mentat2737

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by mentat2737 9y ago
Small correction. With Telegram your data ends up in Germany. They are Berlin based and against the current Russian government AFAIK.
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Amazon Leak Suggests Alexa with a Screen Is Coming Soon(forbes.com)
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by mentat2737 9y ago
I'm an happy GNOME3/Wayland user, with a few extensions GNOME3 is very good.
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by mentat2737 10y ago
- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Desktop] - HEADLINE: Join Wayland - DESCRIPTION: Instead of reinventing the wheel with Unity8/Mir, please join Wayland development and maybe join forces with Linux Mint and switch from Unity to Cinnamon or MATE, with
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by mentat2737 10y ago
Wait, so you are telling me a not-even-in-beta software is not secure? That's a very important news!
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by mentat2737 10y ago
It was said already in the past, and I agree. Naming. Too many letters in a *BSD, too scary. Linux is more toy-ish and thus more appealing as a name. Plus the UCL vs BSD legal war, which shifted much of the community towards Linux.
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by mentat2737 10y ago
Just a note: > The deployed site is hosted on Heroku. It's part of GitHub's meta-account, and they pay the bills. So why aren't they just using a GitHub page for this?
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by mentat2737 10y ago
Because it's a Spanish company.
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by mentat2737 10y ago
Wheezy was my last one as well. I fully migrated my personal laptop to FreeBSD (as TrueOS) a few weeks ago, after using it as my second OS at home. And because I need Linux for work, I migrated to Devuan on my workstation, as I need to use
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by mentat2737 10y ago
What would you suggest then? In my experience, only Thinkpads and Latitudes have provided me satisfying user experiences. Except XPS 13 and Macbook Pros, which I tried and I don't like the feeling.
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by mentat2737 10y ago
I bought a T420s a few months ago. I am selling my much newer MacBook Pro retina now, as the Thinkpad is so much more functional, the keyboard is amazing the feeling of the machine itself is fantastic. I am thinking to buy a X260 brand new
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by mentat2737 10y ago
Why should I use this instead of Kubernetes?
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by mentat2737 10y ago
Watched two days ago. Lovely, I really liked it.
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by mentat2737 10y ago
She is one with the Force, the Force is with her. source: the comments in that thread.
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by mentat2737 10y ago
I'm in Europe and even some non-tech know what a Linux Mint is. And a lot of newbies I help to install Linux on their laptops explicitly ask for it as well. Many are lost with Ubuntu/Unity interface and are much more happy with Ci
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by mentat2737 10y ago
Mint is already killing them on the desktop, how long before a "Mint server" arrives? And yes, Debian for servers, but some people wants more up to date software.
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by mentat2737 10y ago
Nope, Gnome Software can upgrade systems now.
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by mentat2737 10y ago
Also, a few years ago Xamarin actually ported Android (then 2.2. IIRC) to Mono/C#, as a test for Java->C# converters, and the result was faster than Android/Java.
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by mentat2737 10y ago
Nice. Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.
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by mentat2737 10y ago
Twitter will be absorbed by a big one (possibly Google), so no need for this kind of posts. And if it dies, let it be. Another one will come up.
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by mentat2737 10y ago
Agree... No love for EU users :/