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by josteink 5y ago
That’s not a feature of Windows, but simply how UEFI works. https://www.happyassassin.net/posts/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how...
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by josteink 5y ago
So to solve a non-existent racism-problem, we’ve created a technical solution which is seen as racist. Just modern SJW activism in action, I guess?
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by josteink 5y ago
> Despite all this theatre, both app stores have become wastelands of broken and scammy apps to the point I never go there unless via direct link from a trusted outside source. So basically you're installing apps from links on web-p
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by josteink 6y ago
> Could this experience be a plugin I use, or my own idiocy? Considering how lots of people prefer to start Emacs once, preferably as a server (maybe even as a systemd user-unit!), and keep it running forever , not even closing buffers,
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by josteink 6y ago
> And put your content where? Vimeo? Peertube? Facebook? Self hosted website? Anywhere?
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by josteink 6y ago
Initially the theory was that a hiring people with more diverse backgrounds (the means) would translate into more diverse viewpoints (the goal). Somewhere someone mistook the means for the goal, and never bothered to check if the initial th
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by josteink 6y ago
The software is OKish and getting better at a steady rate. The SOC in the PinePhone is nowhere near beefy enough though. Running the same stack on an M1-chip would probably a game changer usability-wise.
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by josteink 6y ago
Just tested using my Apple TV 4K and an iPhone XR. Worked just fine!
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by josteink 6y ago
> And since it's in the agreement, it's binding Not where I live. You can’t sign away rights given to you by law.
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by josteink 6y ago
> This is a great feature and kudos to Apple for bringing it to the previous generation of Apple TV. I can’t see that mentioned anywhere. Got any details on that? Do you need some app or update?
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by josteink 6y ago
My number one complaint about the current Apple TV 4K is the lack of support for the HLG[1] HDR-format used by among others BBC. It means I need to play certain content on Android Plex on my actual TV and it just feels so unnecessary. Here’
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by josteink 6y ago
We could call people ... people? Do they have to be black or white?
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by josteink 6y ago
> This is a style guide, not a word blacklist. You're not allowed to say that :D
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by josteink 6y ago
I believe another aspect of point 1 is that, they believe that whatever injustices are out there in the world, will be fixed if they just change the language to be of such a format that such injustice can no longer be described. It's n
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by josteink 6y ago
> Splitting it into N different lists seems strictly worse in this regard. Not at all. If I could find three lists: - common imprecise language used by developers, and how to improve it. - common grammar errors among developers. - San Fr
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by josteink 6y ago
> So IMHO the focus should be on dropping racial connotations from colors. If we're fine with not calling Asians "yellow" and Native Americans "red", we should be fine with that too. I think that sounds like a ve
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by josteink 6y ago
> Not sure for you, but what makes WhatsApp the stickiest for me out of the chat apps is the statuses (stories). For me it's the other way around. I've stopped using all platforms which offers that "feature", because
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by josteink 6y ago
Granted it was many years ago, but my only experience with Gradle was through Android Studio. Basically, as I remember it, every time Android studio updated Gradle, my project broke. No exceptions , even though this was a stock Android Stu
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by josteink 6y ago
> That’s a horrible place for our society to be in. This is encouraged from early on in school these days with ideas like "safe spaces" where people can be "safe" from so called "micro aggressions" (basicall
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by josteink 6y ago
> I don't know where people find the energy to fuel all this outrage when there is surely somewhere to meet in the middle. Extremists and activists like this don't want to meet in the middle. They want to move the middle toward
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by josteink 6y ago
> That's exactly what these totalitarian wokists aim for That’s pretty much the core of the entire SJW-movement right there.
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by josteink 6y ago
Every time an antivaxxer can point at science or a scientist and say “Look! They’re lying to you!” that’s a real loss of credibility it will take years to win back. There might be problems with this one particular COVID-19 vaccine. Let’s
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by josteink 6y ago
> He stresses, however, that clear, transparent communication about possible risks is crucial for maintaining public trust in all COVID-19 vaccines. “It is very important that we do not lose the war because we are too eager to win the sh
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by josteink 6y ago
When you are dynamically joining 10s and 10s of tables in an decades old codebase with a public API, that’s easier said than done.
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by josteink 6y ago
For me, the one thing I need to plug SQLite in at work us right outer join. Kinda disappointed this doesn’t fix that.
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by josteink 6y ago
So does GNU screen?
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by josteink 6y ago
> the problem is of course creating two incompatible platforms in the first place Interest in .NET was dwindling because ... it was Windows-only and its APIs and frameworks was a bad fit for the cloud. It was literally heading for a nose
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by josteink 6y ago
> The problem is not "every obsolete .NET version", the problem is .net in reality have two incompatible platforms at this point, but newer C# versions are only supported on one of them. But that’s fairly consistent right? An o
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by josteink 6y ago
> MS really made a grave mistake by coupling the evolution of the C# language to the .NET version. It’s not directly coupled, but each version of C# has a minimum .NET version it can support, due to the requirements of the features in th
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by josteink 6y ago
How do you think they built the Linux-version of the .NET standard library? ;)

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