spijdar

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by spijdar 6y ago
The most prominent problem you'll run into on BE systems is the lack of support of graphics cards post 2008-ish, and even cards that are supported tend to be very buggy. You can essentially say goodbye to 3D acceleration and hw video d
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by spijdar 6y ago
box86 runs x86 binaries in an emulator that translates syscalls and library calls to native syscalls and library calls. The JIT compiler they're using and the syscalls tables are specifically for 32 bit x86, and because they're si
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by spijdar 6y ago
Hence the "usually" public, I presume. While this doesn't invalidate your point that IRC could use E2E encryption, I personally only use IRC for communication on public channels, where it would be largely pointless, unless yo
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by spijdar 6y ago
Well, yes/no. There are different ways to configure the kernel, and some distros/userlands require specific kernel features which may or may not be default. Your general point is still true, though. They are different enough that
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'll bite, since I wasn't around at the time and am not deeply attached to either, but have some thoughts none-the-less for sport. I'm going to "flip" several of your points and "reword" them from the pers
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by spijdar 6y ago
The entire ME can't "technically" be disabled on modern Intel silicon. It's essentially the processor that "bootstraps" the whole CPU. Without (cryptographically signed) code running on the ME, the system can n
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by spijdar 6y ago
Oh wow, this is almost exactly the sort of computer I keep wishing would be made. Design wise it seems like a "spiritual successor" to this SPARC laptop I have [0], with a mechanical keyboard and trackball, except significantly be
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by spijdar 6y ago
Looking back, I was being a bit too cynical and dismissive. There are of course other factors in a device being eco-friendly, and in practice hotter chips will tend to use more power unless restrained. On my intel laptops, I used "powe
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by spijdar 6y ago
So, this got me curious. I pulled up my now 5 year old Skylake dell laptop, and did some quick measurements. The "pure idle" draw is around 2.47 watts drawn from the battery with the brightness set to half. When watching a 1080p y
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by spijdar 6y ago
So, what you're saying is, since there are too many competing and incompatible standards, what we need is another incompatible standard? :) There are a lot of "better" terminal emulator standards out there. The problem is you
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by spijdar 6y ago
Unrelated to your hardware troubles, but I think it's relevant to mention that the pinebook pro probably uses about the same amount of electricity as a (contemporary) Intel/AMD laptop. The data I've found from some quick goog
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by spijdar 6y ago
Funnily enough, POWER is one of the notable platforms NetBSD has basically no support for at all. NetBSD will run on 32 bit PowerPC Macs, but only those. No support for 64 bit kernels or userlands, and only the most bare bones support for e
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by spijdar 6y ago
Alternatively, it looks likely that Apple will use their own GPU designs in at least some, if not all, of their ARM Macs. So running Windows on ARM would necessitate Apple porting drivers for their GPU to Windows. I have to imagine they did
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by spijdar 6y ago
I take it to mean HN discussions, like this one. Not threads as in process threading, which is what I thought at first.
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The original authors of "UNIX" considered their creation to be fatally flawed, and created a successor OS called "Plan 9", partially to address this specific deficit, among others like the perceived tacked-on nature of G
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by spijdar 6y ago
My understanding from (very briefly) reading about the insect family Reduviidae is some species are parasitic and spread deadly pathogens much the same way mosquitoes do. It's not the insects themselves killing people, but diseases lik
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by spijdar 6y ago
There were ultimately two ports of Solaris to PowerPC, this early one and a third party port of OpenSolaris/Solaris 10 to PowerPC. The latter, called Project Polaris, can be found in source form online https://github.com&#x2
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by spijdar 7y ago
You think Apple should be punished for creating a vertically integrated stack? Setting aside private APIs as I have no idea what Safari does or doesn't use (although vast portions of it are open source, enough that you can compile mode
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by spijdar 7y ago
A couple examples off the top of my head: Userland tools tend to be the BSD ones with BSD style arguments. e.g. BSD du vs GNU du, GNU requires size suffixes in uppercase, BSD takes lowercase. MacOS tends to include the more useful GNU tools
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The assumption here is that you have to upgrade to the newest OS (on your old hardware). I'd challenge that assumption. If your software is ancient and unsupported and you're willing to accept that security risk, using an unsuppor
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It's been longer than that. Core 2 Duos are 64 bit chips, and there were core 2 duo Macs releas e in late 2006, so it's been almost 13 yesrs. The 32 bit support is actually a bit of a red herring here; the bigger issue for some is
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by spijdar 7y ago
It's the not the nurture of the thing but the nature of the thing. It's not that the animal was raised to be slaughtered, but that it was "made" to be slaughtered, if you choose to believe that. If I had to try to explai
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by spijdar 7y ago
It's only an inconsistency from a "vegan" worldview -- it's prerequisite that you see all animals as being total equals that it's inconsistent to butcher one and save the other. On the other hand, a non-vegan worldv