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by tim-- 6y ago
How did you come up with the 64% number?
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by tim-- 6y ago
They have not been for a few years now. I think the 2012 mac books were the last to have them?
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by tim-- 6y ago
DECT VoIP base stations are still very much a thing. http://www.grandstream.com/products/ip-voice-telephony/dect-...
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by tim-- 6y ago
Yes, yes it has. The UI is still quite good, and doesn't seem to have the downsides that many Electron apps have, except for the amount of memory used by it (still much less than Slack or Skype)
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by tim-- 6y ago
I have yet to see anyone independently verify this, but to me it seems that Google fonts sends different versions of fonts, depending on the user agent. Downloading a font and using it on a different operating system from where the original
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by tim-- 6y ago
It seems to be going well so far. I would say it's around 70% of the way there[0]. What's left is a few major runtimes (OpenJDK, golang is waiting for 1.16 to be released). Many of the packages that are not properly supported eith
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VC&G Interview: Jerry Lawson, Black Video Game Pioneer(vintagecomputing.com)
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by tim-- 6y ago
In Australia & the US, they have quite a few. Australia: https://www.samsung.com/au/findastore/ US: https://www.samsung.com/us/samsung-experience-store/location...
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by tim-- 6y ago
I'm guessing it was Samsung neutering the platform. They never have really given too much time to advertising the capabilities of the platform (for example, no displays in their stores demoing the "phone as a desktop" capabil
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by tim-- 6y ago
Samsung still does it (Dex) https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/dex/ It's actually really good. I can wirelessly turn my TV into a 4K Android tablet, and with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, it turns into
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by tim-- 6y ago
It was one thing when it was the RIAA that was coming for our repositories. Now that it is Google, I'm extremely sad and disappointed. I think the time has come for there to be a repository hosting service that is based somewhere in Sw
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by tim-- 6y ago
The closest I could find was this: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/ap...
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by tim-- 6y ago
You might want to see this: https://github.com/rogeriomm/proxmox-pve-kernel-amd-reset/bl...
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by tim-- 6y ago
Chris! Thanks for introducing me to Contextual Electronics! This looks like a resource that fits the bill for what I was looking for almost exactly. > you'll need to dive into firmware and higher level software on the web side of th
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by tim-- 6y ago
I am slowly getting the hang of Rust, and am somewhat proficient in C++ and C.
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> 1st step is to make sure it already doesn't exist. Yeah, but then I don't learn how to build the device that I would really like to build at home, right? Just because something already exists; doesn't mean that other peo
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Ask HN: What is the best way to learn how to build your own hardware?
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by tim-- 6y ago
It's worth pointing out that this is funded by AMPRNet, the people who sold 44.192.0.0/10 to Amazon a few years ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20477670 )
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by tim-- 6y ago
The stores that remain in Australia don't even belong to Starbucks popper. https://insideretail.com.au/news/7-eleven-buys-starbucks-201...
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by tim-- 6y ago
The Australian Associated Press is a news wire service, similar to AP or Reuters. It did not disappear because it went bankrupt. AAP had three owners, Nine, News Corp (~95% ownership between them) and SWM (Seven West Media). This year, when
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by tim-- 6y ago
You can unlock the bootloader on many Galaxy phones by going into Developer Settings and turn on OEM unlocking.
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by tim-- 6y ago
Apple will still support Intel for the next five years, if not longer. I'm not sure if this is a problem for today.
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by tim-- 6y ago
I think that's the point. AMD sells compute power at a lower price point than Intel. If AMD can continue to lower the retail price of CPUs, they will chip away further at Intel's market share. Margin means nothing if people don&#x
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by tim-- 6y ago
Didn't they help Attachmate buy Novell (SUSE)? Microsoft had a lot of support for SUSE-specific products around that time, like SLES Support in System Center ( https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents&#x2F
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by tim-- 6y ago
They (Microsoft) already have a Linux distribution. Azure Cloud Switch[0]. It does remind me of the old Microsoft Linux joke ( http://www.mslinux.org/ ) of the early 2000's, which has aged more poorly then a younger me w
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by tim-- 6y ago
For CPUID, it makes sense. GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD AppleSilicon
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by tim-- 6y ago
And the list is seriously long, too: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...
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by tim-- 6y ago
Twillio has this, but it is crazy difficult to do DIY something in the real world.
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by tim-- 6y ago
Historically you are correct, yes. I should have had an asterisk and explanation next to 'always'. The fun fact that this also brings up is that the KDE Free Qt Foundation also means that if Qt does not keep supporting open source
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by tim-- 6y ago
Funnily enough, this came up in a similar comment earlier today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319868 It's important to note that Qt is only talking about the commercial LTS release, and not the open source ve

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