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There was a post today, by one of the KDE developers who has been involved with the postmarketOS crew in getting mainline kernel support, i.e 4.16 and not with whatever fork Android ships on, for an off-the-shelf device (Nexus 5)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16678400

Hopefully it takes the pressure off Sydney as a hub and encourages British visitors to spend a few days in WA before heading to other destinations.

It's good to see that the Western Australian government is building a rail link. I have previously caught the bus - it is cheap but follows a slow meandering route through the suburbs.

You're not alone, someone else has already revived it:

https://maemo-leste.github.io/

The apps, yes.

But the OS itself uses Qt and Chromium to display any HTML5 content, as the project page from the linked article states.

This contrasts with, say, Firefox OS - it rendered directly to an OGL-ES framebuffer.

On low end hardware though? My experience is that any browser based renderer (Chrome/Edge/Firefox) will choke in comparison to a native desktop program, e.g. SumatraPDF or Atril.

It's the first thing I disable.

Possibly of interest to LuneOS developers, whose codebase started with an earlier source drop of webOS.

If anyone seeks an alternative to Facebook's app, there's Face Slim from the f-droid repository:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.indywidualni.fblite/

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Yeah, I found with Mail for Windows 10 that the setup for gmail and my university's office365 account was fairly seamless. Likewise Outlook on Android (although I'm currently using K-9).

The only place I'm using webmail is on Linux but now Thunderbird is receiving new love it might be time...

A language with an array type, e.g. Java, distinguishes between a 'null' array reference and an array of zero length. which could substitute in languages that don't have an option type; SOME([]) vs NONE

But a plain *char in C makes no such distinction.

"sources say" but without referencing actual sources?

It read like alt-news to me.

Thanks, I will do so.

When Firefox optimised for multi-process, did they test for single-core? I'm on a machine released this decade - a rare instance of a single core x86_64 machine (fanless Atom NUC)

Facebook is pretty much now unusable with they do their asynchronous page loading of stories.

Indeed, once upon a time folks used RSS.

But we are in an age where any random website wants to send you realtime push notifications.

Instead of pestering you with an overlay that takes up screen real estate, the browser should indicate what subscription options are available for a page, e.g. in the address bar next to the page info icons.

Interesting times for upstream Linux support; Qualcomm also hopes to acquire NXP - the chipmakers inside the etnaviv-driven Purism phone.

It appears bay trail was a particularly bad release.

Not to defend Intel but that was 3 generations ago; I would certainly consider a Gemini Lake for my next nettop - where media-pc quiet is more important to me than performance. (provided no showstopper bugs exist!)

It is curious that Qualcomm continues to develop their own closed source driver instead of throwing their weight behind Rob Clark's Freedreno initiative.

Broadcom at least pay someone to develop a FOSS driver for the VideoCore IV and V, as found in the rPi.

Thanks, Josh.

Simple but addictive.

I should really study the code to see how the AI works!

For the duration of your stay I'd actually recommend throwing away your netflix subscription! Each country's culture, accent and slang will vary so if you're in Costa Rica watching content from perhaps Spain, Mexico or Argentina each night it might be a tad confusing. e.g. From my experience, a Mexican gangster movie where they call each other "Pendejo" is little help on the streets of Bilbao or Jujuy!

I'd recommend conversational classes. Depending on how much free time you have, a small group of learners, 8 weeks, 90 mins, 3 times a week. I don't know what your financial situation is like but it may be the best several hundred dollars you ever spent - think of it as an investment. It's a commitment to seriously learn a language (because you're paying for it!) in a supporting environment that reinforces what you'll hear in real life.

Develop a daily routine in your local community. Visit the same coffee shop for breakfast and read half a chapter each day of your 'fluency in 25 lessons'. After a few tongue-tied attempts at conversation they'll naturally revert to practicing their English. Explain to a sympathetic ear that you're really keen to speak the language - perhaps only 1 of 4 employees in a café may persevere but that's okay - you then have 3 English speaking friends and one person you only talk in Spanish with. And it's a cliché but be kind to the monolingual elderly lady in your building - she may have a granddaughter she'll fix you up with!

As nerds we may think technology will solve everything but learning apps will only supplement human interaction, so get out there! :) You're in a Spanish speaking country, which is a great start.

Just curious, has the situation improved in real terms in the 2 years since Macri took over? I visited a couple of times in 2010-11 and the inflation over a 16 month period was evident.

Wonderful, friendly, people but concerning economic stability I'd be more inclined to set up a business in Chile, or perhaps across the river in Montevideo (although the cost of Uruguayan living seemed relatively more expensive.)

'Salt' is just salt, right?

I could never taste a tangible difference with those premium products marketed as "Sea Salt" flavoured.

... only to crack the thing when slipping the back cover off to change the non user-serviceable battery. Been there, done that (Nexus 4). Slid inside a rubber case that came with the phone, no one would see this 'bling' anyhow.

Big Brother Xi implements 1984 and then bans it. Simplified Chinese, aka Newspeak 2.0, is removing thoughtcrime from the lexicon one letter at a time.

Mozilla Firefox.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...

Ask your great great grandparents - horses! In the 19th century, cemeteries had railway stations for transporting the dead by steam train.

I think it's just comforting having warmth to doze off to. My late cat seemed to jump on the bed at my feet on all but the hottest nights.

Anyhow, just gone midnight and it's 24ºC indoors which is pretty mild for summer - doona weather!

It's a slippery slope. The people of Venezuela voted to remove constitutional safeguards that saw populist Chavez stand as presidential candidate indefinitely. Bolivia rejected a similar referendum but Morales has said he'll run again regardless - based on a court decision that throws the constitution out the window.

What's pineapplefund.org ?

A bitcoin-billionaire decided to give away his fortune.

Melbourne - I am bemused at hearing a tourism spiel about our "historic" lanes overflowing with coffee shops, as if it were somehow unique. We do have per km^2 more tattooed millennials honing their barista skills than most, I guess.

My dual monitor setup has an old 19" with a stand that rotates 90º. Custom stands are available for any monitor that has the VESA mounting screws.

Laptops are trickier but I'm hoping in the age of tablet-hybrid detachables that a rotateable tripod comes of age.

Current discussion on a related subtitle project:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16403967

It's a relatively new market so its possible flavours will evolve as farmers and roasters mature their experiences with the product. And I would expect the price to level out once the novelty of sampling it has passed.

But yes, living in the self-appointed 'coffee-snob' capital of the southern hemisphere, I do notice that fancy single origin roasts that dazzle the experts often leave the average man in the street underwhelmed "It's nice, but..."