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by wjoe 7y ago
This is pretty standard in the UK these days, most debit cards are Visa/Mastercard - 10 years ago most debit cards were Maestro or Visa Electron, although I still didn't have much difficulty getting a Visa debit card for travellin
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by wjoe 7y ago
I hear of Revolut more in the context of using it as a service for sending money internationally, but I know plenty of people who use Monzo for day to day banking (although most also still have an account with a normal bank). It doesn'
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by wjoe 7y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_h...
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by wjoe 7y ago
As much as bloatware is awful and Google could probably have some better rules on this, Google itself doesn't ship bloatware on it's own phones. I guess it depends on your definition of bloatware, but YouTube isn't exactly bl
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by wjoe 7y ago
Are the AirPods actually good headphones? Personally I don't consider the basic Apple headphones that come with iPhones to be either good audio quality or comfortable design, and the AirPods look identcal aside from the lack of wires (
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by wjoe 7y ago
Wine has come a long way in the last few years, in large part thanks to DXVK (translates DX11 to Vulkan) and Valve funding and pulling together a few Wine related projects. The vast majority of offline Windows games run well on Linux these
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by wjoe 7y ago
This looks pretty great, while the AWS CLI is very comprehensive, I always struggle to remember which flags are needed for each command, and it's not very consistent. One thing I've not been able to work out with bash-my-aws yet
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by wjoe 7y ago
I could see it being used for specific usage handheld devices. For example where I work, we sell train tickets and ship cheap Android phones with an app installed for tain conductors to scan the ticket barcodes. Something like this could be
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by wjoe 7y ago
Not really, among "normal" banks. This does seem to be the case with the new "challenger" banks like Monzo and Starling, which are all "mobile first" and are basically impossible to use if you don't have a
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by wjoe 7y ago
So a few things to note on this: This isn't an entirely new idea. BT was privatised in the 1980s, and before that had been run as a government department, and later as part of the Post Office, a public company but still under the contr
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by wjoe 7y ago
> I always saw Brave as "not chrome, and not as much of a change as Firefox" It seems more like "Chrome, with some plugins" than anything else. It's a shame really, I like the concept of the BAT project, I'd
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by wjoe 7y ago
Fingerprints were never supposed to replace passwords , they're more analogous to usernames. I like fingerprint scanner as a quick way to unlock my phone, it's at least more secure than the 4 digit passcodes or patterns I used be
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by wjoe 7y ago
It essentially is just a Steam box. It's all Linux based, and they're supposedly not building any sort of console UI or launcher for it. Install Steam, launch big picture mode, and it's basically the same as any other Steam
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by wjoe 7y ago
A couple of articles I saw suggested that what's left of Atari only has 3-10 employees.
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by wjoe 7y ago
As a small form factor PC capable of playing some games, it's a pretty good value offering. But that's only really appealing to tinkerers and hobbyists who want to set these things up to their liking. I have a Linux PC hooked up t
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by wjoe 7y ago
Yeah, that person is just wrong. Interesting that they identify that way though. I have friends in Jersey, which holds the same status as the Isle of Mann, and they're very insistent on not being part of the UK, but that they are Briti
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by wjoe 7y ago
"The USA as the only nation in the world with true free speech protections" Is this accurate? Legally, I understand that free speech is protected in the US constitution. I'm sure it's not the only country in the world wi
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by wjoe 7y ago
Had a Nokia 7 Plus for the same reasons, but unfortunately some other hardware issues meant that it only lasted a year and a half, then the USB port stopped working. Seems to be a common issue. Switched to a Pixel 3a XL after that, which is
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by wjoe 7y ago
Not really relevant. Obviously you want fast I/O for your OS storage, but for external storage that's mostly going to be used for music, videos, and images, it really doesn't matter how fast it is.
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by wjoe 7y ago
For email, designed like it's the 90s is a good thing, in my opinion. Thunderbird could do with a bit of polish, sure, but it has every option under the sun. I tried Geary once, it looked shiny, but the interface was far too basic.
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by wjoe 7y ago
It's not all about revenue. Ubuntu has generally had the reputation as the most user friendly and easy to use flavour of Linux for years now. Not always justifiably, and they've made some questionable decisions lately, but it&#x27
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by wjoe 7y ago
> I hope to god Deliveroo takes some of Amazon's customer service tips/experience. My experience of Amazon and Deliveroo's customer service has been pretty similar. I don't get to talk to a human, but if I do raise an
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by wjoe 8y ago
Yeah, Android One is a bit of a joke really. I got a Nokia 7 Plus on the promise that it would have fast updates, be bug free, and not contain any OEM modifications. None of those have really been true. Admittedly, updates are still a bit f
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by wjoe 8y ago
Exactly, and this is why it's an important development. But the article starts out by saying it's allowing "applications to run on both the Librem 5 phone and Librem laptops, from the same PureOS release." which is sort
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by wjoe 8y ago
That's cool, and it's good to see work going on in more fundamental building blocks of Linux like Gnome to support mobile and reactive UIs. I always felt like this was the biggest blocker to using a Linux system on handheld device
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by wjoe 8y ago
That looks great, but very different to what I've seen from playing around a bit with Qt. Are you using some open source theme or components there, or is it very custom built? I felt that Qt Quick Controls 2 felt far too mobile focused
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by wjoe 8y ago
PyQt5 is GPL licensed. Not expensive, but perhaps not suitable for your closed source project. There is also a commercial license available, probably that is expensive. PySide2 is LGPL licensed, so more likely to be suitable for you, since
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by wjoe 8y ago
You can also use Qt from Python using PyQt or PySide, which is officially supported as of recently - https://www.qt.io/qt-for-python There are also Qt bindings for a bunch of other languages, but Python seems to be the best
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by wjoe 8y ago
That's quite a drawback. I don't mind supporting some creators and YouTubers through Patreon or YouTube membershops because $5/month isn't all that much. But if I had to make a decision to spend $60 to support them that
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by wjoe 8y ago
"3D" phones seem to be making a comeback lately, if only in niche brands - see RED and Rokit. They claim to have made huge advances on 3D screens since the Evo era, and I imagine higher resolution and refresh rate would help.but r

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