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3 years ago
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on: VLC media player banned in India
I’m currently in a trip in the south of Brazil, and I can’t open the 2600.com website since I’ve been here. I’m not sure if it is some kind of government filter or just 2600’s firewall blocking Brazilian ips.
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3 years ago
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on: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
Honest question here about jails. I like docker because the tooling makes it super easy to get anything running in no time. How is jails tooling? Let’s say I need to get an app running, a database and a redis for the app. Is that as easy as docker compose?
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3 years ago
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on: NiteFury – An Artix-7 FPGA with its own DDR3 RAM right in your laptop
I wonder if it would be possible to run MiSTer emulators on it.
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3 years ago
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on: Windows 3.1 Flash Edition
Taking the thinkpad apart is part of flashing the bios, which usually is just clipping an SOIC8 clip to the bios chip and using CH341a SPI usb programmer to flash it. I did the same to my thinkpad x220 to flash it with coreboot.
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3 years ago
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on: Bitcoin falls 7.03% to $20,969.32
how come it always be an incentive to miners when the price is not profitable anymore?
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4 years ago
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on: Asahi Linux alpha release
that’s great! I’ve been a long time Fedora user but last year I decided to try NixOS and I couldn’t be more surprised, everything works well and it was easy to install and learn. I’m glad I can try it in my m1 macbook pro!
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4 years ago
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on: uBlock Origin 1.41
Ever since I heard about AdGuard Home I never looked back. I have a raspberry pi 4 serving all dns requests from every electronic at my house for 215 days of uptime now without any issues. Browsing the web seems faster and cleaner ever since.
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4 years ago
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on: IBM creates 2nm chip
But at the same time software got slower and slower to the point that every processor upgrade just feels the same as the previous one. Sure there are some speedups, but I feel software could be way faster than it is today. There is little reason for a command line only linux to be slow in an older machine, and yet it is slugish.
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4 years ago
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on: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part IV
That’s an impressive amount of progress already. Congrats on the work. I’m waiting apple’s next silicon to jump to arm, and hopefully by then I’m going to be able to run linux on it.
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5 years ago
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on: Things I learned while developing a billing system
I went through the same issues 6 years ago, had to create the entire billing system from scratch, and there are so many corner cases I had to deal with, specially with plan changes on recurring subscriptions, had to deal with world wide timezones for the invoice creations and lots of other stuff. I just wish there was a pluggable, robust and flexible solution to use instead of reinventing the wheel.
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5 years ago
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on: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
You can always add a usb numpad, but you can never remove one that is already there.
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5 years ago
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on: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
You put nothing, why do you assume if there is space it needs to be more keys in there? I bet they can even improve the structural rigidity by not having the numpad.
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5 years ago
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on: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
Yes! If someone from system76 is listening to this thread, please, make a version without the numpad! That would be the case for me to buy one of these, but with a numpad it is a no.
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5 years ago
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on: The Framework Laptop
They have my attention here. As a long time thinkpad x220 user and tons of mods and upgrades in it I like the repairability approach. As a linux user I would prefer if they had an all AMD option.
Congrats on this project, I hope you folks succeed and bring more companies to make laptops/hardware with the same approach.
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5 years ago
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on: Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder
Because CentOS on enterprise hardware is way more stable than Debian. I've worked for 6 years as a sysadmin for 300+ servers and we migrated everything from Debian to CentOS and our hardware related issues just went away. Overall we had much less trouble in our systems.
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Who do you consider a genius in the CS world?
Linus Torvalds
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5 years ago
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on: The real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini
I tried to prepare for preorder at Apple Store App like they direct, but I couldn't find a way to finish the process because it won't show the sim-free option (I'm on google fi). Anyone else had this issue?
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5 years ago
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on: The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel
Honest question: why these gpu drivers need some many lines of code? Anybody with more background can explain?
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5 years ago
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on: Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
Honest question, why did this take so long? Is this feature technically too difficult to implement?
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5 years ago
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on: OpenBSD for 1.5 Years: Confessions of a Linux Heretic
For a desktop use, openbsd feels super sluggish compared to the same hardware running linux. I love the way things are configured in openbsd, it is very straightforward. But the fact that it is noticeably slower than linux is what made me go back to linux. I wish we could have a linux distro with the same configuration philosophy as the BSDs. I recently started using gentoo and I'm enjoying having bare tools to configure the system, and having no systemd is a plus IMHO.
