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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Not every ISP has malicious DNS resolution. For many people outside the US, their ISP DNS server is a superior option to Google DNS.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Preloaded from the factory maybe?
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
What SD brands do you usually buy? Are the Sandisk Extreme range any good?
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Been a while since I've used Debian but I'm sure Debian is already using NetworkManager. This means the Raspberry OS has actually removed NetworkManager from its Debian base and put in something else. I agree with the OP this shou
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Are you able to play videos on it? Arch Linux ARM struggles to play videos smoothly. The official distribution seems to be better only if you use their Desktop Environment and certain blessed apps—I switched to a different DE and all of a s
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I bought a ThinkPad X1 that came with Windows. Had no trouble changing that to a dual boot arrangement with Debian. Kept that for a few months until I realized I was going weeks without booting into Windows. Ended up making the switch to a
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I have a Raspberry Pi 4. If you use the official distro, which includes all the hacks to make the hardware function, it works well yes but only barely. Try any other distro and it does not work very well since Linux itself doesn't actu
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I think it is quite possible there is few if any binary blobs. I have a Lenovo X1 and everything pretty much works out of the box on base Arch Linux (and Debian before that). I think it also helps that my X1 has Intel graphics, Intel Wi-Fi,
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Our Bank "A" suffered a major DDoS attack recently. My non-techy partner, upset, declared were moving to Bank "B". I pointed out that Bank B had also been target of DDoS attacks so we would be moving banks only to face t
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I believe you are referring to hardware acceleration for stuff other than video (which I guess is what WebRender is about). I have no problems with this, and indeed WebRender is enabled by default in my installation of Firefox 93, GNOME, Wa
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I know it's proving the point in the article, but I thought I'd let you know Firefox can be configured to do hardware acceleration. There's a nice article in the Arch Linux wiki that describes the steps needed to turn it on:
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Screen tearing is something I've seen happen a few times across different hardware combinations. Sometimes it just works out of the box (e.g. my laptop using Intel graphics on Arch Linux experiences no tearing in any application) somet
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
It's been showing all services as down for quite a while already.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I have the same problem with Firefox for Android.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Performance is still variable on Samsung/Xioami devices in my experience. I have a Samsung S21 which can be really fast one minute and stuttering the next. Possibly it's better on Google's own devices.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Agree. I have a Samsung S21 which is supposed to be top of the range and I occasionally experience such poor performance that wouldn't be tolerated on a lower end iPhone. Android is really a mixed bag even on high end device. Sometimes
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Does Firefox do hardware acceleration for videos yet? It still does it in software by default on Linux as far as I know, unless this has changed recently?
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
It works fine for me on Firefox/Mac.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Home wireless is great for low-end users. My mother is on a 4G wireless service for her home phone and internet, with a price lower than what she'd pay for the equivalent copper/fibre service. While I certainty would never want to
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Not really a new issue. I have an old Gmail account that I don't use as my primary email anymore. However since it's still attached to some services that use Google SSO I have reason to check it occassionally. The amount of spam t
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Most (if not all) major cloud providers do this if you use their provided images. If you want to avoid agents, then go with a provider that allows you to upload your own ISO which means you can install a vanilla OS.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
The screenshot below is an inactive window. I've just double checked to be sure and yep that's exactly what it looks like when I switch to a different window. It is on a Mac though so sounds like the the behaviour is different on
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Just tried the default theme and the active tab is white with a dark grey border, while inactive tabs have no border and are the same colour as the chrome background. Even when the Firefox window is inactive the active tab still appears whi
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Also a GNOME user here, regularly switching to macOS/Windows for work so I do get to compare how GNOME is going with 'mainstream' desktops. Really impressed with how far GNOME has come over the last couple of years. It is rea
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I've heard this complaint a couple of times recently. I find it odd because I'm using the latest Firefox and the contrast is pretty good. I wonder if we are using different themes?
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Out of interest what does similar numbers look like on Windows, Linux, etc?
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Zoom on Mac and/or windows seems to black out other windows if they appear on top of the target window. I've seen that happen a few times so definitely does happen, just perhaps not on Linux.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
That was easily not true for the early days of CSS. I still have memories of writing CSS for Netscape Navigator and finding it didn't follow the CSS standards in certain areas IE did. One example that I recall was the text-align proper
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
Windows comes with ssh by default these days so you can easily ssh-keygen. Doesn't need WOL as I used that without WOL.
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by kiwijamo 5y ago
I have a second-hand Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop and I've been very impressed with the build quality (even though my previous laptop was a Macbook so my standards were already quite high). It is also well specced technically, with everythi

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