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by lvillani 9y ago
> on Mac they leave your iCloud email in in plaintext on the UEFI after the computer is wiped. You are probably referring to the "Find My Mac" token that's stored in the NVRAM. It's fairly easy to wipe it with one of
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by lvillani 9y ago
> despite the screen covering deterioration in weird spotty ways If it's like images at [1] you may be eligible for a free screen replacement. I got Apple to change mine after it started showing the defect (granted, I went to an App
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by lvillani 9y ago
Most modern smartphones have the LCD, digitizer and glass all fused together. It improves image quality and reduces the distance between the glass and the image. This, however, greatly increases the replacement cost since you would then hav
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by lvillani 9y ago
I can't speak for jsmthrowaway but I think that he's referring to Band Steering (please correct me if I'm wrong). It's not in the spec but my Unifi gear definitely has a checkbox to enable it if I opt-in to see "adv
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by lvillani 9y ago
The mere mention of EFL brought this article back to my mind: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened The author makes no names but ends the article with "[...] did I mention EFL is the basis of
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by lvillani 9y ago
Nitpick: "MacBookPro11,1" "Macmini7,1", etc refers to the hardware model: the first number being the machine's generation and the second one being its revision.
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by lvillani 9y ago
I know. However, the default experience is a little box that says "Streaming is available in Safari and the WWDC app". Now I have to go out of my way to learn that they stream via HLS, obtain the stream's URL and feed it to
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by lvillani 9y ago
I can still be an outsider and be genuinely interested in what their platform has to offer and, maybe, later decide that I want to invest in their platform. I become a better developer, Apple gains a new developer, everyone wins. Forcing pe
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by lvillani 9y ago
I don't know. On one hand I applaud Google's decision[1] to put its weight against autoplay videos, prestitial ads, and huge above-the-fold ads that are the main driving factor for me and many others to install an ad blocker in th
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by lvillani 9y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to revoke the patents only if you sue them over React patents specifically? IANAL Hypothetically, there _may_ be good reasons to sue Facebook over patents unrelated to React, especially if they happen to bre
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by lvillani 9y ago
I think it's the underlying software that powers SourceForge itself. At least, that's what I gather from some pages on sourceforge.net displaying "Powered by Apache Allura" inside the footer.
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by lvillani 9y ago
SQLite is great! It's just that those of us using it with pleasure don't complain or feel the need to be vocal about how good it is :)
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by lvillani 9y ago
Put this in your settings file: "workbench.activityBar.visible": false
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by lvillani 10y ago
Third party software has been available on Linux distributions for a long time all the same. Shipping this feature out of the box with an OS install started happening only recently (e.g. Night Shift came to iOS only 1 year ago, Windows 10 i
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by lvillani 10y ago
As far as I understand it, having the right to sell a phone with Google Play Services is an all-or-nothing situation. > The OHA is a group of companies committed to Android—Google's Android—and members are contractually prohibited f
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by lvillani 10y ago
It shouldn't be needed. AFAIK part of the post-installation script of a new kernel already marks the oldest kernels for removal with `apt-get autoremove`. They just need to run it automatically after an upgrade.
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by lvillani 10y ago
I wonder what "we’ll make sure you keep getting regular updates" really means. Regular updates and prompt security updates the moment Google publishes them are two different things. Considering that even Google's support of i
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by lvillani 10y ago
"X isn't network transparent anymore" according to Daniel Stone (longtime X.org and Wayland developer): https://youtu.be/RIctzAQOe44?t=18m31s If you use X11 forwarding with any application that uses a modern
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by lvillani 10y ago
I just run the Unifi Controller on my Mac when I need to configure something and then shut it down. AFAIK some features (e.g. WiFi captive portal, if I remember correctly) require a Controller running full-time.
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by lvillani 10y ago
My Galaxy Nexus would often shut down due to a loose battery connector. It was a widespread problem and the workaround was to fold paper or tinfoil at the bottom of the battery to push it against the connector.
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by lvillani 10y ago
Personally, I never ever had to use hplip's GUI tool, except for configuring wireless printing. After doing so, I could uninstall it and use bog-standard CUPS.
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by lvillani 10y ago
I still wonder why Canonical promotes non-LTS versions as stable releases. They are not. LTSes are and you only have to update once every two years, or 3-5 years if you wait for your current release to be EOL'ed. Non-LTS releases are r
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by lvillani 10y ago
Which one do you have? Mine is an RB751U-2HnD and it is plagued with problems, to the point that I set-up an automatic reboot every other day and I'm thinking about switching to Ubiquiti gear...
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by lvillani 11y ago
I'm using uBlock Origin and it works just fine.
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by lvillani 11y ago
GitHub is not just a place to host Git repos. It has an issue tracking system, wikis, pull requests, integrations with 3rd party tools, and reviews done through a pretty web interface. If you rely on those parts of GitHub and it gets DOS&#x
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by lvillani 11y ago
> It uses the same underlying API I don't think so. For whatever reason Caffeine doesn't take a power assertion, as show by `pmset -g assertions`, whereas caffeinate does. This is what prompted me to write Theine ( https:&#
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by lvillani 11y ago
Visual Studio Code is based on Electron, not Atom. The editor component is Microsoft's and based on Monaco, the editor used in Visual Studio Online. Electron is a souped up Chromium Embedded Framework, patched to make it easier to deve
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by lvillani 11y ago
It highly depends on your usage pattern. I usually have one long-lived instance of an editor for the project/thing I'm focusing on, but I also frequently fire up "temporary" instances for one-off editing jobs, from the t
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by lvillani 11y ago
> I'll be taking up Android again soon. Every time I try I find Eclipse [...] Is there a particular reason to choose Eclipse instead of Android Studio? Google is pushing its weight on the latter with their Eclipse+ADT combo
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by lvillani 11y ago
VMWare Fusion is, in my experience, everything but horrible for battery life. I frequently spin up VMs with Vagrant, do something with them and then switch to other tasks. More often than not, I forget to shut them off, mostly because their

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