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bostand

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About bostand

I got the power

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    Comment #15507386

    The surface support sounds interesting. Has anyone here tried that?

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    Comment #15506824

    Same here, 2017 unity is fast, stable and beautiful. I hope this move results in the same improvements coming to gnome. but I'm not upgrading for now.

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    Comment #15506739

    I have, it has is quirks. With that said, use their smartwatches. The UI is so much better than the competition it's not even funny. And then you have Samsung pay card emulation ma…

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    Comment #15506238

    Tizen on smartwatch is pretty awesome. Imho its miles ahead of the other watch OSes

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    Comment #15506233

    Another vote for termux! It's specially useful on chromeos

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    Comment #15491292

    Please don't. It's a tablet, it needs some bezels.

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    Comment #15491275

    But if that is all your care about you can by a generic PC with similar specs for 1/3 of the price of the MBP. see, that argument goes both ways.

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    Comment #15441090

    I don't think your definition of success matches theirs. People have different values, some value openness above market share. --- Speaking of openness, and since you mentioned ios…

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    Comment #15440752

    Define success. Btw, Linux on desktop is used by many large tech companies...

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    Comment #15363453

    But can it replace mg?

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    Comment #15363444

    Emacs has a GUI with icons and menus and tooltips and all that. Isn't that what a true beginner would use anyway instead of the terminal version?

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    Comment #15319191

    Google is being fined by EU for their business practices in EU. Telia is being fined for their business practices in a third country. Not defending anyone, but can't you see this i…

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    Comment #15309804

    Telia is paying billions to US for conducting business in Uzbekistan in the only way it can be done. please remember this next time EU fines Google.

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    Comment #15303811

    I don't think Google cares about tablets anymore. But I would love to see an updated nexus 7!

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    Comment #15302485

    This is a valid concern, I don't understand why you are getting downvoted.

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    Comment #15274334

    Kind of related: at Google IO this year all speakers were using macbooks, but i have heard that a lot of teams have transitioned to chromebooks. Maybe macbooks are preferred for pr…

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    Comment #15274304

    I don't get these mechanical keyboards. Maybe it's a reaction to all those shallow laptop keyboards, which i as a thinkpad user have not encountered... Or maybe its a gamer thing?

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    Comment #15274282

    is this significantly different from "tig"?

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    Comment #15274262

    Why didn't he use left-pad.io? An opportunity lost if you ask me.

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    Comment #15256113

    Give me xwindows support in termux and I will happily ditch every other os.

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    Comment #15217741

    And with 8.0 we will start to see commercial roms with even better and longer support Source: Paul oBrien

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    Comment #15211258

    I don't mind the company, but I don't like that a product of a single company has become the defacto communication channel for tech people. In many gatherings speakers identify the…

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    Comment #15206239

    I just learned about cbor. Does cbor have this issue too?

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    Comment #15198439

    My solution to this is to not use my phone for this stuff. I only log into the site from a desktop browser. No point reading messages when I'm AFK anyway.

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    Comment #15173860

    Stop that! You cannot judge battery life after only a few days, specially after an update.