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by kiwijamo 8y ago
Here in NZ I have used Apple maps as my first port of call for a few years. It’s improved a lot. On the rare occasions I’ve been led astray I’ve submitted reports and all have been followed up with fairly quickly. Driving time estimation al
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
Interestingly I found mobile coverage to be excellent within France (Orange), Belgium (T-Mobile IIRC), Netherlands (T-Mobile), Germany (Telekom) and Czech Republic (T-Mobile) during my trip through these countries last October. As I had a E
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
This idea has made me think of donating a certain percentage of my income each year to open source projects. Does anyone have a system for donating their personal funds to open source projects?
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
Seemed to work fine for me. FF64/MacOS.
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
It's not mandatory on Windows either. I've updated various drivers for a wide range of devices over the years without needing a reboot. From what you describe, it seems the situation on Windows is similar to that on Linux.
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
Do any mainstream distro use this?
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
I’ve attempted to use Linux and desktop freezing is the norm even on machines that run fine under windows. Admittedly the machines might be underpowered but that does call into question the commonly held belief that desktop Linux is better
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
Indeed I’ve updated many a drivers on windows (including graphics as you mention) without a reboot required. Always needed a reboot to do the equivalent kind of updates under Linux.
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
Drivers in Linux live in the kernel. Whenever the kernel is updated a reboot is required (in most distros). Hence your assertion that Linux updates drivers without a reboot better than windows does is questionable.
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
But as the OP stated it's already there by default. I don't have that plugin yet I see a reload icon in my Firefox. So I'm like the OP, wondering what the point of that plugin is.
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
I’ve largely stopped using WiFi except for my home and work wifi. Seems to solve a lot of my wifi issues as the wifi networks I have access to at home and work locations is very robust. Everywhere else I just use my mobile carrier’s 3G&#x2F
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
I’ve started using Ansible to document how I want my server set up in a machine readable way. Very useful because when I want to start over I can just run my Ansible playbooks to set up everything to how I want it. I’d prefer that to an GUI
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
Do you see any with actual passengers in them?
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
My main machines (both personal and work) runs macOS and I find Firefox to fit in fine. Certaintly does what I expect 99.9% of the time. Scrolling for instance seems to work as expected (and on par with Safari which I occassionally use). Ca
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
Gmail and Google Docs for instance operate fairly poorly on Safari. Gmail often has UI glitches (e.g. the top part sometimes scrolls up permamently with no way to get it back). Google Docs on Safari lacks support for many features that Fire
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
I wonder if this is why recent versions of macOS performs so poorly on old HDD-based MacBooks. The difference between my work's 2012 MacBook (HDD) and my personal 2015 (SSD) MacBook is like night and day. Most apps open in a second on
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
I've found Apple Maps caches the maps around my area so I have been able to use it in areas where I have no wireless reception. Not as fully detailed but they seem to cache the main roads and landmarks at least. I recall Google Maps ju
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
I believe it’s the same here in Auckland for our AT Hop card.
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by kiwijamo 8y ago
Nice idea! Will you add support for Firefox?
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by kiwijamo 9y ago
Great news as a ex-Flickr user who migrated to iPhoto and recently has recently migrated again to Smugbug! Only downside I've found so far is they don't support HIEF/RAW/DMG uploads so I had to convert these files to JPE
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by kiwijamo 9y ago
Is that an onerous requirement? Even my 70 year old mother has a data plan these days.
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by kiwijamo 9y ago
The carrier does not have to implement anything specific for Google. Apple's implementation shows how to do hybrid messaging apps without putting any burden on the carrier. They use the standard SMS system provided by the carrier where
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by kiwijamo 9y ago
Or they could just do what Apple did with iMessage and just basically use the user's mobile phone as the SMS gateway. SMS I send from my laptop actually get routed to my iPhone and sent to my carrier as a normal SMS using my own plan.
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by kiwijamo 9y ago
Meanwhile over the ditch in New Zealand we have no such restriction. I'm not sure if our equivalent to the NBN (the Ultra Fast Broadband [UFB] network) has much Huawei gear but I suspect there will be at least some depending on the LFC
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by kiwijamo 9y ago
Here in New Zealand, two of our major mobile carriers use Huawei gear. One uses Huawei for the entire mobile network (from UMTS/LTE base stations to the core network) while another is migrating from Alactel-Lucent (which mostly powers
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by kiwijamo 9y ago
LiceScript? Pretty apt name for something that has infested the web!
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by kiwijamo 9y ago
I'm the opposite. When it was just me I didn't mind running my own mail server and putting up with my self-inflicted downtimes. But when I started adding family members it added more pressure on me to ensure good uptimes etc. So f
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by kiwijamo 9y ago
In Facebook I can go to Settings > General to find an option to create a username. Been like this for as long as I can remember.
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by kiwijamo 9y ago
Must have a Google, Hotmail or Outlook account. Yeah, nah.
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by kiwijamo 9y ago
ISP: Here's a cheap IoT plan! $5 a year! Customer: Yay I'll buy a ${Brand} IoT device. ... Customer: ISP, why isn't my {$Brand} IoT device working on your network? ISP: Oh you need the $150 a month add-on to support your ${B

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