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Re:Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released on Thursday October 19, 2017 @08:46AM (#15507386)
The surface support sounds interesting. Has anyone here tried that?
Re:Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released on Thursday October 19, 2017 @06:47AM (#15506824)
Same here, 2017 unity is fast, stable and beautiful.

I hope this move results in the same improvements coming to gnome. but I'm not upgrading for now.

Re:Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones on Thursday October 19, 2017 @06:19AM (#15506739)
I have, it has is quirks.

With that said, use their smartwatches. The UI is so much better than the competition it's not even funny.

And then you have Samsung pay card emulation magic....

Re:Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones on Thursday October 19, 2017 @04:10AM (#15506238)
Tizen on smartwatch is pretty awesome.

Imho its miles ahead of the other watch OSes

Re:Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones on Thursday October 19, 2017 @04:09AM (#15506233)
Another vote for termux!

It's specially useful on chromeos

Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @10:42AM (#15491292)
Please don't. It's a tablet, it needs some bezels.
Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @10:40AM (#15491275)
But if that is all your care about you can by a generic PC with similar specs for 1/3 of the price of the MBP.

see, that argument goes both ways.

Re:Librem 5 Phone Funded on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @08:08AM (#15441090)
I don't think your definition of success matches theirs. People have different values, some value openness above market share.

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Speaking of openness, and since you mentioned ios: apple recently unpublished a company's entire catalog of apps without any explanations. The word on the street is malware (well technically fraudulent adware) but do you think you will ever get apple to admit that?

Re:Librem 5 Phone Funded on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @06:43AM (#15440752)
Define success.

Btw, Linux on desktop is used by many large tech companies...

Re:Modern terminal-based text editor on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:35AM (#15363453)
But can it replace mg?
Re:Modern terminal-based text editor on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:32AM (#15363444)
Emacs has a GUI with icons and menus and tooltips and all that.

Isn't that what a true beginner would use anyway instead of the terminal version?

Re:Telia to Pay Nearly $1B to Settle Uzbek Bribery Claims on Saturday September 23, 2017 @06:58AM (#15319191)
Google is being fined by EU for their business practices in EU.

Telia is being fined for their business practices in a third country.

Not defending anyone, but can't you see this is a dangerous path? What would happen if Saudi Arabia fined Coca Cola for an "indecent" commercial they televised in Delaware?

Re:Telia to Pay Nearly $1B to Settle Uzbek Bribery Claims on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:20AM (#15309804)
Telia is paying billions to US for conducting business in Uzbekistan in the only way it can be done.

please remember this next time EU fines Google.

Re:Google signs agreement with HTC on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:34AM (#15303811)
I don't think Google cares about tablets anymore.

But I would love to see an updated nexus 7!

Re:Apple: Heap Overflow in AppleBCMWLANCore Driver on Thursday September 21, 2017 @08:05AM (#15302485)
This is a valid concern, I don't understand why you are getting downvoted.
Kind of related: at Google IO this year all speakers were using macbooks, but i have heard that a lot of teams have transitioned to chromebooks.

Maybe macbooks are preferred for presentations as many projector systems have problem with Windows and older Linux?

I don't get these mechanical keyboards. Maybe it's a reaction to all those shallow laptop keyboards, which i as a thinkpad user have not encountered...

Or maybe its a gamer thing?

Re:GRV ncurses interface for viewing Git repositories on Monday September 18, 2017 @04:43AM (#15274282)
is this significantly different from "tig"?
Re:When devops makes a clock on Monday September 18, 2017 @04:39AM (#15274262)
Why didn't he use left-pad.io?

An opportunity lost if you ask me.

Re:Chrome OS native development on Friday September 15, 2017 @07:03AM (#15256113)
Give me xwindows support in termux and I will happily ditch every other os.
Re:With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold on Monday September 11, 2017 @07:42AM (#15217741)
And with 8.0 we will start to see commercial roms with even better and longer support

Source: Paul oBrien

Re:Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter on Sunday September 10, 2017 @03:59AM (#15211258)
I don't mind the company, but I don't like that a product of a single company has become the defacto communication channel for tech people.

In many gatherings speakers identify themselves by twitter handles instead of email. Do you think that is sound?

Re:A modest proposal on Saturday September 09, 2017 @05:25AM (#15206239)
I just learned about cbor. Does cbor have this issue too?
Re:Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor on Friday September 08, 2017 @03:22AM (#15198439)
My solution to this is to not use my phone for this stuff.

I only log into the site from a desktop browser. No point reading messages when I'm AFK anyway.

Re:Android 8.0 Oreo, thoroughly reviewed on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @06:24AM (#15173860)
Stop that!

You cannot judge battery life after only a few days, specially after an update.

Re:Tetris for TS100 soldering iron on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @02:05AM (#15172851)
Needed for those smooth animations in the UI. Yes, animations.

Seriously, this iron got style.

Re:Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:20AM (#15140489)
Xprivacy?/
Re:Disconnect. Offline only on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:52AM (#15081929)
It's not all black and white

I'm reading your comment on my smartphone, while in a bathroom, while on a conference trip.

Re:How Google is secretly recording through your cellphone on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:50PM (#15075320)
This is The Sun.

Don't expect quality journalism...

PS. Google also can access your emails. Also knows about everyone in your contact list. They also know what video you watch on YouTube. Oh the horrors

Re:Help Test Docker CE on Raspberry Pi / ARM on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:52AM (#15062955)
IIRc docker runs as root while lxd runs as a normal user.

I think the Ubuntu wiki has some articles about lxd security.

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