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ChocolateGod

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    Comment #49198288

    > This could be solved https://sd-card-images.johang.se/ style: single kernel+rootfs OS image, with the small board-specific bootloader + dtb, which you concatenate to the OS image…

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    Comment #49198097

    They can still be disabled.

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    Comment #49173173

    The US has generally higher wages than Europe and lower taxation rates. Those paid days off are not free.

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    Comment #49094418

    Wireguard...

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    Comment #49057437

    The fault lies in the distribution for it's default configuration, not systemd. The article even mentions that distros ship with it turned off

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    Comment #49047360

    IIRC Google never originally intended for Wireless ADB to be used by the very same device, as it skirts the intended app permission model even if it takes many steps to opt in.

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    Comment #49047346

    Why would the EU stop it?

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    Comment #49018249

    This is why I don't use Mastodon. What you can see is completely reliant on what kind of politics the admin supports at that time.

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    Comment #49005443

    > With any decently sufficient backend data analysis, you catch these folks just as easy. No you can't. Using server side analysis of behaviour will always get false positives, esp…

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    Comment #49003877

    Fortnite doesn't actively oppose Linux, compared to Roblox cheating which keeps a lot of logic on the server, cheating on Fortnite on the client has a more bigger impact. Unfortuna…

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    Comment #49003830

    > software installed and updated manually from vetted repos only So something most desktop Linux users don't do.

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    Comment #48971249

    4G is ending up as the replacement to 2G as the base network. I suspect 5G networks will be shut down before 4G ones given IoT devices are largely setting on the low power variants…

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    Comment #48940657

    > FYI, Android has had zRAM support since KitKat, which is from (checking notes) 2013. Same year as iOS. iOS compresses regular pages, it doesn't need to go through the swap system…

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    Comment #48940631

    How much of that internal tooling was related or shared with Oppo?

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    Comment #48933355

    I preferred OnePlus over Oppo simply because OnePlus phones visually look cleaner, despite likely being from the same design team. It seems Oppo (and Chinese OEMs in general) are a…

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    Comment #48933338

    Oppo owns OnePlus completely. There used to be BBK Electronics that owned both, but it split up and OnePlus got placed under Oppo.

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    Comment #48918783

    To be fair, the situation of the Falklands is very different to Gibraltar. The Falklands were never Argentinian. The "native" inhabitants are the ones currently living there.

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    Comment #48918770

    Spain ceded Gibraltar under the Treaty of Utrecht.

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    Comment #48918715

    Russia says the same thing about Ukraine.

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    Comment #48914164

    > but not for a developer I disagree. Immutable distros are great for developers, you set your dev env up in a container environment and when it goes pear shape you can just tear i…

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    Comment #48914139

    > You can't "sudo make install" You can if you're going to target /usr/local, which should be where make install installs if it's following the FHS correctly.

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    Comment #48891624

    Microsoft is responsible for the updates on a Lenovo.

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    Comment #48891048

    Because it's their operating system and their live services? Just like Microsoft with Windows.

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    Comment #48891026

    That doesn't work when someone has multiple or virtual cards. That also means if someone steals my phone they get my credit card too. Not a great solution.

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    Comment #48890187

    There's a fair amount of blame there, but it's also partially how Android has to be compiled/built for the hardware.