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by mpol 6y ago
Yes, every few months. Communication is not always that clear, the same with the roadmap :) Early in the life of Sailfish it was decided that being behind on upstream software versions was not a problem, since in embedded software things ar
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by mpol 6y ago
What I remember (not a linux developer) is that sometimes you have to rebalance the filesystem. You can have free space in megabytes, but no inodes left. (If I am wrong someone might correct me). There have been instances, especially later
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by mpol 6y ago
Just curious, but if you enjoy a Nokia N900, would you not consider the Cosmo Communicator or the Fxtec a good follow-up? It has modern hardware, still a good hardware keyboard. Together with the more updated Sailfish OS you get something m
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by mpol 6y ago
I am using Sailfish OS on a Sony Xperia XA2. I am using it now for about 1 year. Before that I used Sailfish OS on the original Jolla 1 for 5 years. I have also used a Nokia N9 with Meego Linux, which can be considered a forerunner of Jolla
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by mpol 6y ago
Recently someone told me his theory. People with thick skin don't need sleep that much. People with thin skin, who are quite receptive, need a lot of sleep. I can imagine that someone who is CEO also has quite a thick skin and doesn&#x
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by mpol 6y ago
That is currently not the case, and I don't think it should be. If I write a piece of software and release it under the GPL, I can sell it as proprietary code as well, dual-licensed. I am in no way obligated to provide updates and chan
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by mpol 6y ago
It won't :) It has a LED backlight. Older LCD screens often had fluorescent backlight, which will and did degrade after hours of use. According to Wikipedia, LEDs are the most popular backlight in LCD screens since 2012.
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by mpol 6y ago
You create a Project in Geany. It will then integrate with `make`, so when you click `build` it will run make for you. Myself I don't use this feature, I mostly use PHP code. I am very happy with Geany as a lightweight IDE or textedito
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by mpol 6y ago
That sounds a bit vague :) I read into it that open source users get the latest patch release, as in 5.15.3 for example. But major/minor releases are first served to commercial users, like 6.0 and 6.1.
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by mpol 6y ago
If Uber cannot afford this, maybe it is not a viable business. If either the restaurant has more cost than income, or Uber has more cost than income, it seems not to be working really.
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by mpol 7y ago
I do feel for you :) but at the same time I think Markdown, the tool, is not to blame for this. I write most of my documentation in Markdown or just plain text files. The reason is simple, I want the same focus that I had when writing the c
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by mpol 7y ago
Please don't feel attacked. You mentioned buying a software product, but that is not commonly done by consumers. We all license software. Buying software means buying the copyright and become owner of it. The replies mention changing s
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by mpol 7y ago
There are many weaker coronaviruses floating around that give the common cold. We are still getting the common cold from those, so apparently it mutates in a way that our immmunesystem can't stop it.
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by mpol 7y ago
Joe the editor? Can we just pick sensible and unique names? A simple search for 'Joe Software' would have shown that the name is taken.
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by mpol 7y ago
"Turn display_errors off" is a good answer for a production website. You will get problems with headers and cookies, if notices are printed before headers are sent. You might also divulge information about your stack to users. For
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by mpol 7y ago
Yes, the window tax did exist in the Netherlands. That is why you sometimes see a stone structure where a window had been. This was a way to avoid the tax.
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by mpol 7y ago
I am almost through the book "Attached" by Amire Levine, on 'advise' from HN last week. It talks about the spectrum "fear/insecure - safe - avoiding" in relationships. It is very systematic in its approach
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by mpol 7y ago
For flatbed scanners you would use something like SANE or Vuescan. Most devices have a different driver.
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by mpol 7y ago
The hype doesn't make sense and is probably just there for click-bait. The CO2 problem is about adding CO2 to the system. Digging up coal, oil or gas and burning it, adds CO2 to the atmosphere that wasn't part of this system. Burn
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by mpol 7y ago
The passage for fish is highly needed. Eels are almost extinct in the Netherlands. The adults are inside the country in sweet water, but they cannot get out due to sluices and pump stations. They get slaughtered there. They need to get out
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by mpol 7y ago
I'm definitely not a farmer, but it is my understanding that for a cow to keep giving milk, it needs to give birth once a year. You cannot keep all those calves around, so they go to the slaughterhouse. That means that in an indirect w
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by mpol 7y ago
> I made a conscious choice to stop customising my desktop (and then later, mobile) experience away from the defaults as much as possible, as I was fed up of having to document and then re-deploy all of my customisations every time I had
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by mpol 7y ago
Looking at the WordPress statistics, about 60% of WordPress websites runs on 7.x. I can imagine for dedicated servers that run PHP frameworks, that percentage is higher. https://wordpress.org/about/stats/
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by mpol 7y ago
"Doing an IE6" for Google would be quite different from what Microsoft did, who wanted the desktop to stay relevant. For Google the web is just an advertisement platform. If/When Firefix is gone, they will hold all the cards.
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by mpol 7y ago
You describe an environment that is quite scaled up. I would assume that if there is scale, there is money. And a license to the commercial version is what, 2 salaried hours a year? It is easy to save time and money. I am sorry, but I canno
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by mpol 7y ago
Or it is the other way around. Intel had cut corners to be able to make the fastest processors, and that is how they got their marketshare. They have been called out on it in the last two years and updates have made their processors slower.
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by mpol 7y ago
I do think there is something hypocritical in us pointing fingers to Brazil for destroying the Amazon forest. In Europe, most forests have been destroyed in the past centuries, all for economic gain. If we are so concerned, why not rebuild
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by mpol 7y ago
I use Claws Mail, and have been using it for 10 years. It is fast and can handle a lot of email. It has many options and integraes nicely into the XFCE desktop. It is a fork of Sylpheed, and I assume the two have diverted quite a bit.
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by mpol 7y ago
I contribute to free software. When a user asks me to change something, most of the time I am quite happy to do that. Sometimes a user asks me to change something, with the message that it is easy and won't take much time. Those reques
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by mpol 7y ago
Samsung printers are owned by HP now. Expect the same within some time.

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