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[uid313]

I like the performance of Firefox. Despite being outperformed by Chrome in this benchmark, I am very satisfied with the real-world day-to-day performance...

[uid313]

I surely hope there will be no paid, proprietary software.
Flatpak can be used without Flathub though. Flathub is just one repository that can be...

[uid313]

Really nice, though you could still use it via the web browser earlier though.
Great to see it packaged for Linux. Just too bad that it isn't open...

[uid313]

I don't think there exists any root account on Ubuntu. There you use your own normal account then use sudo to get superuser privileges....

[uid313]

Oh, this is really nice! 👍


But if you only have one account and cant sudo then I guess you cant create a new account....

[uid313]

Meh, X11 seems like a dead end now that we have Wayland.

[uid313]

Speaking of kiosk, the recently released Firefox 71 now have support for kiosk mode using the -kiosk command-line option....

[uid313]

I don't care about blank passwords, actually it is quite convenient with empty passwords on your personal desktop computer at home that only you use....

[uid313]

I think it is only a subset of Java 8, not all of it. Also Java 8 is outdated, now there is Java 13.
It doesn't support type interference, so the...

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Oh, yeah I kind find that part of Kotlin a bit weird. Kotlin is a bit weird.
I kind of like the "There should be one—and preferably only o...

[uid313]

Yeah, and there are other weird things, like how the constructor for a class is defined in the class declaration or something weird like that....

[uid313]

Kotlin is developed by JetBrains, not by Google.

Kotlin on Android is quite nice, partly due because Java is so horrible. Especially the...

[uid313]

This could also notify when the PC chassis were opened.

import shutil
import subprocess
import os

def on_chassis_opened():

...

[uid313]

This is great, as it will also benefit all Electron-based projects such as Atom, Skype, Spotify, Visual Studio Code, Azure Data Studio, etc.

[uid313]

Is Gallium3D still relevant with Vulkan and SPIR-V?
Now there is OpenGL over Vulkan, Direct3D over Vulkan, etc. Maybe OpenCL over Vulkan? There...

[uid313]

Sounds cool, I wish these were available for consumers to buy instead of just rent in the cloud.

[uid313]

Yeah, VideoCore probably is shit, but I would still rather have that than PowerVR....

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Imagination Technologies sucks, their have no open source code at all, and their device drivers are very proprietary. They were only kept a float by Apple...

[uid313]

I would want ARMv8, it is modern and clean. I would not want the old legacy ARMv7.

Can you run ARMv8 on Raspberry Pi 4? Else it is not a...

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Sure, we had a lot of stuff open source before. Microsoft is a company, and as such it is by nature profit driven, just like all other companies, but...