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by vetinari 4y ago
You could do things correctly in Python 2, but as soon as you used any third-party library in your project, chances were it is going to explode underneath you anyway. In the early 2000s, I maintained an py2, wxPython app with the users ha
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by vetinari 4y ago
> My surprise is that Android is the "other one" and not Windows Phone. I'm not. Microsoft, with WP, copied the weak things from iOS (like being locked down, but also with very poor walled garden; single platform, Snapdrag
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I would put an emphasis on "workable". XP Tablet Edition was not that.
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by vetinari 4y ago
It does for a long time. However, applications that just grabbed X11 framebuffer won't work. They have to use respective APIs with user control ("portals") for that. Some do (Chrome, Firefox), some don't (MS Teams).
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> why did not wlroots work with nvidia drivers? Because nvidia drivers traditionally didn't provide APIs that sway and other wayland compositors expected (drm, dmabuf, atomic) and tried to do it's own things (EGLStreams). For c
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by vetinari 4y ago
> A 1GbE switch with 8 ports needs to be built with 8Gb throughput It needs 16 Gb switching capacity; it is duplex. > What home users need is a 10GbE hub. 10GbE connections between devices but really only one at a time. Switches are o
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by vetinari 4y ago
It is hidden, but it is there: vs_buildtools.exe --layout c:\where\you\want\the\entire\installer --lang en-US Have enoughh space there, current 2019 release is ~40 GB and 2022 is ~35 GB. It is updated each month, you can use the sa
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> and shamed for much of the same on HN Deservedly. If there was a normal market, or at least access to spare parts, there would be no need for donor devices.
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by vetinari 4y ago
Several times, not just once. iPhone 3G was made unusable by iOS 4.
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It is just an example, I have similar stories in other industries. European customers are very conservative, they won't even talk to you if you don't have several references in the same industry. Which is hard, when you are starti
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by vetinari 4y ago
They might update their kernel, just not the kernel version. They seem to be using SoCs in their devices and then respective BSPs by the SoC vendor, which are notorious for not being updated for a new kernel. I have one of the infamous Atom
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by vetinari 4y ago
Was it a SMR drive, by a chance? You can make those crawl with any filesystem. I even had one that couldn't finish initial Time Machine backup.
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by vetinari 4y ago
At a time, it was the default, and you had to go out of your way to use /dev/disk/by-id (you had to create your pool, export it, and then import it by id), only to be hit by another issue, where when preparing grub, it was lo
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by vetinari 4y ago
The '0' says it exactly: the amount of data you are left with, once one of the drives fails.
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by vetinari 4y ago
Chicken and egg problem. Most of these services do not want to be managed generically, they want to force themselves on the user. Some sync services need to keep their brand on the screen, after all. Specifically syncing services do not nee
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by vetinari 4y ago
And hopefully never will. Systray is a wart, abused by too many applications. They should take the android approach, background tasks that cannot have UI and have to communicate with a frontend, which for a change cannot be left hanging in
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by vetinari 4y ago
I have an older Ivy-bridge laptop from 2012 (Thinkpad T430s, 16 GB RAM, SSD) and it does indeed shutter occasionally in animations - I assume it tries to upload some asset for the GPU and it misses the presentation time. The overall perform
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by vetinari 4y ago
Not really; Fedora 37 with GNOME 43 inside a VM with 4 GB/no swap uses 1.9 GB RAM for a fully running desktop.
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by vetinari 4y ago
It's not that bad (this was situation some time ago, might be even better today): Orange does support IPv6 on FTTH and DSL (do not know about mobile network); they use DS lite and allow user port mapping for IPv4 (!), provide /56
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by vetinari 4y ago
> having X or Gnome or whatnot break during an update. This happened exactly once (nvidia driver update killed x as it tried to reload the kernel driver). Still better than system update deleting all your documents, right? (yes, I know t
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by vetinari 4y ago
Unfortunately, multiple ISPs (PODA, Vodafone-ex-UPC) are doing it wrong and they do not seem to be bothered by it or even trying to fix it.
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by vetinari 4y ago
And they were right; nobody should use DHCP with IPv6. It is like bringing horse carts into space age.
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by vetinari 4y ago
Chrome does default to x11, but it is easily changeable via chrome://flags. With other electron apps, it depends. Some are easy, some are not. The notably difficult one is vscode, which handles its args itself, ignores (electron|c
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by vetinari 4y ago
In Fedora, the 37 release (released about two weeks ago) is the first time ever I got OpenCL working on Vega, via rocm-opencl. Until 37, rocm was not packaged at all, and the upstream packages support only Ubuntu and CentOS. Even with 37, r
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> Federal wiretap law can compel companies to make it easy for the government to get data via a warrant Not the same thing. The wiretap law cannot compel any company; only licensed telcos. These companies, in exchange for license to be
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They will lose part of their history and cultural heritage. The younger generations won't be able to read the older works, so they will be forgotten. ~100 years ago, Turkey switched from Arabic to Latin; you can study the impact.
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Personally, I'm using a small Synology NAS and the Contact and Calendar servers that Synology provides. It solves the problem for being a host for multiple devices, with my laptop not having to be on, or even present, at all times. Als
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by vetinari 4y ago
But is there a demand for desktop-based sync? You can run your caldav/carddav service in your local network, if you are so inclined. You will get local sync, and the client authors do not have to build specific desktop-based tools. I f
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> that it doesn't have the capacity to make itself, including basic military and basic consumer goods, They do have capacity to fully cover their entire military needs. For consumer goods, they are trading with China, India and othe
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by vetinari 4y ago
Western reports have to be taken with grain of salt; it was demonstrated that western journalists know exactly zero about the war and what you read is more wishful thinking than news. For example, there were reports of Russia running out of

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