martheen

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by martheen 10d ago
When I read the headline of the announcement article, I thought it would be in the spirit of https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/ , instead it's just advertising a series of device that mo
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by martheen 15d ago
Firefox with uBO on Android can handle that easily, no idea if iOS limit that
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by martheen 24d ago
If they ever figure out how to make it in any usable scale, maybe.
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by martheen 1mo ago
Android, at least those with Play Service, already have built-in scanning for APKs right now. The main problem is currently only Google can "trust" the dev signature for apps they release, so if an app or dev is in Google's n
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by martheen 1mo ago
Chrome is made by an advertising company that also fund almost entirely the budget of Firefox. Even Safari is made by an advertising company. FWIW most of them have some blocking for egregious ads, so they will happily kill someone's
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by martheen 1mo ago
Search for it in the Start menu, right click uninstall. You can do the same with most other preloaded apps, or use whatever powershell incantation to do it in batch.
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by martheen 1mo ago
UFS WriteBooster not only have a buffer that eventually need to be flushed, since it uses flash cells with pseudo-SLC behavior, the write amplification is even higher, to the point that they give it a special flag because using it all the t
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by martheen 1mo ago
Iris Xe in 12th-gen do this, no idea since when it's added. There's still a minimum configurable shared allocation option in the BIOS, probably for legacy OS, but after booting Windows it can take up to 8 GB of the system RAM.
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by martheen 1mo ago
https://www.eetimes.com/hot-25-wen-chi-chenvia-technologies/
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by martheen 1mo ago
Sikh's similarly serve communal meal, langar, which invite everyone to come and eat together. As a non-Sikh, being invited to such events is such an educational experience because they're a very small minority in my country so pre
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by martheen 1mo ago
Even the Philippines and Thailand are lower in per-capita usage compared to the US, most of the higher use are in Europe. Interestingly Australia & New Zealand are also pretty high, similar to Europe and far more than Asia & Afric
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by martheen 1mo ago
https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/... , it's tied to the Google account so afterwards any device owned by the user can install F-Droid and any APK made by "unverified" devs.
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by martheen 1mo ago
Even when I'm still using a "classic" bank with card and a website that don't even use JS, I can't afford to use Windows Phone as my daily because it doesn't have the ride hailing apps used in my country. My cu
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by martheen 1mo ago
Only if the second LLM can be proven to never got trained/distilled from a model that trained on the original source code. Probably impossible if the original code is publicly available since most code oriented LLM just gobble them all
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by martheen 1mo ago
Wait, multiple messages get concatenated to MMS? In early 2010s I remember in my country it's still concatenated as regular text (so if one part is somehow missing or comes in very late, some phones will only show the surviving parts a
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by martheen 2mo ago
Nokia proposed using SIB9 5G time transmission as time syncing in clocks, the idea being that transmission is available openly even for non-subscriber. Softbank later proposed commercializing the service, which is unclear to me since surely
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by martheen 2mo ago
I read up the manual before realizing the vaunted tech is simply a battery backup and setting the clock in the factory.
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by martheen 2mo ago
At this point it is almost pure nostalgia. Having one in the classroom or living room was crucial in my childhood because almost nobody have watches or any electronics that can tell time for that matter (computer? pfft, the school don'
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by martheen 2mo ago
Virtualbox is inherited too, originally by Innotek, then they got bought by Sun, and later Sun bought by Oracle. Oracle also let OpenOffice languish, restricted Solaris, restricted the Java framework (it was already open sourced by Sun befo
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by martheen 2mo ago
In theory, yes, a dedicated development team should be able to write a usable feature phone OS today, considering we had blazing fast feature phones in 2013 at even lower spec playing music seamlessly while browsing the web. In practice thi
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by martheen 2mo ago
This phone cost about one-fifth of India's minimum monthly wage, while proper new Android cost one-third of monthly wage. My country's economy is somewhat in the same ballpark as India and I doubt anyone I know would buy this. In
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by martheen 2mo ago
A dedicated app that's only compatible with itself and only have miniscule install count means nothing. I tried downloading it and it only even support 4 countries prefix at the moment. It's also not that cheaper compared to &quot
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by martheen 2mo ago
I can literally buy a nice house with that just outside the city. And we somehow have universal healthcare despite the average salary is not even one-tenth of American.
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by martheen 2mo ago
https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiop... A better headphone/speaker in ideal room might be able to deliver better reproduction, but beyond that with lossless digital source and spec-conforma
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by martheen 3mo ago
That would be WEB, I'm guessing because WEB is public domain.
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by martheen 3mo ago
If you mean parents using their children SSN to open a credit card, this is because US banking system is always decades behind the rest of the world, so they just accept the number blindly even though technically the children aren't al
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by martheen 3mo ago
Probably not. OLED screens use less energy the more absolute dark pixel in the screen, and darker anything (can be greyscale or color) consume somewhat less than brighter anything, but greyscale on its own usually don't change how much
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by martheen 3mo ago
The only people considering data centers in space are those too out of touch to remember that their vacuum flask retain heat for hours. At any usable capacity we'd be talking about massive field of dissipators, which can't be poss
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by martheen 4mo ago
Which makes me wonder how they claim to support WhatsApp since they no longer support KaiOS. Maybe it's an Android fork instead.
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by martheen 4mo ago
That's also how one of my first book that's focused on the language (instead of those focusing on how and what to do to build the cool stuff) feels like. Just pages of things that would've probably keep a language lawyer gidd

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