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abhikandoi2000

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About abhikandoi2000

Software Engineer

Made: backdoor.sdslabs.co

Also: Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

https://github.com/abhikandoi2000

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    “As you are doubtlessly aware, many Indian citizens depend on WhatsApp to communicate in everyday life. It is not just problematic, but also irresponsible, for WhatsApp to leverage…

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    Most certainly is. Signal doesn't have a status feature to addict people. This ends up with people less addicted to the app.

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    Ask HN: What are some methods to encourage people to move to Signal

    A lot of people in my country and especially my friend circle use WhatsApp, where I've witnessed them become addicted to the app because of its status feature. Also I have noticed …

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    Comment #27095615

    Thanks for taking the time to explain. This is very helpful :)

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    Comment #27094983

    Could someone explain a newbie to this domain what are the potential applications of this project?

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    Comment #26560055

    Is there a reason why MacBook Pro and not a laptop that runs says Pop OS or Ubuntu?

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    Comment #26559990

    What apps do you care about? And what do you find wrong with Nvidia GPU support on Linux right now?

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    Comment #26559601

    Curious to know what sort of battery life you are getting?

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    Comment #26559374

    More like $15/year

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    Comment #26559324

    > I guess my first reaction is what would be the value proposition over alternatives like System76 and Boxx? Does their OS work equally well on non-System76 laptops? Because a lot …

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    Comment #26559264

    Have you tried it on a recently released high end Laptop? Not Alienware level but something like the new Dell XPS 15?

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    Comment #26559245

    Would you pay $15 a year?

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    Comment #26559236

    Yes, but less expensive and maybe potentially free. A simple description would be an open-source MacOS meant only for developers.

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    Comment #26559224

    The reason behind high-end is because it takes additional developer hours to support old computers. Linux kernel does support all for free, but we want the booting, and the experie…

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    Ask HN: Would you pay for a beautiful and stable Linux-distro for high-end PCs?

    By high-end I mean at least 16GB RAM, 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive (or better), min. base frequency of 2.50 GHz, quadcore Processors and above (no Ultrabook support). Thin…

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    Ask HN: What dataset do you think is useful to you but not readily available

    We are a bootstrapped team trying to build tools for data extraction. We are currently focusing on tools for data that is semi-structured and thus can be extracted using non deep l…

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    Location: San Diego, CA Remote: Not permanently Willing to relocate: Yes (within USA) Technologies: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Numpy, Python, C++, C, React, JavaScript, AWS, Linux, Docke…

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