User: ReneR

Yep me too

On: 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com)

That's why I did not buy a new iPhone, and I just tweeted it this morning, too: https://twitter.com/renebln/st... guess my next phone will by a Samsung Galaxy or so –can even run my desktop Linux on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Root cause

On: iPhone Owners Irate After iOS Update Bricks Cellular Data (tomsguide.com)

is companies like Apple locking things down, to hinder third party repairs, users installing their own software, or even worse people porting Linux to their iDevices, and making sure nobody can make revenue out of the controlled wallet garden. So instead of amazing new features, they spend so much efforts on lock down and pseudo security, that they more often than not start to randomly break fragile things for normal users. On the MacBooks they even lock the iGPU away from Other OS, not to mention the T2 chip hiding the SSD, ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The most obvious?

On: 'Something Weird Is Going On' as New Horizons Approaches Distant Asteroid (popularmechanics.com)

Aliens obviously! ;-)

Re:competition

On: 'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' (arstechnica.com)

yep, me, too, Firefox on my #t2sde Linux https://t2sde.org/packages/fir... though all this Rust & cargo fluff required to build latest versions from source get a bit on my nerves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Re:linux

On: MIPS Goes Open Source (eetimes.com)

Nope, MIPS is fully supported, and working, in many WiFi APs or my Sgi Octane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... or Origin 200: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... among other such things, ;-)

My Octane is celebrating ;-)

On: MIPS Goes Open Source (eetimes.com)

Yes, seriously – running Linux these days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... since last month or so also with hardware X.org cursor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I thought Trump made america great again?

On: More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year (marketwatch.com)

economy and such, not?

Nooo!

On: Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support (phoronix.com)

Don't take the 10% advance away from me! :-/ https://t2sde.org/

Re:Don't Sell to China...

On: China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG (bbc.com)

Funny, I think you mixed China with USA there,

I had the impression people liked the smell of new

On: Ford Patents a Way To Remove 'New Car Smell' (freep.com)

should they not work on and "patent" the other way round: how to retain it the longest?

Really wonder why people accept this

On: 'Windows Isn't a Service, It's an Operating System' (howtogeek.com)

I would never base my business on this, thanks god I mostly run Linux. And each time I boot a Windows test VM it is unusable for some minutes doing zillions of updates :-/ Also wonder why people and business use something with some much "telemetry" sent back to companies and advertising servers, ..!?

Super hard to earn a living form OpenSource

On: Why Some Open-Source Companies Are Considering a More Closed Approach (geekwire.com)

I do Linux / OpenSource since I finished school in 1998-ish. Developed ROCK Linux, later forked it into the #t2sde build systems from source Linux, developed GSMP (sound editor), ExactImage, and contribute fixes all over the place, form the Linux kernel, GCC, even Chrome you name it. Guess how many people / companies paid me for something. Even getting into Embedded Systems with our #t2sde Linux was super hard and next to impossible – for a small company like I funded. So we ended up doing some closed source end-user Apps, including https://exactscan.com/ and https://ocrkit.com/ . To get back to do more open source again (because Apple's ecosystem and hardware get's too much on my nerves) I now started a YouTube channel, to hopefully fun cool & daily open source hacking: https://www.youtube.com/user/r...

And some friends wonder

On: Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds (mercurynews.com)

why I don't work at Apple, ;-) Loving living in cheap Berlin, Germany ,-)

I told you so

On: Apple's Siri May Soon Process Voice Locally On a Device, No Cloud Required (appleinsider.com)

over half a year ago; reviewing how well ViaVoice https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and Dragon Natural Speaking worked on vintage hardware back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I told you so

On: Apple's Siri May Soon Process Voice Locally On a Device, No Cloud Required (appleinsider.com)

half a year ago; reviewing how well ViaVoicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CAkYs8PJT0 and Dragon Natural Speaking worked on vintage hardware back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Soon all the last decade performance wins

On: Researchers Discover Seven New Meltdown and Spectre Attacks (zdnet.com)

will be lost in vulnerability workarounds :-/

Apple is super secure,

On: Apple iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Xiaomi Mi 6 Smartphones Hacked At Pwn2Own Tokyo (securityweek.com)

the fans said, ..! ;-)

Thanks god I do not need or depend on Apple Macs

On: Apple Confirms Its T2 Security Chip Blocks Some Third-Party Repairs of New Macs (theverge.com)

After they where hiding the iGPU from my 15" late-2013 rMBP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... us another proprietary SSD connector every model year (well when they actually updated something): https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and literally each and every MacBook MacSafe charger has blown up and failed on me in the meantime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I'm out of purchasing new Apple hardware. Thanks god I maintain my #t2sde Linux (https://t2sde.org) and can just switch to amazing AMD ThinkPads ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Thanks god I have vintage machines for years ;-)

On: 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com)

Only need to track some Linux kernel timing regression that mostly affects USB and audio, and my Transmeta Crusoe Oqo 01+ is as good as new: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No shit Sherlock!

On: Cyclists Are Faster Than Cars And Motorbikes in Cities and Towns, Study Says (forbes.com)

I did not have a car for 15 years living in Berlin, Germany. Took the bike and walked as student. Still mostly take the metro and walk today. Our company get's battery damages from parking, as we only take it every other week or two to further away customers and meetings. Pro tip: walking each day to the office I feel super health, have ideal weight and do not even have to visit a gym for that ;-)

I always told people this will be coming

On: AI Researchers Predict Alzheimer's Years Before Diagnosis (sciencedaily.com)

for a loooong time already. Also do not buy this vendor lock in pseudo security, not built-into hard-drives, or this Apple T2 chip thing. Can't review, don't know what it does, can't trust. Use open source reviewable stuff that we can also fix in case of an issue. I for one only trust open solutions an non of the pseudo "military grade" fluff that breaks as soon as someone looks too close, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Re:Superstars

On: AMD Reveals Zen 2 Processor Architecture in Bid To Stay Ahead of Intel (venturebeat.com)

maybe the bulk of the work is not done by superstars, and maybe the superstars are also eventually over worked and burned out, ..? just a thought, ..!

Re:Maybe make the batteries larger?

On: It's Not Your Imagination: Smartphone Battery Life Is Getting Worse (washingtonpost.com)

yep, totally do not mind an extra millimeter, or two, also want my headphone hack back ;-) Yes, seriously, it just works great for me. And while at 1mm thicker: What about straight, not rounded edges to have a better grip, you know, like the iPhones 4 and 5 or so used to be, ..!

IMHO the new Microsoft

On: Apple Used To Be an Inventor. Now It's Mainly a Landlord. (bloomberg.com)

need to look out for invocation elsewhere, guess a good time to start an IT startup ;-)

Re:Can't view engadget w/o being logged in?

On: NASA, ESA Release First 8K Video From Space (engadget.com)

primary source: http://blogs.esa.int/alexander...