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by kasabali 4y ago
It sounds like a regular day. Probably combination of: - Constructed with fewest number of nand chips possible, and using bottom of the barrel shit like 64L Intel QLC - Easily overheating DRAMless controller (eg. SM225*XT hitting 70+C at
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by kasabali 4y ago
Thanks, I've tried 2 web sites with Waterfox Classic and they redirection works OK now (it wasn't earlier today)
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by kasabali 4y ago
(sorry for venting time :) > Back in those days, x264 felt to me like a software written by aliens from the future. Indeed it may be :) H.264 might not be the latest and best video coding standard anymore, but in my opinion x264 is, and
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by kasabali 4y ago
A distribution isn't a single individual. It consists of different people, developers, maintainers, contributors etc., who are at different levels of acceptance or appreciation of various features of systemd. It isn't as simple as
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by kasabali 4y ago
AFAIK state of the art is using fast presets of SVT-AV1, combined with Av1an [0] for parallelism. [0] https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an
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by kasabali 4y ago
Thank you very much for your response. I'm sorry if my post came off as accusing Cloudflare of malice, it was never my intention. I was rather worried about negligence on supporting these older codebases, and I'm relieved to hea
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Tell HN: Cloudflare Is Blocking Firefox Forks Waterfox Classic and Pale Moon
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by kasabali 5y ago
What's a "major problem" to you is the best and unique aspect of having different linux distributions to others. The actual major problem is that systemd developers wasn't being contempt with just building an opinionated
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by kasabali 5y ago
> We can't blame the developers to not support any oddity and particularity that exists It isn't as innocent as you paint it. systemd developers have other agendas when making decisions , you can hear it from horses mouth: &quo
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by kasabali 5y ago
He has commented about security researchers and industry on several times over the years, but to sum it up we can say he doesn't think of very highly of them :p
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by kasabali 5y ago
What does it have to with 7zip, again? If there is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows Help Viever then nobody can stop anyone from writing a payload that mimicks the heap overflowing code in 7zip. But of course that doesn'
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by kasabali 5y ago
See "Cinepaint: The long forgotten GIMP fork that once powered the cinema industry" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28578323
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by kasabali 5y ago
This is the reason I hate Discourse forums with passion.
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by kasabali 5y ago
> Don't have the energy to rice XFCE. There really isn't a DE that "just works". That's not DEs, that's your distro which requires ricing. If you install, say for example, Xubuntu, XFCE works as much as othe
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by kasabali 5y ago
You say you shop around but only mentioned KDE, while XFCE, MATE and Cinnamon would be more suitable first alternatives for a previous GNOME user. Unfortunately they're still susceptible to GTK maintainers bad decisions but despite tha
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by kasabali 5y ago
Joke is on you, GNOME doesn't have a desktop :d
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by kasabali 5y ago
> As of writing the Debian stable release has 96.729 packages in stable and 149.976 packages in unstable That's a meaningless number because every distribution has different way of packaging things. What should be counted is the num
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by kasabali 5y ago
> Either that, or the world should transition to Fedora. So, instead of volunteering for Debian, volunteer for IBM?
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by kasabali 5y ago
Ubuntu's font rendering is really good in its stock configuration. But I understand libre licensed typefaces it ships with might not be to everyones liking.
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by kasabali 5y ago
I was an avid reader of RHEL release notes during 6.x/7.x times and I was surprised to see ksh package not only being shipped but being actively maintained and getting several bug fixes at every point release. So yes, somebody still m
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by kasabali 5y ago
> please highlight which problems it doesnt avoid >> UX Consistency Check >> Widgets & MSN Check >> Unnecessary Cosmetic Changes If we're strictly talking about OP's grievances, current LTSC doesn't h
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by kasabali 5y ago
Wait a few years until it's undoed.
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by kasabali 5y ago
> For a bad release windows 11 is pretty good. ...and for a good release Windows 10 is pretty bad. Despite all the flak it got at the time, Windows 8.1 (plus StartIsBack to hide metro crap) is still the best Windows released in the last
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by kasabali 5y ago
I assume parent isn't talking about creating SD card images for 12 different distros, but rather working with upstream developers so more stuff is mainlined earlier thus being useful to everybody.
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by kasabali 5y ago
Bytecode inspection works both ways in this case. Vanced itself is based on decompiled bytecode of original Youtube app. Another team can build on top of Vanced app just like Vanced devs built on top of Youtube app. So we wouldn't ne
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by kasabali 5y ago
See also Mercurial Queues ( https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MqExtension )
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by kasabali 5y ago
That's one of the "psychovisual enhancements" employed by modern codecs. Here [0] is a nice explanation I could among in top search results: "... x264’s psychovisual enhancements do a pretty good job of keeping detail wh
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by kasabali 5y ago
Samsung has 27"-32" monitors running Tizen
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by kasabali 5y ago
Your 970 EVO Plus is likely a newer model with different internals thus the firmware doesn't really apply to it
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by kasabali 5y ago
I don't know how much glue was involved but Galaxy S5 was waterproof and had a user replaceable battery.

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