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by trm42 11y ago
Even though Sailfish OS is quite nice and Linuxy, the original Jolla phone was published on 2013 and even then its hardware wasn't that good (especially the display), so until there's some modern hardware actually running Sailfish
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by trm42 11y ago
Using one of those newer Retina MBPs which one cannot be upgraded in any way. The only disk expansion for these is the micro sdhc card hack (like this: http://9to5mac.com/2014/05/23/three-hacks-for-adding-perm
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by trm42 11y ago
Don't have any experience with PCI compliance but I assume this kind of stuff _should_ remove the most idiotic security holes.
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by trm42 11y ago
So the main point seems to be MS has killed modern.ie -site and redirect to this dev.windows.com site. Still useful once in a while although the big disk images are PITA to download and setup. I have better uses for my laptop SSD than to fi
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by trm42 11y ago
Maybe there should be some kind of IoT security standards or maybe some Security Company testing and handling "Secure IoT device" rubber stamps to every tested and compliant device? This is because every company that has been maki
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by trm42 11y ago
Urk, I take it you haven't used Lync outside of Windows? The Mac version is horrible mixture of Silverlight+HTML5+Standalone App in which none of the mentioned pieces can't handle the full functionality. On the other hand Skype an
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by trm42 11y ago
They have done awesome job but the Jolla Phone is old (and was low-end even when it was published compared to its price) and their tablet crowdsourcing project suffered quite badly as they lost some other funding for a moment and their devi
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by trm42 11y ago
And basically developers needed to remake (more or less) the apps from WP7.* to WP8. Nowadays they need to port apps from WP or from Desktop Windows to Windows Universal Apps, so what's the point if nobody's using those apps? :D
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by trm42 11y ago
The UX design of the P* line and M600 was really something at the day. The last ones P1i and M600 started converting more and more of the UI to finger touch instead of stylus control. And it ran so smoothly on nowadays obsoleted hardware &l
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by trm42 11y ago
I would like to have touch-phone with a full QWERTY keyboard. Just like the dev-only Nokia N950 ;-) In hardware design sense it's really well engineered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N950
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by trm42 11y ago
According to rumors Nokia had lots of discussion with MS and Google about which platform they should take. Got the impression that the proposition from MS was somehow better and at least initially gave more room to move for Nokia. Later on
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by trm42 11y ago
From the end-user perspective both Maemo and Meego phones felt really good but the Meego seemed to have a bit more innovative and more fluid UX. Liked both of them and would've gladly bought them if there would've been any promise
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by trm42 11y ago
The hardware of N95 was the pinnacle of Nokia engineering. They stuffed lots of new stuff there like A-GPS receiver, accelerometer, 3D-accelerated GPU, lots of flash storage, better camera etc but the Symbian UX was horrible (it was from th
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by trm42 11y ago
One of the things Apple changed was how the software was perceived for phones. Nokia (or the others) didn't update that much the firmwares for the old models. They just fixed the problems and added features to the new models. They were
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by trm42 11y ago
Yep that was one their problems. Bought an used Sony Ericsson P800 running UIQ and used it for years because it had ten times more ram than new Nokia Symbian phones in 2005-2007. Something like 10 MB vs 128. Of course the UIQ system was iPh
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by trm42 11y ago
It seems they are keeping Bada -> Tizen around just to have some leverage over Google. If some negoatiations are really tough with Google, they can say "hey, let's forget the whole thing and we'll start using Tizen instead
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by trm42 11y ago
Nowadays QT is doing well with LGPL + Commercial licensing. It's really good thing Nokia didn't hug it to death.
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by trm42 11y ago
The management got too rosy picture of what Windows Phone 7 was (a quick hackish MVP, nothing more, like the first iPhone few years earlier) and they were really surprised when upgrade path to Windows Phone 8 was really hard.
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by trm42 11y ago
Well it was build on top of normal Linux tool chain instead of Java, but it was really easy to use, responsive and had all the smart phone features of that day. Much better than Android 2.2 which was the hot thing then. Quite close to iPhon
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by trm42 11y ago
Nokia had long term plan which looked promising: They bought first Trolltech for QT and after that started doing Meego* (albeit too slowly) but the idea was to have one development platform for all their new and old phone platforms and QT f
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by trm42 11y ago
Based on the screenshots, it's amazing how little the Mac System UX has changed between 1.0 -> 6 -> 7.1 (and to some extend even the newer versions, the latter UX changes were mostly theme-remake + little usage helpers). Now it&#
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by trm42 11y ago
Windows for Workgroups 3.11 had their Netbios network protocol support + drivers but you needed additional packages for TCP/IP. At that point most of the games used IPX protocol so you needed another DOS network stack like Novell'
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by trm42 11y ago
Hopefully Facebook moves all sports-related status updates to that app, not interested in people's empty shouting where the ball, puck or fist went.
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by trm42 11y ago
Ouch. Now the archive link says: 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons Wut? :O
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by trm42 11y ago
Just finished my Raspberry Pi 2 -> Macintosh Plus DIY HW project: https://medium.com/@trm42/raspberry-pi-2-macintosh-plus-rasp... ^____^
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Show HN: Macintosh Plus and Raspberry Pi 2 = Raspintosh+(medium.com)
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by trm42 11y ago
Same here. The title could also be "This is how you detect Parkinson's decease OR KGB-agent" :)
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by trm42 11y ago
If it comforts, I'm running my third pair of AKGs in 4 years. First 490, then 495 and now N60 NC. First got 490 warranty replaced with 495 and when they broke, bought N60 as I still prefer AKG sound quality over Boses and the NC got mu
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by trm42 11y ago
I'm using AKG's N60 NC's and they are much better regarding nearby high pitch speech than the older AKG models (495 and 490) but without music/white noise there may be some speech coming through.
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by trm42 11y ago
Been using noise cancelling headphones for the last four years and they make working in a open office a lot better. I just wish people wouldn't tap on the shoulder when I have headphones on. It's a sign of "I'm working o

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