Posts by msknight 1475 publicly visible posts • joined 28 May 2013
... because they do things their own way which ends up making things worse. I thought they would have learned that lesson by... er... no, they're politicians, they don't learn anything.
"we want the industry to set the direction of travel" ... so that'll be straight to hell in a handbasket then.
That is the one thing about Sailfish. Lack of support and difficulty getting banking apps, shopping apps, car parking apps, etc. to work.
It is something which caused me serious pain, even as a Sailfish backer in 2013 and still Sailfish throughout.
I did manage to get the UK competition authority and Jolla talking, however, so something might come of that.
I'm a bit miffed that I missed the launch this time around, but hey. Can't afford a new phone at the minute and my Xperia running Sailfish is still going strong and I would definitely miss a headphone post. Maybe next year... when they reintroduce headphone jacks.
Good to read that the backs might make a comeback. They have serious potential, and I loved how I change the back and it instantly changes behaviour/ringtones/volumes/etc. (although it was a bit plastic-snappy, etc. and didn't feel good.)
I agree. If they have server rooms with connectivity backplanes, then a simple rolling and lifting robot could slide servers in and out of bays as needed. The humanoid thing tends to make me think that maybe they haven't put enough design effort into the datacentres themselves.
I agree, there are things about Microsoft Office that Libre won't touch... and some that it shouldn't IMHO. But there will be a time when you quit hanging there, let go of the rope and trust that there is something below that will catch your fall. I had to say goodbye to a lot of things, like Halo (emulation works to a point but the mouse is an arse) and other games that I'll never be able to play again (... there is a discussion to be had on whether I could play them before... but hey...)
Being honest, if you're waiting for Office to run on Linux, you'll never move. There will always be regrets... but there will also be benefits... so make the jump.
...it's Apparmor. It's a pain to control and debug when things are going wrong. And there seem to be a number of bugs which are driving me insane.... that's why I was running Mint for some time until they went that way as well.
Make apparmor easier, and that'll mark it a winner in my book.
(particularly giving apps permissions to things to access files which are on remote mounted SMB shares... but I think they may have fixed that.)
Yes, it's the right mouse click in the latest Ubuntu interface. When you release the right mouse button, it then interprets it as a left click and actions whatever is beneath the mouse. A bit messy.
Right click and hold, then guide the mouse to where you need it, and release it to left click on it.
I really hope they get this sorted soon as it's driving me nuts, but the devs have probably got loads of people complaining at them so I'll just sit and wait it out.
Or in this case, "We won't stop the Cheyna from bombing you."
I've never heard something so ridiculous. America protects Taiwan because of the chips. If chips move to USA, there's no need for USA to protect Taiwan. It's probably easier for Taiwan to let USA impose the 100% and let Americans suffer the cost impact. I mean, there's a reasonable tightness on chip supply that others would come in to mop up.
Let's face it. Trumps promises aren't worth the social media paper they're not printed on.
They restricted chips to China... all it did was develop its own until it doesn't need the USA any more.
Given that a lot of the tech and machinery to make these originates from outside the USA anyway, all he's going to do is isolate the USA from the rest of the world as they'll go their own way.
Serious footbullet. Mind you, even despite their love of guns, the republicans can't shoot for toffee anyway... they couldn't even hit a target as large as Trump.
I think the whole thing is beyond tech anyway. With Trump holding a tariff gun to our heads over how we negotiate with big tech, this is very far from being a ring fenced debate. "Let our american tech companies charge you through the nose and dictate how you operate, or I'll hike tariffs and wreck your industry."
The whole allocation of funding in the public sector needs an overhaul. You are allocated £x and if you don't spend it, you get less next year, so the wastage in order to ensure that £x is spent, is considerable. That needs serious investigation throughout public sector.
Investing in in-house dev teams, in my personal view, is long overdue. Hard work, sure. Needs experienced and focused management, definitely. A price worth paying for independence, control and freedom from US influence? Yes, in my personal opinion.
I also use Perplexity for search where the query lends itself to it. When the search is basic I use DuckDuckGo, only reverting to Google as a last choice... knowingly scrolling past the AI overview, because I don't trust it.
There is an issue about to come up because my employer is moving to ban all AI except CoPilot, because they believe Microsoft are the most secure of the bunch in terms of query data storage location... but it seems that the question over data sovereignty has taken priority over quality and accuracy of results. (some of which can be accounted for by tailoring the question to account for it)
We are in for interesting times.
I don't understand the financials of this. I viewed the BBC content as a competitor to YouTube.
How is the BBC going to survive? Nix the license fee and get advertising income from Alphabet? I can't see that working. I'd either be paying my license fee, or I'd be paying more in Red subscription to view BBC content without ads.
If someone has more details on how this is supposed to work I'd be grateful.
" The snag at Mozilla is a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users."
...they just don't care. They think they know best and everyone else can suck it up or move. I switched to Vivaldi because of a run in with Firefox devs some time ago.
Sorry to say, but this isn't news to me.
I saw one on e-bay go for more money that I could afford, years ago back in the days before people were paying silly money for retro equipment. I have a battered 6502 cheese wedge, and I can play Elite Executive Edition on that, but I'm happy :-) I have three Beebs and they keep me busy. Along with my six ZX81's of course. ;-)
I attached an M.2 to a Pi5 8gig and tried to run it as a desktop. No getting away from it, it needs more oomph especially to watch a decent ripped DVD. (even with recompiling VLC) and at this price they are now crossing into cheap laptop territory. So I won't be making the jump.
More like prices are up. A lot. Used to pay £320-ish for an 8Tb QVO, now that's over £700 and the usual channels I'd buy though, are dry. Limited sellers.
Also, bought from a UK seller on Amazon, fulfilled by Amazon UK, and turned out to be a USA unit and EU support said they wouldn't touch it if it went wrong, I'd have to deal with Samsung's USA people. And that's happened to a number of customers as well. Samsung's response? So far, nothing.
My main browser is Vivaldi running uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and Noscript. Secondary browser is Chromium (I'm on Linux) with the same set, only a little tighter on the Noscript and I run social media on there. Firefox is the last browser and runs only Faceache, and that's also got the facebook container on it.
I find this useful for bypassing pages that have pop ups to stop me from using blockers... I firstly block the message element, and then when the page is usually covered by a transparent black, so I simply block that element as well, and then I can usually get at the page underneath. So I'm using the blockers to block the anti-blocker blockers, and I get access to the un-blocked page as a result.
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Sir Galahad: Get stuffed!
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King Arthur: Go on, Bors. Chop his head off!
Sir Bors: Right! Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew comin' right up!
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