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by mattl 2y ago
Too many people don’t have a real backup at all. For backing up Unix machines I like to rsync the whole machine to a machine with ZFS snapshots. Borgbackup is also a tool I’ve used and a lot of people like. Test your backups.
572.
by mattl 2y ago
https://archive.ph/vykzB
573.
by mattl 2y ago
> AOL renamed the Netscape Communications Corporation to New Aurora Corporation, and transferred the Netscape brand to themselves. AOL sold the former Netscape company, now known as New Aurora Corporation, to Microsoft, who in turn sold
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by mattl 2y ago
Windows 12?
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by mattl 2y ago
And the New Yorker piece in question: https://archive.ph/ulZsu
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by mattl 2y ago
An awful lot of the Z80 Wikipedia article seems to be taken from oral history transcript. I hope you’ll read the whole thing as there’s a lot more to it than that and I asked a number of people for their personal history with the chip and I
577.
by mattl 2y ago
I imported one to the UK in 1998/1999. Not a very practical system but Nintendo likes to try new things.
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The Z80: The CPU That Will Never Die(tedium.co)
33 points by mattl 2y ago|10 comments
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by mattl 2y ago
The font size is a little small on mobile and the layout breaks if you increase it.
580.
by mattl 2y ago
More like imagine if my personal domain name blocked your personal domain name because you keep sending me unwanted email, maybe. It's a mistake to have huge silo servers in the first place.
581.
by mattl 2y ago
How so?
582.
by mattl 2y ago
Millions of people use Safari all day every day. Developers might not like it but people use it. Personally I use it for almost everything now.
583.
by mattl 2y ago
Where in Asia? Does it vary much by country?
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by mattl 2y ago
Ahhh. Someone said Safari fork but not WebKit fork. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40323838
585.
by mattl 2y ago
But with a fork of WebKit? I don’t think another fork is all that helpful in the context of trying to fix a bug.
586.
by mattl 2y ago
I think you changed it immediately when you first saw it and never thought about it again. I’d doubt Chrome binaries on any platform would change that only on one platform.
587.
by mattl 2y ago
Consumer facing stuff so nobody in my use case is running much other than a few versions of Safari or Chrome on desktop or really Safari on mobile. (87-92% iOS on mobile)
588.
by mattl 2y ago
Don’t many browsers hide the full URL now?
589.
by mattl 2y ago
How about Safari? This would be very useful as not every developer has Apple hardware
590.
by mattl 2y ago
ThinkPad keyboards have gotten worse. I have a closet full of older models where the keyboards aren’t crap. But it really is a shame there are no high quality laptops with Linux preinstalled as an option. Every time this comes up people sug
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by mattl 2y ago
The keyboards and trackpads on a lot of the non-Apple laptops out there are very bad. If you look at https://dell.com/linux you can see the options for a Linux machine with more than 16gb of RAM drop off pretty quickly. I d
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by mattl 2y ago
Yep, but part of the same line often and I’m sure I missed some devices out. The 64DD for example. The point is that Nintendo has basically always done this.
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by mattl 2y ago
Can you point to specific Lenovo and Asus models? I’ve found the quality of ThinkPad X1 machines to be terrible in the last few years to the point where colleagues who would normally have one switched to Dell laptops of dubious quality inst
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by mattl 2y ago
Is that Pixel 5 still getting updates and support from Google? I doubt it.
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by mattl 2y ago
I’d love to see anyone in this thread suggest some laptops with similar specs and build quality to the current gen offerings from Apple, especially devices that run Linux or a BSD. Same with iPhones: is there any Android phone that approach
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by mattl 2y ago
Rosetta’s not a hack.
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by mattl 2y ago
Link is https://forms.gle/CVcWNRiEoM8Cdn5U8
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by mattl 2y ago
There’s 2 versions of the NES (plus two versions of the Famicom) The SNES saw a smaller version released later The Gameboy saw Pocket, Light, Color variants. The GameBoy Advance had a flip model and a later variant with a better lit screen.
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by mattl 2y ago
It is a terrible ad and I don't think Steve Jobs would have let it air.
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by mattl 2y ago
Big list of alternatives here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222213

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