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by mid-kid 4y ago
$3.5 is pretty expensive when you can get microcontroller chips for $0.5 or less in bulk. In general, "the industry" makes their own boards and modules, and prefers cutting off any excess cost and features in favor of getting chea
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Isn't this an anti-trust violation?
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Came here for this reply
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Not all medicine, and especially not adhd meds, have the same effect on everyone.
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Aside from the backup/restore functionality mentioned by the parent post, there's no way for them to do automatic updates or get similar system privileges like play store does, restricting a lot of functionality that play store ca
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by mid-kid 4y ago
The point the article makes is that f-droid doesn't restrict you to one curated source. You can add as many as you trust or otherwise need.
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by mid-kid 4y ago
That sure is a bunch of fearmongery. With how mobile everyone is these days an account can be logged into by hundreds of IPs, including residential IPs like friends and family. It's not a very significant data point for law enforcement
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by mid-kid 4y ago
This is the same person who made pokegb, a similarly tiny Game Boy emulator: https://github.com/binji/pokegb
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Devuan is a distro preconfigured to install without systemd and with enhancements to several packages to require less of systemd. Debian can still be configured to use sysvinit, it's just a bit of a mess.
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by mid-kid 4y ago
This number diminishes every passing year, with only debian being a bastion of sanity on the "user friendly" side of the distro spectrum.
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Does this mean that only the CM4 version has wifi? What about the LTE support they mention on the front page?
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by mid-kid 4y ago
The one in the article is based directly on the die scans, while the MiSTer one is a completely custom implementation.
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Turns out it worked well. This video got 1000x the views his channel usually gets.
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by mid-kid 4y ago
When said "extension of the mind" is wiped, there's nothing left to lose but monetary value. I agree this was an anti-theft tactic, but in my opinion it does more harm than good given the amount of people that will forget the
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Extremely few people are even aware this is a thing, let alone know how to reset a phone in a way that won't essentially brick the device. I'm not too familiar with how google does it, but considering the average android device is
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by mid-kid 4y ago
I don't consider the increase in e-waste resulting from it to be a worthwhile trade-off.
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Older laptops tend to have all sorts of hacks, master passwords and whatnot, because they realized these scenarios happen and with physical access and enough time it's generally game over any way. I wish this were possible with current
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by mid-kid 4y ago
I wonder if those programs wouldn't be easy enough to convert into ELF. From cursory reading, it doesn't look like the format contains anything that wouldn't be able to be represented in an ELF file. Am I missing something?
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by mid-kid 4y ago
I'm not logged in right now. What is this about?
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Just as many people have problems with this form of communication, many people find it hard to clearly express themselves in an environment where they're expected to put people's feelings above all else. What some might perceive a
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Libinput has genuinely been such a subpar experience for me that I'm currently still running the synaptics driver. One thing that bothers me is that not all applications support kinetic scrolling with libinput, but they do with synapti
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by mid-kid 4y ago
I guess I worded it incorrectly. My point was that it's two completely different ways of selling you things. Supermarkets use all these techniques to subconsciously make you buy more things, but they rarely try to sell you a singular p
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by mid-kid 4y ago
A supermarket isn't designed to sell you on a product.
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Because having thirty billion integrations and automations, toggles and etc that a new user may mess up is overwhelming for a newcomer. Arduino IDE serves great as a plug-and-play introduction to microcontrollers, allowing people to learn w
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by mid-kid 4y ago
This is unfortunately not about the technical details of operating systems that hold them back but rather user interface concerns (installing browsers, changing defaults).
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by mid-kid 4y ago
I'll be honest, aside from the FnLock LED issue, most of the issues I've mentioned were probably fixed by 2020. I got this laptop in january 2019, and none of the stable distros (ubuntus and such) would even boot without kernel pa
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by mid-kid 4y ago
I've mentioned this in a different subcomment, but I should note that the laptop I mentioned in the parent post is "ubuntu certified"[1]. I realize now that this means much less than having "official" support from t
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by mid-kid 4y ago
I kind of expected the A485 to have similar issues to the T480, since it's the same laptop except for the cpu and graphics. I did some preliminary searching and the listing of the laptop as "ubuntu certified" gave me too much
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by mid-kid 4y ago
Yeah, no. Maybe with old laptops, but newer laptops still have their fair share of issues. When I bought my thinkpad A485 kernels wouldn't boot without additional parameters, the graphics would freeze at times and cause a hardlock, sle
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by mid-kid 4y ago
This is the sort of thing the likes of cloudflare and google use to decide whether it shows you a captcha or not. I agree discrimimating on things like IP and User Agent and cookies as well as other things is undesireable, but I'm glad

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