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by petecox 9y ago
If you have the discipline not to peek at the scores... My neighbour watches soccer from his home country at odd hours of the night, going to work a couple of hours later. Says he'd otherwise only watch a replay knowing his team had wo
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by petecox 9y ago
Web apps are native on Chrome OS as was the case with its HTML5 cousin Firefox OS. By definition then, solving the app gap by using a container to host Android or desktop Linux programs is non-native.
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by petecox 9y ago
Power is something you want to use less of when constrained by battery life, surely!:)
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by petecox 9y ago
Anbox.io is in its infancy - run Android apps in an LXC container.
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by petecox 9y ago
Th most interesting thing for me about i.MX is not 4K video or Vulkan. Quite the opposite. It is the chip powering my Kobo and, I suspect, Kindles. An e-ink phone with a 3 day battery life! But being a hacker phone, as long as performance i
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by petecox 9y ago
Chrome OS has proven the viability of an HTML5-based OS. In Mozilla's case it was an inability to define a market more than the technology stack. I had a Flame. While the OS started a little rough around the edges, by Firefox OS 2.5 it
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by petecox 9y ago
Not for WP10, specifically. Continuum was to be the killer feature but they shot themselves in the foot by releasing the Lumia 650 with such mediocre specs that didn't support it.
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by petecox 9y ago
4.4 is Google's base to develop Nougat If, as per the table below [1], they've already moved on to 4.10, then 6 years is a long time to support 4.9 [1] https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/51651/wh
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by petecox 9y ago
I read it as the quickest path to getting a browser up and running in Google Play. Base a product around CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) and if it proves successful enough they replace the browser engine with edgehtml.
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by petecox 9y ago
> the Catalan people have their own cultural identity Spain is divided into 17 communities. Each has their own cultural identity. What I like about travelling around Spain (and I must do the Canaries and Balearics some day) is the microc
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by petecox 9y ago
Your sources are fine, it's the sentiment. You could have focussed on how Spanish democracy is broken and that Cataluña no longer wants to be part of that - e.g. the 2015-6 elections where no clear winner emerged and the rise of Podemo
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by petecox 9y ago
FUD, what FUD? I just don't find your arguments for separation tell the whole story. I support self-determination but ultimately the strongest argument for independence is that Catalonia has a population of greater than several EU stat
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by petecox 9y ago
That is hinted in the article, i.e. the specs are too beefed up just to run Chrome OS (half a terabyte of storage) and a full dev environment awaits via virtualization.
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by petecox 9y ago
A pro-independence article that could do with some balance. 1) A lot of people see bullfighting as anachronistic even if Cataluña may be the first to introduce such rules. 2) 'their King' was a second cousin of the queen of Castil
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by petecox 9y ago
Google seems to want to frequently re-invent common idioms willy-nilly. They've had several iterations of email client for Android, from the AOSP client to Gmail to Inbox. I don't want a learning curve, just a mail client. (K-9 or
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by petecox 9y ago
call it ToffeeScript - a dialect of CoffeeScript that transpiles to TypeScript?
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by petecox 9y ago
> Great for folks who want Linux on their cell phone For me, peak smartphone was some time ago. I mainly want is a pocket computer with a web browser than makes calls. Connection a MHL-OTG USB hub makes it a proper computer running KDE.
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by petecox 9y ago
if only Google would release Chrome OS for phones, we'd have the best of both worlds.
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by petecox 9y ago
IIRC, KDE 3.x made a lot of hard-coded assumptions about running on a desktop. Plasma was a re-write to be independent of the display and using Qt-Quick that Nokia had crafted for Symbian/Meego. But it's an egg and chicken problem
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by petecox 9y ago
Purchases are great. e.g. my Clayoquot Sound t-shirt from 2013 which is a souvenir with an indigenous rights theme from the other side of the world. A mere cash donation to a petition-wielding activist would not have had the same resonance.
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by petecox 9y ago
Yep, I'm using a Nexus 4 picked up nearly 2 years ago off ebay for around $US60. It gets the monthly security updates. I guess I worry about the binary blobs that vendors may or not be updating but that's true of any hardware no l
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by petecox 9y ago
Yes, Coke does taste different depending on the country. (And I've tried it on 5 different continents.)
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by petecox 9y ago
What about the underground city option, as Toronto and Montreal have done, where there's about 30km of pedestrian walkways connecting malls.
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by petecox 9y ago
> a single kernel that can boot on most devices That seems to be also a goal of postmarketOS, which was discussed here recently. https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/91
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by petecox 9y ago
'theoretically?' It's happening, albeit without a corporation behind it. They have a weekly youtube vodcast, if you're curious, and a Patreon page with a couple of hundred subscribers.
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by petecox 9y ago
> we come to Qualcomm, Samsung, Mediatek, and whoever else is shipping proprietary drivers for their SoCs and radios, and who don't provide binaries for new ABIs. Vote with your wallet. The librem 5 mentioned this week uses a '
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by petecox 9y ago
Nougat runs fine on a Galaxy S2 with Lineage OS. I would not be unexpected for them to port Oreo eventually too.
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by petecox 9y ago
Partnering is probably better than trying to crowdfund another device - at least one can easily flash the phone back to Android if Jolla can no longer support it.
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by petecox 9y ago
The default Android client for mail isn't great. Google have developed various clients available on Play but I prefer the Outlook client. K9 is probably the best FOSS client from f-droid that I tried.
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by petecox 9y ago
I guess it's the seasonings/flavouring they add then. The vegan milks sold downunder taste like sugary, oily, porridge liquid. My soy milk phase ended when I couldn't finish a 1L carton before it turned into a gloopy mess.

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