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Coding is the act of translating an algorithm or system design into a specific programming language/framework/libraries domain. That part was never the hard part as it was mostly a…

Product quality has nothing to do with ubiquity. Its all about shady business deals that locks you into products where the migration cost is much higher.

Take any chronic health issue for which people have to take medicine or other treatment for the rest of life and find a cure for that (not treatment but cure). Unless you can do pl…

This is probably done by some udev rule file.

Why not just a share a new virtual desktop and move windows to it that you want to share?

AFAIK you can still install any random APK but the process will require enabling developer mode and one time 24 hour wait period. But the problem is many stupid Apps check that dev…

No price increase in iPhone to save the sales number, this clearly shows that Apple is iPhone first company.

Give me a voice input method where no one else can hear me even when they are nearby.

> What are your philosophical thoughts on paying a subscription to get your work done? You are paying to get the work done much quicker. You are saving time, if you don't think you…

It is unified in the sense that the OS can dynamically assign memory to CPU and GPU. Apple silicon is not a alien tech that other silicon vendors cannot implement.

For such use cases of running some Windows app on Mac you could have tried https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover

LLMs (the current AI approach) are definitely useful tools BUT the cost of training and inference and creating bigger and bigger model to improve the "intelligence" is extremely hi…

To counter my own "against top panel" argument, one thing that the top panel does is that it enables you to auto hide the app panel/dock and yet have the ability to see things like…

I can click that top border part and chrome still select the tab (tested on Windows and KDE)

> How so? It displays useful info at a glance. Where's the bad UX? That info can be shown in the bottom panel, there is enough space there.

Many apps these days have tabs at top like chrome or firefox and having a top panel (with or without menu bar) means you loose the useful of the fitts law for accessing the tabs of…

So this is essentially Android desktop mode with Android 17 Gemini integration. Please get rid of that top panel. I just don't get why this and desktops like GNOME tries to copy ma…

Windows hiding the file extension by default means all non-tech people who use Windows never learned about file extension and it also means they all can be easily social engineered…

> They want the thing, they don't care if it works well. They don't care if it's efficient. They want it now. That's because they don't know what to build that will be a successful…

In same price range you can get a PC that not only has more ram but also has better multicore performance, better disk speed and better port selection. Yes neo wins on build qualit…

I can install Linux on the Windows laptop and not on macbook neo.

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Did you learn arithmetic in school even though calculator exist?

Google systemd GUI and you will find many such tools.

Sounds like someone KPI was to increase Bing hit.