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Decentralised Centralised Decentralised Version Control System. What fun.

As someone who lives on linux and has to touch OSX for things like building for iOS devices, I find it really odd that OSX doesnt just solve these problems like all the FOSS distros do. It's insanely odd that Apple gives me a bash shell which is years out of date, and it feels hacky to just use what i want. I know Propietary and free software kinda have a hard time co-existing on operating systems built on free or mostly free software, but if OSX is half free software and its posix compliant, Its hard to believe that apple couldn't give you both propietary software and an easy package system for developers easily.

The sad thing about linux is that as much as I love it and its ecosystem, i cant recommend it to anyone who wants things to "just work":

- X and wayland crash on me all the time on this laptop because of its HiDPI screen and my kinda-works-but-is-wonky fixes to work with multiple monitors.

- Hardware support is the best its ever been, but graphics cards, wifi, exotic devices, laptop power states and embedded devices can still be a pain because manufacturers simply dont care.

- desktop applications can still be a little glitchy, Web browsers work fine, as do first party DE apps, but the more you get away from things which arent in the big name gui toolkits and have custom controls and behaviour, the more problems you seem to run in.

But aside from all that im happy here in ubuntu. When your software library feels as easy as picking a book from a shelf and 90% of the system updates by the update manager and says "hey restart when you feel like it" Im quite comfortable.

Todays equivalent would be those Funko PopVinyl figures. I'm amazed at how many people thìnk they are worth something when theres hundreds of rudimentary looking figures for every cult favorite movie, videogame, and cartoon.

Gnome 3 has all those shortcuts, albeit Workspaces are now in a single column, so you only have up and down navigating workspaces.

Not surprised to see a modem/router from Australia's biggest Telco on the list.

Australia's internet is in such a confusing state. At the moment a house could potentially get internet via one of ADSL1/2/2+, VDSL2+, HFC, Fiber, Wireless or satellite and on top of that most telcos are shipping woefully bad modems/router hardware with equally bad, gimped, and undersupported firmware to consumers.

Yeah, I would have thought that curated meant there was reasoning and insight into selections.

This isn't very curated at all.

Did you try a later kernel? out of the box ubuntu 16.04 is on the longterm 4.4 kernel. It looks like some ryzen features and patches have been added to 4.10, and they probably were not back-ported to the longterm kernels.

I'm hoping that they do bring it back, because Nintendo did see the potential and have dev tools for the WiiU to target html based content - https://developer.nintendo.com/tools

Well in this case DRM means Direct Rendering Manager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager) What I find even more interesting is AMD takes over half of that.

If you use the Minimal CD for installing ubuntu (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD) you can pick a metapackage along the way that may be more to your liking. I dont know what exactly you dont want from a standard xubuntu install but there is an xfce "minimal" metapackage in the ecosystem which may help you install only what you need from the start

Here are a few things that I experience on android.

-When snapchat is foregrounded my phone wont go to sleep.

-Sometimes the camera will just go black, hang, and crash the entire app. I don't know why, im guessing it could be filters.

-Taking a snap with a filter applied sometimes just takes the photo without the filter.

-The memories section is useless, and seems to only exist to keep pictures out of my freely accessible storage.

-Adding things to the images like text or smilies is okay for a single item, multiple things on an image becomes very cumbersome with you resizing things you didnt want to resize.

-the main inbox screen is very cumbersome, tap views a snap, sometimes it lags, and i tap again, only for it to show me a snap for less than a second and disappear. Double tap replys if you just viewed a snap, If you don't double tap perfectly it may think you want to swipe right to chat.

-Inbox keeps getting slower, I get instant push notifications and tap one to go to my inbox, only to wait 2-3 seconds for the inbox to update, sometimes on top of that it hasn't even received the data and i hate to wait for that too.

-Chat and text messages are stupid, You will lose messages because you swipe back to your feed the exact time someone sends you a new message, and kaput the text is gone forever, sometimes messages stay and sometimes they don't and i cant figure out why. I used video chat once and it was a horrible and laggy experience, one which i've never tried again.

-Stories are starting to add ads, which i understand, but the comic event where "the ads load faster than the real content" happens.

-If a story hasn't downloaded the next snap, the app just stops responding until it is downloaded and ready. Most of the time it will register any tap in that frozen state and will skip the snap when the picture/video is finally loaded.

-a few controls like text/drawing color are 1-2 millimeters wide on some phones and makes selecting them infuriating.

My 2 cents:

- 14.10 isn't LTS, and is EOL now, i think you might mean 14.04?

- If you're going to disable unity for a dock, you might want to try elementaryOS, ubuntu Gnome with the dash-to-dock extension, or xfce. in 16.04 now you can also put the unity launcher at the bottom using unity-tweak-tool or running `gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher launcher-position Bottom`

- I dislike droid sans mono because 0 and O look pretty much identical

- in my opinion, conky is just a useless waste of resources

It seems like a dream come true when you're in the business of people buying new iterations of the same thing, Which seems to be all SoCs and embedded systems providers these days.

I Have a NUC at home, but its power as a computer seems to be wasted on being the smart part of a TV to me. So I use a nexus player for its interface and the NUC runs its DLNA and lives its life as a full-fledged desktop PC.

The last time i tested old browsers it was impossible to view anything. The main problem is the Host field isn't sent by a lot of browsers from that time, and sites won't respond.

Character encoding issues, nexpected tags, big images all quickly lead to crashes.

it looks like there is a umx decoder (libmodplug) in ffmpeg actually, and i have the games on steam. Maybe i'll convert them to mp3 myself for a trip down memory lane.

speaking of changing formats, Unreal Tournament 2004 was the first place i saw an Ogg file too.

The whole Unreal series and the engine it spawned were, and still are something i love to just look at.

I remember going through the file system as a kid and looking at all the nicely arranged but weird files in Unreal Tournament. I liked the music from the game and wanted to play it, but i didn't know what the weird UMX file was, but i knew it was music thanks to being placed in the Music directory (A nice change to Quake 3 where all i found was a giant PAK file). A Google search and a winamp plugin later and i could play it. Looking at the winamp plugin i realized that it was not like an MP3 or wave with everything baked in but more like a midi, there was a whole UI in the plugin which displayed the instruments and timeline of the song being played. It was a really fun thing to learn about on top of instagib matches on Deck16.

Looking it up now i see that Alexander Brandon is the composer of Go Down, the music for Deck16. I guess ill have to go and find a nice source of the music from UT and have another listen. It'll be nearly impossible to deal with a UMX file these days!

This is my approach with things too. Instead of saying know I explain the complexities of what would happen by saying yes:

- Other projects will be pushed out of the way

- Your deadline is not feasible, I can do it by this date.

- The cost/time of me doing something would be high, due to my inexperience in doing that task.

- I personally think it is a bad idea and a waste of everyone's time, but it's your call.

Things may work differently for others, but turning a "no" to a "yes, on my terms" is what has worked well in any situation I've been in.

Doing this guide verbatim is a terrible idea to anyone who doesn't understand what they are doing, Especially obtaining from a source like the pirate bay. You can obtain an ISO straight from Microsoft - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I....

(Ironically it seems the ISO doesn't download over https, but I'd use it over a varying quality torrent site any day.)

I have nostalgic memories of null modems and IPX/SPX to play old Westwood games.

I always have GPS disabled, unless its more to do with where i live, GPS features of snapchat aren't worth using.

The infuriating thing i notice though is that since the android update was released where you no longer hold to view a picture or video, your phone will never go to sleep if snapchat is in the foreground.

My father worked for a very long time on traffic signal systems, and a lot of their old technology was a simple EEPROM chip which they wrote a program for the signals, burned to a chip that costed a pittance, and that was it. I remember him telling me when they changed to a new system based on (i think) PCMCIA interfaces and the complexity of deployment and cost were magnitudes greater for no real benefit.

If its an embedded system and the cost and work of supporting it is less than the cost and deployment of a new system, whats the point in updating it?

Evey now and again I see a picture or article being shared around saying Facebook are spying on you and how their apps have all these permissions to use your camera and phone audio.

If they are on android, I tell them to open their system settings and show them how Google Search has just about every privilege on your phone and has had it since they turned it on.

Even if people are concerned they still don't stop using Facebook or android. :/

Really? It seems as though that is how most online communities try to follow this logic.

I fully get that 'clear' and 'understandable' are very subjective, though.

My idea of moderation is:

1. Outline rules for a community, make them clear and understandable

2. Enforce those, and only those, rules.

3. If something objectionable happens, and the rules don't cover them but you think they should, then change the rules to how you see fit.

4. Handle the fallout of the rules changing.

Steps 3 and 4 are where things mostly fall apart in communities. Personally, any time something happens which leads me to change rules for something, it's reactive and is the voice of the majority of people (not the loudest, the majority). Most people are happy that way.

Disagreement is never a rule I'd have. I'd only make sure that people either have the tools to self-censor what they don't want to see, or tell them they might be happier going elsewhere.

no new ubuntu release would be complete without graphics issues from Nvidia and AMD. I say AMD too because FGLRX is out of 16.04.

After all the Issues i had with intel/amd/nvidia stiwching gpus in the ivy bridge days i just gave up buying nvidia and AMD, and boy has it made linux easier.

Which model do you have? My new 9350 seemed to hang a few times and become unresponsive when I tried beta 2, I'm hoping that release isn't going to do that.

All my experiences running mint have amounted to a broken and out of date distribution which has poor hardware support. I hope it has become better wince those days (i believe it was the initial release of MATE) but I see no reason to use mint when you know enough about a Debian based distro to pick and choose what you really want.

For some reason this makes me sad, I guess it's similar to a motor enthusiast being angry at someone who thinks a car is "just a car". In my opinion, computers deserve to be more than consumer content endpoints.

I somewhat agree with you about its specs, However when it came out of the box it was a smooth and snappy tablet.