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by nextos 1y ago
I agree with your point about politics. But marketwise, the N9 sold very well despite the project received no support, and also got glowing reviews [1]. The N900 still enjoys cult status. Posts about this device pop up in HN every now and t
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I disagree. The N770-N9 saga could have competed with the iPhone. Some of these devices came to the market earlier. But the company treated it as a side project due to internal politics. They didn't want to bother Symbian. A classic in
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Plenty of SFOS users run the OS on Sony devices, where it has official support, I don't see a major problem. T-Mobile seems to have no problem with them. There are of course caveats, but with a larger userbase things would get ironed o
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And Microsoft. Microsoft basically killed Nokia from the inside. Symbian was fairly open in terms of installing applications from wherever you wanted. And Maemo/MeeGo were basically normal Linux distributions. Right now, SailfishOS is
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I agree. The trick is to use powertop's suggestions to craft good udev rules, not to enable the powertop optimizations daemon directly. That doesn't work well in many scenarios. Someone should create a udev rule hardware database,
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Framework is a bit behind the others in terms of cooling, apparently due to compromises needed to achieve modularity. However, a well-tuned Ryzen U in the latest ThinkPads is not that far from M chips in terms of computing power per Watt ac
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The new x13 Gen 6 AMD with a U-series CPU and, ideally, configured with the 70Whr battery looks very nice. Should be less than 1 kg, similar to a MacBook Air. I've used the previous generation, and it's possible to get 10 hours of
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> If someone has suggestions please share A recent ThinkPad with one of the latest AMD Ryzen U CPUs should have a very decent battery life. You just need some custom udev rules to set the right power saving states for different devices.
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I love Jolla and I wish more people used it so that there was a really good native browser and different chat + VoIP options. The rest is great, and you can always use Android applications via the emulation layer.
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Yes, came here to say the same thing. Telling people that the CLT makes strong assumptions is important. Otherwise, they might end up underestimating rare events, with potentially catastrophic consequences. There are also CLTs for product a
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Sometimes, being declined based on personality is a good thing. Unless you are too confrontational or burnt out, in my experience, places that reject technically competent people based on the perceived lack of soft skills tend to be a mess
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Exactly. My experience building a system that generates Dafny and Liquid Haskell is that you can get much further than with a language that is limited to dynamic or simple static types.
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> xorg will be eventually obsolete and there seems no actual replacement yet. That's also my worry. Plus, Waymonad never took off.
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Do you still prefer XMonad?
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How is the cooling system on that Minisforum? Is it noisy? Does it keep up with the 7950X?
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Mask outdoors when its particularly bad, and use an air filter indoors. IKEA has recently released a decent air filter for ~$40. Good ones cost a bit more, but even the basic one removes plenty of small particles with an HEPA-like stage.
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You can get newer macOS versions for old hardware with: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher You may want to consider Linux as well, Macs from that era are pretty standard x86_64 hardware that are generally we
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IMHO, it also became too complex, with too many things installed by default and too much upstream patching. This made it more fragile. It was really nice in the late 2000s, but gradually became worse.
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Yeah, it's quite sad to see Qt on the N9 and, now, on SailfishOS. We were robbed of a future with lightweight and responsive native apps. Android pales in comparison.
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Less structure? I think links are less necessary. It's a bit like using email when search is cheap, you don't need to rely on tags if you don't want to. I have a fairly large set of notes written in Org, and I never bothered
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Just to clarify, I think fabricated data in top biology and medicine journals is relatively rare because it's typically high-throughput data, and you must archive it. It's just too much trouble to fake that. However, another equal
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> Problem 1 is morally worst and much more common than one would hope. Outright fabricated data in a Nature or NEJM publication (as has happened) is a disaster. In my experience, fabricated data is rare. But cherry-picking data and misus
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Firejail discusses this briefly in their X11 guide: The sandbox replaces the regular X11 server with Xpra or Xephyr server. This prevents X11 keyboard loggers and screenshot utilities from accessing the main X11 server. https:/&#x2F
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I've personally found a good compromise between using NixOS (without Home Manager) and classical dotfiles for home. My dotfiles are independent of the distribution, and also work in e.g. Arch.
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What parts of your workflow rely on HomeManager?
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Can you elaborate on what were the friction points? I migrated from Arch to Nix several years back because I found maintenance to be incredibly easy and it also allows me to test things without fear. Arch and other imperative distros are st
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> leads straight into the dystopia that Stallman warned us about IMHO, the push for age verification is just a stepping stone towards requiring a mandatory ID for all social media posts made from EU. Given the current trends against free
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Performance per watt is not far at all from M4. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 actually beats a M4 Max in e.g. Passmark per Watt (652 vs 625), and it's not much behind in other benchmarks. With some tweaks, it can also be silent. Good ThinkPads
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NixOS gives you the ability to define your system declaratively, upgrade or tweak without fear of breaking anything, and the ability to launch shells with arbitrary and well defined sets of dependencies.
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Also, a major differentiator is that Haskell deals with effects primarily by using monads, whereas many modern functional languages (e.g. Koka or Flix) are being designed from the ground up to use algebraic effects instead. OCaml is also em

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