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by odiroot 6y ago
Sony hasn't had a true compact phone since Xperia XZ2 Compact. They abandoned the line after 2018.
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by odiroot 6y ago
> It's interesting that a reasonably sized phone is now a selling point in itself. Sony was the last one in Android world to offer it to us. Now, even they chickened out.
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by odiroot 6y ago
> That being said it probably took me 3-4 evenings to set up an encrypted disk and boot loader correctly, What was hard about that part? Is it something you have to do by hand?
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by odiroot 6y ago
As a loooong time Ubuntu user, I'd like to ask fellow hackers how do you feel about using Arch or Manjaro as a daily driver?
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by odiroot 6y ago
So, Snaps are bad, Flatpak is bad. What's good?
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by odiroot 6y ago
> If you buy a ticket, your flight gets cancelled and you end up spending the next weeks jumping hoops and waiting for your money to be refunded Whoa, thanks for your comment. I thought I was going crazy. Booked two different flights, on
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by odiroot 6y ago
There was this Theranos thing, they had a similar idea.
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by odiroot 6y ago
This is sort of already happening. As fa as I remember, all the startups I've ever worked for received grants from EU. It's really a common thing.
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by odiroot 6y ago
> Can anyone name a single, legitimate company that has ever been "taken down" by short-sellers? As far as I remember, Matt Levine used to say, a company that sues short-sellers is most likely deep into securities fraud.
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by odiroot 6y ago
> For context, in many European countries (including Italy where I grew up) 14 year olds Isn't this 16 in most countries? > have post-market modifications installed, either at home or by unscrupulous mechanics, in order to go muc
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by odiroot 6y ago
*Temasek
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by odiroot 6y ago
And the current (long-ruling) government makes it worse every year.
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by odiroot 6y ago
> almost always because zoning makes building more housing illegal That's usually the case in Western Europe. Or other artificial limitations put on construction projects.
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by odiroot 6y ago
Housing is much less subsidised than in many western "social-market" economies. You work 10-15 years, save for the flat and buy it. One great thing is, everyone in Singapore is saving for their own future (health care, housing, re
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by odiroot 6y ago
Brandenburg airport, Wirecard, gas deals with Russia, diesel emissions scandal and probably much more of these high-profile cases I cannot even recall now. Indeed, there have to be systemic issues.
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by odiroot 6y ago
> As far as I'm concerned, the Germans are about as trustworthy as Russia. They are currently closing the investigation around the Breitscheidplatz[1] terror attack That Islamist attack was very inconvenient for many powers that be,
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by odiroot 6y ago
Name collision? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack
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by odiroot 6y ago
Chinese in general is very problematic on that website.
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by odiroot 6y ago
> What is a true problem however is the political unwillingness to force cell providers to cover areas with very little population. Never been to very rural Germany. But OTOH in every flat I lived in Berlin, I had problems getting signal
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by odiroot 6y ago
Welcome to the club. My partner is so far away, there's not even a direct flight connecting us (nor our countries in general) . I have to count on 3 countries agreeing on opening a path. Currently it's not even physically possible
951.
by odiroot 6y ago
Can you get even darker? Streetlights in Berlin (for example) are already uncomfortably dim.
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by odiroot 6y ago
I never understood this whole "actor" thing until I had to write an extension for Mopidy. Then it really clicked with me. It's very boilerplate-y (Mopidy uses Pykka) though and takes some time getting used to coming from othe
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by odiroot 6y ago
I've also heard from the locals, Chengdu is (recently) the "San Francisco" of China. You could be quite flamboyant without repressions. It's also very liveable compared to other mega-cities I've been to.
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by odiroot 6y ago
Chengdu consulate is a very peculiar place. It shows very well the schizophrenia of a communist state. You could walk past it and not even notice there's anything special about that place. Yes it has tall, well protected walls around i
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by odiroot 6y ago
Uniqlo is my favourite brand. They have "skinny" sizes unlike most fast fashion brands. The clothes are also durable and have good, timeless style. Their winter undershirts are also great, super thin & breathable but plenty wa
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by odiroot 6y ago
Wirecard, Gazprom, McKinsey scandals. Not gonna name names.
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by odiroot 6y ago
This is actually really ironic. When the government wants to charge you for the "non-tax" obligatory TV fee they get your data automatically from your local citizens' office. You cannot protect your data from that. But when y
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by odiroot 6y ago
> By the way, tech communities are not immune to it. It might not be MLM, but think about how frequently you encounter tech products and services that seem to be flying on nothing but hype and charisma. Kubernetes?
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by odiroot 6y ago
Oh they finally fixed the audio desync bug ( https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/3550 ) It was a big pain for me. Made the app unusable.
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by odiroot 6y ago
> instead we have a shrinking middle class, as the fuel is drained from the engine. And yet in recent years, the middle class is more and more blamed for the inequality and other big problems of the world. In multiple EU states, there&#x

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