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by petecox 9y ago
Vancouver Island has Ewoks! Call me a tree-hugger but I'd favour a forest walk beneath a canopy of 800 year old trees over gaining a tan in Kelowna any day.
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by petecox 9y ago
I can't swear on the quality of the internet since it's been 5 years and I must go back! Certainly Buenos Aires and Santiago have all the creature comforts and culture of a megacity but you'd be missing out by neglecting the
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by petecox 9y ago
> Canonical is a business, and they need to sell devices in decent volume I'm saying that approach was never going to work, when even an established vendor like RIM couldn't chisel out a market with their revolutionary BB10 OS.
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by petecox 9y ago
I've always installed Ubuntu from an ISO, never pre-packaged on a PC. Similarly, any business model can't rely on handset sales. Apple and Samsung sell them by the millions and we're talking a few hundred here. Community ROMS
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by petecox 9y ago
Ha :) I guess I'm one of the few hoping fixed orientation landscape laptops recede as tablets gain traction. A portable tripod mount that flips to portrait would be far more convenient for A4 documents than a form factor that hasn&#x27
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by petecox 9y ago
I must say I've never noticed but my old Samsung monitor explicitly came with a rotatable stand, so maybe it was designed for both. rant : can people taking eyewitness videos please shoot in landscape? It's one thing to view port
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by petecox 9y ago
I've been meaning to read Don Quixote in Spanish some day. Slightly off topic: Would there be scope for a bilingual epub format for wide-screen devices displaying native text and translation side by side? This could be useful for Ancie
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by petecox 9y ago
From the article below: To counter the negative connotations evoked by the term “grammar pedant” and to celebrate their pleasure in language, they invent playful monikers such as “grammartiste”, “grammagician”, “grammardian angel”, “grammar
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by petecox 9y ago
Names in Spanish for fruit & veg vary greatly by country. I'm pretty sure 'ananas' is still pineapple in parts of South America, where it's a key ingredient in a Chilean cocktail. furthermore - palta = avocado, duraz
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by petecox 9y ago
Halium bootstrapping Plasma Mobile/Ubuntu Touch. https://twitter.com/HaliumProject/status/871592584136622081 see also postmarketOS, whose founder recently has posted about it on HN.
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by petecox 9y ago
Windows-only wifi used to be a solved problem with NDISWrapper. Does this library not work with newer chipsets?
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by petecox 9y ago
With counter-terrorism, I would hope companies then have a contingency plan for governments imminently banning laptops on international flights. With global inventories, it shouldn't be that hard for major vendors like Dell or Apple to
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by petecox 9y ago
Or just browse on your mobile! Overall they're pretty quick on my Galaxy S2. A bigger concern is formatting - some adjust for mobile, others do not and the font is displayed in .5 millimetre type. :( (perhaps I should apply for a testi
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by petecox 9y ago
I'm not sure, I thought most projects were Mir or Wayland based - not X.
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by petecox 9y ago
Exactly, the complaint of power users is that "it'll never be as powerful as my Core i7 desktop". Were a phone solution seamless enough to dock into my kvm switch, I'd power up my 'workstation' far less often.
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by petecox 9y ago
various GNU/Linux-in-a-chroot projects exist on Google Play and f-droid. In the other direction, Anbox attempts to run Android inside a container.
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by petecox 9y ago
libhybris reuses hardware drivers from Android, as used by sailfish, ubuntu touch, plasma mobile et alia.
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by petecox 9y ago
The bottom diagram suggests that the 'Android OS framework' could be made device independent, with Lineage OS only responsible for maintaining the 'Original vendor implementation'. A 'ROM' could then be split i
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by petecox 9y ago
Perhaps it's time for a Halium/libhybris approach. If I understand correctly, Ubuntu Touch and other GNU/Linux platforms would use an upstream kernel (4.x) to boot a device and delegate to an lxc container to pull in only wha
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by petecox 9y ago
Even Google abandons their products after a couple of releases. Perhaps better supported than other manufacturers but I'm running 7.1.2 on a Nexus 4 only through Lineage OS.
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by petecox 9y ago
I believe Anbox employs Linux kernel modules, so WSL would need to load those to work under Windows.
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by petecox 9y ago
Commercially it would seem unviable. Community ROMS? Keep an eye on Halium, unifying a common base for porting sailfish/luneos/plasma mobile/ubuntu; with anbox for Android apps.
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by petecox 9y ago
Sounds like a business opportunity. Airport A: Declare laptop at pre-checkin where security declares it 'not a bomb' and seals it in a rugged case that only authorised officers can unlock. Receive baggage token. Airport B: Take to
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by petecox 9y ago
The funding page has more information. Players follow a scenario and create/are given a vocabulary. The meaning of each word specific to each player, creating dialects among the participants and exploring how language evolves over time
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by petecox 9y ago
AFAIK, there's at least 3 kernels running on an Android device. - LK (1) for the bootloader (the screen you see when launching fastboot, I believe) - LK (2) for 'Trusty', the crypto engine - Linux as the bootloader's pay
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by petecox 9y ago
This may extend he computer's usable life but what happens to those computers once the student is done with them? In my affluent neighbourhood, computers are often dumped at the roadside. Our council does have a recycling program for e
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by petecox 10y ago
Mozilla already has a mail client written in Javascript and HTML 5 - the one shipping in Firefox OS. And it worked decently. Start by tidying it up for Android and then port it to desktop. One code base - for mobile, tablet and desktop.
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by petecox 10y ago
> pedestrians more willing to cross the street in front of you I'd be more afraid of crossing in front of a driver-less car. An automatic vehicle may have better reaction times than a human but I wouldn't want to be the first r
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by petecox 10y ago
GNU/NT
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by petecox 10y ago
I wonder if this could be ported to WSL. Android apps were Microsoft's original motivation for developing it, after all.

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