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by gardaani 6y ago
I needed a new OS for my old 32-bit Intel MacBook because its 32-bit Lubuntu is expiring in few months. I tried 32-bit Debian, but the installation memory stick crashed during boot. :( So, I actually decided to install FreeBSD on it. :) It
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by gardaani 6y ago
The good things about raqote is that it's a Rust library so it may be safer than Skia. Raqote is also easier to compile than Skia. The downside is that it's slower than Skia [1]. But, it should be possible to modify skia-canvas to
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by gardaani 6y ago
Mozilla and Apple have publicly announced that they will not implement the Bluetooth and Battery APIs [1][2], which makes them definitely Chrome proprietary APIs. These kind of proprietary APIs are exactly what Microsoft did 10-20 years ago
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by gardaani 6y ago
I have been using this command line tool to control my external monitor from my Mac. I created few Automator scripts calling it to make the monitor either dimmed or bright. https://github.com/kfix/ddcctl
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by gardaani 6y ago
I don't use PinePhone. I have an old Jolla 1 phone.
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by gardaani 6y ago
Encryption isn't enough. They could just suspect or arrest anyone who has Telegram installed. Or they could check teleoperators' logs for anyone who has used Telegram during the past weeks. In Turkey, they arrested people who had
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by gardaani 6y ago
Sorry, I don't know about PinePhone. It may not work.
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by gardaani 6y ago
Zig: https://ziglang.org/zsf/
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by gardaani 6y ago
Sailfish OS supports MMS. I've been using Sailfish for years without issues in MMS.
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by gardaani 6y ago
I got my Jolla 1 linux phone in 2013 and I'm still using as my daily driver. And I still love it! The reason I'm keeping my Jolla 1 phone is that it still gets security updates after 7 years. I also have an Android phone for testi
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by gardaani 6y ago
"The automaker didn’t do as well in Europe, but that’s because it barely had any supply for the market in Q2." https://electrek.co/2020/08/13/tesla-sales-sliding-europe-co...
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by gardaani 6y ago
The integrated code editor in Godot is actually something I don't like. The text editor doesn't support the usual Mac keyboard shortcuts, scrolling isn't always responsive and it can't be used to view text files such as
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by gardaani 6y ago
Is this only about talking to other people or does it allow shared experiences, such as watching a movie, playing games or watching a concert together? I'm thinking about something like https://kastapp.co where people can d
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by gardaani 6y ago
Let's all visit that web site and give that Amiga a hug of death. :) (NOT!)
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Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode – Linux Support Lands(phoronix.com)
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by gardaani 6y ago
Domain specific video formats could be the future. They can reduce bandwidth requirements and offer features not available in pixel videos. One good example is https://asciinema.org , which plays back terminal sessions. The text
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by gardaani 6y ago
There's system level support for WebP in Mac Big Sur. Also Safari 14 supports it. I don't like it because WebP doesn't add anything else than better compression compared to PNG and JPEG. AVIF or JPEG XL bring HDR support, so
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by gardaani 6y ago
Only five days ago Elon Musk claimed that "we will have the basic functionality for level five autonomy complete this year." (yeah..!) https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53349313
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by gardaani 6y ago
Could monitors be malicious and exploit vulnerabilities in computers by sending corrupted data over the DDC bus? The crazy thing is that computers send +5V over the DDC bus to the monitor so that they are able to read data even if the monit
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by gardaani 6y ago
Norway plans to switch entirely from FM to DAB by 2022. Here's an article discussing how it has gone so far: https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/norways-fm-shut...
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by gardaani 6y ago
Apple has introduced an appeal process for these kind of rejections. They could challenge the guideline. "Additionally, two changes are coming to the app review process and will be implemented this summer. First, developers will not o
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by gardaani 6y ago
And Linux Dolphin creates .directory files. Fortunately, there's a configuration option to turn it off. These kind of files seem to be usual for file managers. https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/avmsdt
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by gardaani 6y ago
There's no official support for ARM-based Macs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23640746
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by gardaani 6y ago
In Finland, a new law was made to allow small-scale money collection up to EUR 10000, but it has also other restrictions, so it may not help you: https://intermin.fi/en/police/fundraising
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by gardaani 6y ago
What about writing Kotlin and running Kotlin/Native on iOS, Windows and Mac? Is anyone doing that? https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/native-overview.html
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by gardaani 6y ago
Rumors say that Apple will be using circular QR codes [1]. Has anyone hacked those? [1] https://constine.substack.com/p/leaked-pics-from-apples-ar-a...
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by gardaani 6y ago
A developer from King explained why Defold is publicly available in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11364729
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by gardaani 6y ago
I found an article about writing games in Defold and Godot. It's a bit old (it was written a year ago). https://agameamonth.net/defold-vs-godot-my-experiences/
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by gardaani 6y ago
There's libraries which wrap SDL for Swift and run on Mac, iOS and Linux. Someone should help them to get support for Windows. This project has a good list of SDL Swift libraries at the end of the page: https://github.com&#x
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by gardaani 6y ago
Please, don't just force a dark mode to everyone with "prefers-color-scheme: dark". Some are using OS in light mode, but would still like to use the dark mode. Sometimes, it might be useful to use the light version on dark sy

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