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What would be the problems? When I’ve looked into streaming video before (for normal, non ripping reasons), I’ve noticed that most are already playlists of segments. You’d just nee…

Yeah, I discovered this the hard way when I tried to plug a somewhat modern keyboard to a pc through ps/2 (for the theoretical interrupt-driven speed) and didn't work. A lot of mec…

Yeah, and there was also Maemo/Meego that was also sold on stores. Neither had a very high market share.

> Because they can't do much, if anything at all? But the Apple Watch can, and a lot of the same arguments apply to it as much as any third party watch.

> CUPS > Apple CUPS is currently owned by apple, but they only bought it in 2007. It actually originated as an independent project by a company calles Easy Software Products.

What do you mean HUUUGE upgrade? The only difference between the 3DS and the 3DS XL is the battery. Same with the New 3DS XL and New 3Ds. You might be getting confused because the …

Neither generation of Switch Pokemon games looked or performed decent, but I guess bad performance is a gamefreak constant since at least the 3DS

Yeah, that's what the post means. This is not a Doom level.

Sure, but this is a Demolition Man reference

> Is it the same for the current minute of the current hour ? I'm not so sure. Yes it is. Appointments start at the beginning of the minute, not the average. (And while changing cl…

A podcast is basically a list of files which are the episodes (together with episode metadata), so this would presumably fetch those and notify you when there's new ones / download…

It's pretty much historical, and initially based on the tastes of medieval priests doing Gregorian chant. It started with the handful of intervals they would use and more intervals…

> What do you think Japan should do to encourage Japanese language learning among immigrants? It really boggles my mind how many immigrants to a place (because it doesn't just happ…

> Most people do install Nvidia’s out‐of‐tree graphics driver Most people that use Nvidia. I specifically don't buy Nvidia graphics cards or laptops that use them in my Linux compu…

Docker in macOS (at least the useful one) just runs in a Linux VM, and I don't see why you couldn't run a VM off an image on an external drive. Maybe the UI doesn't let you select …

It's not clear their license was open source, actually. OSI Makes free distribution the first part of the definition of open source, as well the ability to create derived works[1].…

> Android, for example Yes, OEMs are expected to release their kernels' sources. Also yeah, they're mostly very bad at it.

> If consoles did it, it would most likely mean a break in backwards compatibility or a lot of investment in emulation. Consoles tend to break compatibility every like couple of ge…

Might be a minimum for a money library (not completely sure what the absolute minimum would be). It would be an application design choice to not use one and stick to general fixed …

Ah, this is true, but it's weird consider this issue (that I agree google might be overstepping in) in a lawsuit that doesn't involve an affected OEM.

Exclusivity hasn't been true. eg F-droid can auto update apps.

> Google appears open yet is closed in practice How is Android closed in practice?

Both games only really ripped off Nintendo's aesthetics, with not that much similarity in gameplay.

There's this, and also, trucker unions put a lot of pressure against rail.