zenolijo

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by zenolijo 6mo ago
In Europe, I live in an apartment with an garage in the basement with EV chargers. Not sure why you you think it's an US-centric view.
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by zenolijo 8mo ago
Naming comments can be very useful in code that gets read by a lot of people. It can make the process of understanding the code much quicker. On the other hand, if it's less important code or the renaming is not clearly an improvement
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by zenolijo 11mo ago
It's possible to dual-boot. My favorite method is to have a device with a SD-card slot and have android on the eMMC but PostmarketOS on the SD-card. Currently only do that on one of my older devices, would love to do it on my main devi
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by zenolijo 1y ago
With one quite significant issue IMO If there's an old question the most upvoted answer will be at the top. Better solutions are often available if the previous answer was 10 years ago, but they will be buried. Solution is obviously to
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by zenolijo 1y ago
I do wonder how branch prediction actually works in the CPU, predicting which branch to take also seems like it should be expensive, but I guess something clever is going on. I've also found G_LIKELY and G_UNLIKELY in glib to be useful
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by zenolijo 1y ago
> Even with things like wlroots, you have to invest a lot more work to get even the basics working that X11 will give you for free. Like what? A few years ago I copied the wlroots example, simplified it to less than 1000 LoC and then did
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by zenolijo 1y ago
I work for a company with 1000+ people in RnD doing software development. 80% of those use Ubuntu and have one desktop and one laptop (HP EliteBooks) and that works fine. You are right that not all devices don't work perfectly, but the
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by zenolijo 1y ago
A lot of things are happening, this company is just doing a little part of it and that's alright. China have ambitious plans to carbon neutral by 2050 and the US had plans to... ok maybe the US is a bit stuck for the moment but it seem
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by zenolijo 1y ago
> A professional can still replace almost any component of a modern laptop, with a few thousand $ of specialized tools, and the battery, the only component with a fixed lifetime, can be easily replaced at home. Even if a professional can
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by zenolijo 1y ago
While Sweden has free health care, it does not completely include dental care. It's free until you turn 20, after that you pay out of your own pocket. This is to incentivize people to take care of their teeth, instead of not caring and
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by zenolijo 2y ago
I only personally know one person who had been an active member in Extinction Rebellion and I think it's a bit more nuanced than that. It seems like they all agree that the amount of growth we have today is unsustainable, but what sust