aosmond

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by aosmond 3y ago
I bought a Netgear WAX202 and been pretty happy with it. At the time I bought it, I found it difficult to find many other 802.11ax models supported by OpenWRT here in Canada. I was also happy that it supported 802.11ax on both 5 GHz and 2.4
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by aosmond 4y ago
How about ceramic pans?
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by aosmond 4y ago
Oh for sure, I figured it was a very likely outcome that I would end up laid off. I just didn't know when/how. By that point, I had whittled down spending to ~30% of my net income prior to layoffs, without any tangible sacrifice (
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by aosmond 4y ago
I lost my job at BlackBerry in spring 2014. I'm not sure how many rounds happened before that. At least a dozen. The company shed thousands and thousands of us as it entered decline. Thankfully I had no children, no mortgage and lived
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by aosmond 5y ago
I'm not sure battery life is going to be worse just because it has a smaller battery. At a constant DPI, the CPU/GPU doesn't have as much work to do to paint with a smaller screen, not to mention the screen itself consuming l
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by aosmond 5y ago
No consequences. I think my opinion truly hit the gutter when I got that boss from hell :).
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by aosmond 5y ago
As I once told a boss who tried to cancel my already approved vacation in a former job/company, you can't stop me from going. You can only stop me from coming back. Let me know which you prefer. (I really needed that vacation and
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by aosmond 5y ago
I am always amazed at the level of denial among the people. I speak of the comments to this article, not the young people in question. The IPCC reports are quite conservative. The reason the 2021 reports were so dire is because they began i
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by aosmond 5y ago
That is out of date, yes. It was turned on in bug 1701977. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701977 Edit: Actually this is a little incomplete. It is still turned off with XWayland in late beta and release. So u
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by aosmond 5y ago
VAAPI requires DMABuf, which requires EGL. We want to ship hardware acceleration using EGL instead of GLX, but CI issues have held it up (we are otherwise pretty much there for testing on nightly).
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by aosmond 5y ago
As of bug 1702301 [1], and Firefox 89 currently in beta, we are shipping hardware accelerated WebRender by default on Intel (Mesa 17+), AMD (Mesa 17+) and NVIDIA (Mesa 18.2+, Binary driver 460.32.03+) GPUs, as well as lifting the desktop re
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by aosmond 6y ago
That brings me back. I worked on it way back when. The IMS stack works over WiFi too; it could probably work with any generic SIP provider and hook into the native phone app.
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by aosmond 6y ago
Also, we have it enabled in nightly and beta for many more configurations already :). There are many bugs to fix, but we're working through them. This is the exact same treatment we gave Windows and OSX in previous releases this year.