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by josteink 5y ago
I know this sounds radical, but uh, if everyone hates slack how about not using slack?
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by josteink 5y ago
> Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but not on Windows (and I deal with a SaaS at MSFT). I am a FreeBSD committer and help maintain FreeBSD's GNOME packages and (very recently) the graphics drivers. Completely unrelated and a shot in
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by josteink 5y ago
And with Emacs Magit it’s trivial . It still seems like a pretty obscure feature though. I believe none of my colleagues exploits this or even see a reason for why they may want to do so.
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by josteink 5y ago
While you may be technically correct, I guess from a practical point of view, OP is correct in that page-size still matters if you trying to run Linux on "unconventional" platforms.
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by josteink 5y ago
Family sharing of Google Play and YouTube Premium subscriptions are not available for workspace accounts either. Which makes it a no-go once you have a family, EOT. So now the entire family have Apple services instead for the same price. Ta
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by josteink 5y ago
Same with me. This program allows me to turn the LEDs off, so if you like me have lots of shiny LEDs you wish never were there, this is probably exactly what you’re looking for ;)
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by josteink 5y ago
Mother of all that is holy! After years of trying to find a way to disable the annoying bright red LEDs on my MSI Ryzen mobo in Linux, I had to give this a shot. AppImage, sudo, done. Fucking finally ! Thanks for posting this. I owe a you
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by josteink 5y ago
Works but looks differently with less emphasis on the current tab. I haven’t gotten used to it yet, but oh well.
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by josteink 5y ago
> Users don’t choose an app store based on how good the processor or download is, or even on discovery, but on trust. Yes. For instance if people could install the Steam store on their phones, gamers would do so in droves and Apple don
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by josteink 5y ago
> This is understandable from a business perspective; everyone wants lower costs and higher profits. But it's certainly not in Apple's customers' interests for their business model to change to accommodate developers. I’ll
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by josteink 5y ago
Lots of times when I’ve been buying things in e-shops I’ve been offered to pay using Klarna as a payment broker. But doing so has always been more confusing for me compared to “regular” payments with a credit card anywhere else, and has on
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by josteink 5y ago
Peertube seems like a nice technical solution, but 90% of the content I could find was either French, social justice activism, furry-stuff or combination of the above. It was really overwhelmingly so. And that leads to a chicken and egg pro
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by josteink 5y ago
> Another very effective way is to use an adblocker like uBlock origin. How does that work when you’re out on your iPhone and just want to check a video-link someone sent you? Oh wait. It doesn’t.
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by josteink 5y ago
> I will shed a small tear for the passing of AArch32 as it was the first processor architecture I really enjoyed programming. I’ll say the same for the Motorola 68k series CPUs for the exact same reason. With Intel’s era of total domina
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by josteink 5y ago
Not to discredit the effort, but saying you've released your own fork of QEMU to run your own OS, creates an impression that you're perfectly happy to (prefer to?) create a parallel universe for yourself, with your own tools and i
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by josteink 5y ago
> Ah yes, we have no money so let's invest a ton of work into something that will do nothing to bring in new or lost users, In theory Mozilla Firefox is a open-source project and it doesn't need users directly, as much as it ne
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by josteink 5y ago
Reposting my comment from a earlier thread. This story is just so unclear and leaves me full of questions. It’s a complete mess, despite the numerous semi-official statements trying to clear things up. Things I’m wondering about: - why was
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by josteink 5y ago
This story is just so I’m clear and leaves me full of questions. It’s a complete mess, despite the numerous semi-official statements trying to clear things up. Things I’m wondering about: - why was freenode being sold in the first place? -
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by josteink 5y ago
> I'm guessing Chrome requires users to use a gmail account in order to submit an extension to their store. Google apps/Gsuite/Google for work (or whatever it’s called now) accounts all work fine. There’s no requirement to
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by josteink 5y ago
> or by connecting your Apple TV 4K to a compatible TV or audiovisual receiver Great. That’s all I needed to hear. I wonder why they made so basic information so hard to obtain. I even searched the page simply for “TV” looking for that a
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by josteink 5y ago
Apple TV supports Dolby Atmos for movies and anything else when connected to a capable output. Why shouldn’t it work for music too?
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by josteink 5y ago
> Because they can't guarantee the Apple TV is hooked up to Atmos capable speakers. Nonsense. Apple TV supports Dolby Atmos and can detect a compatible receiver/speaker when connected. iTunes on Apple TV offers hundreds of movi
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by josteink 5y ago
You get lossless if you play it through Plex.
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by josteink 5y ago
> By default, Apple Music will automatically play Dolby Atmos tracks on all AirPods and Beats headphones with an H1 or W1 chip, as well as the built-in speakers in the latest versions of iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Apple TV seems oddly missin
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by josteink 5y ago
I have to admit this is the first time ever I’ve heard about Windows 10X. Reading about it, it seems ambitious but also kinda risky or unrealistic to pull of, much in the same way Windows 8 with the “modern” apps failed to garner developers
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by josteink 5y ago
Weird to see Thunderbird for Mac and Windows perform so differently. Anyone knows what’s up with that? (And what about Linux?)
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by josteink 5y ago
Not a Flutter-fan myself, but this argument is flawed: > As we have touched on previously, there are already enough UI toolkits available for the Linux desktop. Most notably among those are Qt and GTK The aim for Flutter is not to just
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by josteink 5y ago
Doesn’t AMD also provide hyper-threading of sorts? My Ryzen has 6 cores and 12 threads. Isn’t that pretty much the same?
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by josteink 5y ago
Key quote because my linked article is quite extensive: > What the firmware will actually do when trying to boot in this way is reasonably simple. The firmware will look through each EFI system partition on the disk in the order they exi
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by josteink 5y ago
> What we, er, the linux community, chose instead, was BTRFS. It isnt ZFS Speak for yourself. As a part of “the Linux community” I gave btrfs a fair chance, but stopped using it because it constantly failed on me in ways no other fs had

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