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mcflubbins

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    Comment #45389067

    I wonder if they take into account the fact that if there are no bus routes (or less of them) there is a certain population of people that won't be able to work, and those worker p…

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    Comment #45333550

    SAME, what the heck. I know there's one in GUAM of all places...

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    Comment #45326555

    As far as Linux phones go there's not many options left and so they're still on the table. If they'd have just came out and said "Sorry, we tied up all the preorder money, and the …

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    Comment #45326513

    Neat! Might look at this next time I need a JSON parser in C. I've been using cJSON[0] for years now and am pretty happy with it. I had used wjelement[1] before that but ran into a…

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    Comment #45307059

    > I developed a few apps for Ubuntu Touch, but it's always very far behind Ubuntu. They are about to release 24.04. That's actually interesting and good to know. Last I looked at U…

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    Comment #45307046

    You're not the only one Louis Rossman has a video about this very topic that I saw when I was considering placing an order.

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    Comment #45307025

    Librem 5 looked promising but last I looked into it, the company seemed kinda sus: https://youtu.be/wKegmu0V75s?si=dyM-FP6JBP_6emm9

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    Comment #45306971

    You make it sound great to be honest (I'm sure its not though.) How have you survived without income?

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    Comment #45306929

    I keep my iPhone until it is no longer usable (Fingerprint sensor on my iPhone 6 eventually stopped working, my iPhone X had the battery swell up and bend the case) when this happe…

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    Comment #45306714

    > the consulting firms submit multiple applications for multiple candidates to get one candidate in.

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    Comment #45279840

    Glad to hear that's still the case!

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    Comment #45279751

    This looks pretty cool, I'll take a closer look at this one, thanks!

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    Comment #45279739

    Thanks, I'll take a look at this one too.

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    Comment #45279732

    Another commenter mentioned this and it look promising, thanks!

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    Comment #45279726

    Looks pretty cool, this might be the ticket. Thanks!

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    Comment #45275884

    What are some good Open Source / Self Hosted alternatives to Apple Photos (Desktop)? I pretty much keep my Mac Mini around solely to import photos from our phones, free up space on…

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    Comment #45275828

    I had a weird issue with at least one photo in Apple Photos recently (possibly more that I haven't found) where the photos app showed the image, but I couldn't export it - like it …

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    Comment #45267130

    What if that OEM stops giving them patches? Also, if they're asking an OEM to release the patches, why can't they become an OEM to do that?

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    Comment #45254460

    I don't think that worked out too well for Beanie babies though :/

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    Comment #45211560

    "They can easily get it from OEMs or even make an OEM."[0] I agree with their points in the thread, but could Graphene "become" an OEM to get access to the security patches sooner?…

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    Comment #45188975

    > It’s a modern language with types and tooling and package management. Last I used Php (v4 to v8), it had type hinting, which was fine but I think its going to become harder for n…

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    Comment #45107649

    That is fair, they do a good job of warning you up front about it IMHO.

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    Comment #45055783

    Pine has an attention problem, they produce a lot of different things but the ones that people really wanted like the PinePhone Pro just were never there, with they'd have just dou…

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    Comment #45045745

    > Free Forever. Why do companies keep doing this, we know it doesn't really mean "Forever" why even say it?