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Frenchgeek

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    Comment #49206381

    Let's start with the CEO's pay.

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    Comment #48869088

    Because Uncle Iroh needs more fans maybe? (should have been a tea kettle)

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    Comment #48777655

    How often have you used your hobby as an excuse to quote the movie?

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    Comment #48265452

    So there was: InkBox OS, mostly for Kobo but with some Kindle support, it became QuillOS (wirh the same focus on devices) but when Kobo went with secureboot the whole thing moved t…

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    Comment #48256881

    I wonder if there's a KOReader oriented OS for the Kindle, to go beyond jailbreaking it (it's nice, but a bit clunky to me)... There seems to be an Android port for some models so …

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    Comment #48238729

    Looks like little Bobby tables is a big brother now...

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    Comment #48072262

    In unrelated news: I think the Magic-1 is still online. ( https://www.magic-1.org be gentle with it)

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    Comment #47554873

    I think the main issue was he used Nintendo owned tools and libraries to make his game instead of the GPL ones, making the release of the port dependent on Nintendo's approval too.…

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    Comment #46710465

    There's a jpeg xl viewer extension available for firefox.

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    Comment #46577412

    So... Follow Abraham Simpsons example, and tell stories that don't go anywhere?

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    Comment #46456959

    And they could have called it "Androids dream" but didn't....

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    Comment #46252958

    Why pretend when they are still hiring?

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    Comment #46172547

    He did: It was just warm enough for the ether in the mix to evaporate long before it reached the engine, so it couldn't run.

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    Comment #45780887

    A quick search pointed me to https://github.com/darlinghq/darling

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    Comment #45763103

    It sure make it easy to boot a 64bits OS on a 32bits UEFI machine...

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    Comment #45626251

    Well, it would be nice to be able to use my Kindle 4 again... Thanks to KOReader, it's no longer a brick, but most of my ebooks are kept hostages at Amazon.

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    Comment #45623294

    The Android version of the game Fractal no longer work (So I use the Windows version). And the only way to play the Steam version of Dungeon Defenders on Linux is to use the Window…

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    Comment #45439993

    Is "finding a way to remove them, with prejudice, from my phone" a valid use case for them? I'm tired of Gemini randomly starting up. (Well, I recently found there is a reason for …

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    Comment #45233309

    I'm guessing the ITX-Llama is far less affordable next to reusing a "generic" FPGA retrogaming board.

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    Comment #45082195

    Low on cyan.

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    Comment #44529139

    Not sure if it was already posted here (most likely), and it's for a C64 but: https://youtu.be/MG3j_6DBCIE

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    Comment #44471936

    The community can't help every game unfortunately. Having a proper end-of-life plan from the start would solve that particular issue (Either by having documentation to keep the gam…

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    Comment #44319615

    I've been mainly on Linux for 20 years now (damn already?), what started as a cheap computer with second-hand parts with a more powerful windows machine mostly for games is now a p…

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    Comment #43188700

    What's the expected lifetime of the average hard-drive in a datacenter? And does Amazon allow next day delivery to the Moon?

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    Comment #43152735

    Wasn't there an GA FPGA design to distinguish two tones that was so weird and specific not only did it use capacitance for part on its work but literally couldn't work on another c…