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by sebtron 3y ago
It is very easy (and amusing) to prove this wrong by playing a video of birds / fish / other wild animals and let your cat watch :)
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by sebtron 3y ago
My favorite one is chocolate consumption vs nobel prize winners by country.
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by sebtron 3y ago
I interpreted it as "the default apt server is the official Chinese mirror" https://www.debian.org/mirror/list http://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian/
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by sebtron 3y ago
> It's available everywhere Unless you are offline
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by sebtron 3y ago
Is this supposed to work on mobile? All I see is a brown background (Firefox on Android).
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by sebtron 3y ago
Interestingly, the maps never stuck with me, but I also use pokemon a lot for memory techniques - namely for letter pairs.
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by sebtron 3y ago
Surprisingly few warnings, and all on the same line!
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by sebtron 3y ago
Great news, can we please get rid of CAPTCHAs now?
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by sebtron 3y ago
Reminds me of the classic "Ed, man! !man ed" https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
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by sebtron 3y ago
Yes, that is what I meant, I always had problems with it. Iirc Android uses the mtp protocol for file transfer, it is not like accessing external storage. Before I can read / write files to the phone's storage I have to perform so
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by sebtron 3y ago
Pocketbook https://pocketbook.ch You can download your books as you want and copy them to the device in many ways, including connecting the thing via USB to your pc and using it as an external storage unit. Sounds trivial but tr
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by sebtron 3y ago
Ok, I'll be that guy... what edge case? My part 2 was 4-line addition to part 1 (see code below, if inappropriate let me know and I'll remove it), and it worked first try. On the other hand, I made a mistake in part one and got it
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by sebtron 3y ago
Good to hear, unfortunately my favorite add-on Multi-Account Containers is not in the list :/ I guess it is one of the more complex to port from a technical point of view. Hopefully soon!
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by sebtron 3y ago
As a user, I can swipe up and hold from my home screen (depends on your launcher probably) and "swipe away" the apps I want to actually close, as in remove from the background. Not all of them comply, though.
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by sebtron 3y ago
Yeah, but I was talking as a user. The worst case of this for me was with Google Maps, you'd think Google would know how to write apps for their OS.
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by sebtron 3y ago
Many app need to keep state while they are in background though. Imagine your browswer tabs reloading every time you swotch to a different app and back.
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by sebtron 3y ago
I think many commenters supporting the "kill my app" behavior do not understand how bad using the affected devices can be. The reason I first discovered "don't kill my app" is that my apps would close as soon as I s
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by sebtron 3y ago
Can't you close your apps when you don't want them to stay open? The reason I first discovered "don't kill my app" is that my apps would close as soon as I switched to another one, in most cases. For example if I us
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by sebtron 3y ago
We software engineers took Moore's law as a free pass to make our software twice as shitty every 18 months.
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by sebtron 3y ago
When I first leant about unit tests / TDD, I was confused because everyone assumes you are doing OOP. What am I supposed to do with my C code? I can just test a function, right? Or do I have to forcefully turn my program into some OO-s
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by sebtron 3y ago
No, blinking dot all the way down. Waiting some more does the trick.
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by sebtron 3y ago
Honestly, I can't tell. Literally: I clicked on the link and all I could see was a white dot blinking on a black background. After about 20 seconds I gave up.
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by sebtron 3y ago
This lockdown of what used to be a relatively accessible app distribution system is sad. At least we have F-Droid :) https://f-droid.org
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by sebtron 3y ago
Netsurf is not exactly new. The project started in 2002 (or earlier, as part of RISC OS?) and 1.0 was released in 2007 [1]. The last stable release is from 2020. [1] http://www.netsurf-browser.org/about/news.html
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by sebtron 3y ago
So, I can load a 12GB file into memory without swapping? Cool!
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by sebtron 3y ago
The Mozilla Foundation[0] is a non-profit, the Mozilla Corporation[1] is not. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
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by sebtron 3y ago
Why not actively root for that one specific law to be reverted? Sounds like an easier change.
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by sebtron 3y ago
This could work, in the past. Nowadays software is released under the assumption that it will be fixed with updates, so you rarely get anything working out of the box.
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by sebtron 3y ago
Software support is another big one. My 6.5 year old smartphone is still strong on battery, but it stopped receiving updates long ago. At some point, some stuff I needed would not work anymore. Fortunately I found a version of LineageOS for
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by sebtron 3y ago
Yes, it apparently most people can. I cannot, and I also found out relatively recently. For example, you can ask "most people" to imagine a car, and then follow up by asking "what color did you imagine it?". For me and y

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