bitsandboots

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by bitsandboots 1y ago
Similar conclusion - they're "losing" if the goal is marketshare and mindshare dominance. If the goal is just to carve their own niche, they're already there. But, if you compare the growth into new spaces Apple did in t
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
Over time I went from 0 doc, 0 automation to putting a lot of thought into both. Projects become a bit of a circus to maintain, and nobody can help you out of it if nothing is documented, and good luck when you forget. Devs aren't the
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
> It's meant to compete with the junky little thing you get with your PC that's wired, with who-knows-what DPI and 3 buttons at best. Of all the strange things Apple decides to compete in, why would Apple be trying to compete w
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
I disagree, but you know having different preferences is fine. I think the trackpad of the macbook is the worst trackpad I've ever used, typing from an m1 mbp right now and wish it had distinct right & left mouse buttons. But the n
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
The US had incredible soft power. You could travel the world and still hear US news, and locals discussing their opinion on the US. US entertainment was inescapable. Now people in other countries are starting to find ways to do without US i
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
Agree with the point but boy, NYC is one of my least favorite cities so it wouldn't be my example of nice places to be. Boston's nice though!
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
Not just stable - also easy to understand when, if ever, something goes wrong. There's very little magic, very little layers of complexity.
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
I clicked expecting a list of cool things to self host. Instead I got a list of ways I would never want to host. Mankind invented BSD jails so that I do not have to tie myself in a knot of container tooling and abstraction.
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
I also find it funny that COBOL is treated as the boogeyman. It's just a language. Any programmer by profession should be capable of learning a language decently in a month, and better within the year. So when people say "all the
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
I agree with you that most consumers probably do want things that are bad for them. I would at least be cautious of services provided by one of the companies with the most anti-trust lawsuits this century, I really don't think they&#x2
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
Yeah, not all hope is lost, but good apps do get delisted for not complying with whatever Google dictates on the Play store, so you have to make good backups of content that only exists there! Which is a really great reason to use f-droid i
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
I don't know why you are relating any of what I said to popularity or the merits of closed source. I guess you misunderstand what I mean by "on life support". Android is unhealthy versus its former self in that it has been in
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
I'd love to expand the term actually, because it's been misused to come to mean that something is community oriented, collaborative, even benevolent. Not even open source, but just the word "open". OpenAI for one. It&#x2
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
As you say, due to banking, this works more or less depending on which country you live in. Some countries have tied their banking to their phones, with apps that use SafetyNet to check how Googled you are. Somehow corporations and nations
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
Android has been bad-faith open source for as long as I can remember. Android is look-but-dont-touch source. Its massive codebase that requires immense resources to build is not open for negotiation, its existence is to serve Google's
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
I think nobody buys mac desktops because apple devices and desktop use cases barely overlap. Worst OS for gaming, they're not upgradable, and probably half the specialty software that demands something more than a laptop is exclusive t
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
Importantly, if laptop makers stuck to screen size rather than overall dimensions, a 11" with the same bezel today would be smaller than an 11" of the past, and that could be too small for a good keyboard for some.
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
- thrifty people who do iterative upgrades You can have a win-win combination of high quality components, high performance components, and a low cost device by reuse and iterative upgrades. - family members of such people Since they may get
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
> Nvidia has a terrible reputation with long term support In what space do they have this reputation? In drivers, I see they're supporting hardware that's 10 years old right now.
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
I'd say the SGX is the "cheapest" only if you're trying to go beyond 96GB. the AMD system is 96GB max for the GPU. The 128GB allocates a minimum of 32GB to the CPU. the Nvidia system is designed to be connected to a seco
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
Benchmarks of what? Memory speed matters for some things but not others. It matters a lot for AI training, but less for AI inference. It matters a lot for games too, but nobody would play a game on this or a mac.
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by bitsandboots 1y ago
I went "huh, they're buying the smart light company from phillips?" Different wiz. And best of luck to the Wiz folks! Whenever I see Google acquisitions I just wonder how long until they end up in the graveyard listing.
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
You'd think Cloudflare would be more helpful in order to draw attention away from people increasingly realizing it has too much power over access to the internet. I'm glad that the developers of Palemoon are standing up for themse
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
I don't use VSCode, that'd be slower too. I just use emacs and tmux. But one category of things that's faster is any linux utility that needs to interact with files. NTFS stores metadata differently making things like "s
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
> My time is very valuable. Same that's why I don't use Windows in a professional setting. Programming in it is slower and doing office work in it is 'fun' when things change for the sake of it.
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
Arrow lake has had quite a messy launch on Windows. Intel, Microsoft, and motherboard makers have made a few changes to prevent crashes and increase performance and performance consistency, especially with regards to single threaded perform
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
By which analytics do you get "still around 4%"? statcouter.com, which currently shows that? Because when you say "still", then put it into the perspective of: On statcounter, it was 3% mid-last year. On steam, it's
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
And this is the amazing fact that needs more study. AMD's been the easy choice for years. Why so slow to adopt? * Consumer/Partner Inertia? * Ability to produce to meet demand? * Support? * Compatibility? Once had an IT person tel
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
As an alternative to electron, using bun as a base sounds nice. But being better than electron is a low bar when it's the source of the laziest, most bloated programs on my system. Also, still waiting for bun to work on freebsd. Patien
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
Relative to when Microsoft intentionally sabotages user experience, sure, but that's a low bar. I'll agree with you more whenever macOS allows me to open more than 1 calculator window at a time, cut files, stop hijacking bluetooth

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