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by petecox 10y ago
The Qt-based phone OSes (Sailfish, LuneOS, Tizen, Plasma Mobile) all seem to have adopted Wayland. So the claim that Wayland was unsuitable for mobile seems hollow 4 years on.
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by petecox 10y ago
Obvious question, why not just run an X11 server on the host? Perhaps Oracle and Microsoft (WSL) can collaborate on supporting an X11 server (ones already exist) for Windows 10.
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by petecox 10y ago
I'm waiting for the article suggesting Wales should split from England and join Argentina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Wladfa
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by petecox 10y ago
Her majesty might veto it though. We can't have Canada winning medals at the Commonwealth Games in every event except cricket!
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by petecox 10y ago
Monetization was Canonical and Mozilla's first mistake. A grass-roots movement would stand a better chance through embracing the custom ROM community. The way forward would be to fork lineage os as a base, make it dead trivial to port
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by petecox 10y ago
Windows? Microsoft are pushing ahead with development of UWP and Continuum, with the creator's update due in 3 weeks - despite no new Lumias. At least one third party is still keeping the dream alive with a crowd-funded WP10 phone anno
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by petecox 10y ago
In Chile they have a shared-ride system called a 'colectivo', where a taxi will pick up passengers along a route and passengers will share a fare. In Pichilemu, this supplemented the bus routes which only ran at most at hourly int
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by petecox 10y ago
I travelled to Spain in low season recently. For accommodation it doesn't hurt just to turn up, old school, without a booking. Trivago have been blitzing our TV stations with ads, so I thought I'd give them a try. But their search
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by petecox 10y ago
It seems pricey for what amounts to a smart USB-C hub. Microsoft Display Dock sold for $99, although this one has an ethernet jack.
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by petecox 10y ago
If the ages of dogs and cats don't increase accordingly, the smart money would be on domesticating longer lived species of pets. e.g. Tortoises live up to 2 centuries. I'm only in my forties and I've buried 5 pet cats already
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by petecox 10y ago
The video emphasises the creative aspects of the tablet but I wonder how they'll go without an online bookstore. They explicitly don't support DRM which means they can't, say, read titles bought from Google Play Books - if th
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by petecox 10y ago
Yes and I live in Melbourne, where daylight saving was adopted in August, despite the event being held hundreds of kms away.
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by petecox 10y ago
Spain has this issue. It is in the wrong timezone, which the government changed in the 1940s. Consequently it stays light until 6:30pm in winter. In mountainous regions such as Picos de Europa, towns in the valleys do have kids catching sch
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by petecox 10y ago
An Anglo free-migratory superstate combining Canada, NZ and AUS has been proposed to fill the shortage of labour once your continental plumbers leave. As an Aussie, I have no desire to return to the island my ancestors fled 160 years ago bu
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by petecox 10y ago
In terms of adapting existing tech, several phones [1] did use a VideoCore 4, the most recent being the BCM23550, an SoC similar to the chip used in the Raspberry Pi 2. Using one of these 2013 era smartphones might be an alternative startin
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by petecox 10y ago
Don't quote me on this but there's ofono , used by various incarnations of Meego/Mer/Sailfish etc. In which case, yes, there should be a GTK+ or Qt frontend.
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by petecox 10y ago
> my feeling was that it would be simpler to map functional languages onto it I found this [1] blog post interesting - that mainstream architectures have defaulted to low level C-machines and that radically new CPU designs might return t
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by petecox 10y ago
I thought the plan was to port emacs lisp to the Guile interpreter and, in the process, make Scheme a first-class citizen for scripting. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs
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by petecox 10y ago
I visited an Apple store recently. Comparing side-by-side an 12.9" iPad Pro with a 12" Macbook - the former is definitely 'sexier' by a wide margin. Would not the same journalists with a "heavy Apple bias" not
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by petecox 10y ago
Qualcomm, so in theory can use Freedreno. AFAIK, Hybris isn't just for the GPU and is used to port various binary Android drivers to ubuntu touch, sailfish, tizen, luneos etc as can be seen from the following chart: https:/&#x2
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by petecox 10y ago
I miss my Firefox OS phone (Flame). Chrome OS seems to have solved the apps problem here. If Google were to release Chromium OS community builds for Nexus phones, I'd have a gander. (My Nexus 4 needs a new battery and I don't have
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by petecox 10y ago
Intel do a quarterly release that fetches pre-built packages but it's only for Ubuntu/Fedora. On my NUC, when new, I ran debian testing and had to pull in packages from debian experimental for Intel driver support. So I'd sug
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by petecox 10y ago
pundits have been predicting the bubble bursting here since the GFC. But the 'economic miracle' of the housing boom keeps rolling on in Sydney and Melbourne. With Australian interest rates at record lows, property investors keep b
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by petecox 10y ago
I have a NUC, which is the size of a video cassette and thus doesn't consume much desk space. Once you plug in a mouse, keyboard, and external screens, a laptop then just becomes clutter. So, I mainly use my laptop for on-the-go such a
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by petecox 10y ago
I'm sceptical a phone can emulate high-performance x86 software at the speed of a Core i7 but is Photoshop-on-a-phone the use case for most office workers? Office runs natively ARM but businesses have a few productivity apps tied to
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by petecox 10y ago
> mobile (where Samsung/Apple with ARM are in the lead). I haven't seen any performant Intel or NVIDIA mobile SoC solution yet. Nvidia does have the Tegra, for the Android tablet market. Interesting that they've ceded Wind
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by petecox 10y ago
"Refactoring to Patterns" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85041.Refactoring_to_Pat...
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by petecox 10y ago
Probably not great but I'd envisage running 'legacy' x86 desktop programs on a phone typically when 'docked' on mains power with external screen(s), a mouse and external keyboard.
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by petecox 10y ago
> For starters it's based on the fact that people are going to want to use a windows mobile as their primary device to start with. WP10 as the main OS, launch Android in a hypervisor, which ARMv8 supports.
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by petecox 10y ago
ReactOS runs Win16 in 64 bit mode?! Good to know if I get around to exporting some of my late father's musical compositions from software dating from the Win 3.x era once I no longer have an XP installation.

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