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by nromiun 6y ago
This is from the blog. > Even on metered connections, snaps auto-update anyway after some time.
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by nromiun 6y ago
This is from another user in this thread: > I've used both Windows and OSX for my professional work and while Windows is the worst offender when it comes to automatic updates, OSX is pretty horrible as well. At least with Windows yo
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by nromiun 6y ago
Exactly. It seems like these days everyone assumes you are on a stable broadband connection. In many parts of the world getting a fast and stable internet connection is literally impossible.
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by nromiun 6y ago
I was using the regular version for remote desktop VMs. I don't know about the server version.
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by nromiun 6y ago
> Snap applications auto-update and that’s fine if Ubuntu wants to keep systems secure. But it can’t even be turned off manually. OMG. Is this real? This is the exact reason I use Linux instead of Windows 10 or macOS. I am not a grandma
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Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard(healeycodes.com)
290 points by nromiun 7y ago|89 comments
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Unix is not an acceptable Unix (2015)(mkremins.github.io)
2 points by nromiun 7y ago|0 comments
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Language Design: Use `ident: Type`, not `Type ident`(soc.me)
2 points by nromiun 7y ago|0 comments
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by nromiun 7y ago
That's the thing though. I can do all that and more on the OnePlus 8 and it will still give me more then 2 days of battery life. The only pro of the iPhone SE is that it is the cheapest iPhone. If it was an Android phone (even with the
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by nromiun 7y ago
How much companies have actually lost in these schemes? Flipkart has been doing it for years now.
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Managing TLS connections using Lua and Lua coroutines (2018)(boston.conman.org)
17 points by nromiun 7y ago|1 comments
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by nromiun 7y ago
The Geekbench5(multicore) scores for SD865 and A13 are 3463 and 3517 respectively. How did you get a 70%(!!!) percent difference? Can you give a source? Of course the actual battery life would be much better then just the SOT. But still it
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Smarter C/C++ inlining with __attribute__((flatten))(awesomekling.github.io)
3 points by nromiun 7y ago|0 comments
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by nromiun 7y ago
I doubt a few percent increase in CPU power can make up for the only camera, those huge bezels, the abysmal battery life (mrwhoistheboss got only 3 hours of SOT). It starts at exactly the same price in India (about 41k rupees - 590 dollars)
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by nromiun 7y ago
I never expected Apple to make something this cheap. But still in some countries the price is the same as OnePlus 8. Which has much better hardware and features. Still, it is the cheapest iPhone right now so maybe some people will buy anywa
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by nromiun 7y ago
People say SICP is bigger then Scheme and then get outraged when someone implements it in another language.
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by nromiun 7y ago
No news channel is unbiased these days but I don't know of any other news source that has as much criticism as BBC. They have a long history[1] of spreading misinformation and hate aginst many countries (specially India). 1. https:&#x