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bostand··on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released
The surface support sounds interesting. Has anyone here tried that?
bostand··on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released
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.

bostand··on Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones
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....

bostand··on Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones
Tizen on smartwatch is pretty awesome.

Imho its miles ahead of the other watch OSes

bostand··on Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones
Another vote for termux!

It's specially useful on chromeos

bostand··on Introducing Surface Book 2
Please don't. It's a tablet, it needs some bezels.
bostand··on Introducing Surface Book 2
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.

bostand··on Librem 5 Phone Funded
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Speaking of openness, and since you mentioned ios: apple recently unpublished a company's entire catalog of apps without any explanations.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?

bostand··on Librem 5 Phone Funded
Define success.

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

bostand··on Modern terminal-based text editor
But can it replace mg?
bostand··on Modern terminal-based text editor
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?

bostand··on Telia to Pay Nearly $1B to Settle Uzbek Bribery Claims
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?

bostand··on Telia to Pay Nearly $1B to Settle Uzbek Bribery Claims
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.

bostand··on Google signs agreement with HTC
I don't think Google cares about tablets anymore.

But I would love to see an updated nexus 7!

bostand··on Apple: Heap Overflow in AppleBCMWLANCore Driver
This is a valid concern, I don't understand why you are getting downvoted.
bostand··on Linux Foundation head proclaims year of Linux desktop – from a Mac
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?

bostand··on Tiny Keyboard Experiment: Living with the 'Minivan' – ExtremeTech
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?

bostand··on GRV ncurses interface for viewing Git repositories
is this significantly different from "tig"?
bostand··on When devops makes a clock
Why didn't he use left-pad.io?

An opportunity lost if you ask me.

bostand··on Chrome OS native development
Give me xwindows support in termux and I will happily ditch every other os.
bostand··on With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold
And with 8.0 we will start to see commercial roms with even better and longer support

Source: Paul oBrien

bostand··on Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter
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?

bostand··on A modest proposal
I just learned about cbor. Does cbor have this issue too?
bostand··on Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
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.

bostand··on Android 8.0 Oreo, thoroughly reviewed
Stop that!

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

bostand··on Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
Needed for those smooth animations in the UI. Yes, animations.

Seriously, this iron got style.

bostand··on Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo
Xprivacy?/
bostand··on Disconnect. Offline only
It's not all black and white

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

bostand··on How Google is secretly recording through your cellphone
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

bostand··on Help Test Docker CE on Raspberry Pi / ARM
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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