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by oxplot 5y ago
> that’s a feature It's a feature that can be implemented, with similar if not better effectiveness, in various ways that doesn't completely lock down a platform. Don't ask me how because I'm no match for brains at Ap
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> ignoring calls for openness for 15 years I very much want this to happen now. However I would not have wanted this 15 years ago when the platform was a baby and little was known on how to move it forward. Last thing you wanted at that
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> World is about to get a little worse on this front. I think you underestimate the talent at Apple. The reason things are locked down isn't just that it makes them secure, spam free, etc. That's true of course, but it's n
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> processed by either Google or Microsoft Let's first clear up why this is: spam control. Google along with the rest of the industry has essentially killed email spam through the many additions to classical email standards. From rep
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EU Provisionally Agrees on Law That Would Force Apple to Allow Alt. App Stores(macrumors.com)
3 points by oxplot 5y ago|1 comments
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Did you not know that the said companies didn't have dedicated support staff? Was this a surprise to you? Did they make you believe they had people you could call and talk to? If you knew and still chose to do business with them, that&
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Understanding Color Management(blog.oxplot.com)
1 points by oxplot 5y ago|0 comments
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No thanks
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iCloud Private Relay is shown as affected as well. This is an interesting case when it comes to failure behavior. From security perspective, you want your connection to stop working instead of falling back to insecure. Is this the case? Ca
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Absolutely this. Especially Go's standard library is a pleasure to read. Lots of idioms and good practices to be learnt.
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A lot of system status pages are updated by humans who will verify issues before reporting them. Main reason is to avoid overly surface every minor and transitory issue to public view.
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One thing to keep in mind is that satellite design takes into account, in no trivial amount, the specific ship that takes it to orbit. It's therefore, not a simple switch to use a new ship for existing hardware. Everything from G-force
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> Everything I've seen here amounts to "it's pretty." First: pretty matters to me and incidentally to a lot of us. Second: Look harder. I've noted performance multiple times to the point that it saved me $2000 bu
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Thanks for wishing me pain and suffering.
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In context of 16GB of RAM, I can't tell the difference.
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It's actually cutting edge GNOME 41 on Arch Linux and I hear Ubuntu folks run an older version. But you are right in that I haven't used this for long at all. However, I have run every application and use case I do every day and s
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> Or are you mistaking restarting GNOME with restarting your whole operating system? Whole OS. In 15 years of using linux, I don't remember having to only restart my desktop environment. But then again, I don't develop extensio
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by oxplot 5y ago
> Wayland is still a glitchy, bug-ridden mess, despite That sucks. As to your specific points: > If I alt-tab, I need to move the mouse before I can use my scroll wheel. Just tested this, doesn't seem to affect me. > Basic Gno
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by oxplot 5y ago
I want the user interface and experience but that's it. I need a linux kernel and I need the customization and openness afforded by a linux system. My workflow, business and more is tied up heavily in that ecosystem.
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> What about those of us who don't like macOS UI? Uhh, choose from countless other desktop environments out there for linux?!! Like I mentioned in the post, I used MATE desktop which is Gnome 2 style with classical UI metaphors. Wor
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> If you want one (because it look beautiful I guess???) Why would you say this, after I explained in length the warranty advantages? Did you not read that part or do you disagree with it?
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1. There are reports here that Zoom works fine with Pipewire in the browser. 2. Have you tried: https://github.com/SeaDve/Kooha ?
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On topic of saving money, did you know there are countless VC backed startups either selling/delivering grocery or meal packs with significant discounts for first few orders. If you just sign up to each, get a few orders and cancel, yo
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Have you tried Pipewire for screen sharing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#WebRTC_screen_shar...
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> without mentioning the fact that a Lambo can still go twice as fast To be picky about this analogy, top speed in a car is an attribute that bears little on everyday utility. In fact, past the 110km/h here in Australia for instance
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You're in a small small minority who spends time cleaning fans to avoid slow down of a machine. The rest of the world only care when they hit that point after which they send their machine in for service.
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> With gnome, there is no way linux will become mainstream You can ship turd and make it mainstream (as Microsoft has demonstrated time and time again). Shipping computers linux pre-installed is what makes any OS/desktop adopted in
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As someone mentioned, looks like https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#WebRTC_screen_shar... solves the screen casting issues.
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> Propaganda You just accused me of writing up "information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view".
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What's an example of an X11 program you're having troubles with? I just tested this with Wireshark and rest of the desktop. In fact, there is a built-in shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R which starts a screen recording and dumps it in the

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