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by orkoden 2y ago
China literally invented bureaucracy 3000 years ago. It’s the cornerstone of Chinese civilization.
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by orkoden 2y ago
Post-it‘s with passwords aren’t the worst in security. Physical access to the note is required to get the password. One post-it under each keyboard with a different password is better than the same password shared widely.
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by orkoden 9y ago
GitLab is a good example of excellent software. It has a proper business model and has built a great community. Most Linux desktop applications sadly have no good business model. If you have a business model you can pay developers, designer
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by orkoden 9y ago
Free web applications and free FLOSS have lead to people not valuing software you are right. If there is much good software and services available for free, why should I pay? As a developer I have bought many pieces of software to make my w
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by orkoden 9y ago
You can use bitcoin to buy drugs and other illegal things from the safety of your home.
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by orkoden 9y ago
Canonical has NO job vacancies at all currently https://www.canonical.com/careers/all-vacancies Is something wrong with the company?
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by orkoden 10y ago
It's not just developers and big influencer. Calling them power users is a better term. These are the people other people ask for advice.
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by orkoden 10y ago
Getting the right adapter to connect a display isn't easy. Many only support limited resolutions and frame rates.
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by orkoden 10y ago
ac’tivAid is a superb script collection for AutoHotKey. http://www.ghacks.net/2014/09/24/activaid-is-a-useful-autoho... https://www.heise.de/download/product/activaid-24593
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by orkoden 10y ago
Using only Darwin instead of Linux or FreeBSD was never really attractive. Contributing upstream is difficult to impossible, since Apple was never set up to take your contributions. The different Darwin distributions never really developed
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by orkoden 10y ago
Since you're looking for a desktop OS, you should test PC-BSD instead of pure FreeBSD.
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by orkoden 10y ago
XQuartz works just fine
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by orkoden 10y ago
The US has harsh sentences and high crime.
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by orkoden 10y ago
Because many devs are on Linux distros, that include PulseAudio by default. Support for *BSD ports is often a bit weak for software like that.
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Why we put an app in the Android Play Store using Swift(medium.com)
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by orkoden 10y ago
Buying a complete set of codecs from Fluendo for Linux costs 20$. That includes Windows Media, h264 and others. That's not too much I think. http://www.oneplaydirect.com/oneplay/oneplay-codec-pack/
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by orkoden 10y ago
Comparing Vorbis to MP3 nowadays doesn't make a lot of sense. Compare it to AAC.
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by orkoden 10y ago
All media container formats can contain differently encoded data: avi, mov, mp4, ogg, mov, mkv.
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by orkoden 10y ago
> we imagine some "delivery only" roads This is possible but unlikely. There have been numerous plans in the past to build such large infrastructure. Like large pneumatic tubes to every house for deliveries. It usually turned
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by orkoden 10y ago
You could have truck drivers just at the start and end points of a route. Trucking companies can have representatives at the border, who then guide it through customs. No need to sit in the vehicle for hours.
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by orkoden 10y ago
There was a story about a Tesla's radar being blocked by a moth, that smashed to its front. A fully autonomous vehicle would have had to stop and wait for someone to come by and clean the radar. Or there need to be lots of additional m
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by orkoden 10y ago
Fossil[1] is a distributed scm with a distributed bug tracker, and distributed wiki. [1] https://www.fossil-scm.org
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by orkoden 10y ago
Also go to Settings App -> General -> Restrictions -> Apple Music Connect (toggle to off)
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by orkoden 10y ago
Prices in the US and Canada are ridiculous if you've been to Europe. Germany is one of the worst telecom markets in Europe, but you can get 2 GB of data, unlimited calls, unlimited texts for 12.99 € without contract. In France you pay
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by orkoden 10y ago
There isn't even one kind of Western philosophy. There are vast differences between continental european and anglo(-american) philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy
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by orkoden 10y ago
As the bible says http://www.bibleserver.com/text/ESV/Deuteronomy23%2C25 > If you go into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag. 2
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by orkoden 10y ago
Spanish are the loudest Europeans.
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by orkoden 10y ago
Where do you usually charge bluetooth headphones? On USB ports.
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by orkoden 10y ago
I loved Opera back in the 3.x to 7.x days. Vivaldi's UI and features reminds me of it. After using it for an hour for my regular browsing, I noticed it uses a lot of CPU for some websites. I saw over 100% for pages where Safari chugs a
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by orkoden 10y ago
Using a self-serve scanner means you work for free for the store.

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