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Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by flaxscrip » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

lsaferite wrote: post #118

IgorPartola wrote: post #96

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spacefight is right. Offering HTTP along with HTTPS is an antipattern. As an example, I give you Reddit, where HTTP and HTTPS services are identical. That means you can log in on the HTTPS site, and I can have your session cookie or even your password. The only sane solution is to set up HTTP to redirect to HTTPS, and add an HSTS cookie.

Honestly I'd just prefer the HTTP endpoint not even exist.

The only reason why some sites still use http is because of the need to purchase an ssl certificate from one of the cartelized CA providers.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by aaronbasssett » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

RobertoG wrote: post #88

lclarkmichalek wrote: post #47

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Huh, I tried /en/. Generally people use ISO 639 over ISO 3166 for choosing the language to represent.

I think the reason is that they want separate pages by countries, not by languages. For instance, they have three different pages in Spanish (Spain, Mexico, Uruguay).

Then they should be using BCP-47 (es-ES, es-MX, es-UY)

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by leaveyou » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

da02 wrote: post #122

leaveyou wrote: post #38

I got burned once with a windows phone Omnia 7 as an early adopter and it was beyond useless (lack of apps/configurability) so I will definitely not rush again on unproven phones despite my interest in Ubuntu. Also the price/specs on this phone is horrible compared to Xiaomi Note 4G (190euro) which I own and can recommend to anyone. I hope Ubuntu phone catches on though. Competition is good.

Any recommendations on where to buy the Note 4G? I got mine at pandawill, but I'm curious about other places. It was my first time buying from a Chinese e-retailer.

I bought mine on amazon in France (sold by some other company but shipped by amazon).

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by aqzman » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:08 PM UTC

Wow! The bezels on that phone are huge. I personally find that very unappealing, it makes the phone hardware look very outdated.

That said, I'd love to sit down and play with the OS on the phone to see what it does different from other mobile OSes today.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by ericmo » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:09 PM UTC

harryf wrote: post #90

lclarkmichalek wrote: post #47

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Huh, I tried /en/. Generally people use ISO 639 over ISO 3166 for choosing the language to represent.

"Only available in the European Union" ...and GB = Great Britain.

Just changing "es" for "gb" in the URL works.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:10 PM UTC

pwis wrote: post #112

harryf wrote: post #90

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"Only available in the European Union" ...and GB = Great Britain.

Actually GB stands for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Just my 2¢.

You are downnvoted, but you are correct. GB is the country code for the United Kingdom, not Great Britain.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:11 PM UTC

flaxscrip wrote: post #131

lsaferite wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly I'd just prefer the HTTP endpoint not even exist.

The only reason why some sites still use http is because of the need to purchase an ssl certificate from one of the cartelized CA providers.

It's not just that. TLS setup is additional effort.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by pacofvf » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:14 PM UTC

RobertoG wrote: post #88

lclarkmichalek wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, I tried /en/. Generally people use ISO 639 over ISO 3166 for choosing the language to represent.

I think the reason is that they want separate pages by countries, not by languages. For instance, they have three different pages in Spanish (Spain, Mexico, Uruguay).

http://www.bq.com/uy/game-ubuntu and http://www.bq.com/mx/game-ubuntu 404'd for me, so no you can't buy them in Mexico nor Uruguay.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by Kurtz79 » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:16 PM UTC

lsaferite wrote: post #117

RobertoG wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the reason is that they want separate pages by countries, not by languages. For instance, they have three different pages in Spanish (Spain, Mexico, Uruguay).

Things like that always bug me. What if I live in Spain and only speak English. What if I live in a Catalan region and want Catalan? What if I live in GB and want to read it in Spanish as it's my first language? With the world being as global as it is and people readily moving around, geographic location does not equal language preference. Ideally the site would have geographic specific sections but allow all languag…

It would be quite a bit of work, to attend a very limited use case.

Every Catalan (or Galician, Valencian, Basque) speaks Spanish, as do the vast majority of the expats I know (and I'm one myself).

You can still access the specific site of the language you are interested in. Or, in the worst case, use Google translate.

Re: Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

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Post by leaveyou » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:19 PM UTC

collyw wrote: post #130

leaveyou wrote: post #38

I got burned once with a windows phone Omnia 7 as an early adopter and it was beyond useless (lack of apps/configurability) so I will definitely not rush again on unproven phones despite my interest in Ubuntu. Also the price/specs on this phone is horrible compared to Xiaomi Note 4G (190euro) which I own and can recommend to anyone. I hope Ubuntu phone catches on though. Competition is good.

being Ubuntu is it not going to be a fair bit easier to hack things onto it yourself?

That's how I convinced myself to buy the windows phone. "Oh, it's windows ! I can program for it with C# & WPF. It will be fun.. for a week..". I hack enough things on my laptops (ubuntu). I needed a cheap phone to make calls, send sms easily, put alarms, listen to music, browse web, ocassionaly snap pictures and read some pdfs when I'm bored. Xiaomi is perfect for my needs until now.