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by josteink 6y ago
Yeah. This genuinely looks like it offers something more than previous USB boot solutions. Wonder if it can somehow be combined with or run in conjunction with iPXE :D
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by josteink 6y ago
> Wait, so Chrome leaks That’s obviously so, because that’s it’s entire raison d’entre.
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by josteink 6y ago
> If you visited Google on Firefox or IE you would get a banner suggesting you to try Chrome. Let’s not understate this, as I remember it clearly. As a Firefox user, using any Google-product on the web, I was constantly badgered to “up
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by josteink 6y ago
> If you're on iOS check out Apollo Webpage[1] and AppStore[2] link to save you guys time, since AppStore search is horribly broken. [1] https://apolloapp.io/ [2] https://apps.apple.com/app/id9
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by josteink 6y ago
Does that monitor support 12-bit HDR though?
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by josteink 6y ago
> It's very common for people to learn assembly using x86(-64) but this ISA is so messy, complicated and layered that it always seems like the bad choice to me. Agreed. As someone who did lots of assembly for the 6502 and the whole
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by josteink 6y ago
> the App Store search is broken so discovery isn’t what it was. More often than not, I can't find a named, non-popular app, even when searching for its exact name. The only way I can find it, is if they have a web-page and an direc
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by josteink 6y ago
> But Apple needs to fund the App Store. XCode, payment processing, reviewers, it all costs money This is the investment Apple has to put in to make sure there are apps on their platform. Their "funding" for this is iPhone and
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by josteink 6y ago
> I really don't get why people think that signed exchanges are this super nefarious plot to destroy the open web My biggest concern is that the request will go to a google-owned server, where google can fully track me, and my brows
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by josteink 6y ago
I would have agreed to your statement until around now-ish when this entire discussion-tree got flagged, including my mostly factual root-comment. Around the same time the San Fransisco morning/lunch shift kicked in? You’re only allowe
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by josteink 6y ago
Oh no, look what you've done! You Godwin'd us :( > What if somebody runs on that very platform issue for congress -- legalizing the murdering of jews? There's nothing illegal about wanting to change the law to make some
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by josteink 6y ago
No. We can argue (like we do now) that moving towards a totalitarian society is a bad idea. No paradox.
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by josteink 6y ago
They only did so after the SJW lynch-mob showed up on twitter and demanded him fired. Personally I'm not OK with rule by lynch-mob, and I hope you see how allowing such a culture to take hold may one day backfire, also on the things
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by josteink 6y ago
> Even Microsoft - with countless more resources and motivation - failed to make traction in mobile. Microsoft made a new OS where they needed developers to target their platform. Too few did, and the platform failed. Mozilla tried to by
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by josteink 6y ago
> Watching Mozilla leadership drive Mozilla into the ground over the last 8-10 years has been like watching a bus accident in slow motion. FirefoxOS anyone? FirefoxOS gets a lot of hate, but I honestly thought it was a pretty good idea
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by josteink 6y ago
> I would love to see Lenovo consider selling this machine (or any 15+ inches) without the numpad and with a centered touchpad. Yeah I don’t get this trend either. Are any pro users actually asking for this?
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by josteink 6y ago
> It always amazes me that some people are willing to put in such hard work, alone, for open source. For many people this is about scratching an itch, their own itch. They improve upon it not for the sake of "open source", but
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by josteink 6y ago
> Emacs felt like it was stagnating around 5 to 10 years ago, but now things are just getting better and better. LSP had been a game changer, for Emacs and all other editors. The days of IDEs are numbered. Agreed with the first. Disagree
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by josteink 6y ago
> Frameworks like WebForms and WCF not be ported WebForms is terrible and I see no reason for anyone to pull that monstrosity of a "I wish we had a VB/Windows WYSIWYG app-editor for the web" impedance-mismatch into a new c
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by josteink 6y ago
> And now we have a disaster which will dwarf the python 2/3 conundrum. Given that Python 3 has been around for 12 years now, and still doesn't have universal adoption, I kinda doubt this is going to be near as bad a migration
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by josteink 6y ago
> It just sort of happened because the core project got out of control. A more accurate representation of events would be that .NET Core suddenly fueled a huge interest and growth in .NET as a platform which it hadn't seen in a long
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by josteink 6y ago
> For all previous .net versions, code could be easily and safely upgraded to the next version because they were largely backwards compatible. But you can't easily upgrade existing code from 4.8 to 5. As someone who has been working
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by josteink 6y ago
You are allowed to change your mind, aren't you? :) The goal for the initial .NET Core project was to have something cross-platform, modular and lightweight to build Linux-deployable cloud-services with. Once that reached a mature stat
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by josteink 6y ago
> The compatibility break with the .NET Framework also removed the biggest advantage I saw in C# I'll be honest here. The migration from .NET Framework to .NET Core is a pain. I see why things were done the way they were done, but i
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by josteink 6y ago
> Obviously both Windows and MacOS support emulation of their respective x86 platforms, but in terms of native software, Windows is kind of a distant 3rd place. Much (most?) new Windows software these days is written in .NET and might ju
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by josteink 6y ago
> This is incorrect. It is fairly trivial to create a ringtone of up to thirty seconds from any track you have in iTunes It never occurred to me that iTunes should be required for anything, seeing as I haven’t used that piece of software
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by josteink 6y ago
iPhones still don’t. You’re not allowed to make your own based on music-files or samples you have. Instead you have to buy custom ringtones in the iStore, if whatever you had considered to use is even available to buy (most often it is not)
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Making a Backcover Extension for the PinePhone(blog.brixit.nl)
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by josteink 6y ago
> Speaking of SecureBoot and how practically no Linux distribution actually makes use of its potential (in terms of increasing security) In Ubuntu and Fedora you can’t load unsigned kernel-modules when using secure boot. How does that no
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by josteink 6y ago
Title taken from the similar Reddit-thread[1] since I found that title significantly more informative. Hope that’s ok. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/i00xpk/want...

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