petecox

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by petecox 8y ago
'milkshake' is a compound noun, or at least Firefox's spell checker doesn't insist on hyphenation. To 'shake up' is perfectly idiomatic. Using 'up' as a standalone verb is less common and should be yo
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by petecox 8y ago
Paywalled but some background for readers outside Australia: The supermarket duopoly Coles/Woolworths have had a pricing war by selling substandard 'milk' at a loss to encourage customers through their stores. The result has
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by petecox 8y ago
(a) i'm thinking home usage. An 8 core machine with 6GB RAM is plenty - plug in a keyboard, mouse and screen, who needs a mac mini? OTG and/or a hard disk attached to my wifi router is all the local storage I'd need, let alon
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by petecox 8y ago
I was surprised when this story was published in my local newspaper and picked up internationally as Apple have been firm in their product segregation that they have no public plans to (a) release an iPhone desktop dock (c.f. Samsung DeX) (
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by petecox 8y ago
Ubuntu's Unity had the dock on the side - I believe inspired by the unusual 1024x600 screen on the Eee PC.
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by petecox 8y ago
Aspect ratios are one thing but a number of tasks are just better in portrait. For that purpose I have a desktop monitor stand that rotates 90 degrees. Trickier on a laptop but can't someone design a 'convertible' with a rota
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by petecox 8y ago
Does libhybris work with Allwinner SBCs? i.e. using ARM's proprietary driver for Mali from Android. (FOSS drivers might be in development but pragmatically I'd choose something that works)
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by petecox 8y ago
One can hardly make a good ringtone if search results for "tardis", "sonic screwdriver" and "dalek" yielded nothing.
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by petecox 8y ago
Yes, if it installs correctly* on bare metal then one can boot to an explorer-like shell in a matter of seconds without going through a Linux desktop. But I can see an obvious use case - testing. Customer reports an error but you can't
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by petecox 8y ago
There's a, not insurmountable, learning curve for both Sailfish and Ubuntu Touch. Quirky isn't necessarily better if you're trying to woo users who just want a familiar experience without learning new paradigms. The lack of a
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by petecox 9y ago
What about hardware donations, or a "device wanted" section of the wiki? e.g. for those with superseded bootable phones gathering dust in a box of old 'junk'.
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by petecox 9y ago
In visiting a mobile webpage, an adblocker suffices. native apps can utilize advertising APIs, of which there's no way to turn off unless you install their $3.99 "Premium" app.
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by petecox 9y ago
> Linus and others don't want these (relatively) short-lived processors to be checked into mainline linux I don't think that's true. e.g. 4.17 is accepting code to run Samsung Galaxy S3 (released nearly 5 years ago). It is
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by petecox 9y ago
Yep, continuum seemed like a killer feature on release. But I wasn't prepared to pay $AU1000 to try out a Lumia 950 at the time and the 650 was far too anemic to support it.
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by petecox 9y ago
(Folks have already mentioned Odersky and Grossman for grokking functional programming) FutureLearn has an introductory Dutch course. I've only learned languages from the Romance family previously, so it was a worthwhile experience. (D
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by petecox 9y ago
2) macOS tablet. Android apps on Chrome OS tablets are a thing now. With macOS on ARM, the iPad Pro and MacBook lines merge, as the hardware internals converge.
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by petecox 9y ago
It is marketed as high in Niacin.
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by petecox 9y ago
Cheers, presumably the AC wall plugs have international equivalents for the non-US market? (i.e. their 'compliance' has been tested on 240V scenarios)
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by petecox 9y ago
There was a post today, by one of the KDE developers who has been involved with the postmarketOS crew in getting mainline kernel support, i.e 4.16 and not with whatever fork Android ships on, for an off-the-shelf device (Nexus 5) https:&#x
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by petecox 9y ago
Hopefully it takes the pressure off Sydney as a hub and encourages British visitors to spend a few days in WA before heading to other destinations. It's good to see that the Western Australian government is building a rail link. I have
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by petecox 9y ago
You're not alone, someone else has already revived it: https://maemo-leste.github.io/
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by petecox 9y ago
The apps, yes. But the OS itself uses Qt and Chromium to display any HTML5 content, as the project page from the linked article states. This contrasts with, say, Firefox OS - it rendered directly to an OGL-ES framebuffer.
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by petecox 9y ago
On low end hardware though? My experience is that any browser based renderer (Chrome/Edge/Firefox) will choke in comparison to a native desktop program, e.g. SumatraPDF or Atril. It's the first thing I disable.
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by petecox 9y ago
Possibly of interest to LuneOS developers, whose codebase started with an earlier source drop of webOS.
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by petecox 9y ago
If anyone seeks an alternative to Facebook's app, there's Face Slim from the f-droid repository: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.indywidualni.fblite/ 1.3 MiB
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by petecox 9y ago
Yeah, I found with Mail for Windows 10 that the setup for gmail and my university's office365 account was fairly seamless. Likewise Outlook on Android (although I'm currently using K-9). The only place I'm using webmail is on
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by petecox 9y ago
A language with an array type, e.g. Java, distinguishes between a 'null' array reference and an array of zero length. which could substitute in languages that don't have an option type; SOME([]) vs NONE But a plain *char in C
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by petecox 9y ago
"sources say" but without referencing actual sources? It read like alt-news to me.
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by petecox 9y ago
Thanks, I will do so. When Firefox optimised for multi-process, did they test for single-core? I'm on a machine released this decade - a rare instance of a single core x86_64 machine (fanless Atom NUC) Facebook is pretty much now unusa
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by petecox 9y ago
Indeed, once upon a time folks used RSS. But we are in an age where any random website wants to send you realtime push notifications. Instead of pestering you with an overlay that takes up screen real estate, the browser should indicate wha

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