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by qchris 6y ago
I don't think that's quite fair. Irreproducible papers have supposedly gone through a fairly rigorous review process by their peers, and are usually published by someone with a PhD (or who will soon have one) at an institution of
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Redox also has it's own non-standard shell that has been worked on for a while, called Ion. I don't believe it's entirely POSIX-compatible, and has some neat features of its own. That said, it's certainly possible someon
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I'm also under the impression that the crates.io team was somewhat reluctant to implement this because it was viewed as a potential security risk from a social engineering point-of-view, even if there were people dedicated to it full t
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Yeah, I just wrote this down to remember for later. What a quote.
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I spent about six months a few years back working at a company at Greentown too. Not only are the people and companies there working on some meaningful (and frankly, really cool) technology, but the incubator itself always seemed really wel
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No issues for me--I've run Zoom pretty regularly, including participating in some fairly large meetings, plus screensharing, etc. Occasionally I need to replug my headset in at the beginning of the meeting to get my voice audio working
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I guess just to provide a counterpoint, I can't remember having had any issues with flatpak on Pop!, including both open-source apps and proprietary ones like Spotify.
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It looks like it has some details on "slow" i/o like UART and I2C, but not sure if that counts things like analog PWM timers for certain pins, like there are on RPis. Does anyone have any more information on that? You can do
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by qchris 6y ago
As another poster mentioned, jaylittle might be the most biased anti-Purism poster I've seen. I don't own or use any Purism hardware, but occasionally take a look on their subreddit for things like Phosh updates, and almost any po
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I think your use of 'jarring' is appropriate. There's nothing that's actually wrong with the word--it's type of sword, we're all fine. On the other hand, that may not be worth the risk, compared to other words
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When I first was getting into coding while doing test engineering, this was one of my greatest complaints. The software engineers would hand me bash scripts filled with very clever, but unexplained and esoteric one-liners. Whenever somethin
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Ah, I see-- not an 8GB, 1-GPU server, but an 8-GPU server. That does make a bit of a difference, changing the cost from a new workstation to functionally a piece of capital equipment. Still, I'm not sure that my point about equipment c
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It turns out someone (could be you?) wrote a Medium article about open-source software using the "free as in puppy" metaphor, although I don't think that they really used in the same way you are here with regards to a corpora
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Do they? I mean, most of these vendors are already competing, and unlike Firefox, they're not necessarily competing for the average Joe, but technical users who often have different priorities. Those are also services that groups are u
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I'm already personally paying Mozilla $8/mo for their VPN and private browser extension. If they offered something like the services offered by mailbox.org, or Librem One? I'd switch my GMail account tomorrow, including the s
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This is an area that I find unbelievably frustrating. A lack of computing resources in the current day is kind of insane. You can buy an 8GB GPU for <$1000. Even with the rest of the costs, the cost of hardware like this is a drop in the
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I hope I'm not not regurgitating false information (I'm finding it difficult to find a reputable primary source, since there's a lot of clearly pro-ketamine sites), but I was under the impression that one of the reasons that
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This is one of the reasons I really enjoy Pop. The GPU support is really at the top of the class for Linux, and it seems like System76 spends a lot of time making sure it stays that way.
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It was actually a reference to the TV show Psych, whose character Burton Guster (and his many aliases) drove a bright blue Toyota Matrix hatchback affectionately referred to as "The Blueberry".
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If anyone asks you to do this, please make renting a Blueberry a condition of your participation.
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Every time this comes up, people (some of whom are in this thread) end up talking about how this can't/shouldn't happen for software. After all, what, is every high-schooler or green college grad that ever wants to code their
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Fwiw, I've tried UBports, pmOS, and Mobian on mine, and Mobian is definitely my favorite and the one I'm sticking with for now. And as you've said, installation is just like most other computers/SBCs, by flashing the uSD
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I've used this library on a few occasions on personal projects, and once the necessary system deps are installed (just a few apt-get commands that are well-documented), it's worked pretty flawlessly. Fairly low boilerplate, good e
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On one hand, it's of course kind of a bummer that these folks are losing their jobs--never an easy thing to see. On the other, I'm excited about the products that may end up coming out of this. I'm already paying for the Mozi
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Just wanted to commiserate with you a little about the combat sports. I was in the several weeks into a training camp for my first amateur muay thai fight when my state's shelter-in-place order came out. Not being able to work with tra
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There's a piece of dialogue from a show I really like which has stuck with me for years. --- Person 1: "Is everyone out here really so lifeless?" Person 2: "Yes. Yes we are. That's why we drink." Person 1: &quo
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by qchris 6y ago
This looks to be in a similar vein to the Ion shell, which was developed for Redox [1]. Both written in Rust, both not (seemingly) perfectly POSIX-compatible, etc. I'm not sure I'd personally choose to go with either one over shel
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Just in case anyone's not familiar with it, I figured it's worth pointing that rustfmt is also really customizable, using a `rustfmt.toml` file in the source directory. It might take a little time to get right, but it's not a
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These are great, but just remember to take care the seeds are for species indigenous to your region!
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Alternatively, depending on your hardware requirements, you might want to consider taking a look at the Mobian (mobile Debian) project. Only the Pinephone is currently supported, but you get things like `apt` instead of `apk` on pmOS, which

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