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Areas of Australia are affected by high salt levels in the soil [0].

Growing the strains of rice near the shores of saline lakes could perhaps be part of rehabilitation, in which rice crops reduce the saltiness of the land over time.

[0] http://agriculture.vic.gov.au/agriculture/farm-management/so...

NB: LineageOS has similar sentiments and did not accept patches to enable microG.

Thus microG maintains its own fork of LineageOS; the microG team would need to fork Copperhead.

Ben notes in the (second) extended video that perhaps 80% of Elizabethans were illiterate and that plays are to be performed, not read.

He'd prefer that Shakespeare be introduced first by the drama department in early secondary school so that kids as young as 13 or 15 could perform Romeo and Juliet at their intended character ages - thus bringing the work to life.

And that only once they've experienced the energy of performance that later in final years of 16-17 should they study it formally in English Literature classes.

Potentially there's power savings on a mobile device by restricting the color palette to grayscale? If so this could be incorporated into one's phone's battery saver mode.

Empanadas are said to originate from the region of Galicia, Spain. Thus Celtiberian navigators sharing recipes with the Cornish isn't beyond the realms of pseudo-history.

Melbourne, with trams, trains and buses.

That was before they went $AU1billion over budget designing Myki, a smart ticket system.

Tickets are more expensive than most international cities I've visited and even then they still run at a loss, having to compensate private operators.

Well we all pay taxes, so why not?

A study a number of years ago for my city suggested that the costs of a ticketing system from maintenance of machines to employing station staff and ticket inspectors was higher than the revenue that was collected from fares.

Strange, it works on desktop Firefox and Android Chrome.

It's interesting that a number of Romance languages, but notably not Spanish or French, prefix the subject pronoun (my) with a definite article.

The-my-hovercraft

In terms of front-ends, there's always packagekit. The following will work on both rpm and dpkg derivatives:

sudo pkcon install <package>

One device to rule them all?

The promise of Ubuntu Convergence and Windows Continuum on a single piece of hardware, solving the "app gap" with Android support - the best of the web, Android and one's choice of Linux desktop.

An ultrabook/iPad substitute - "power users" requiring a 32GB Core i7 desktop replacement might look elsewhere, naturally.

In perhaps a decade, lawmakers will mandate real time telemetry and remote emergency autopilot.

'milkshake' is a compound noun, or at least Firefox's spell checker doesn't insist on hyphenation.

To 'shake up' is perfectly idiomatic. Using 'up' as a standalone verb is less common and should be your cue.

Paywalled but some background for readers outside Australia:

The supermarket duopoly Coles/Woolworths have had a pricing war by selling substandard 'milk' at a loss to encourage customers through their stores. The result has been many farmers and smaller dairies struggling financially, e.g the Murray Goulburn cooperative forced to sell its operations to Canadian Saputo recently. FWIW, I normally buy Jonesy's and the local deli has recently started selling St David's - processed in suburban Melbourne.

A2 is thus one smaller brand seeking market differentiation through improved product - it all tastes just like milk to me but I then don't have the protein intolerance.

(a) i'm thinking home usage. An 8 core machine with 6GB RAM is plenty - plug in a keyboard, mouse and screen, who needs a mac mini? OTG and/or a hard disk attached to my wifi router is all the local storage I'd need, let alone the cloud.

(c) If Google pulls off seamless integration of Android apps on a Chrome OS tablet then the rumoured ARM Macbook may have users wondering why they can't run their favourite iOS apps too.

But that's just me, I guess, and my wants.

I was surprised when this story was published in my local newspaper and picked up internationally as Apple have been firm in their product segregation that they have no public plans to

(a) release an iPhone desktop dock (c.f. Samsung DeX) (b) merge iOS and macOS into one toolkit (UWP/KDE Plasma) (c) merge Macbook and iPad (Chrome OS tablet)

(Disclaimer: not being a current Apple customer, I'm sure Cook doesn't particularly care what I want. However I am comforted that others do think different.)

Ubuntu's Unity had the dock on the side - I believe inspired by the unusual 1024x600 screen on the Eee PC.

Aspect ratios are one thing but a number of tasks are just better in portrait. For that purpose I have a desktop monitor stand that rotates 90 degrees.

Trickier on a laptop but can't someone design a 'convertible' with a rotate-able kickstand, so that a detachable typecover snaps into place regardless of whether the screen is in landscape or portrait?

Does libhybris work with Allwinner SBCs?

i.e. using ARM's proprietary driver for Mali from Android.

(FOSS drivers might be in development but pragmatically I'd choose something that works)

One can hardly make a good ringtone if search results for "tardis", "sonic screwdriver" and "dalek" yielded nothing.

Yes, if it installs correctly* on bare metal then one can boot to an explorer-like shell in a matter of seconds without going through a Linux desktop.

But I can see an obvious use case - testing. Customer reports an error but you can't reproduce it on your company's Windows development machines. I was able to reproduce a couple of bugs that way with wine and I imagine it could be handy running under ReactOS.

* I've only ever tried it in a VM.

There's a, not insurmountable, learning curve for both Sailfish and Ubuntu Touch.

Quirky isn't necessarily better if you're trying to woo users who just want a familiar experience without learning new paradigms.

The lack of a back button in Firefox OS annoyed me! Instead of pressing a section at the bottom right of the screen with one's thumb, one had to 'click' on a web toolbar button all the way near the top left of the screen.

It's not that "gestures aren’t that difficult to get used to", it is more do they offer anything more than the tried and true?

What about hardware donations, or a "device wanted" section of the wiki?

e.g. for those with superseded bootable phones gathering dust in a box of old 'junk'.

In visiting a mobile webpage, an adblocker suffices.

native apps can utilize advertising APIs, of which there's no way to turn off unless you install their $3.99 "Premium" app.

> Linus and others don't want these (relatively) short-lived processors to be checked into mainline linux

I don't think that's true. e.g. 4.17 is accepting code to run Samsung Galaxy S3 (released nearly 5 years ago). It is left to volunteers since most vendors dump a source release to comply with the GPL but themselves don't upstream it to Linus.

Yep, continuum seemed like a killer feature on release.

But I wasn't prepared to pay $AU1000 to try out a Lumia 950 at the time and the 650 was far too anemic to support it.

(Folks have already mentioned Odersky and Grossman for grokking functional programming)

FutureLearn has an introductory Dutch course. I've only learned languages from the Romance family previously, so it was a worthwhile experience. (Dutch-Australian in-laws) It's a taster course requiring further study but well worth satisfying your curiosity.

Dutch (and Frisian) may provide a stepping stone to understanding Old English - there are recognisably 'Germanic' traits.

2) macOS tablet.

Android apps on Chrome OS tablets are a thing now.

With macOS on ARM, the iPad Pro and MacBook lines merge, as the hardware internals converge.

It is marketed as high in Niacin.

Cheers, presumably the AC wall plugs have international equivalents for the non-US market?

(i.e. their 'compliance' has been tested on 240V scenarios)