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by mpol 5y ago
I seem to be allergic in the context of histamine. Not as much as oranges, which can make me sneeze for the rest of the day. Using hay fever pills makes this reaction go away. I do enjoy tomatoes very much and eat them often though.
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by mpol 5y ago
I'm with you, but this is not the topic.
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by mpol 5y ago
The Steps method is the official didactic method in Dutch chess. There are different levels. If you succeeded all levels, you should arrive at 1600 FIDE, from there on you can pick up other methods. I have no idea if there is an internation
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by mpol 5y ago
I agree and I don't agree :) It is not all about tactics, that is a mistake that I see repeated often. A difference between 1300 FIDE level and 1800 FIDE level is partly tactics and avoiding blunders, sure. But there is also more posit
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by mpol 5y ago
Ah yes, taken from Susan Polgar in the documentary My Brilliant Brain. Recommended watch. She is put on a terrace in the street, and she can see a van with a chessboard painted on the side, and has to recreate the position. With a real posi
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by mpol 5y ago
In WordPress there is the `$wpdb` class, that abstracts database access away. It is advised to use `$wpdb->prepare()` with prepared statements. Then you have an array with placeholders and an array with values, which the `$wpdb` class sh
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by mpol 5y ago
It's still a good story and I like it :) I don't have anything else to add.
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by mpol 5y ago
Ah, yes, chatting on Napster :) It was just IRC with DC, while the GUI was mostly built around the DC. I was sharing some music from the early times of classic heavy metal, the NWOBHM. A compilation album done by Lars Ulrich with the songs
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by mpol 5y ago
Is anyone using Ubuntu Touch as a daily driver and their only phone? I would like to hear experiences. I am a happy user of Sailfish since 2014, but diversity is a good thing, just happy there is an ecosystem for Linux phones.
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by mpol 5y ago
It might work similar to low pressure, where you see the wheel light up on the dashboard. Ofcourse the human part can make the decision on what to do about it, and if you want to replace tyres, how many at once.
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by mpol 5y ago
Sailfish already uses selinux and there is work in progress for firejail (sailjail). Sailjail is already enabled for system apps, but not for third party apps. Also, the Android App Support is running under LXC.
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by mpol 5y ago
Instead of calling it weird, we could also ask what might have been the reason for this. Cliche rules and etiquette often have a function, even though we might have forgotten what that function was. We don't put shoes on the table, it
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by mpol 5y ago
Hat-wearing might have become fashion. Not that much different from a watch having become fashion, while the functionality of a watch and added value is not that much as it used to be.
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by mpol 5y ago
In the Netherlands this topic cannot be mentioned in normal conversation, it gets ridiculed, it could never have happened. But when people from Russia talk about this, it is often with a bit of laughter about Western Europe and its idea of
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by mpol 5y ago
In all those years I haven't heard of even one situation where this happened. I think the Sailfish X licensing exists since 2017 and many people have gone this route.
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by mpol 5y ago
Not the parent poster, but I often say similar things :) For me it's the idea that the software provider thinks privacy is important and I trust them much more than Google or Apple. It's also very close to desktop linux. Root acce
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by mpol 5y ago
Not the parent poster. For maps I use OSM. I have 3 apps installed, Pure Maps, OSMscout and modRana. I don't use navigation, but I understand that with OSM the navigation can be somewhat of a disappointment. There was a native app for
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by mpol 5y ago
"But Sailfish is also not OSS. That is the problem." I see this posted as a problem often, sometimes even "the" problem. I do understand it is a problem, but at the current moment there has been no better Linux phone the
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by mpol 5y ago
It's complicated :) After Qt 5.6 some important parts were relicensed as GPL. Which means that the Wayland compositor and some other Jolla parts needs to be either GPL (which the main investor is reluctant to do) or Jolla needs to buy
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by mpol 5y ago
It has to do with bureacracy and regulations. Even the UK fell off after the Brexit. The most common advise is to use a VPN or your own VPS to download the free image for trying out and also for buying the license in the shop.
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by mpol 5y ago
There were even two apps, Mittäkuuluu by coderus, and Whatsup from older Symbian and Meego times. Both worked fine and were lovely to use, untill the company Whatsapp sent threatening letters from their lawyers to the developers. Whatsapp a
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by mpol 5y ago
Yes, the Android layer can run Whatsapp and Signal. I also run Firefox as an apk on it, I use the last v68 version of that. The Android layer is only available on the commercial version, and only on officially supported device. It has been
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by mpol 5y ago
Yes, the latest release have seen some code contributions from Aurora. Some well-known people in the community even work for Aurora, like coderus. To be fair, without the Russian investor, there would be no Jolla anymore :)
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by mpol 5y ago
Android 4.4 support is only an issue for the Xperia X. The Xperia XA2, 10 and 10II have updated support, first at Android 8, I think it is now at Android 9. The Xperia X is somewhat tricky in this regard. It uses the "old" way of
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by mpol 5y ago
For the FP2 and FP3 there are community ports. I think the FP3 port is in relatively good condition. Main drawback currently is that there is no Android layer available for community ports. There are plans at Jolla to bring Android support
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by mpol 5y ago
Hi, thank you for this article :) I would have enjoyed a more thorough write-up of Pinephone and a few popular Linux-distro's and how far they get in regards to a daily driver for you. What I do miss is that both phones are still mostl
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by mpol 5y ago
To add something, I very much adore the Ambience system. I very much prefer a 100% white on black system, and Sailfish Ambiences can do just that. Some Android apps don't really follow, but they sometimes have a darkmode setting. I jus
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by mpol 5y ago
I have been using Saifish as my daily driver and only phone since 2014. I bought a Nokia N9 secondhand in 2013, but the battery was not great anymore and I could not use Whatsapp on it. The choice for Sailfish was then easy. For 5 years I u
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by mpol 5y ago
Please understand that patents only serve the big companies, not the small developer. Companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft just cross-license in case there is a problem and they gain from that. As a small developer who invented someth
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by mpol 5y ago
I don't fully understand the politics of this request. The US sure knows that when the Taliban finds US people, they will be brought to death. So it is this just to show that the Taliban are not good people if and when they decide to d

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