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    Comment #25672451

    Not really. Tizen wouldn't work on a small low-power and low-RAM bluetooth SoC like the NRF52 this watch has. Tizen requires iirc a minimum of 512MB or 256 MB for "Tizen light". So…

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    Comment #24523092

    I do that too. For the latter, I use the redirector addon https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/redirector/

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    Comment #22153360

    Actually, packs of 10 eggs are more common in continental Europe (e.g. Germany, France) than packs of 12 eggs these days.

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    Comment #22149589

    the librem isn't more open than the PinePhone at all. The only difference is that they put the modem on a separate card… but that doesn't make it any more open at all. What matters…

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    Comment #22149562

    > The only problem remaining, on this particular device, is direct connection of physical sensors (microphone, GPS, etc) directly to the modem is that even the case of the micropho…

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    Comment #22065778

    "Chromebook" should be renamed to "Chromebrick"

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    Comment #22008869

    quotes From the "Hardware Requirements" page on that linked FreeNAS site: • "64-bit hardware is required for current FreeNAS releases. Intel processors are strongly recommended." •…

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    Comment #21834900

    on the other hand, the big cost factor that would restrict home delivery to people who have money is… human labor costs. Once robot-based delivery is the standard, home delivery ma…

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    Comment #21769978

    The latter doesn't contradict the former. What the market will bear results from all the individual subjective value assessments of every individual. Indeed the market is made of a…

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    Comment #21766522

    > You realize that Qt is dual licensed what part of the thread did you not read? We've covered that already: the other option is the closed commercial license which since the switc…

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    Comment #21765801

    > don't know which version apparently, they forked from Qt 4.8 and QML is disabled in Copperspice. Ref: https://www.copperspice.com/docs/cs_overview/timeline.html#t... https://news…

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    Comment #21765642

    What I did write was that they switched their licensing default for most new modules from LGPL to GPL. So unlike Qt Quick (the original 2D Qt Quick) which was started under Nokia a…

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    Comment #21762583

    It just so happens that the biggest part of my work is in embedded. And while it's obvious that QTCOM is trying to establish itself in that domain… this here is merely wishful thin…

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    Comment #21761389

    > Qt use is increasing and it shows in the number of buying customers. As if that was of any relevance to the question whether many Qt developers are switching. Given that commerci…

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    Comment #21760378

    Sadly, I fear Digia (and its owned spin-off, the Qt Company) will be the death of Qt: Unlike Nokia, which bought Qt and opened it to a more liberal license (LGPLv2.1) because it sa…

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    Comment #21760207

    Qt isn't known for "using every C++ feature" at all. Quite to the contrary, as far as C++ goes, Qt is stuck in the old times BEFORE modern C++. And it really shows in the architect…

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    Comment #21718498

    You seem to totally misunderstand what the term "open source" means, despite it being self explanatory: It's about the SOURCE licensing being open (vs closed), not at all about the…

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    Comment #21718458

    PinePhone (with even a real Linux system instead of Android) has a replaceable battery too and is 150$

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    Comment #21681896

    Is it possible to import/convert KiCAD libraries? Library coverage of the gazillion of available components is something that takes a lot of work and time. Even KiCAD with its head…