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by starsinspace 7y ago
Nope, it does not. Only the trigger phrase (“Hey Siri“) is recognised locally on the device (according to Apple), everything that comes after that is sent as audio recording snippet to Apple servers where the actual speech recognition happe
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Yes, Facebook, do that. Will make it so much easier to convince more friends to switch to Signal :-)
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by starsinspace 7y ago
> Are there even good examples of "intended to work within their own ecosystem only"? AirDrop, AirPlay, iMessage, FaceTime
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Microsoft is really shooting themselves in the foot with their terrible approach to privacy ever since Win10. Given that they earn money by selling actual products, they could stand right next to Apple as a defender of privacy if they wan
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by starsinspace 7y ago
> FWIW i think desktop peaked around Windows 2000 and on Linux around GNOME 2 and KDE 3.5 IMO the peak of KDE was version 2.2... 3.0 was already a step backwards, although it did become quite good again by the time it reached 3.5. Then w
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Most importantly: having real physical controls (buttons, knobs, etc) makes a huge difference. Tapping fingers on a hard glass surface just isn't the same. Also, the joy of a single-purpose device which makes it easier to get deeply in
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by starsinspace 7y ago
And IMO it's even worse on Amazon than on eBay. At least on eBay you know that it's not sold by eBay themselves, because that's how the whole website works. And also, eBay prominently shows who the seller is on the listing pa
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by starsinspace 7y ago
I really don’t understand Microsoft on this and related stuff like the forced telemetry. Why are they doing it? Is the little bit of user data really that valuable? Is it worth it to piss off so many of their users? Are they aware how it
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by starsinspace 7y ago
After buying a screen which has only a USB-C DP-Alt-Mode input, I was recently in the market for a matching cable. My only requirements were “it should be as long as possible, at least 2 meters” and “it needs to support DP-Alt-Mode”. Now I
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by starsinspace 7y ago
When I looked into the issue of USB-C hubs some time ago, all I could find is this claim in a blog article [0] that suitable chips for such USB-C-hubs are not available: > Update (2018-07-30): Accidental Tech Podcast reports on a rumor t
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by starsinspace 7y ago
I get your point, and at some point in the future I’m sure USB-C will prevail. My point is that we’re not there yet , and right now, having at least one old-fashioned USB-A port on a laptop is just useful. Right now, it’s like throwing out
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Sure, if I throw away all the USB-A things I have and start over now... but that would be quite a waste. Also, try to find a true USB-C hub. With that I mean a box with one upstream USB-C input and several (>= 3) USB-C downstream ports.
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by starsinspace 7y ago
> Moving back to older USB ports really would make no sense. They're obsolete. I sure wish I could join you in the year 2030 where USB-C is everywhere, but unfortunately I’m stuck here in 2019 and USB-A is still the de-facto standar
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by starsinspace 7y ago
I also bought and used Corel Linux when it first came out. It was great . To me it is still the closest thing Linux ever had to being a really user-friendly desktop OS. No other Linux distribution ever since quite got that right as they di
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by starsinspace 7y ago
„Legacy“ headphones? They are just... headphones. I’m sure that long after Bluetooth has become an obsolete and widely unsupported protocol, and long after all the Bluetooth headphones like AirPods and others have died from failing glued-in
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by starsinspace 7y ago
PDF has been released as an open standard since 2008.
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by starsinspace 8y ago
But does it really? I’m using Xubuntu on two different Thinkpads, an old T420 and a pretty recent T580. On both, I have the same awful problems with waking up the laptop after it went to sleep mode (when closing the lid). It will wake up at
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by starsinspace 8y ago
Don't forget IKEA...
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by starsinspace 8y ago
Site is hard to reach, but here's the YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wHHbV8Zw4g
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by starsinspace 8y ago
I gave Jabber another chance a while ago... using both ChatSecure on the phone and Gajim on the computer (phone+computer logged in on both ends of the conversation). Unfortunately it was a complete failure. Message arrival was flakey. Some
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by starsinspace 8y ago
2 orders of magnitude? Apple recently announced that there are now 100 million active Mac users. Two orders of magnitude more would be 10 billion.. given the number of humans on earth, I really don't think there are that many Windows u
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by starsinspace 8y ago
Norton Utilities was not an anti-virus though, it was an utility package for things like data rescue. Back then, the stuff from Norton was widely considered best-in-class software... so very much unlike today. Sad how that brand name was ru
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by starsinspace 8y ago
> Fact is you cannot use these sites realistically without these algorithms. Really? I have my web browsers set up to always clear all cookies (no exceptions) when I close them (and I don't keep them open long). I also use various b
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by starsinspace 8y ago
But lead where? Without domain knowledge..?
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by starsinspace 8y ago
Which podcast was it?
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by starsinspace 8y ago
Given all the frequent complaints, would Linux users prefer if nvidia just pulled the plug and stopped offering their driver altogether? Maybe some other long-term Linux users will remember how the situation was with accelerated graphics on
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by starsinspace 8y ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by starsinspace 8y ago
Now this sounds fascinating about the stability and reliability, but it leaves me wondering how such decent systems can from the same company which makes the horror that is IBM Notes...
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by starsinspace 8y ago
Also check out this old mellotron advertisement from the 60s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdkixaxjZCM
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by starsinspace 8y ago
So, does anyone have experience with other video websites, like Vimeo?

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