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Re:H.264 Is Magic on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:38AM (#50299913)
Eye of Gnome can open webp. You need webp-pixbuf-loader package installed.
We already have a stable fusion going. It's 8 light minutes away. All you have to do is to point a solar panel at it to harvest the energy.
I'm glad you've had better experience.

It was around 3 years ago. I haven't touched any ARM board ever since. We specifically used OrangePi zero. The armbian at the time had thermal management problems to the point the boards would straight up fry to a brick. I remember there was an update that fixed the thermal problem but it would corrupt the SD card once in about five reboots. And it really didn't solve the thermal problems. They'd get hot enough to be unresponsive. So the clever decision by management was to add a fully self designed avr based board to periodically poll the device on one of the GPIO pins and somehow reboot the OrangePi if it didn't respond. So reboots were common and SD cards only lasted 1 month tops.

I've worked on a product that was based on Orange pi. The documentation was non existent and reliability was abysmal. The product was used in hospitals non the less. I still have nightmares about it. Granted, the functionality was non essential (it wasn't anything remotely related to life support. But still, it was used in a freaking hospital). I tried convincing the management to at least switch to RPi, but RPi was three times more expensive and according to my tests was not reliable enough to convince them. Cheap ARM boards are at best interesting toys and you should not even try to make any products with them. Ignoring this will be your downfall. The company was bleeding money left and right for fixing the already sold products. That's were I gtfo
Re:Second-Guessing the Modern Web on Monday May 11, 2020 @06:28PM (#23147888)
I wanted to add that this sentiment is not new. Here it is from 2016: https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...

Web development clearly has a problem. I don't know enough to say what we have to do about it but I look at the current state and my face curls up in disgust

Re:Making Emacs Popular Again on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:06PM (#23110306)
That's when we fork emacs with the GPL license. You can't retroactively change the license to the code you published as GPL before
Re:The Decline of Usability on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:21AM (#22907523)
> Seems nothing can stop them.

Of course. The people complain. They say fork it and change it yourself or use what we give you.

The people that can't just suffer through it. The ones that know enough use something else.

I login in linux tty. And startx starts dwm. No fancy login screen for me.

Re:Rich client side web apps gone too far (2014) on Saturday March 28, 2015 @11:24PM (#9283760)
>Just being told I can replicate my application in html and css isn't helping.

You can't. But do you really need to? Couldn't your webpage work without suggestions popping up as query is typed into the input box? Your webpage should not stop working if you can't validate user input client side, etc... .

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement