d3Xt3r

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by d3Xt3r 3d ago
Of all the new things in 2026, I wasn't expecting friking Norton coming out with a web browser. Too bad that it's yet another Chromium skin, with integrated AI that no one asked for. Not that I expected any better from Norton tb
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by d3Xt3r 3d ago
Literally just upgraded before seeing this post; I had 31 outdated packages and the first thing I saw was how blazing fast it was! I looked online to see if something changed and saw this post. Speed was my biggest complaint about brew, s
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by d3Xt3r 4d ago
Personally, I'm more interested in a world where a dollar can buy you a million TB of RAM.
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by d3Xt3r 4d ago
For the phone, a good candidate is the Commodore Callback. Runs Linux, deliberately blocks all social media, operates like a semi-dumb phone.
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by d3Xt3r 5d ago
Quick question, is it possible to create/extend tracks longer than 5 minutes, or is that a hard limit?
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by d3Xt3r 5d ago
Would if be possible to set up push notifications for new stories matching a filter - one that's separate to the main filter? Like say, I want to get notified every time an article about "Linux" is posted. But if I go to main
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by d3Xt3r 5d ago
I'm using fourlexboehm's minimal agent[1], it's only 674 lines of C (with comments), which results in a tiny ~10KB binary (after various optimizations). Dynamically linked, with only libcurl and libc as direct dependencies. C
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by d3Xt3r 7d ago
Are there any cheap (non-American) alternatives left?
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by d3Xt3r 7d ago
Yes. Which is why I ordered the Commodore Callback, a flip phone with physical buttons, which runs Linux (SailfishOS). https://commodore.net/callback/
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by d3Xt3r 7d ago
Not to be confused with Lix[1], a fork of Nix... [1] https://lix.systems/
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by d3Xt3r 8d ago
There are ambient light rejection (ALR) screens available now that make projectors viable even under bright lights. Problem is, the decent ones are quite pricey, sometimes costing almost as much as the projector themselves. You could easily
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by d3Xt3r 9d ago
Most high-security environments (banks, govt agencies etc) have a large on-prem footprint. Then there's specialised industries like manufacturing, science and engineering who typically have a bunch of embedded systems, often running an
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by d3Xt3r 9d ago
This, 100%. It's exactly why I would choose a standard Linux distro any day over GrapheneOS. Biggest reasons for me being: - No dependency on Google - Actually free and open OS (this means: root access to device, being able to customis
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by d3Xt3r 10d ago
> A memorable example: we proposed a beautiful new default photo app and it got triumphantly shot down because it was written in C#, and Mono was obviously a Trojan horse from Microsoft. I would've shot it down too. Not because of
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by d3Xt3r 10d ago
> while Linux kernel is tuned to server/DC use-cases That depends on the distro / flavor of kernel; the Linux kernel is pretty flexible and you can cut it however you want. If you use a distro like CachyOS for example, you&#x
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by d3Xt3r 10d ago
A screenshot would've been nice.
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by d3Xt3r 10d ago
Relevant: https://dos.zone/
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by d3Xt3r 11d ago
Cool, now turn this into an Android launcher and it might become something actually useful. :)
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by d3Xt3r 11d ago
SailfishOS is another popular mobile Linux distro you should be aware of - it's been around for a long, long time - in fact its heritage can be traced all the way back to Nokia's Maemo OS (circa 2005), which became famous in the c
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by d3Xt3r 11d ago
> Does your Linux distribution immediately upgrade to the latest kernel when Linus releases a new one? Yes, it does (CachyOS).
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by d3Xt3r 11d ago
Looks interesting. I don't use VSCode so can't test it yet, any plans for a CLI/headless version?
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by d3Xt3r 12d ago
Has GPUI finally solved all the accessibility concerns? Last I checked there were several roadblocks to implementing it. If GPUI isn't fully accessible, I'm not interested in it (and neither should you, because accessibility is so
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by d3Xt3r 12d ago
> secure messenger > Built for absolute privacy > Windows only This has to be a joke right?
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by d3Xt3r 13d ago
The Sea Peoples were only a part of the reason, the other reasons included climate change, volcanic eruptions, disease etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
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by d3Xt3r 14d ago
What you say works for me, but unfortunately it doesn't work for a lot of folks in countries which are hyper-dependent on certain apps like WhatsApp (Brasil, India etc). These places use WhatsApp for literally everything - like I hea
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by d3Xt3r 16d ago
There are several costs, the biggest being the experience that is passed down from veterans. Like "best practices" for instance - especially niche, domain-specific knowledge, is not always written down, and thus, not learned by AI
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by d3Xt3r 16d ago
I was initially excited to see the name Clear Linux crop up again, but given that there's zero mentions of optimizations (AutoFDO, ThinLTO, MARCH etc), it looks like this isn't going to be a Clear Linux replacement. I guess I&#x27
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by d3Xt3r 17d ago
That was an interesting read. Unfortunately I never has the pleasure of owning a Matrox. I got really close to buying a Millennium G200 back in the late 90s, but decided to go for the RIVA TNT instead. Was in the nVidia camp (with brief sti
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by d3Xt3r 18d ago
Not every professional user requires the "advanced accounting functions" of Excel. In fact, I'd wager that such features are used only by a small minority of professional users, so LibreOffice should be suitable for most prof
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by d3Xt3r 18d ago
This cool, but can we get an option to emulate HDD noises please? I really miss the whirrs, clicks and creaks. And the little LED that indicated disk activity... but that'd be a separate project.

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