_piif

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by _piif 3y ago
Only if they make use of the same version of electron. Also apps tend to statically link their libs nowadays to reduce the amount of runtime dependencies from what I've seen. And I'm pretty sure apps distributed through flatpak an
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by _piif 3y ago
I understood it as them turning down an offer despite the lucrative salary, not because of it. Probably because the circumstances were not quite what they were hoping for.
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by _piif 3y ago
Considering Meta presumably wouldn't be able to advertise alternative sources for downloading their app inside the app store (which is also the case on the play store) I simply can't imagine them or any of the other big developers
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by _piif 3y ago
There is a shortage of primary driver-ready mobile computing devices which respect the user's privacy. The choices here are Android devices with custom ROMs + microG and daily prayers that Google doesn't go out of their way to bre
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by _piif 3y ago
> And no sandboxing isn’t the solution here. Facebook will just find ways around it. They did some pretty egregious bullshit and had consumers side-loading privacy-violating apps via their corporate account. Apple very publicly revoked t
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by _piif 3y ago
Yes, they should. (Obviously not but OP's argument is moot anyways as waterproofing and a replaceable battery are not mutually exclusive, we already had phones and other devices with both)
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by _piif 3y ago
Not everyone does everything with the expectation of seeing their bank account inflated in return. Sometimes people work on things just for the gist of it and I always appreciate seeing something driven solely by legitimate enthusism. :)
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by _piif 3y ago
Not sure I understand. Zram allows you to store pages in a compressed fashion to memory to prevent or at least delay until the OOM kicks in and to keep hold of cached files for longer to prevent needless disk reads. Considering the tradeoff
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by _piif 3y ago
You are right. I've heard similar stories about BattlEye in the past which I assumed might just have been a decision they've reverted since but could've very well been an option up to game devs to enable. Thankfully not many
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by _piif 3y ago
The common ones such as EAC, BattlEye and VAC don't prevent you from running the corresponding games in a VM.
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by _piif 3y ago
The fact that we have normalized that behavior to the point of having to explain the concept of not wanting to give out data like candy is so wild to me
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by _piif 3y ago
I agree. It's hard for me to get excited about anything tech companies output nowadays as more than likely it will be surveillance, ad, upsell and subscription-driven with growth and profits triumphing any regards and respect for the e
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by _piif 3y ago
> But Apple does ship powerful GPUs. In fact, the M2 Max is probably the most or second most powerful GPU on laptops. But games aren't optimized for Metal nor ARM, so they run slower than Nvidia laptop GPUs. The most powerful iGPU l
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by _piif 3y ago
There is a pretty big gap between only letting children play games all day and allowing them to participate in high risk labour unsupervised and without special protections.
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by _piif 3y ago
The nix store in of itself should be highly compressible. Here's the output of "compsize -x /nix/store" on my BTRFS root with compress-force=zstd:6 Processed 974464 files, 327323 regular extents (751261 refs), 5
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by _piif 3y ago
To not force every user to build (potentially all) derivations which is very time consuming, especially considering the way Nix derivations work which requires a rebuild each time a dependency changes in any way meaning something like a gli
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by _piif 3y ago
Which I'm glad has been the case here since it results in the most stable and trouble-free Linux distro and package manager I have ever used. Complete with full source reproducibility for everyone to top it off. It'd be hard to co
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by _piif 3y ago
> I joined a gym 4 years ago, and a lot of my friends now I've met through that gym. Is it common for strangers to actually approach each other in the gym? At least here everyone goes from machine to machine listening to music and m
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by _piif 3y ago
They're currently on sale for a few bucks on Steam too.
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by _piif 3y ago
Not particularly easy when they're the only ones who have even the slightest bit of respect for the privacy of their users in the mobile market. The other choices that come to my mind are either: - Normal Google Android, which is just
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by _piif 3y ago
Also /usr/bin/env bash is required on NixOS and Guix, neither of which have /bin/bash.
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by _piif 3y ago
The entire point is that yes, all of them are doing it and Apple isn't this golden savior among them that some make them out to be. They trump everyone else in certain aspects like longevity of software updates and privacy, doesn'
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by _piif 3y ago
Considering Valve's track record with the Index and its build quality issues I'm not sure I fully trust them to build something that's lasting either. It's only been a year, guess I will see if my Deck spontaneously fall
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by _piif 3y ago
I was not aware this was the case, TIL!
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by _piif 3y ago
It's what allowed me to make the jump to NixOS without having to give up much - every userspace program that isn't packaged up or has quirks along with anything gaming related where I consistently want the newest and greatest runs
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by _piif 3y ago
Also it's actually only a 15% cut for the vast majority of developers. Shouldn't matter either way once Apple is forced to allow sideloading.
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by _piif 3y ago
I wish. I will certainly do my part the next time I consider buying a printer but it's been shown again and again that the vast majority of people will always put comfort (and productivity) over ideology. I don't expect any meanin
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by _piif 3y ago
The issue is that also disables many of the interesting features of BTRFS for those files. No checksumming, no snapshots and no compression. In comparison ZFS handles these features just fine for those kinds of files without the enormous pe
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by _piif 3y ago
Block cloning support has indeed recently landed in git and already allows for reflinks under FreeBSD. Still has to be wired up for Linux though.
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by _piif 3y ago
> It’s not opt-in, it’s the default. I meant Screen Time which lets you disable in-app purchases for children, not authentification which just requires you to enter your password for validation against accidental purchases. That was a mi

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