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by trelane 2y ago
You are forgetting a vital element: the C-suite must want to plow the money into research instead of lining their yachts and various houses with it.
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by trelane 2y ago
I agree that a better screen would be great, and walk-in service anywhere in the world would be fantastic. But I want a Linux laptop, not Windows or OSX. I also want a computer that obeys me , not some megacorp (not unrelated to the prev
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by trelane 2y ago
Ouch. Maybe 2025 will finally be the year of Windows on the desktop!
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by trelane 2y ago
The trick to running Linux on the Microsoft Surface line is to not. > Things have improved over time but when I was using my Surface Pro 4, Linux support was still pretty lacking I don't know why you would be surprised that Micros
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by trelane 2y ago
Standby doesn't work on Windows?
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by trelane 2y ago
That seems likely. I know that firmware is one of the big differences between System76 laptops and the version that Clevo subsequently offers with Windows. I think the chips can vary sometimes too. Just from an ACPI perspective, I'd ex
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by trelane 2y ago
Linux support for laptops is fine. Getting an OS to work well on hardware requires a whole team of people called system integrators. Just slapping Linux on a Windows laptop and expecting it to work is naive. If you want a better Linux exp
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by trelane 2y ago
Interesting that slapping Linux on a Windows computer doesn't work well. I wonder how OSX would fare.
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by trelane 2y ago
The end conclusion was "having a single superdominant proprietary browser is stupid." This probably extends to other communications software like productivity apps. The only reason the Web exists as it does now is because of Firef
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by trelane 2y ago
No, LibreOffice (and Apache OpenOffice, but Apache OpenOffice is pretty much dead and nobody should use it) are descended from Sun's OpenOffice.org, which is descended from their acquisition of StarOffice. See https://en.wik
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by trelane 2y ago
Nice. I was about to wonder what firefox derivatives were about. Then I realized I could find it myself: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browsers_based_on_Fire...
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by trelane 2y ago
Or, better yet, the compilation config parameters.
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by trelane 2y ago
My head is spinning trying to understand the units in that headline.
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by trelane 2y ago
Or, as Monty Python has rightly pointed out, "it's only a model."
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by trelane 2y ago
If you care that much, you use intrinsics, asm in the C file, or asm to create an object you call into. Most of the code doesn't need nearly that level of optimization, so you write it in a higher level language. Making your own compil
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by trelane 2y ago
Yes: https://blog.playstation.com/archive/2010/03/29/ps3-firmware... (From wikipedia references)
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by trelane 2y ago
System76 is by far the best that I have found. No litany of kludges to make your Windows laptop mostly functional (e.g. no need to have kernel parameters to work around buggy hardware) No need to look compatibility tables and install guides
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by trelane 2y ago
Is the source available? Is it locked, or can we use our own firmware?
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by trelane 2y ago
Yes, twitter et al. are types of "microblogging," which is itself a type of blogging.
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by trelane 2y ago
This sounds a lot like what an RSS feed is supposed to achieve. "What I'm doing now" is a lot of the original point of a blog (web log). The way one keeps up to date is having a "current" link to the most recent ite
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by trelane 2y ago
I don't know. I phrased it like that due to lack of data.
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by trelane 2y ago
This sounds a lot like small midwestern towns, at least a few decades ago.
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by trelane 2y ago
That and that the manufacturer has worked to ensure that at least some version of Linux works on it well, i.e. has done the systems integration work. Otherwise it can be a death of a thousand paper cuts, where things kind of mostly work,
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by trelane 2y ago
They might be "known" (recent experience may vary. mine sure did) but if you can't get support for the pre-installed Linux, you're just asking for pain.
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by trelane 2y ago
Perhaps in Oz. In the States, however, this is the correct usage. Being native or even indigenous does not prevent it from being a weed.
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by trelane 2y ago
Thanks for pointing out the speeling error. I think we agree on the terms "invasive," "endemic," and "indigenous." We part ways on the meaning of "weed." To my understanding, a weed is simply a plant
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by trelane 2y ago
No, invasive species are a type of weed; not all weeds are invasive (i.e. non indiginous)
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by trelane 2y ago
Also, "Wir danken Ihnen für Ihr Unternehmen?" Really?!
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by trelane 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_colla... was not 2 months ago. > Its not a silver bullet but oh boy does it always s
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by trelane 2y ago
> You don't see bridges falling in US regularly killing tons of folks, do you. Falling yes. Killing is hit-or miss. I would be surprised if the reasons bridges are failing due to lack of maintenance is entirely unrelated to the cost

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