 9y ago
"The bad: ABI stability I’m used to being able to run binaries I compiled years ago on a modern system. This is generally possible in Linux, assuming you have the correct shared libraries available." May be true for terminal stuff
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Frankly the compatibility of the Apple II lineage more or less saved the company during the mess that was Lisa and early Mac.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah Commodore seemed to have some smart people on staff. Sadly what sunk it was once again boardroom meddling. the ousting of Tramiel after an argument between him and Gould, followed by Gould appointing a long line of more or less, most o
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Why i love the older parts of Linux, but hate the more recent DE centric stuff. Because the older, unix derived, stuff will tell you front and center what went wrong (unless it is so wrong that all the kernel can do is barf a hex dump of th
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And even then they may have been a bit player if Microsoft had not flinched and thrown out their existing PocketPC platform to ship Phone 7. Keep in mind that PocketPC was not just used for "consumer" phones, but also all kinds of
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Funny thing is that my first 3D accelerator was a PowerVR, and unlike the 3Dfx solution it used the PCI bus to shuffle the finished frame to the video card for output.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Not on-die integrated though. Intel seems to have made or licensed a high speed, short distance, data bus that sits between the Intel CPU and the AMD GPU that are mounted side by side on a small board. Would be hilarious btw if this showed
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I find it hilarious that after all these years we are back at working with grids.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And people completely gloss over the "good enough" part, and head straight to arguing bitrates and resolutions. Pop quiz hotshots, why did the CD become a big hit, but the DVD-A died a quiet death? Answer, because there was no con
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The real crazy is that Microsoft, who you would have thought would have known better given their long Windows on desktop history, dropped all support for an established platform (PocketPC) to focus on the Phone7/8/10 stuff. This m
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And that was basically what allowed iOS and Android to flourish. Microsoft already had an established platform with the PocketPC lineage (damn it, Opera Mobile originated on such devices!) and yet they dropped that like hot potato once the
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Do wonder how many will be left hanging high and dry with that transition.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And likely never will be. Newer codecs basically exist because video resolutions outpace storage space (for questionable benefits). MPEG2, much like MP3, are "good enough" for most common usage.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Software patents are really an aberration crafted by decades of questionable court rulings. As best i recall they started out as production process patents that involved computers to monitor and time. Before that, specific instances of code
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Likely because Treble will insulate them from SOC shenanigans. At least until Google comes up with something that require a more recent kernel to implement, as seen with the whole ChromeOS support for Android apps...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And this is why we see Google shift more and more development resource out of AOSP and onto the Play platform. The OS you get out of the repo today is very stale and bare bones compared to the early days, before Amazon Fire and like.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Established duopoly my foot. There was already an established duopoly when iOS and Android first shipped. But what happened was that for some reason the focus shifted from the well established European market to the backwaters American mark
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by digi_owl 9y ago
It is not hype, and it is not American, ergo it is not important...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The whole Maemo+Moblin=Meego were also a mess thanks to Intel. Moblin, much like Maemo, started out as a modified Debian. But right after the merger was announced, Intel released Moblin 2, that was RPM based. End result was that Nokia was l
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Mostly it was the execs that didn't want to go with Android, because they feared they would end up just another me-to brand fighting over scraps. That said, it seems that much of what sunk Nokia back then was American pension funds pus
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Well this "nokia" is actually a different company wearing a mask. The part of Nokia that was making Symbian phones was sold of to Microsoft and is now long dead. The Nokia that remains is focused on mobile and wireless infrastruct
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I was waiting for something like this to happen ever since the whole hashtag started rolling...

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