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binarin

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    Comment #49219699

    Not necessarily. The only real thing about this restriction is that Netflix is afraid that this OS version can be used to pirate their content. Which is orthogonal to the question …

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    Comment #49219159

    It has to do with installing packages that use PAM to e.g. validate user passwords (e.g. display managers, screen lockers). So there is a system PAM with its configuration, but mak…

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    Comment #49147346

    Isn't playstation going download only way in a year or so, with no physical disks at all?

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    Comment #48919547

    Actual problem on Wayland is that it often doesn't work when you are trying to click somewhere in the menu - for the mouse clicking app to read keyboard input, it must take focus a…

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    Comment #48635170

    libghostty is a bigger contribution, it's being embedded left and right.

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    Comment #48566672

    The most hilarious is McDonald's app - it refuses to work without Play Integrity check. I wonder what braindamaged reasoning is behind this. Do they want to position themselves as …

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    Comment #48566598

    My company MDM doesn't consider GrapheneOS good enough to give me access to email/calendar - impasse?

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    Comment #48267936

    https://git-scm.com/docs/git-history - git got the remaining piece of the puzzle to make massaging history relatively easy. "git history split", interactive rebase and fixup/auto s…

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    Comment #48110737

    Everyone is up in arms because this is not the first shady thing bambulab does (like patenting prior art). And probably not the last.

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    Comment #47423026

    What I had is roughly the following: users connects via SFTP to external.website.com@my.proxy.com. Proxy server (which handles SSH protocol itself) authenticates the user using the…

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    Comment #47422207

    In kinda the same situation, I was using username for host routing. And real user was determined by the principal in SSH certificate - so the proxy didn't even need to know the con…

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    Comment #46466387

    Yes, I'm using parts of this codebase. But Haskell is only being used as a build tool, so you can replace it with anything that you're comfortable with, like make, bazel, ...

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    Comment #46465151

    I've tried to track personal finances several times, but it only started to work when I've discovered the idea (from https://github.com/adept/full-fledged-hledger ) that you need t…

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    Comment #46424317

    "Oh no" is what you'd say after getting yourself some nice RSI and discovering that your hands hurt due to mouse or trackpad usage.

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    Comment #46383216

    There is at least one area where both macos and windows suck - handling window focus. MacOS is regularly having trouble with tracking focus across multiple monitors and multi-windo…

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    Comment #46331378

    You've missed a lot sarcasm in that statement. claude-code rendering pipeline often goes awry, and start scrolling back and forward very fast, causing insane flickering. They have …

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    Comment #42932273

    For my personal computers I was actually buying Windows licenses up to and including Windows 10, but now I switched to alternative acquisition methods again, and mostly run Windows…

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    Comment #42271616

    CGo compilation can be insanely slow.

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    Comment #41770263

    The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan - spent the most time reading it and got the most value from it. This book series is my device for the language learning. It was translated into …

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    Comment #40757494

    CAD is exactly what I'm using VMs with GPU passthrough for, and it's working briliantly there. The advantage is that most of these VMs have no internet access at all (they only see…

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    Comment #39202191

    Yeah, it should be "single-chip microprocessor" (ОМП / однокристальный микропроцессор).

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