esclerofilo

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by esclerofilo 5y ago
In practice, the difference is that consoles tend to be sold at loss, they wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the 30% cut. And in my experience, another big difference was that when I had consoles, I could easily borrow my friend&#x2
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by esclerofilo 5y ago
Actually, yes, there's an open source "Pass for iOS" app. Not that I recommend this setup though.
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by esclerofilo 5y ago
This is about isolation in OS processes, not browser containers.
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by esclerofilo 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't see it
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by esclerofilo 5y ago
Although I agree that this is the likely reason, it is a bit outdated. ARM made a standardized boot requirements document last year, it's now up to the SoCs to implement it.
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by esclerofilo 5y ago
I believe Microsoft Flight Simulator does this (and it has VR support). It gets a bit tiring to see the same trees on every place on earth, though.
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
This sounds like a very "faster horses" kind of comment. Simply put, with SSDs you are trading the convenience of having faster boot times for essentially everything: HDDs have (a lot) more space, lower prices, longer lifespans. S
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
Fragmentation and walled gardens are a false dichotomy. Steam is actually a great example of this, there are many other stores (Humble Bundle, Fanatical, GMG, whatever) that sell you Steam keys so you can keep your game library in one comfo
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
Unfortunately, many patents are intentionally written to make them as broad as possible, minimizing the possibility of designing alternatives.
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
Someone from outside the US will probably worry more about its history of backing coups than the domestic problems you mentioned. If the US puts a Pinochet in my country and their algorithms say I'm likely to be a communist sympathizer
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
The ARM business model isn't that profitable. Intel's market cap right now is about 240 billion, 6 times the amount Nvidia is paying for ARM.
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
You're mixing up intelligence with morality, or something similar to morality. Just because some interfaces are bad and the company is anti-competitive doesn't mean using it is a dumb choice, you have to weigh up the pros and cons
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
Yes and no. The problem is those standard designs have to please a very wide spectrum of customers, so in a lot of the tradeoffs in chip design (like area vs performance) they tend to lean more towards keeping area small. The Cortex X1 is s
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
Minor correction: The mac mini isn't fanless
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
I think they are to blame. Qualcomm is one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) manufacturer of ARM chips, yet they still simply use reference designs. Besides, for the next flagship (Snapdragon 888) they switched to Samsung 5nm (inferior to
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
If you make a different enough product, you don't need to have similar prices to your competitors.
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
Now it is how it works for embedded processors[1], I see no reason why that can't "tricle up" to the more powerful ones. [1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/arm-brings-custom-instruct...
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
This sounds like you would actually _like_ the incompleteness of most linux window managers. On i3 you don't get update notifications, because by default notifications don't work!
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
A Bloom Filter[1] could be used as a lighter alternative. You probably have at least one of those in your disk now. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
I do willingly opt-out of the Apple platform. However, if I lived in the US, I would be forced to buy an iPhone, because of the (you guessed it) propietary lock-in that is iMessage. Regulation is necessary.
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
A Pinebook is probably the closest you can get to a Pi-book, and it already exists.
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
Did you read the comment? What do you do when you have multiple windows of the same app? Do you write the name of said program and then Alt-backtick until you get to the correct window? Wouldn't it be better to have your windows groupe
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
On desktop? They are working on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/eay1x1/firefox_73_... I don't know enough about mozilla's process to understand why bugzilla says it's already
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
This comment is written in a very aggressive way, but if you read it from another angle, the point still stands. My family buys Apple _because_ that way they lose control over the device. They trust that Apple will control those devices bet
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
Because there are lots of things a computer can do comfortably that a phone, tablet or chromebook can't. Sometimes there can be tradeoffs between convenience and security, but in the case of an app store the convenience actually enhanc
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by esclerofilo 6y ago
I hate snap as much as anyone, but it may not be as hard as you think: < https://ubuntu.com/blog/howto-host-your-own-snap-store>
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by esclerofilo 7y ago
There is a substantive difference in WPA Enterprise configuration. When connecting with Gnome there are so many options I have to check a screenshot of the correct ones every time I configure it (which I've done 5ish times because of d
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by esclerofilo 7y ago
Not the parent, but here's my thoughts: The size and quantity of companies working on things related to a project determines whether a strong copyleft license or a permissive license makes the project more successful Say you want to ma
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by esclerofilo 7y ago
Which is an implementation of S
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by esclerofilo 7y ago
qutebrowser had a keybinding for opening things in vim IIRC

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