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by hayleox 1mo ago
Those are probably the best I've seen from a Linux phone, but still far too much of a downgrade for my uses. Even some of the photos taken in decently well-lit locations are noticeably grainy, so I can only imagine how poorly it'd
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by hayleox 1mo ago
If they ever figure out how to get Linux onto a phone with a good camera, I'd pounce on it. I would be willing to put up with app issues and weird bugs and all the jankiness that comes with early adoption, but I simply can't give
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by hayleox 4mo ago
This seems like perfectly correct enforcement of that rule. Yes, it's a terrible rule – it always has been. I am baffled that someone would think this is any different from how the App Store has been managed for the last 18 years. Wall
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by hayleox 5mo ago
I've definitely seen it happen in meal delivery apps, though whether those count as "legitimate businesses" is up to interpretation.
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by hayleox 5mo ago
Trying to shut down a site by going after their domain names will always be a losing battle. As long as the link on their Wikipedia article keeps being updated, it'll remain easy to access. And it would be a pretty shocking attack on f
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by hayleox 5mo ago
Sure, I can see that to a degree. And there definitely is a bit of chaos during the transition period as everyone scrambles to figure out what the landscape looks like now. I could understand if they decided to temporarily do less-frequent
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by hayleox 5mo ago
I wonder if there's an advertising law angle here. If a company sells multiple products in the same product category, they really shouldn't be allowed to have them branded so that they seem like multiple companies. The main name&#
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by hayleox 5mo ago
The tools are available to everyone. It's becoming easier for hackers to attack you at the same speed that it's becoming easier for you to harden your systems. When everyone gains the same advantage at the same time, nothing has r
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by hayleox 6mo ago
I like simple no-frills function-first websites, but I don't consider it a good thing when an old-style website has text running across the entire width of my 1440p monitor. It's just not pleasant to read, and given that the fix i
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by hayleox 6mo ago
That dollar sign is awful. I kinda dig some parts of this, but my brain simply doesn't parse that as a dollar sign; it requires extra thought to recognize it.
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by hayleox 6mo ago
Agreed. When I redid my portfolio site recently, I specifically sought out a static site generator that wouldn't require JS, and picked a basic no-frills prebuilt theme. But I found out the theme didn't handle disabled JS graceful
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by hayleox 6mo ago
It's less like having the house taken away, and more like having your house's street address reassigned to someone else's house. Sure, no one's taken your land. Your deed gives you ownership of parcel #530453080, not of
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by hayleox 6mo ago
If the phrase "Java app" is in your vocabulary this laptop probably isn't for you. This is for the first-time laptop buyer or the basic needs non-enthusiast user or for a child. And honestly, I think Apple might make a killin
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by hayleox 7mo ago
I think there is so much potential for AI in healthcare, but we absolutely HAVE to go through the existing ruleset of conducting years of research and trials and approvals before pushing anything out to patients. Move fast and break things
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by hayleox 7mo ago
Yeah, I find the "we showed those idiots!" attitude kinda dumb when a lot of these concerns are completely real and valid. Like all of the comments about Tailwind are just "hey this is not a great way to do things"; it b
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by hayleox 7mo ago
On their forum, an Ars Technica staff member said[1] that they took the article down until they could investigate what happened, which probably wouldn't be until after the weekend. [1]: https://arstechnica.com/civis&#x2
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by hayleox 7mo ago
What the hell is this?? If the product has terrible issues, just leave! Why are you grovelling before a corporation, begging for fixes, when you have other options? I totally understand why people want to buy the same phone as their friends
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by hayleox 8mo ago
> Can I play non steam games with the Steam Controller? > The controller can work with any game compatible with the Steam Overlay. Ughhhhhh. Looks like they're doing the same nonsense as the last controller, and it won't w
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by hayleox 8mo ago
Ah yeah, that's a tough position to be in. Perhaps keep the old data but flag it as stale somehow? Could also be cool to try to somehow load some of this data into OpenStreetMap -- then if the sources go away, local mappers can potenti
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by hayleox 8mo ago
Seems to be dead? I went to report the misspelling of Columbus, Ohio, and discovered there's been an open ticket for 5 years. https://github.com/stevage/OpenTrees/issues/58
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by hayleox 8mo ago
The "75% of Debian archive builds" claim is exactly the same 7 years ago. In fact, look at this slide from the 2019 presentation: https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/roadmap_for_t... (pag
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by hayleox 8mo ago
It's just a convenience app, but it's a pretty nice one. When I moved my main PC from Windows to Linux, I was definitely sad to lose the ecosystem of nice launcher apps (GOG Galaxy but also others like Playnite, Launchbox, etc). T
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by hayleox 8mo ago
First, they probably wouldn't win. Oracle lost Google v Oracle. Wine is pretty serious about clean-room principles -- they won't accept a patch from anyone who's ever so much as looked at Microsoft-owned source code.[1] Valve
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by hayleox 8mo ago
I am more likely to separate two thoughts with space-endash-space than with an em dash and no spaces. It just feels weird to not type spaces, and I don't want to do space-emdash-space because that would feel like an enormous gap; if th
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by hayleox 8mo ago
This comment isn't just amazing -- it's my new favorite comment on Hacker News.
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by hayleox 8mo ago
It is so irritating that people now think you've used an LLM just because you use nice typography. I've been using en dashes a ton (and em dashes sporadically) since long before ChatGPT came around. My writing style belonged to me
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by hayleox 8mo ago
*GNOME features, not Linux features. No such issues over here on KDE. I have often felt like GNOME is the most Apple-y of desktop environments; they're very form over function. Not surprising to me at all that both would pick a design
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by hayleox 8mo ago
Instead of saying "don't use libxyz", say "use only native functions". Instead of "don't use recursion", say "only use loops for iteration".
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by hayleox 8mo ago
The full press conference is worth checking out for more details (or do what I did and read the transcript): https://www.youtube.com/live/ffcV3jCwwPk?t=607s They won't breach the crewmember's privacy, but the
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by hayleox 9mo ago
SponsorBlock is available on just about every type of device these days -- works perfectly on Android with YouTube ReVanced. The options on iOS are naturally a bit more limited, but apparently it's possible on a jailbroken device (or t

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