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by lproven 1y ago
I am aware. But I don't program, I have no interest in hardware hackery like this, and one of the things I most like about the Pi range is that I can run OSes that are not Linux. I think two of my Pis currently run RISC OS. I could a
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by lproven 1y ago
I've owned 7, no, 8 of them so far. One is running in my "server room" right now, as my Pi-Hole. I have never ever connected anything to the GPIO.
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by lproven 1y ago
You are mixing up several different computers here. > Maybe they meant the ZX Spectrum II No. There was never never a "Spectrum II". The second model after the original 16K and 48K was the ZX Spectrum Plus, in a keyboard derive
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by lproven 1y ago
So many previous posts and discussions that I don't have time to copy and paste them all. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=unix+haters+handbook But, yes, absolutely seminal text. Many of its complaints do still apply today. I
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by lproven 1y ago
Anyone? Bueller?
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by lproven 1y ago
There are mentions of this here and there, such as on Freedesktop.org: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/Optimus.html https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME But they're badly dated and don't
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Can Nouveau be used for GPU offloading on Nvidia Optimus systems?
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by lproven 1y ago
Is it just me or does this description sound like an improved hammer? I mean, it's a hammer. It's fine. You can hit things. And pull out nails. This thing runs on batteries and needs syncing and it's a hammer. It didn&#x2
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by lproven 1y ago
> thanks for your contributions to The Register! Oh, thanks for saying so. :-) > a shame that it doesn't support an external display via the dock 100% agreed. I have not seen any firm info if this new model can do it. The OEM har
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by lproven 1y ago
Ok, fair enough. It's not something I'd deliberately get wrong as a gesture of disrespect. But the problem is that the fans of the different sky-fairies get awfully upset over the colour of the invisible sandals. One former friend
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by lproven 1y ago
It is not. It is unrelated except that they have a shared ancestor in Debian.
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by lproven 1y ago
Do you mean "phosh"?
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by lproven 1y ago
Define "better". With a de-Googled Android device you get lots more apps, but it's still Android. This is Debian atop an Android kernel, with Android in a container. The native OS is a desktop Linux. You can upgrade your OS w
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by lproven 1y ago
I am the Register reviewer. I tested with 2 different USB-C docks and a USB-C to HDMI monitor cable. They're the only ones I have. One is from a Gemini PDA and has USB-A, USB-C and Ethernet. I think I did not test Ethernet but I can do
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by lproven 1y ago
No. I don't know what they are referring to, I can't speak for them, but... • postmarketOS is unrelated to Debian. • postmarketOS is based on Alpine. • FuriLabs does not use Alpine or postmarketOS. • FuriOS is Droidian is a Debian
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by lproven 1y ago
> If this device does not run at the very least any app that does not depend on Google Play, e.g. apps from F-Droid It does. I have an FLX1, a review sample. https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/furiphone
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by lproven 1y ago
Came here to post this. Thanks.
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by lproven 1y ago
I'm sure you're right but to people not in the religion, this is a non-difference. "This is the home of a 47th level battle mage, and so it is important to call it a fortress or an enchanter's fortified tower. Only if he
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by lproven 1y ago
Relevant, peripherally... https://www.johngalthostel.cz/
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by lproven 1y ago
I know who you're quoting, and it's a brave man who does that for this writer these days. I don't like the author's politics, but I did like the book.
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by lproven 1y ago
Exactly so. I own a Mac Plus, an Atari 1040ST and an Amiga 1200, but I didn't when they were new. By 1989 I could just afford to buy myself a 2nd hand Acorn Archimedes A310, an 8MHz 32-bit RISC computer with a 20MB hard disk... but it
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by lproven 1y ago
> a Macintosh-like UI experience for half the price The original Macintosh was launched January 1984 for $2,495. The original ST was launched June 1985 for $799. In other words, not half the price -- less than a third of the price. The m
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by lproven 1y ago
Not really a game, but neat all the same. It reminds me of the mid-1990s video game Magic Carpet . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Carpet_(video_game) This was a pseudo-3D game and on an ordinary display it used p
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by lproven 1y ago
This is not even slightly true and seems to be based on a profound misunderstanding of atheism. From my perspective as atheist since the age of 11, it's the reverse of the case.
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by lproven 1y ago
Nice piece -- it's very good on the early history. It does, however, totally omit much of the later development. When Caldera released the source code, it also released the unfinished GEM/XM, a multitasking version. http:/&#
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by lproven 1y ago
:-D I honestly don't mind it. I used the Windows 3 UI, complete with File Manager, until 1996. I didn't mind it at all. But I thought the Windows 95 Explorer was an amazing tool when it was launched, and as soon as Win NT got Expl
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by lproven 1y ago
This is absolutely fascinating. As usual for Dr Cam, it’s long, very deep, very discursive, and probes superficially disconnected areas. It could almost be calculated to distract me for ages. Great stuff. I wish someone ported the tForth co
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by lproven 1y ago
A little more discussion happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222705
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by lproven 1y ago
A little more discussion happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222705
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by lproven 1y ago
A little more discussion happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222705

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