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by bostand 9y ago
The surface support sounds interesting. Has anyone here tried that?
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by bostand 9y ago
Same here, 2017 unity is fast, stable and beautiful. I hope this move results in the same improvements coming to gnome. but I'm not upgrading for now.
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by bostand 9y ago
I have, it has is quirks. With that said, use their smartwatches. The UI is so much better than the competition it's not even funny. And then you have Samsung pay card emulation magic....
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by bostand 9y ago
Tizen on smartwatch is pretty awesome. Imho its miles ahead of the other watch OSes
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by bostand 9y ago
Another vote for termux! It's specially useful on chromeos
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by bostand 9y ago
Please don't. It's a tablet, it needs some bezels.
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by bostand 9y ago
But if that is all your care about you can by a generic PC with similar specs for 1/3 of the price of the MBP. see, that argument goes both ways.
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by bostand 9y ago
I don't think your definition of success matches theirs. People have different values, some value openness above market share. --- Speaking of openness, and since you mentioned ios: apple recently unpublished a company's entire ca
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by bostand 9y ago
Define success. Btw, Linux on desktop is used by many large tech companies...
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by bostand 9y ago
But can it replace mg?
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by bostand 9y ago
Emacs has a GUI with icons and menus and tooltips and all that. Isn't that what a true beginner would use anyway instead of the terminal version?
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by bostand 9y ago
Google is being fined by EU for their business practices in EU. Telia is being fined for their business practices in a third country. Not defending anyone, but can't you see this is a dangerous path? What would happen if Saudi Arabia f
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by bostand 9y ago
Telia is paying billions to US for conducting business in Uzbekistan in the only way it can be done. please remember this next time EU fines Google.
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by bostand 9y ago
I don't think Google cares about tablets anymore. But I would love to see an updated nexus 7!
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by bostand 9y ago
This is a valid concern, I don't understand why you are getting downvoted.
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by bostand 9y ago
Kind of related: at Google IO this year all speakers were using macbooks, but i have heard that a lot of teams have transitioned to chromebooks. Maybe macbooks are preferred for presentations as many projector systems have problem with Wind
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by bostand 9y ago
I don't get these mechanical keyboards. Maybe it's a reaction to all those shallow laptop keyboards, which i as a thinkpad user have not encountered... Or maybe its a gamer thing?
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by bostand 9y ago
is this significantly different from "tig"?
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by bostand 9y ago
Why didn't he use left-pad.io? An opportunity lost if you ask me.
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by bostand 9y ago
Give me xwindows support in termux and I will happily ditch every other os.
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by bostand 9y ago
And with 8.0 we will start to see commercial roms with even better and longer support Source: Paul oBrien
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by bostand 9y ago
I don't mind the company, but I don't like that a product of a single company has become the defacto communication channel for tech people. In many gatherings speakers identify themselves by twitter handles instead of email. Do yo
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by bostand 9y ago
I just learned about cbor. Does cbor have this issue too?
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by bostand 9y ago
My solution to this is to not use my phone for this stuff. I only log into the site from a desktop browser. No point reading messages when I'm AFK anyway.
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by bostand 9y ago
Stop that! You cannot judge battery life after only a few days, specially after an update.
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by bostand 9y ago
Needed for those smooth animations in the UI. Yes, animations. Seriously, this iron got style.
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by bostand 9y ago
Xprivacy?/
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by bostand 9y ago
It's not all black and white I'm reading your comment on my smartphone, while in a bathroom, while on a conference trip.
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by bostand 9y ago
This is The Sun. Don't expect quality journalism... PS. Google also can access your emails. Also knows about everyone in your contact list. They also know what video you watch on YouTube. Oh the horrors
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by bostand 9y ago
IIRc docker runs as root while lxd runs as a normal user. I think the Ubuntu wiki has some articles about lxd security.

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