roywashere

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by roywashere 2y ago
> Good to have more people expose the greedy, dictatorial, detrimental shitshow that is single individuals having an outsized control over important technology. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Noone should be as big as Zuck, Musk, Al
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by roywashere 2y ago
Big and loud cars are antisocial and should be forbidden to drive as a private person. CHANGE MY MIND
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by roywashere 2y ago
I think it depends on the brand of printers you buy. I bought a Brother and had trouble getting AirPrint to work. Only to find out after a year that there was an update of the firmware I had not installed, which had been available all along
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by roywashere 2y ago
I bought an Atom second-hand, it was my first 'own' computer. My father first had a TRS-80 model III and then an IBM clone XT. So the Atom was definitely less capable, but it was my own. I read all the accompanying manuals front t
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by roywashere 2y ago
In the 90s my student union ran a computer network mainly for gaming with DOS PCs and netware running on a Linux server with MARS. This was before they had internet access but it was great for lan gaming: command & conquer, doom, or qua
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by roywashere 2y ago
There was also Windows NT for Alpha and RISC, neither were popular. And now we have yet again Windows for ARM. Everything old is new again :-)
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by roywashere 2y ago
I think it is very ironic that we chose to use PDF in many fields to archive data because it is a standard and because we would be able to open our pdf documents in 50 or 100 years time. So here we are just a couple of years later facing th
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by roywashere 2y ago
In turkey this has been the other way around! Us does not look so much different now
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by roywashere 2y ago
While this is true, most often if you want to do "now plus a month" you'll mean "at the same time on the local clock", and disregarding timezone changes, while most often if you want to do "now plus four hours&
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by roywashere 2y ago
PineTime is nice and cheap and does a little BlueTooth. It's easy to flash your own firmware to it; I think it might have been an option. That said, Pine64 does not do a whole lot of work on their platform and I guess a lot of people a
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by roywashere 2y ago
I still hope they build a Heroku alternative. I think their work on uv might be some of the building blocks they would need?
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by roywashere 2y ago
Well, recursive display is nice, I guess, as well as searching on partial filenames
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by roywashere 2y ago
Among me and my peers we used arj.exe
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by roywashere 2y ago
It works, but just for _some_ solutions. For instance, there are multiple providers of support for PostgreSQL. And there are many companies offering support/consulting for WordPress. IBM RedHat is the steward of RHEL, and Canonical is
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by roywashere 2y ago
The world of cassette tape is weird. You can still buy new Maxell UR60/90 type 1 tape but the tape you get in Europe or the US is made in China or Thailand or such and is packaged in red wrappers. The same UR60 if you buy it in Japan i
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by roywashere 2y ago
Just as we can still breathe and digest food while sleeping!
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by roywashere 2y ago
Google tried a browser that only supported <div> and limited CSS for embedded purposes and it went nowhere
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by roywashere 2y ago
Hot Dog from Sausage Software
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by roywashere 2y ago
Yes, this! I even wonder how else you would do this. By the way I worked with many IoT devices that do not use your dhcp dns but just hardcode quad 8 or similar
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by roywashere 2y ago
Exposing a service to tor is actually useful as a way to circumvent NAT issues
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by roywashere 2y ago
I have a three year old Brother laser printer and for the longest time, I had problems using the wireless printing feature. My laptop would recognize the printer, install it but fail to print. Only using the USB cable it would work. Three m
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by roywashere 2y ago
The git repo is on kernel.org nowadays with mirrors on repo.or.cz and GitHub. But I think they mean here what the official git project ‘site’ is with docs and so on. And that is now https://git-scm.com/ and indeed as the a
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by roywashere 2y ago
They definitely clear localstorage. But they also are honest about doing this under disk pressure — can’t find the link right now though. My old company had a Cordova app and we stored the client token in localstorage and we found some 16G
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by roywashere 2y ago
Sure, but most people might need their phone to do banking apps or apps like WhatsApp, Spotify or Maps which are not available on your phone. This allows people to run GNU apps on their android phone so they can have both
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by roywashere 2y ago
Power consumption is rather tiny I guess, but you would still want a screen!
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by roywashere 2y ago
I use Linux and have problems with Bluetooth-connections to my headphones all the time. Looked into BlueZ to see if I could file bug reports or patches but it looked like a hot mess. Running the Android stack on Linux might actually be nice
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by roywashere 2y ago
This is not really moving ChromeOS to Android, but rather using their Android Bluetooth component over the crusty Linux blueZ-thingy. And they even talk about the possibility of running the Android Bluetooth component on normal Linux. So th
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by roywashere 2y ago
When I was a kid I had a mug with my name on it that was gifted to me. My mother broke the ear off at some point and decided to glue it back on. A week later she handed me a steaming hot cup of tea and the ear tore off and I got severe burn
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by roywashere 2y ago
The extreme clickbaityness of the msn homepage that is in the browser and the start menu makes me have a very bad feeling about windows. I do not like it at all. I would assume the Windows PMs would not like it either but I guess someone ha
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by roywashere 2y ago
Odido (formerly T-Mobile) in The Netherlands is rolling out a huge glass fiber network, also to my house. They have an IPv4-only internet offering w/CGNAT. I'm really looking forward to fiber instead of my current DSL but really _

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