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by swiley 5y ago
Well, I've found and read the source for the DSP part. The small OS on the modem processor on my current phone actually is open source, and hardly use the modem anyway since I've switched to VOIP for voice and SMS/MMS.
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by swiley 5y ago
>Installing Windows on actual hardware and not just running a VM with virGL.
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by swiley 5y ago
This isn't the first time I've heard this complaint.
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by swiley 5y ago
> Google needs to support their own phone past three years It's not really Google's choice. Qualcomm gives up on their SOCs pretty quickly and unlike on Linux Android's license doesn't force them to publish driver sou
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by swiley 5y ago
People who argue Android is superior to PMOS take note.
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by swiley 5y ago
>We are currently only aware of one user report related to the occurrence of this bug. Sounds about par for the Android team's awareness of what a steaming pile of cow dung their OS is. I gave up on Android long ago and I'm a
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by swiley 5y ago
I've gotten emails from people asking for help hosting image albums. I'd be shocked if their end goal wasn't hosting CP. (I rejected it of course.)
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by swiley 5y ago
Do not run closed consumer software ever.
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by swiley 5y ago
Some of us feel the same way about the positions of the democrat party.
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by swiley 5y ago
Whatsapp is just signal 10 years from now, I'd rather move the world to something not controlled by one company like XMPP.
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by swiley 5y ago
No. That would take value add away from apple et all. Install Xorg.
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by swiley 5y ago
Eventually people will be paying yachtsmen to move totes.
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by swiley 5y ago
The admins have had two years to fix staffing/equipment shortages. If they're still struggling it's not the public that should suffer.
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by swiley 5y ago
>Just two more weeks
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by swiley 5y ago
Hopefully more people notice these problems and stop using online services so much.
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by swiley 5y ago
This is why I bought a sailboat. All you can do is put computers on her; There's a real limit to how much you can make her function dependent on other people's code.
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by swiley 5y ago
Yup. This happened to me two years ago. Thankfully I hardly used them for anything important. They started freaking me out years ago and I've moved to self host everything. People still send emails to my gmail address, including my own
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by swiley 5y ago
System software gives you a ton of control over the user. It's easy to say "oops that doesn't work" when they use apps that don't make you money or give you more control. With an app the user would just install some
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by swiley 5y ago
Have you tried editing text files on iOS and copying them to another machine without an online service? On every other OS you have OpenSSH and some text editor installed already, on iOS the easiest thing to do is install iSH but it's s
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by swiley 5y ago
Exactly, HTML would be amazing if people weren't trying to use browsers as application runtime environments.
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by swiley 5y ago
One of the companies I worked for did. They would always make these vary pretty mockups that would be hell for people to use. Information density is ugly and it makes software hard to sell. This is part of why commercial software is almost
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by swiley 5y ago
A type DNS records are used for looking up IPv4 addresses, AAAA records are for IPv6. This effectively takes Reddit off of the IPv6 internet and is a bit of a step backward.
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by swiley 5y ago
We already had a system that didn't need satellites, it was deemed redundant and shut down.
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by swiley 5y ago
They're more a PR organization than one driven by science at this point.
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by swiley 5y ago
Most mainstream things are like this now.
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by swiley 5y ago
Don't forget, this is the same newspaper that mocked Robert Goddard for wanting to go to other planets because "rockets don't work in space."
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by swiley 5y ago
More likely smart enough not to.
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by swiley 5y ago
iOS apps are how you add notifications to your website.
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by swiley 5y ago
The compilers, runtimes, and by extension requisite operating systems are fatter though.
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by swiley 5y ago
heh If you're entire job is to tell the truth and people catch you repeatedly lying what else could you expect?

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