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Re:GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard on Sunday September 06, 2026 @09:48PM (#49592898)
None except Jio in India and various carriers in China
Re:I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows on Friday May 15, 2026 @12:44PM (#48150814)
you can now ask a coding agent to debug & fix these issues
obsidian isn't open source
There's a files app
QuickShare already requires Google Play Services, so I don't think that will change
my US banking apps work on CalyxOS
Looks like uncloud has no control plane, just a CLI: https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud#-features
I wonder how it compares to orbstack
Re:How to live an intellectually rich life on Friday May 02, 2025 @02:28PM (#43873224)
Here are some suggestions: Writing, music creation, woodworking, drawing, painting, photography, podcasting, gardening, cooking, DIY home projects, chess, sports
oh, I guess this is why the nix installer creates 32 macOS users called _nixbld$N
Re:A New Sudoku Layout with 81 Uniquely Shaped Cells on Friday March 21, 2025 @12:19PM (#43437503)
Oh, I never would have guessed
Re:A New Sudoku Layout with 81 Uniquely Shaped Cells on Thursday March 13, 2025 @06:56PM (#43358031)
That was a fun puzzle! You should add a confirmation to the reset button - my finger slipped and accidentally hit it.
some windows laptops have a haptic touchpad from sensel, which is reportedly good
Re:VSCode's SSH agent is bananas on Saturday February 08, 2025 @04:52AM (#42981831)
> I distinctly remember seeing some program that was named something duck-related but for the life of me I can't remember any other specifics

cyberduck - https://cyberduck.io/

Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 on Sunday December 29, 2024 @02:13PM (#42542148)
Apple chose to implement things like OHTTP and homomorphic encryption when they could easily have done without it. Doesn't that count for something?
Re:Overbooking – how providers divide up the bandwidth on Sunday September 29, 2024 @12:33PM (#41688488)
That can also be affected by the supported DRM level. Try safari or edge.
> Quantum Leap plans to run FreeBSD on contemporary laptops as a hypervisor-like solution using Bhyve to virtualize other operating systems, including Linux and Windows.

Are they gonna sell laptops running FreeBSD with a virtualized Windows guest as "more secure" to the US government?

Re:No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead on Monday July 08, 2024 @04:00PM (#40908984)
>To be clear, systemd-boot doesn't replace GRUB, in that systemd-boot can only boot other EFI binaries, so it still requires the kernel to be compiled as a UKI. A GRUB setup with a regular vmlinuz + separate initramfs in root partition (or boot partition that's not the ESP) can't be replaced with systemd-boot directly. You first need to switch to a UKI-in-ESP setup.

That's wrong, my laptop right now uses systemd-boot with a vmlinuz and an initramfs, no UKI. See a configuration example here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-boot#Adding_loaders

Re:No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead on Monday July 08, 2024 @03:57PM (#40908954)
Install arch with a couple of different bootloaders and disk layouts, and you'll learn it all. The simplest option is potentially systemd-boot + an unencrypted rootfs.
Re:iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @12:00AM (#40437190)
> The biggest issue for me is that it increases the attack surface

What's your threat model?

We've got a one-liner for spinning up your own ollama UI. See https://github.com/fly-apps/ollama-open-webui
Re:Why does the `reset` command include a delay? on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:18AM (#39638652)
I use it to clear my scrollback buffer. It makes it easier to search any new output.
Re:All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @06:13PM (#39531513)
Logging and tracing have this problem too.
Re:Going declarative on macOS with Nix and Nix-Darwin on Monday January 15, 2024 @03:44PM (#39005850)
I agree, I'm not getting new computers more than once a year, at most. Setup time doesn't seem like something I should optimize for.
Re:Going declarative on macOS with Nix and Nix-Darwin on Monday January 15, 2024 @03:42PM (#39005830)
Yeah, I've tried both nix and brew, and `brew install` is just much more convenient than editing a config file and then running `home-manager switch --flake .`
Re:C and C++ Hot-Reload/Live Coding on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:40PM (#38857862)
> fyi, "hot reload" is a native part of every operating system (consider, even trivially, forking & reforking).

Can you expand on this?

Fly.io supports up to 8GB docker images
Re:Skip the API, Ship Your Database on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:13AM (#37505546)
You can use LiteFS Cloud without hosting your app on fly.io - https://fly.io/docs/litefs/getting-started-docker/#litefs-cl...

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