sirspudd

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by sirspudd 1y ago
No, the main point is they provide a reference image using mkosi, and you can clone kde-linux and trivially make spins. At some point I expect just about everyone is gonna find a spin which scratches all their itches and which they are devo
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by sirspudd 8y ago
I compile a Qt Quick application statically for the Raspberry Pi on a regular basis, and the whole binary is around 7 megs big. If you remove Qt Declarative (Your hello world just requires QtCore) it will be a fraction of this size. So nice
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4K/UHD Raspberry Pi 3 goodness(chaos-reins.com)
5 points by sirspudd 10y ago|0 comments
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Running Arch Linux on the Lenovo Yoga 910(chaos-reins.com)
12 points by sirspudd 10y ago|1 comments
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by sirspudd 10y ago
Turns out the 910 works perfectly once you fix somes niggles with the wifi and the i915 module. http://chaos-reins.com/2016-11-14-arch-yoga-910/
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by sirspudd 10y ago
Unfortunately it still feels cheaper to purchase a Windows laptop, and simply scrape Windows off its boot. I object to being gouged for opting to run a certain system. The amount of invested time required to get modern Linux up on a non-psy
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by sirspudd 10y ago
Anandtech run a periodical series of articles of the best laptops available at present: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9798/best-laptops as long as you run a modern distro, and they are intel throughout, it should
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by sirspudd 10y ago
Most of those links are several months to several years old, up until you get back to a link to this article, and your comment coming up first. The fact they arent initially sorted by stagnation/date further invalidates really breaking
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by sirspudd 10y ago
Yes, by people with money who don't want to live in the mainland. Incase you haven't realized it, people with money get out of China. Taiwan and Hong Kong are functional entities with a lifestyle (and civil liberties) which are wh
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by sirspudd 11y ago
The video does look cool. I keep on intending to use my primary Linux dev box as an outwards facing web server, but every time I take steps towards this, I realize how much I would be dropping my shorts in the process. You people should be
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by sirspudd 11y ago
It is Qt 4.8 based, there is clearly zero intention of remerging it. They changed the build system! There are lots of people seeking to repackage Qt's work, add their own spin (pittance of work) and then attempt to profit off of it as
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by sirspudd 11y ago
The energy of the people involved, the domain the product catered to, it was awesome to be party to this. If you are unfamiliar with the project http://www.qt.io/ will enlighten
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Qt 20 years in: A perpetually compelling tech fold(youtube.com)
2 points by sirspudd 11y ago|1 comments
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by sirspudd 12y ago
You voted with your wallet for a large screen phone, as people in the past voted with their wallet for large screen phones. You could have purchased the Z3 compact or some other device targeting the small device niche market, but you voted
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by sirspudd 13y ago
I think that question stands in the wake of reading the article. People seem to arguing that the language used constitutes a threat; I don't see that in the slightest. It isn't overtly friendly, but it isn't menacing.
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by sirspudd 13y ago
Lots of kids appear to be losing their parents money. Giving your kids access to tech under NDA is like giving your kids access to guys. You are not going to have a good time. You can debate the degree to which this kind of secrecy is warra
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Qt on QNX demo assembly(youtube.com)
2 points by sirspudd 13y ago|0 comments
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by sirspudd 13y ago
I have a friend who wrote a game for the Nokia n8; he had something like a couple hundred purchases and made it through to the semi-final for a (I might misremember) $10k prize.