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I bought a Netgear WAX202 and been pretty happy with it. At the time I bought it, I found it difficult to find many other 802.11ax models supported by OpenWRT here in Canada. I was…

How about ceramic pans?

Oh for sure, I figured it was a very likely outcome that I would end up laid off. I just didn't know when/how. By that point, I had whittled down spending to ~30% of my net income …

I lost my job at BlackBerry in spring 2014. I'm not sure how many rounds happened before that. At least a dozen. The company shed thousands and thousands of us as it entered declin…

I'm not sure battery life is going to be worse just because it has a smaller battery. At a constant DPI, the CPU/GPU doesn't have as much work to do to paint with a smaller screen,…

No consequences. I think my opinion truly hit the gutter when I got that boss from hell :).

As I once told a boss who tried to cancel my already approved vacation in a former job/company, you can't stop me from going. You can only stop me from coming back. Let me know whi…

I am always amazed at the level of denial among the people. I speak of the comments to this article, not the young people in question. The IPCC reports are quite conservative. The …

That is out of date, yes. It was turned on in bug 1701977. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701977 Edit: Actually this is a little incomplete. It is still turned off w…

VAAPI requires DMABuf, which requires EGL. We want to ship hardware acceleration using EGL instead of GLX, but CI issues have held it up (we are otherwise pretty much there for tes…

As of bug 1702301 [1], and Firefox 89 currently in beta, we are shipping hardware accelerated WebRender by default on Intel (Mesa 17+), AMD (Mesa 17+) and NVIDIA (Mesa 18.2+, Binar…

That brings me back. I worked on it way back when. The IMS stack works over WiFi too; it could probably work with any generic SIP provider and hook into the native phone app.

Also, we have it enabled in nightly and beta for many more configurations already :). There are many bugs to fix, but we're working through them. This is the exact same treatment w…