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by josteink 5y ago
For completely irrational reasons I really want a laptop with Coreboot in my toolbox, but sadly I don’t have £4-500 to throw at it as things are now. Hope Star Labs does well and that they sell plenty free and open devices though :)
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by josteink 5y ago
> Any good tutorials on setting up Wireguard? This (and Pihole) have been on my todo list for a while. Pihole pretty much installs itself (it even has a pre-made image). WireGuard will take reading, testing and failing. I recommend doing
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by josteink 5y ago
Might be required for Windows HCL compatibility listing and certification? That’s my best guess.
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by josteink 5y ago
> So yes, you can install GNU/Linux, but it’s far from an easy experience. All thanks to Microsoft. And to the companies writing those buggy firmwares. Has he even tried installing Linux on it before publishing this rant? It works
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by josteink 5y ago
> but I am honestly astounded by people who think it's a good reason to switch to Chrome Who says switching away from Firefox means you have to switch to Chrome, the Google-controlled browser? That seems like a false dichotomy to me
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by josteink 5y ago
Or they are just former Firefox users who went where the previous CEO from Firefox went, after he got kicked out from Mozilla for non-technical reasons in 2014. Because it seems whatever technical “vision” Mozilla used to have back then hav
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by josteink 5y ago
> Isn't a faster boot what everybody wants? I’ll rather have slow boot and proper UEFI support so I can boot any vanilla ARM64 Linux distro (Debian proper), instead of images/distros which have been crafted to be device-specifi
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PinePhone Pro review (including live software demos) [video](youtube.com)
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by josteink 5y ago
Link doesn’t seem to work. Could be geo-fenced? (Location: Norway/Europe)
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by josteink 5y ago
If you post the url here people can probably play it through VLC though.
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by josteink 5y ago
I send and receive texts all the time on my PP. What are you talking about?
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by josteink 5y ago
> I looked into sxmo and I think it falls clearly into the "clever hack" category and not in the "actually usable" category. Agree to disagree? Also I think you’re being somewhat disingenuous or uncharitable here. sxm
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by josteink 5y ago
> No, but if someone was selling PCs with super buggy software What you’re clearing missing is that they are not selling you software . They are selling you open, unlocked hardware to run software on , with no promises/liabilities
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by josteink 5y ago
> I’ll also throw in an honorable mention of sxmo and its wayland port, which I consider the equivalent to the underdog tiling window managers on the desktop; which is to say its only option good enough to consider using. It’s a funny th
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by josteink 5y ago
> I have some standards for my toys though. If it’s sold as a phone, it should actually work as a phone (even a shitty one). It is sold as Phone hardware with explicit remarks about software being a community effort and that you load i
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by josteink 5y ago
Seconding that. It’s the one reason I never started using webpack in the first place, at least not from scratch. Angular ships with a working config out of the box, and I hope I never, ever will have to tweak that to fix a build.
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by josteink 5y ago
Windows, Mac and Linux downloads for those interested: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/6.0 Not making any promises, but it also seems like the FreeBSD community is also making very good progress in la
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.NET 6 Release Candidate 2(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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by josteink 5y ago
They can have the platform. We just don’t need to care about it.
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by josteink 5y ago
> How do we neuter the power of Twitter mobs? Seems like they can bully and intimidate any organization from universities to corporations to GitHub projects to kowtow to their demands. Don’t play the losing game. Just don’t be on Twitter
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by josteink 5y ago
> I guess I don't really see the moral angle here, in one direction or the other. Why shouldn't an entity try to impose its understanding of law and ethics where it can afford to? You’ll have a hell of a good time exercising th
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by josteink 5y ago
> Now if only I could figure out how to control the RGB leds in my case… OpenRGB not working for you? See previous HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27457696
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by josteink 5y ago
Yay. Any news about updates on the Linux front? I saw Ubuntu had a new version of Linux-firmware posted since last time I updated, but I’m not continuously updating so I’m not sure if that’s this thing or something else entirely.
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by josteink 5y ago
> A bigger issue for me was the fact that the trucks completely disappeared when they hit (IIRC) Central America. They loaded the bikes into a bus and drove them across Mexico (which didn't speak well of the Harleys either) Did we w
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by josteink 5y ago
> Having an interface for a single implementation is just redundant. A class already has an interface - it's public API. Depends on the language. And sometimes you want to enforce a public contract of any implementation (current a
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by josteink 5y ago
It’s best practice to apply best practices when it makes sense. The catch? Knowing when it makes sense requires experience ;)
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by josteink 5y ago
OpenWRT 21.02 supports DSA for select devices OOB (replaces swconf) and ships with a really recent 5.4 Linux kernel for all supported devices. So going for a cheap, 2nd hand router supported by OpenWRT is probably the easiest and cheapest w
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by josteink 5y ago
> Off-topic, but I just learned about another, practical networking utility, yesterday. "powerline adaptors" Their performance depends on the electrical wiring in your house. Ironically for me I’ve only managed to make them wor
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by josteink 5y ago
> How difficult is the transition from Plex to Jellyfin You obviously need to setup a some new software, optionally on a new server/container, and need to reconfigure all your libraries. Not a big deal IMO. > do you lose any capa
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by josteink 5y ago
> I consistently argue that the issue with Plex is not income, but desperately attempting to rebrand as a “legitimate” media centre. If they are low on income due to non-recurring life-time purchases (which I have made myself), and the s

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