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Comment #29539215
Las I checked some of Apple's open source compile and run on OpenStep.
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Comment #29509525
Well, I've found and read the source for the DSP part. The small OS on the modem processor on my current phone actually is open source, and hardly use the modem anyway since I've s…
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Comment #29509492
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Comment #29496645
>Installing Windows on actual hardware and not just running a VM with virGL.
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Comment #29496598
This isn't the first time I've heard this complaint.
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Comment #29496583
> Google needs to support their own phone past three years It's not really Google's choice. Qualcomm gives up on their SOCs pretty quickly and unlike on Linux Android's license doe…
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Comment #29496566
People who argue Android is superior to PMOS take note.
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Comment #29496561
>We are currently only aware of one user report related to the occurrence of this bug. Sounds about par for the Android team's awareness of what a steaming pile of cow dung their O…
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Comment #29489213
I've gotten emails from people asking for help hosting image albums. I'd be shocked if their end goal wasn't hosting CP. (I rejected it of course.)
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Comment #29489128
Do not run closed consumer software ever.
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Comment #29482454
Some of us feel the same way about the positions of the democrat party.
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Comment #29459309
Whatsapp is just signal 10 years from now, I'd rather move the world to something not controlled by one company like XMPP.
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Comment #29455990
No. That would take value add away from apple et all. Install Xorg.
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Comment #29455939
Eventually people will be paying yachtsmen to move totes.
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Comment #29448708
The admins have had two years to fix staffing/equipment shortages. If they're still struggling it's not the public that should suffer.
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Comment #29448699
>Just two more weeks
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Comment #29448650
Hopefully more people notice these problems and stop using online services so much.
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Comment #29429384
This is why I bought a sailboat. All you can do is put computers on her; There's a real limit to how much you can make her function dependent on other people's code.
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Comment #29429298
Yup. This happened to me two years ago. Thankfully I hardly used them for anything important. They started freaking me out years ago and I've moved to self host everything. People …
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Comment #29429242
System software gives you a ton of control over the user. It's easy to say "oops that doesn't work" when they use apps that don't make you money or give you more control. With an a…
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Comment #29429198
Have you tried editing text files on iOS and copying them to another machine without an online service? On every other OS you have OpenSSH and some text editor installed already, o…
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Comment #29370990
Exactly, HTML would be amazing if people weren't trying to use browsers as application runtime environments.
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Comment #29370949
One of the companies I worked for did. They would always make these vary pretty mockups that would be hell for people to use. Information density is ugly and it makes software hard…
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Comment #29370896
A type DNS records are used for looking up IPv4 addresses, AAAA records are for IPv6. This effectively takes Reddit off of the IPv6 internet and is a bit of a step backward.
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Comment #29370755
We already had a system that didn't need satellites, it was deemed redundant and shut down.