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by trome 10y ago
Damn, your post came across as extremely crunchy. I get that you think all of us on the west coast of the US are expecting $XXXk a year, but that both is and isn't the case depending on where & what you do. For example, in Seattle
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by trome 10y ago
Are you I/O limited perchance? I have a really low end x100e, and even that doesn't stutter. Your E1-2100 should be head and shoulders above it performance wise, hopefully it is less of a space heater too (tho the x100e gets 5hrs
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by trome 10y ago
I can understand the impression, but having owned similar chips to what he described, at that price/performance point you are gonna get within 20min of the battery life of either of those chips with a good condition used Thinkpad.
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by trome 10y ago
Unlikely, at peak times most alternate routes are already at or above capacity, energy & navigation dropping in cost will not make more road capacity suddenly appear, and the point of diminishing returns with road capacity is very low.
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by trome 10y ago
Omg yes, any kind of background hum or distorted comfort noise is the absolute bane of telephony, having experienced it on a few messed up landlines before.
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by trome 10y ago
The non-free repository is well maintained, it is not as if Debian is Trisquel or something, the Debian Developers are reasonable people.
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by trome 10y ago
Why not get a T420 then? I've been picking them up locally for sub-$100 and they'll blow an E1-2100 or a Z3735F out of the water any day.
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by trome 10y ago
Debian works too, just FYI.
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by trome 10y ago
Definitely, if there was another viable smartphone platform I'd be all over it, cause Android is a burning dumpster fire that Google has no intention of cleaning up. Funnily enough, Microsoft with the same OEMs (Samsung, LG, HTC, etc)
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by trome 10y ago
Sure, they could afford to hire support personnel, but they would be deluged with inquiries on day 1, even if less than 1 percent of Google's users contacted them every 5 years.
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by trome 10y ago
VoIP usually isn't a tin can (see VoLTE, Google Voice, 99% of VoIP providers), its just some call centers in international locations use g729 which wrecks audio quality & is not fault tolerant, thus when you get an AT&T rep in
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by trome 10y ago
Yeah, the outlook for AMD is poor, but their new ARM chips at least look appealing, with 2x 10GBe on the SOC at well below market price.
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by trome 10y ago
Look at it from Google's perspective, unless you are pushing volume and have a dedicated account manager, they will not help you, it'd cost too much for them to do so.
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by trome 10y ago
True, but what has been accomplished with the Linux Sunxi community is a shortening of that loop to bring up new boards with modern kernels, the Pine A64 for example took only a year to gain support[1], and that was around the time they act
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by trome 10y ago
We aren't their primary customers, advertisers are. If its free (Google Search, Gmail, Youtube, etc) you are the product.
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by trome 10y ago
This wasn't an open source driver, this was a hardware abstraction layer that they wanted in the kernel so their Windows driver could be distributed under a proprietary license and used without a kernel recompile. A year ago AMD said t
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by trome 10y ago
Hell, even Rockchip, Allwinner and Sony can do it, Qualcomm, Mediatek, Google and Samsung are just not doing it because they are able to skate by without doing it. The funny part is on Windows Phone, Microsoft learned from the kernel develo
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by trome 10y ago
This was pitched by AMD as "Yeah, our new proprietary driver can use the same kernel stub as the libre driver" with minor modifications a year ago, and instead what was delivered was a giant HAL that only AMD can maintain. I get w
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by trome 10y ago
AMD could likely allocate the resources, but what will they cut to do so? At this point they are a token competitor to Intel and are losing money and have been losing money for years, so how much of their financial runway are they willing t
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by trome 10y ago
Your link is broken, below is the correct one. More importantly, Intel wants AMD to stay alive and keep vaguely competing with them since they avoid significantly worse anti-trust rulings in the future (here is a current one[1]) due to ther
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by trome 10y ago
There would likely be vehicle sharing benefits, but self driving cars are apt to make traffic worse. Your average 8 lane freeway will still only be able to carry 11k cars an hour assuming everyone has minimal stopping distance & is driv
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by trome 10y ago
Yeah, I doubt that this code dump will stimulate a community to form in a legally safe way similar to the Linux kernel or GnuPGP, the choices of BSD and CC-ShareAlike-NonCommercial are likely to encourage manufacturers to pull a Sony and ta
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by trome 10y ago
Amazon and others are trying this with food delivery, package handling, etc, and either the industry is smaller than the newcomers think it is (food delivery) or the industry is already so low cost that it can't be scaled well unless y
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by trome 10y ago
We could do stretching then when the user tries to enbiggen it, that way they don't get deanonymized!
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by trome 10y ago
Perhaps a solution all on an OrangePi 2E or something similar would be better, since then you have a libre platform with no blobs, and then you can theme it to be close to Windows. Ideally Tails would move in the direction of Signal Private