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I discovered recently that a Raspberry Pi 5 would be faster than both my sister's and parents' PCs. Just a shame that all cheap ARM boards need proprietary kernels.

I used to carry a Nokia 6310i with a new battery and it couldn't make it to a month without a charge. Maybe 2 weeks. My 235 4G can last about a week on standby. I'm not sure what the expectation is in the sort of places you're referring to, but I know some economically poorer regions are investing in 4G masts, like India thanks to Jio phones.

I suspect that would be offset by efficiency gains on the infrastructure side.

And thanks to smartphones, people are used to charging their phone every night, so it doesn't feel like a hindrance like it used to.

Incidentally, 3G capabilities would only be used when the phone's searching for networks or connected to a 3G network (I think), which are becoming very rare nowadays.

The main one, and the one I'm using now, has a Radeon Pro WX 5100 which is a Polaris card from about 8 years ago.

All of my PCs except an old MacBook Pro have a BIOS, not UEFI.

Two are from 2010, one from 2008, one from 1996.

There were native builds of Word and Excel for Alpha that came with 4.2 and 97, but nothing else non-x86 except for the 'pocket' versions that came with Windows CE.

You would probably like Gnumeric, though that project is very Unix-specific.

Neither TPM 2.0 or 1.2 is required for a Server 2025 install.

Microsoft could easily disable the restriction is they wanted to.

For a while it seemed touch and go but this rule seems to be thoroughly enforced now except for a 'whitelist' of browsers that does not include Firefox, Chromium or Netsurf.

Opera 11 (Dec 2010) had 'tab stacking'.

I have a 235 4G and I'd say the firmware is 'quirky' but not particularly buggy in the five months I've had it.

Dual carriageways are ok for cycling when the AADT for a particular road is below about 30k. Above that, cyclists would be an impediment to traffic flow as a following motorist would be waiting a long time for a safe gap in the second lane to overtake, especially when the speed difference is above 100%.

> Maybe if you're stuck in a classroom with unmotivated people, or your classmates are much slower than you, or the class is huge and your teacher doesn't give a shit about teaching. But in the absence of a severe case of some incidental problem like that, I've found the opposite to be true.

For me it was the noise. Also, being in a UK 'comprehensive' (state school) meant mixing with people from families with varying work ethics and it pained me trying to understand why other kids motivations, even other adults' motivations, were often very different to mine and what I had been brought up with at home.

Qualcomm may have the market but Apple has the profit.

I think everything from Pentium Pro (except Bonnell-based Atom), AMD K5, Cyrix 6x86 and VIA Nano onwards is vulnerable.

Most GPUs and iGPUs have had H.264 decoders for over 15 years.

In theory any computer with a PCI slot can play 1080p with no frame drops.

Maybe this varies by location but at least in the UK, adults can usually leave the grounds of their place of work during a lunch break. Not true for school kids. And the difference in population density between schools and offices is usually stark.

They still provide directions on downgrading the TPM check from 2.0 to 1.2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/ways-to-install-...

All business are built on relationships, technical competency can but doesn't have to be a means to that end.

Teaching English will just reinforce Anglo-American hegemony.

If the eMMC failed then the board would become a brick until the associated chips were desoldered and replaced.

eMMC makes this a hard pass for me.

nPOPuk?

Maybe offline web development on old, perhaps proprietary, hardware platforms? Security and the risks of running untrusted code wouldn't matter so much.

Maybe open it up and disconnect the antennas?

The figures past 2015 don't seem to include basic phones.

S60 5th edition was a disaster for Symbian's and Nokia's reputation, especially the N97 incarnation. Its main issue was a lack of GPU acceleration for the GUI which wasn't really resolved until the Belle era, by which point it was far too late to resurrect.

If they can get Horse Creek out the door, I'm interested, if not, I'm not.

To be fair, the secondary technologies available to support the preferred model now are far more advanced than what Quartz Extreme (in macOS) and DWM (in Win. Vista) had to use, and there's no longer a need to provide backward compatibility with software rendering.

You mean Basic HTTP Authentication? I wouldn't say Chrome's dialog looks 'ugly'.