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Re:KDE onboarding is good now on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:08AM (#46486309)
What distro, what version and what hardware (ie gpu, ram etc)?
Re:Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 on Friday December 26, 2025 @09:55AM (#46392592)
I get where youre coming from but I think the job of a company pushing a platform is to make it "boring". ie it should work out of the box on debian/fedora/arch/ubuntu. The platform vendor (Qualcomm) is the only one with enough sway to push the different laptop manufacturers do the right thing. This is the reason why both Intel / Windows push compliance suites which have a long list of requirmements before anyone can put the Windows / Intel logo on their device. If Qualcomm is going to let Acer / Lenovo decide if things work out of the box on linux then its never going to happen.
Re:Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 on Thursday December 25, 2025 @11:37PM (#46389270)
Hardware has already been out for a year. Outside a custom spin by the ubuntu folks, even last years notebooks arent well supported out of the box on linux. I have a Yoga Slim 7x and I tried the Ubuntu spin out at some point - it required me to first extract the firmware from the Windows partition because Qualcomm had not upstreamed it into linux-firmware. Hard to take Qualcomm seriously when the situation is like this.
thank you!
What UI framework are you using to build the app?
Re:AMD GPU Debugger on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @10:49AM (#46219123)
Thank you!
Re:AMD GPU Debugger on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @05:06AM (#46203244)
Do you know which one rocm uses?
Re:Jolla Phone Pre-Order on Friday December 05, 2025 @12:35PM (#46164485)
This is the last response I have from them in my inbox (Sep 24, 2015, 8:56 AM). Never heard back from them after this inspite of repeated subsequent queries

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Hi,

thank you for your message.

We are sending the invites out to contributors in groups according to the chronological order of contributions. Please also note that we are slowly ramping up the deliveries, starting with a smaller group to ensure that everything works as it should, but anticipate future groups to be bigger in size. This means that we are currently unable to estimate your exact order number in the queue.

To read all the latest on the Tablet campaign, please stay tuned to the Jolla Blog. For some commonly asked questions and answers, please see our Jolla Tablet Campaign FAQs.

Thank you again for your contribution!

Sincerely, Jolla Customer Care

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Re:Jolla Phone Pre-Order on Friday December 05, 2025 @12:01PM (#46164001)
It wasnt offered to everyone. They did the whole thing by trickling out information based on batches based on when you ordered. And for the record I wasnt shipped a tablet, given a refund or offered a voucher and based on comments at the time I wasnt the only one. It was a total writeoff.
Re:Jolla Phone Pre-Order on Friday December 05, 2025 @11:51AM (#46163846)
They have a history of not shipping. They took my money for a tablet pre-order but never shipped anything. Didnt offer refunds either.
Re:Jolla Phone Pre-Order on Friday December 05, 2025 @11:47AM (#46163792)
Fool me once shame on you.

Fool me twice shame on me.

Jolla never shipped me a tablet or offered me a refund back when they were making tablets. I would strongly urge people not to pre-order from the company since they have a track record of not shipping and being extremely irresponsible in their communications when they dont ship.

I never got a refund or a tablet. They were very unprofessional through the entire situation.
Re:When O3 is 2x slower than O2 on Sunday November 02, 2025 @06:30AM (#45789557)
Laughs in lisp
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @02:36PM (#45293342)
Since this was a public facing mistake, will there be a post mortem including details about the blast radius, how many customers were affected and what steps are being put in place to ensure this never happens to a customer again?
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @02:36PM (#45293337)
Since this was a public facing mistake, will there be a post mortem including details about the blast radius, how many customers were affected and what steps are being put in place to ensure this never happens to a customer again?
thats a red flag imho
Re:Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @05:00PM (#44575764)
Its not very clear to me which of these Helix hasnt hit. To me it looks like Helix is very close to what you are looking for.
Re:How easy is it for a developer to "sandbox" a program? on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @04:08PM (#44370501)
Thank you!
Re:How easy is it for a developer to "sandbox" a program? on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @06:24PM (#44304638)
Any pointers to operating systems that do this out of the box?
Re:Getting Forked by Microsoft on Monday April 21, 2025 @02:35PM (#43755012)
Wait what? I didnt realize this was the case and I say this as a huge alpine fan. Will look into whether there is an option to setup a recurring donation and will do so if its the case.
Re:Using an 8K TV as a Monitor on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @04:46PM (#41989194)
Does a 8K 42 inch option exist?
Re:Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders on Saturday October 19, 2024 @05:26AM (#41886708)
Expecting hardware companies to get things ready so much ahead of time that they make the cut for a LTS release might lean towards being too unrealistic since LTS releases have a fair bit of gap between them.
Re:Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders on Thursday October 17, 2024 @02:34PM (#41872380)
If you are playing your cards right, its best to be on mainline kernels and in the stock non-lts release by default in most distros.
Re:Source-Available Is Meaningless on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @11:38AM (#41789093)
If the projects are on freebsd / openbsd that goes even further with me.
Re:Source-Available Is Meaningless on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @11:38AM (#41789075)
If its not in debian and fedora main repo proper, its not open source as far as I am concerned. We can argue about the semantics but this filter is great at removing a bulk of the projects that will tip over the moment the company championing it pivots or fails.
Yes it was. People wanted a realtime version of pandas for booking up their ticking charts and grids.
This looks super interesting. I built https://github.com/finos/perspective in a past life but have been out of the streaming analytics game for some time. Nice to see single machine efficiency be a focus, will give this a try and post feedback on github.
Re:Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems on Monday September 18, 2023 @09:11PM (#37564521)
I am using this for my home lab. Extremely useful.
Re:DirectX 12 Support on macOS on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:37PM (#36222539)
Toolkit deprecated in 3 years after Apple assembles a large enough game library :)
Re:Our production servers were suspended by Google Cloud on Monday March 13, 2023 @10:11AM (#35135934)
Could I contact you to pick your brains about this? I spend much more than $2k for dev environments at my startup and a setup like this would work beautifully for us.

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