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by the_biot 5y ago
Very little orchestration needed to arrest somebody that jumps bail.
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by the_biot 5y ago
I realize this might simply put me into the "not target demographic" group, but what makes this so useful as a terminal, that a laptop won't do? I could understand the no-distraction writing i.e. word processor use-case that
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by the_biot 5y ago
To be fair it mostly looks that way because ARM has ruled the market for at least a decade, and there's just so many of them. But yes, many vendors make no effort to mainline their code. But some do, or pay those samaritans to, and as
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by the_biot 5y ago
That's right, the Realtek RTL8367RB-VB-CG is an ethernet switch chip, and so it certainly will allow for full speed switching, entirely internally. It's not nearly as rare as all that, your basic OpenWRT-running 5-port router has
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by the_biot 5y ago
In other words, stop trying, let's just stick with the current terrible status quo. That's a supremely unhelpful comment to make, intended to discourage anyone from improving things ever. Shall we all just go back to a cave and kn
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by the_biot 5y ago
Same -- I'm not a gamer at all, though I'm keen to try if it doesn't involve running windows or dealing with consoles. But I ordered one because I suspect the platform will turn out to be popular for all sorts of things not r
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by the_biot 5y ago
The other day I sent out a link made with Google Photos' "create link" function. That's not a share to another user, just a link that anyone can open, no Google account required. But one person showed me that hitting tha
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by the_biot 5y ago
The trouble with advice from Joel is that basically all of it can be refuted with one word: "wasabi".
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by the_biot 5y ago
Obligatory link to the book about the Theranos affair, written by the WSJ journalist that blew it wide open: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37976541-bad-blood A real eye-opener on who Elizabeth Holmes reall
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by the_biot 5y ago
There's a very real opportunity here for an open source project that takes on the task of doing an alternate kernel/distribution/applications for smart TVs. Big job, and likely to take a while before getting caught up with ne
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by the_biot 5y ago
Those are all your opinions, presented as if they're hard facts. Let me tell you how this plays out for me. When I visit a dark theme website, all is good for maybe half a minute or so. As you say, less light hitting your eye is somewh
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by the_biot 5y ago
That's regular device driver reverse engineering stuff, and not a bad analogy BTW. But what marcan is doing is another level of awesomeness altogether. The m1n1 bootloader that runs the rest of MacOS in a VM for logging purposes is a h
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by the_biot 5y ago
It's a HTTP API client. There are other things than HTTP out there :-) Also, don't shell out to curl, that's weak sauce. Use libcurl, it has Go bindings.
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by the_biot 5y ago
What impressed me most about StreetComplete was when I needed to add a feature. First time I used the app, no idea how to add some particular thing I saw walking around. So I added a freeform note for that spot, explaining what was there, a
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by the_biot 5y ago
Consider making your changes in OpenStreetmaps. It's super easy to do in a mobile app, and the maps are great.
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by the_biot 5y ago
It's right there on the front page.
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by the_biot 5y ago
What popup? I don't see one, only a language selection dialog.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Whatever you may think of Facebook, they've done awesome things within their Open Compute Project. They also fund a lot of open source work.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Yes, and this needs to be the top comment, and should be in every article about climate change.
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by the_biot 5y ago
I had no idea about Aurora Store, this changes things for me. Thanks!
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by the_biot 5y ago
The example I had in mind was the Volvo XC40. Gasoline model starts at €30k, electric model at €59K. More often than not you pay a huge premium for electric cars. I think the cheapest right now is the Nissan Leaf, but that's still a
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by the_biot 5y ago
You're forgetting the initial layout -- that's a car starting at $70000. Who the hell pays that for a car, when half that gets you a car just as nice but running on gasoline? I haven't bought a new car in ages, but my limit w
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by the_biot 5y ago
The trouble I have with AOSP of all flavors isn't lack of Google Services, it's lack of access to the app store. I can do fine without Google Services, but I occasionally need an app that's just not available on F-Droid, and
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by the_biot 5y ago
Actually, that's not true. I entered a mildly critical comment on a YouTube video the other day, very spot on if I do say so. It immediately got a bunch of upvotes, then that stopped completely. My comment was on top still, but that&#x
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by the_biot 5y ago
I don't see why it wouldn't have that effect. The obvious path to follow for gaming companies is write for windows and make sure it runs fine under proton.
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by the_biot 5y ago
So send in a patch.
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by the_biot 5y ago
You know you get downvoted for connecting Raspberry Pi users with reality, right?
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by the_biot 5y ago
And yet this gigantic amount of money hasn't resulted in a marked increase of users/functionality etc. It's almost like the Mozilla execs get paid the big bucks no matter how badly they do their jobs. Go figure.
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by the_biot 5y ago
For all that Google search has been utterly crap for going on a decade now, I have to admit part of the reason is that they get targetted relentlessly by SEO spam operations like this. I like DuckDuckGo for now, but I imagine as they get bi
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by the_biot 5y ago
That doesn't say he got fired. But why let facts get in the way of a good story.

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