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Ubuntu is a subpar package maintainer, but in well run distros that middleman who does the packaging makes an effort to ensure you are getting a stable, performant package, and tri…

No, Apple will still have the advantage of not being restricted like 3rd party apps when it comes to running background activities, access to hardware features they haven't publish…

Seems really expensive given when these were last in the USA they were offering $99 a month leases for 36 months, and you got the tax credits as though this was a purchased vehicle…

Fighting every municipality and Homeowners Association (HOA, aka Strata) along the way. Running fiber is tough here in the US, even motivated incumbents see a minimum of a 6 month …

CGNAT is killer though, the random connection drops when you don't get a static IP from your cellular provider cause random connection drops whenever their CGNAT gateway burps or m…

Remember, your still getting a censored perspective of the internet, but now from wherever they are hosting the browser's from. You might get routed to different servers with diffe…

Learn to break your content out into separate paragraphs. Proper formatting makes your content easier to read! Additionally, any kind of pricing would be great, rather than a "Cont…

This is one person's passion project and they are writing it in the language they prefer. We need to respect that they are doing free labor and publishing the resulting code as ope…

Google would not be revoking API keys for Chromium to nerf its functionality if this were not a real issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mo60q5/psa_you_can_e...

There is plenty of computing related stuff that Google doesn't do, has stopped doing or outsources nearly all of, whether it be ceasing to be a Domain Registrar, providing voice & …

Some university networks are run tightly, others are rather loose when it comes to security, monitoring and debugging network cables that are syncing up at lower speeds. Really dep…

A fool and his money are quickly separated. The guy probably didn't educate himself as a consumer and did not want to put more effort into chasing Tesla to uphold their legal commi…

The PinePhone uses a really old, slow modem (the Quectel EG25). Why not get a modern Snapdragon x62 like the RM520, drop it in a carrier board, root the modem and do all the shenan…

Mozilla didn't want to fund further development, most of the team ended up at Coqui.ai

Depends if Apple really feels they can run a backoffice banking arm effectively and cheaper than a partner that is already at scale. Underwriting credit & customer risk, handling e…

Where does it say GrapheneOS is moving off Matrix? They are still advertising their Matrix room on their Twitter...

Volkswagen (Porsche's parent company) certainly has the scale to make this happen. Seems like its entirely a corporate culture issue, same as what plagues Volkswagen's EVs and newe…

If your planning to use services that are ban happy like Discord, Stripe and ilk, make sure to document and communicate a fallback plan. For example, ensure you have a backup email…

Yes, T-Mobile and a few other carriers support videocalling right in the Android dialer. https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/t-mobile-vid...

Since 2013 there have been multiple iterations of SSD technology that increased storage density but sacrificed storage durability: https://www.howtogeek.com/444787/multi-layer-ssds…

No, MS Teams for Linux launched in 2019 and unlaunched a few months ago. All we get is a flakey PWA now on Linux. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/... ht…

The counterparty might expect that you are honest when you say it is not negotiable and the reasonable course of action is to re-evaluate working with you as a business partner. Th…

Considering he was a major force driving the rewrite of Reddit from Lisp (the version that HN is based on currently) to Python, adding features like Markdown support (a language he…

Basically HitLeap as a service? Thats a lotta bots!

Upgrading to just sectors would net them so much more range! Sprint and T-Mobile here in the USA used to do egregious stuff like this, or only put up 1 sector of 3 on a tower just …