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91.
by vetinari 2y ago
More like RAM can be sold separately. The computer itself would sell for the same amount whether with ram or not.
92.
by vetinari 2y ago
Similarly, Samsung Galaxy devices integrate with Windows out of the box (Phone link / Link to Windows).
93.
by vetinari 2y ago
For physical linear address, it would be one digit (4-bits) longer (-> 0xb8000); when the segment:offset is combined, the result is 20-bit address.
94.
by vetinari 2y ago
In real mode addressing and graphic card in text mode, your video memory started at absolute address 0xb800:0x0000. It was an two-dimensional array, where you could poke and whatever you changed here, was reflected immediately on the displa
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by vetinari 2y ago
This seems to be changing; I'm getting the two rows with shows I don't care about and cannot be disabled in Europe too.
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by vetinari 2y ago
It is annoyance, but for now, there's a workaround (on Nvidia Shield): disable auto updates in Play Store, uninstall Android TV Home updates. You will get the old launcher, without nagging you about stuff you have no interest in.
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by vetinari 2y ago
The OSS was inadequate the same day, when it was introduced; it couldn't even handle hardware available at the time (GUS, for example). It was really just mapping of the Soundblaster to a device file. For a single process, of course, a
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by vetinari 2y ago
Patents. To distribute the codec itself or content, you might have to pay patent fees. For codecs, they are not flat fee[1], but per piece shipped. Which obviously, presents a problem for linux distributions. Even if they had money, they c
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by vetinari 2y ago
> if you want access you have to pay to get access Do you? Did you try https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/ ? (I didn't, yet, so I don't know; for now, I'm happy with daylightmap, but that is g
100.
by vetinari 2y ago
At this day and age there should not be a system without an audio daemon. At least not one, that is not broken. Apps should not certainly accommodate for broken systems, and forcing workarounds for the correct ones.
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by vetinari 2y ago
No, because there's nothing to fix (at the system side). Apps should use the right API from the right layer; when they skip something, no wonder they will miss whatever the skipped layer provides. When they do not need exclusive access
102.
by vetinari 2y ago
> I am unclear why Jaroslav Kyocera chose to make ALSA single-client, but Apples CoreAudio multi-client driver model is the right way to do digital audio on general-purpose computing devices running multi-tasking OS'es on applicatio
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by vetinari 2y ago
But then you have to tax the donation as your income; after that, you can redistribute and the receiving party has to tax it again... that's what charities are shielded against. By donating directly, there's one income tax layer r
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by vetinari 2y ago
> They could strong-arm recalcitrant customers, but they don't. They really can't. When the customers have to redo their stack, they might do that in a way that doesn't need Microsoft at all.
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by vetinari 2y ago
1) It is not enterprise version of Windows; it is any version capable of GPO (so Pro applies too, Home doesn't). 2) it is not disabling them; it is approving or rejecting them (or even holding up the decision indefinitely). You can do
106.
by vetinari 2y ago
> 1) the prevailing majority of laptop and desktop PC installations (home, business and enterprise) are not Windows Server; They are not, but the point is elsewhere: that Windows Server is going to provide the WSUS service to your networ
107.
by vetinari 2y ago
Foliate itself is about 12 MB. However, it needs flatpak runtime. If you already have different flatpak apps, this is not an issue, it is going to be shared with them, but if this is going to be your first-and-only flatpak app, you need to
108.
by vetinari 2y ago
Just be aware, that music player without file access won't be able to traverse/list directories, so playlists won't work. This is a limitation of any file-picker based file access (e.g. flatpak applications on linux, accessin
109.
by vetinari 2y ago
You guys must be using some different X11 than the rest of us. Basically, with X11 and hidpi, all you can do is to set up the system to announce dpi with certain value and hope, that the clients will cope. Some can (I know of exactly two of
110.
by vetinari 2y ago
> Microsoft's solution was to force the updates unconditionally upon everybody with very few opportunities to opt out (for large enterprise customers only). Not a Microsoft's fan, but this is not true. Everyone who has Windows
111.
by vetinari 2y ago
If there's an issue with Nvidia/Wayland and there isn't with AMD/Wayland or Intel/Wayland, it is Nvidia issue then, not Wayland one.
112.
by vetinari 2y ago
Even that single monitor can be hidpi, vrr or hdr (this one is still wip).
113.
by vetinari 2y ago
> Mozilla in particular is frequently pulling crap like this and getting flak for it. They have to constantly apologise and back track. After a while you’d expect they learned something. Well, they learned: they fuck up, backtrack &
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by vetinari 2y ago
Machines with UEFI support http boot since around ~2017. Then you can forget special vulnerable server (tftp) and just use plain webserver, together with dns (and have it in different subnet, if necessary).
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by vetinari 2y ago
Server machines usually came with an SD-card slot on the board (and with ability to boot from it). This was often used for ESXi-like environments, which also required dedicated device for themselves. There are also SATA-DOMs or USB-DOMs. Yo
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by vetinari 2y ago
FYI. it's M.2 connector that can support SATA or PCIe (or even USB, with A or E key). NVMe is a protocol or command set that runs over some physical interface, like PCIe, RDMA, FC or TCP. So you can have M.2 SATA (not NVMe) or M.2 PCIe
117.
by vetinari 2y ago
Set up a veto on your network share ( https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smb.conf.5... ).
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by vetinari 2y ago
Your synology has its own way to store xattrs and alternate file streams, in the @eaDir, so some of the turds may be dropped by your windows or mac client machine. But yes, it also does few of its own things for the other software running o
119.
by vetinari 2y ago
It is a samba feature, called veto. You can define there, what you don't want on your shares, starting from .DS_Store and Thumbs.db, to *.mp3, for example.
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by vetinari 2y ago
Or those on network volumes or removable media. When somebody else on other machine removes them, your local database is out of sync pronto.

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