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hcal
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Comment #46743735
I had browseros do a bunch of data validation for me in my Dolibarr ERP system. It cross checked my new master data against our old ERP, flagging bad links and filling in missing d…
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Comment #46036744
"I think most people know by now..." Sadly, I don't think that that's true. I've been shocked by the lack of understanding there in groups of technical people who should know bette…
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Comment #42445682
You're right that businesses might roll fees into the base price, but that’s the point: transparency. When all costs are upfront, customers can more easily compare prices between c…
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Comment #41839082
I don't have to do anything else. I just use the current proton. I just installed it on the flatpak version too. No trouble.
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Comment #41837121
If done well, a android tablet would be a heck of a good laptop with this.
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Comment #41801935
I run it on Linux everyday with Steam on Proton. It is my go to game on steamdeck and my Fedora desktop. By default steam wants to download the old old old Linux version that doesn…
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Comment #38714069
Right, many or most don't have credit card terminals. You plug in, load an app, find you station, select a port number, tell it to start and hope it works. It doesn't sound that ba…
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Comment #36576693
I'm not advocating for banning M&As, but I think that could be addressed by only allowing acquisitions under specific bankruptcy conditions. Again, though, I'm not advocating for t…
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Comment #36088512
Gnome-Web if you're on linux and it is fine. It is a little light on features, but it does the basics. Falkon is another for the QT/KDE crowd. There are several forks of chrome and…
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Comment #34659796
I watched one of the developers YouTube video and he said it should run on consumer hardware. He said it's not going to ever run on something like a raspberry pi, but it should run…
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Comment #34454791
They exist in several forms. In the US I think the best kind are called employee-ownership-trusts or worker-owned cooperatives.
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Comment #34431095
It depends on what you mean by stand-alone. It works for me as a stand-alone device for days at a time, but you still need a phone to set up the watch and my phone plan is like an …
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Comment #34417354
I've been using my Samsung smartwatch with LTE as a smartphone that's hard to abuse. Thursday through Sunday I only carry it and leave my "real" phone at home. It's pretty nice bec…
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Comment #34138662
I just use Firefox sync. It integrated with iOS and Android. You just install the app and use the system settings to set Firefox as the default password store for the system. It wo…
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Comment #31654097
I'm probably overlooking an obvious answer, I'm not sure how you define this clearly. Using your noise level example, we know how to measure noise levels. It is straight forward to…
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Comment #31238245
I use t-mobile. The SIM they sent me worked out of the box.
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Comment #31112220
Every release of the magazine seems to make the front page. Its not specifically about the never OpenBSD version.
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Comment #30981247
I keep going back to the todoist app. It works OK but there is something about it it doesn’t click with me. Maybe there’s a little too much white space in the design and it looks l…
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Comment #29814807
I have to say I agree. I feel like a lot of people seem to think it is a suit and tie enterprise type boring distribution. Its really not. It has similarities to the enterprise dis…
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Comment #28880125
I have one and I'm using it right now. It is more than fine. My eyes aren't perfect so maybe others would care more but the image is super crisp and looks really good. The screen o…
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Comment #28555093
As always it depends on a lot of things, but anyone with a background marketing should be pretty versed in product-market fit. It is a fundamental concept to marketing in the same …
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Comment #26568416
I've read conflicting reports on how much more powerful it is in practice. I've seen only one direct review that said the Librem is clearly much faster, but I've also seen a few co…
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Comment #25537915
Thanks for the suggestion. I did try Calligra Plan. I manage a lot of medium-small projects, and to ended up not fitting my workflow very well. That said, I could see how it might …
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Comment #25537324
I wish someone would pick it back up. It was pretty useful. It took some work to get it to run on Modern Fedora and I had a lot of stability problems with it.
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Comment #25536759
I've been using this for a long time and I am Patreon supporter. When I switched from Mac to Linux I had to find a replacement for my todo/planner app called Things. Planner was in…