kiwijamo

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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Indeed, I have one. And yet (apart from a few days when I first got it) I've not used it. Although that is largely due to the awful IR apps I've tried--perhaps there is scope for improvements in this area.
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
I find people enjoy the novelty of taking photos underwater or when in the pool/lake/sea. I often have to point out that their phones are also waterproof and they run off to grab it for underwater (or just around the water) photog
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
I thought Face ID used some sort of radar/infrared technology and thus didn't really need light to work? Happy to be corrected on this.
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Just pay a mobile repair shop to do it. Not very expensive and much cheaper than buying a new phone.
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
This is the first time I've heard of T9 being used since we moved on from the old Nokia phones that pioneered T9! Bring back fond memories of my Nokia 3310 and 8210. But yeah it's odd to see T9 in the context of a touchscreen phon
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
I've noticed the same here in New Zealand. My local mall is not a particularly large/important mall but it still has a Samsung store. Even if that wasn't there, all the carrier stores sell Samsung. All the electronics stores
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
New Zealand is outside the US and it's not unusual for people to buy their phones from their carrier alongside signing up to a plan especially if they are spending a lot of money. Phones purchased directly from the carrier are guarante
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Here in New Zealand, I see Samsung advertising everywhere. TV, billboards, in store, digital, etc. Whereas LG has very little advertising and usually not for their mobile phones. LG is a South Korean company so I guess they advertised heaps
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
And it only works with MongoDB shipped with older versions of Debian. The current Debian doesn't even have the most current version of MongoDB (due to Debian policy of backporting security fixes only) but even that is too new! In the f
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Ditto and they have also lost my recommendations. If I hear any friends thinking of Ubiquiti, I will be pointing them towards articles like the one we are discussing. I had been a bit wary of then since their push for cloud SSO etc, but the
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Mine machine only shows kernel + userspace. Even that alone adds up to 15.648 seconds.
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Acorn also had RISC OS in ROM. Booted in about two seconds. Yes it was tricky when you had to upgrade but I suspect the constraints made the ROMs better quality. Certainly was rare to come across bugs etc and the performance was miles ahead
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
I remember when even a cold start would drop me into a working desktop within a few seconds. Thus was in the early 90's with RISC OS running on the early days of ARM chips. Respectfully I would argue hibernation and suspend are just a
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Why wasn't this done before?
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Amplifi is a Ubiquiti product.
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Yesteday I ordered new MicroTik gear to replace the last of my Ubiquiti gear only to find there's a two week wait for it to be shipped! Looks like there's been increased demand for products made by Ubiqiti's competitors. Than
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
I've found it varies by area to area. I switched from iOS to Android about a year ago and I miss Apple Maps. Apple's mapping and navigation is better here in New Zealand compared to Google. Overseas I've found that different
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Same as UMTS before LTE. I still remember my first UMTS phone would go through battery like water through a sieve.
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
I am also puzzled. Apple's iMessage/SMS app (there is only one app that does both as you say) will only send iMessage messages to numbers that have iMessage enabled (I know there are some edge cases but these are typically only fo
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Would that work? The fs may actually allocate a new file before deleting the exisiting allocation so the risk of it not working is still there I would think?
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Is that true for all logfiles? I still have plenty of daemons (by default) writing directly to some file in /var/log eg EXIM, Apache, and the like. Also plenty of system stuff still write to files in that directory. And yes this i
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
I've started using rsync.net with the borg client (replacing b2 and rclone) and loving it so far. I'm also surprisingly finding borg/rsync.net is suiting my usecase (personal backups) better than b2 did which is a nice bonus.
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Pretty much the same thing happened here in New Zealand too, FWIW. I understand it was WHO providing this advice (i.e. no evidence regarding the effectiveness of masks etc) at the time so perhaps the German government is not entirely at fau
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
It is pretty much automatic for end-users though. The only complex issues I had enabling IPv6 was due to the fact I bought my own router. For those using ISP-supplied gear it's pretty much plug and play. In my country (New Zealand) the
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
I had the same experience with my ISP--had to find out I was able to get IPv6 only through a local forum frequented by employees of various ISPs. Also had to find out settings through this--turned out that the default setting of getting IP
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Same here in New Zealand.
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Apple hardware have some downsides though. One big advantage of HP, Dell, etc is their support. Apple repairs takes weeks (especially here in New Zealand) as they expect devices to be sent long distances to wherever they repair them. HP, De
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
I've found Macs don't really last that much longer. The previous Mac I had, I actually begged for it to be replaced as it had a spinny HDD and recent versions of macOS run very poorly on these. Luckily it turned out it was close t
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
Are you posting in the right thread?
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by kiwijamo 6y ago
That's interesting cos on the few occassions I've accidentally used Google (e.g. when searching on someone else's device) I've been surprised by how bad Google is nowdays. I have the same experience when I set up a new d

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