In order to really work without Google though, one needs also to replace play services, location services, cloud messaging (GCM/firebase), disable the hotspot checking, disable safetynet checks, etc., it's more than just not signing in - there are a pervasive number of googley tie-ins.
Need root + firewall + something like MicroG and a healthy dose of paranoia to seperate Google and Android.
Well, there is (was?) one easy way to differentiate such files. I found a marked improvement with higher bitrate MP3's when played through the surround sound setup I had at the time, an early Pro-Logic (matrix) add-on unit. With typical MP3 bitrates of the day around 128kbps, the back/surround speaker(s) were often just a jumbled mess - and the effect was not subtle.
It's not something I can recall occuring since, with Pro Logic II or such, but did greatly inform my decision to rip my CD collection to Ogg-Vorbis files with a relatively high quality setting (despite the relative limitations of storage space at the time).
otherwise - functionally... visually... it's a hole top-dead-centre of the screen with a camera or two in it. It's a kludge being spun around by marketeers.
It'll be $80 for 8+ services, + $0.50 every quarter to show growing profits, for declining services.
Netflix, having shown how to make a viable competitor to casual downloading, has give up that game and seems to want to sit with the old media folks. The VPN/geoblocking restrictions was the biggest move, but now also we see the limited introduction of geoblocking on their "own" programming (i.e., CBS deal for ST), and the nerfed access to higher quality levels for devices without hardware DRM - or, most egregiously in the case of 4K, even when all technical DRM instruments are in place it won't stream 4K without the particular device also being certified by Netflix. It's getting harder to watch something without it being better quality being sourced by other means.
Throw on top of that the effective removal of the recommendation system, the demotion of anything not Netflix created, and constant wobbling about of the UI (at least on devices). The ability to raise content to the surface, put you in easy touch with something you'll want to watch next - that value-added sort of service was not something easily replicated by your own ripped DVD collection, or "pirate" sources. Now it's half-gutted, and getting worse. There is little compelling reason anymore to use Netflix as an interface to access something, where available elsewhere.
Netflix, at $8 (or a fraction of that when shared), demonstrated how media could be distributed in such a manner as to make piracy essentially irrelevant. Just needed to keep adding that content.
Now, looking at $14 or whatever for Netflix's top tier, need to scroll through a half-dozen full-screen auto-playing standup comedy specials which have no relation to viewing history before finding something you'd be looking for.. the value proposition is lost. Just wondering when the ads will start.
The cheaper mobile choices, such as Fido/Kodoo, were bought out by the big guys, i.e. Rogers/Telus in this example, and are not much better. We had a bit of a chance with Wind, which did offer unlimited data (throttled after 5gb/mo.) within some cities but now that's shaw so who knows.
Out east, for ISP's, Eastlink appearantly hasn't had any issues for my relatives, and Aliant (now owned by Bell) was pretty good. Aliant was regularly giving speed upgrades and recently made all the fiber plans symmetrical, I'm on symmetrical gigabit in Nfld now and get ~700/700 off-island. Aliant, however, has been going downhill since they rebranded under the Bell banner, and perhaps uncoincidentally the prices have started to rise. Aliant has no data caps/unlimited usage.
I've, at various times, been a customer of Bell, Shaw, Telus, and Rogers in various parts of the country, there are no places any of them are 'good', they are all ridiculously terrible across the board. Rogers with the DNS poisoning. Shaw with below-rated performance. Bell, at the height of their deep packet inspection, throttling all sorts of traffic.
Telecoms in this country should be technological leaders, the great distances of Canada should be a driver of innovation (such as it was when we were deploying microwave links for land-lines), but instead we have this crowd of jerks.
Fluxbox supports it, I use it all the time; for example, I'll launch a windowed program from a terminal, then tab that terminal to the running window. Can switch to see the line output then, i.e., if something is amiss; or keep a SSH terminal open to a server tabbed to a browser on that servers web interface. Just a matter of CTRL-dragging one onto the other.
Ah, sure, good luck.
from a command line, you can run route -n, then route del default gw 192.168.1.1 or whatever the gateway for 0.0.0.0 is, and you're internet free. It's also possible to shutdown whatever you might have for a network control (such as networkmanager) and your dhcp client (dhcpcd or similar), and setup connections manually as you like - ifconfig for most of it and wpa_supplicant for the wireless side, toss your nameserver into/etc/resolve.conf and route for getting out of your subnet as applies.
I have a reserve block of IP's on my network which aren't assigned, I use them with my laptop (doesn't generally automatically connect to anything and I manually setup connections like above) when I need to fix something or sniff packets, etc.
No sir, I'm not sure which operating systems do need to connect to the internet on boot... but most certainly not most linux flavours, where it is also trivial to blank the default gateway from a terminal and have full local access --- no internet.
Those spec's aren't too bad, I've just replaced an aging X300 with a T420s, as the softer parts have been giving out (screen bezel, speaker covers, etc.). The X300 uses an ultra-low-voltage processor at 1.2ghz, pretty anemic, had 4 GB RAM in it. I used/use Gentoo. With not much more than setting some USE flags, able to strip it of all the freedesktop stuff (consolekit, policykit, dbus, systemd, pulseaudio, etc.); have Fluxbox for the windows manager, wpa_gui + cbatticon in the tray and that is really quite lean yet fully capable of running what I wants (browser, terminals, etc).
Compile times have grown, but so long as one avoids anything with webkit and libreoffice/openoffice source builds, updates were manageable.
While I wouldn't directly recommend this route due to the probable compiling times of a typical install, it may be worthwhile if you're patient or willing to compile elsewhere (/setup some help via distcc). At a minimum though, whatever linux you might choose, would suggest compiling a custom kernel for it. There is a bit of room to eek out performance and battery life by removing the unnecessary (and perhaps being a bit caviler with the security features)..best of luck!!
Yep, all convention ships have onboard magnetic compasses. Chart plotters still have charts without GPS, large ships still have radars and echo-sounders without GPS, and large ships in confined locations will have local pilots aboard, and possibly escort tugs attached. Ships themselves are marked with lights and signals. If GPS drops out, locationing will be more difficult sure. It will not be a pan-global epidemic of ship collisions and allisions.
At least around here, most of the utilities can be paid by bringing the bill into the bank. Nothwithstanding, those payments are electronically settled by the bank, so I'm not sure it's any different than posting a payment through a banks web portal.
Well, there are two types of ice which impede navigation - icebergs, and sea ice. Icebergs are indeed predicted to increase, glacial melting leading to greater calving rates, which then flow out of the arctic and into the north atlantic shipping lanes.
With regards to sea ice, do recognise it is going to form in quantity so long as the earth remains habitable. Extended periods of 24 hour darkness will ensure that. Warmer, shorter winters though would precipitate the loss of multi-year ice banks, so a greater fraction of ice over time would be replaced with first year, and liable to outflow.
Additionally, Newfoundland itself is not predicted to see the same warming trends as most of the rest of the world in climate change models, care of predicted increased outflow from the arctic sea cooling portions of the North Atlantic.
The ice this year is indeed an outlier, as seen in 1974, 1990, 2007, now 2017, so is earlier than expected from a cyclical perspective.
I'm not sure it's absolutely fabulous. All init systems basically work the same, when they work - when and how they fail is where they are measured. Sysv, openrc, I've had 0 problems with these over the last 20 years, something might not start up without a little intervention - but the system would, and it could be fixed. Systemd, on the other hand, currently running on maybe half my servers, generally works - but not all the time, and that's the big difference to my mind. For example, I had a netbook that I couldn't get a systemd distro on, as it go into a loop - start up bluetooth, bluetooth would fail for some obscure driver reason, I imagine it was some sort of dependency as systemd would try to start it again, over and over - leaving the system essentially hung. That's the sort of way systemd fails, and why my primary laptop runs gentoo without it.
Living in a place which actually does harvest icebergs, it's done with excavators to a barge. This would be a better route than dragging the whole thing up. You'll lose less water to melting en-route, have less resistance on the tow, can use smaller tugs, it's a lot easier to figure out the rigging, etc., etc., ultimately - lower overall OPEX. I'm also not sure an iceberg will sit up in the hot gulf for very long; northern icebergs do last years, but once they get down into the open ocean, and particularly once they cross the gulf stream, they simply don't hang around for a second season.
Shotguns or explosives are often used though, btw, depending on size - to ensure the iceberg in question is stable enough to take apart.
Ships have a difficult time benefitting from batteries, due to being most vessels being weight limited (i.e., have to float that weight... and batteries are heavy); thus, owners must either accept lower income per trip (not competitive), or a reduction in performance, depending on the operating profile of the vessel. Typically, owners who do adopt hybrid vessels do so for a minority of their fleet, i.e. to project a green image or dip their toes in the future. Not as constrained as aircraft, but boats still will lag trains & cars with electrification... until there is either a serious fossil fuel crunch, market willingness to pay significantly more, or a massive leap in battery power density. Regulations could improve the situation but it's such a great leap between marine diesel and electric performance at this time, that a pro-environment regime is liable to carry unintended consequences - larger, less-efficient designs which end up more wasteful, or less safe in the end. We're not there... yet.
Unfortunately for capacitive screens, they do shatter (or at least crack in the corners). I've got 3 iPad's, 2 older iPhones & iPod's, and a iPhone 6+ around here which are on at-least their second screen, with a couple other cracked Android phones to boot. The resistive layer on a resistive screen provides some additional level of durability in that regard, are tolerant of rain drops, don't register input before contact, have reflection free non-gloss matte screens, can be used through light gloves, and - care of fingernails - can be extremely accurate without obscuring what you're trying to touch with the bulk of your finger. I imagine this is why I'm still signing for packages on resistive screens. I still hate capacitive screens, particularly for soft-keyboards.
Going with iOs for the tablets wasn't innovative (given the existance of netbooks as you mention), though it has been profitable. That the iPad would use iOs was no surprise, they like their long-tail app revenue, nor the gradual convergence of iOs and OS-X since... walled gardens et. al.; but the original iPad was oversized and underwhelming. Microsoft's courier project was arguably somewhat innovative, who knows, never happened. The original iPad though I have no love for. I have one, stuck on some old OS version which doesn't run Netflix, which means the kids don't even use it, so it hasn't aged well either.
What allowed the iPad to succeed was not innovation, or some form of foresight of where the world was going, it was marketting - they beat out the path they wanted with their marketting dollars and brand-fanciers followed it. I wouldn't attribute much of Apple's current success, really, to hardware nor software design - they are first and foremostly a marketting company and have excelled in this respect. Absent this, they would not be in the marketplace today, their markups would be wholely unsustainable and iPad's I suspect would have been a flash in the pan, rapidly forgotten in the face of convertible netbooks or similar. They make glossy hardware and software which shows well in print and commercials, with a few interesting bullet points suitable for a single-sheet, despite the mid-level build build quality and software which is either too simple or too fragile to truely be utilitarian.
For mechanical Apple keyboards, have a look at the Matias tactile line. Apple also used to make clicky alps-based keyboards. Can't stand the chicklet keyboards.
I don't care much for what Apple sells but the kids and wife don't hold the same opinion. I get to deal with all their gear when it inevitably stops working. I wish I could have a limited opinion thereof, but you're right, not practical. And mine is certainly both detailed, and cranky.
Sucking thumbs won't make you immune to allergies.. but it does make it quite likely you'll need dental work, the upper teeth get pushed out, the lower teeth pushed back, and if done regularly can result in requiring a rickanator to correct the jaw position and speech pathology to correct speech. If at all possible, get a pile of similar soothers, rotate them to dissuade a preference, and wean off as the kid gets around 4. No problems then, probably get just as much dirt in their mouth as kids will be dropping them all the time anyway.
A great success for Quebec, a continuing drag on Newfoundland -- seeing as we are essentially subsidizing 15% of HQ revenues, care of the Churchill Falls debacle following the Shawinigan L&P takeover.
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YALP works, it's on F-Droid.
In order to really work without Google though, one needs also to replace play services, location services, cloud messaging (GCM/firebase), disable the hotspot checking, disable safetynet checks, etc., it's more than just not signing in - there are a pervasive number of googley tie-ins.
Need root + firewall + something like MicroG and a healthy dose of paranoia to seperate Google and Android.
Well, there is (was?) one easy way to differentiate such files. I found a marked improvement with higher bitrate MP3's when played through the surround sound setup I had at the time, an early Pro-Logic (matrix) add-on unit. With typical MP3 bitrates of the day around 128kbps, the back/surround speaker(s) were often just a jumbled mess - and the effect was not subtle.
It's not something I can recall occuring since, with Pro Logic II or such, but did greatly inform my decision to rip my CD collection to Ogg-Vorbis files with a relatively high quality setting (despite the relative limitations of storage space at the time).
Oh, they can be made to go. Nothing Google on my phone.. just need root.
It's extra space on the LG V20, and used as such.
otherwise - functionally... visually... it's a hole top-dead-centre of the screen with a camera or two in it. It's a kludge being spun around by marketeers.
Can't speak for the third fellow, but yes. It is great.
The greatest benefit would probably be to separate out their advertisement and marketing arms.
It'll be $80 for 8+ services, + $0.50 every quarter to show growing profits, for declining services.
Netflix, having shown how to make a viable competitor to casual downloading, has give up that game and seems to want to sit with the old media folks. The VPN/geoblocking restrictions was the biggest move, but now also we see the limited introduction of geoblocking on their "own" programming (i.e., CBS deal for ST), and the nerfed access to higher quality levels for devices without hardware DRM - or, most egregiously in the case of 4K, even when all technical DRM instruments are in place it won't stream 4K without the particular device also being certified by Netflix. It's getting harder to watch something without it being better quality being sourced by other means.
Throw on top of that the effective removal of the recommendation system, the demotion of anything not Netflix created, and constant wobbling about of the UI (at least on devices). The ability to raise content to the surface, put you in easy touch with something you'll want to watch next - that value-added sort of service was not something easily replicated by your own ripped DVD collection, or "pirate" sources. Now it's half-gutted, and getting worse. There is little compelling reason anymore to use Netflix as an interface to access something, where available elsewhere.
Netflix, at $8 (or a fraction of that when shared), demonstrated how media could be distributed in such a manner as to make piracy essentially irrelevant. Just needed to keep adding that content.
Now, looking at $14 or whatever for Netflix's top tier, need to scroll through a half-dozen full-screen auto-playing standup comedy specials which have no relation to viewing history before finding something you'd be looking for.. the value proposition is lost. Just wondering when the ads will start.
The cheaper mobile choices, such as Fido/Kodoo, were bought out by the big guys, i.e. Rogers/Telus in this example, and are not much better. We had a bit of a chance with Wind, which did offer unlimited data (throttled after 5gb/mo.) within some cities but now that's shaw so who knows.
Out east, for ISP's, Eastlink appearantly hasn't had any issues for my relatives, and Aliant (now owned by Bell) was pretty good. Aliant was regularly giving speed upgrades and recently made all the fiber plans symmetrical, I'm on symmetrical gigabit in Nfld now and get ~700/700 off-island. Aliant, however, has been going downhill since they rebranded under the Bell banner, and perhaps uncoincidentally the prices have started to rise. Aliant has no data caps/unlimited usage.
I've, at various times, been a customer of Bell, Shaw, Telus, and Rogers in various parts of the country, there are no places any of them are 'good', they are all ridiculously terrible across the board. Rogers with the DNS poisoning. Shaw with below-rated performance. Bell, at the height of their deep packet inspection, throttling all sorts of traffic.
Telecoms in this country should be technological leaders, the great distances of Canada should be a driver of innovation (such as it was when we were deploying microwave links for land-lines), but instead we have this crowd of jerks.
Fluxbox supports it, I use it all the time; for example, I'll launch a windowed program from a terminal, then tab that terminal to the running window. Can switch to see the line output then, i.e., if something is amiss; or keep a SSH terminal open to a server tabbed to a browser on that servers web interface. Just a matter of CTRL-dragging one onto the other.
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Ah, sure, good luck. from a command line, you can run route -n, then route del default gw 192.168.1.1 or whatever the gateway for 0.0.0.0 is, and you're internet free. It's also possible to shutdown whatever you might have for a network control (such as networkmanager) and your dhcp client (dhcpcd or similar), and setup connections manually as you like - ifconfig for most of it and wpa_supplicant for the wireless side, toss your nameserver into /etc/resolve.conf and route for getting out of your subnet as applies.
I have a reserve block of IP's on my network which aren't assigned, I use them with my laptop (doesn't generally automatically connect to anything and I manually setup connections like above) when I need to fix something or sniff packets, etc.
No sir, I'm not sure which operating systems do need to connect to the internet on boot... but most certainly not most linux flavours, where it is also trivial to blank the default gateway from a terminal and have full local access --- no internet.
Those spec's aren't too bad, I've just replaced an aging X300 with a T420s, as the softer parts have been giving out (screen bezel, speaker covers, etc.). The X300 uses an ultra-low-voltage processor at 1.2ghz, pretty anemic, had 4 GB RAM in it. I used/use Gentoo. With not much more than setting some USE flags, able to strip it of all the freedesktop stuff (consolekit, policykit, dbus, systemd, pulseaudio, etc.); have Fluxbox for the windows manager, wpa_gui + cbatticon in the tray and that is really quite lean yet fully capable of running what I wants (browser, terminals, etc).
Compile times have grown, but so long as one avoids anything with webkit and libreoffice/openoffice source builds, updates were manageable.
While I wouldn't directly recommend this route due to the probable compiling times of a typical install, it may be worthwhile if you're patient or willing to compile elsewhere (/setup some help via distcc). At a minimum though, whatever linux you might choose, would suggest compiling a custom kernel for it. There is a bit of room to eek out performance and battery life by removing the unnecessary (and perhaps being a bit caviler with the security features)..best of luck!!
Yep, all convention ships have onboard magnetic compasses. Chart plotters still have charts without GPS, large ships still have radars and echo-sounders without GPS, and large ships in confined locations will have local pilots aboard, and possibly escort tugs attached. Ships themselves are marked with lights and signals. If GPS drops out, locationing will be more difficult sure. It will not be a pan-global epidemic of ship collisions and allisions.
Amazon does indeed have such limitations; i.e., Amazon.ca allows for a lifetime 50 claims of non-delivery with a maximum value of $2,500.
Definitely, compared to large HDR screen, 11.3 surround, dirt cheap popcorn and a comfy couch. I'll watch 'er at home, yeppers.
At least around here, most of the utilities can be paid by bringing the bill into the bank. Nothwithstanding, those payments are electronically settled by the bank, so I'm not sure it's any different than posting a payment through a banks web portal.
Also, they can be made into wallets. Not particularly durable compared to something like beaver tail, but there is a market.
Well, there are two types of ice which impede navigation - icebergs, and sea ice. Icebergs are indeed predicted to increase, glacial melting leading to greater calving rates, which then flow out of the arctic and into the north atlantic shipping lanes. With regards to sea ice, do recognise it is going to form in quantity so long as the earth remains habitable. Extended periods of 24 hour darkness will ensure that. Warmer, shorter winters though would precipitate the loss of multi-year ice banks, so a greater fraction of ice over time would be replaced with first year, and liable to outflow.
Additionally, Newfoundland itself is not predicted to see the same warming trends as most of the rest of the world in climate change models, care of predicted increased outflow from the arctic sea cooling portions of the North Atlantic.
The ice this year is indeed an outlier, as seen in 1974, 1990, 2007, now 2017, so is earlier than expected from a cyclical perspective.
I'm not sure it's absolutely fabulous. All init systems basically work the same, when they work - when and how they fail is where they are measured. Sysv, openrc, I've had 0 problems with these over the last 20 years, something might not start up without a little intervention - but the system would, and it could be fixed. Systemd, on the other hand, currently running on maybe half my servers, generally works - but not all the time, and that's the big difference to my mind. For example, I had a netbook that I couldn't get a systemd distro on, as it go into a loop - start up bluetooth, bluetooth would fail for some obscure driver reason, I imagine it was some sort of dependency as systemd would try to start it again, over and over - leaving the system essentially hung. That's the sort of way systemd fails, and why my primary laptop runs gentoo without it.
Living in a place which actually does harvest icebergs, it's done with excavators to a barge. This would be a better route than dragging the whole thing up. You'll lose less water to melting en-route, have less resistance on the tow, can use smaller tugs, it's a lot easier to figure out the rigging, etc., etc., ultimately - lower overall OPEX. I'm also not sure an iceberg will sit up in the hot gulf for very long; northern icebergs do last years, but once they get down into the open ocean, and particularly once they cross the gulf stream, they simply don't hang around for a second season.
Shotguns or explosives are often used though, btw, depending on size - to ensure the iceberg in question is stable enough to take apart.
Ships have a difficult time benefitting from batteries, due to being most vessels being weight limited (i.e., have to float that weight... and batteries are heavy); thus, owners must either accept lower income per trip (not competitive), or a reduction in performance, depending on the operating profile of the vessel. Typically, owners who do adopt hybrid vessels do so for a minority of their fleet, i.e. to project a green image or dip their toes in the future. Not as constrained as aircraft, but boats still will lag trains & cars with electrification... until there is either a serious fossil fuel crunch, market willingness to pay significantly more, or a massive leap in battery power density. Regulations could improve the situation but it's such a great leap between marine diesel and electric performance at this time, that a pro-environment regime is liable to carry unintended consequences - larger, less-efficient designs which end up more wasteful, or less safe in the end. We're not there ... yet.
Unfortunately for capacitive screens, they do shatter (or at least crack in the corners). I've got 3 iPad's, 2 older iPhones & iPod's, and a iPhone 6+ around here which are on at-least their second screen, with a couple other cracked Android phones to boot. The resistive layer on a resistive screen provides some additional level of durability in that regard, are tolerant of rain drops, don't register input before contact, have reflection free non-gloss matte screens, can be used through light gloves, and - care of fingernails - can be extremely accurate without obscuring what you're trying to touch with the bulk of your finger. I imagine this is why I'm still signing for packages on resistive screens. I still hate capacitive screens, particularly for soft-keyboards.
Going with iOs for the tablets wasn't innovative (given the existance of netbooks as you mention), though it has been profitable. That the iPad would use iOs was no surprise, they like their long-tail app revenue, nor the gradual convergence of iOs and OS-X since... walled gardens et. al.; but the original iPad was oversized and underwhelming. Microsoft's courier project was arguably somewhat innovative, who knows, never happened. The original iPad though I have no love for. I have one, stuck on some old OS version which doesn't run Netflix, which means the kids don't even use it, so it hasn't aged well either.
What allowed the iPad to succeed was not innovation, or some form of foresight of where the world was going, it was marketting - they beat out the path they wanted with their marketting dollars and brand-fanciers followed it. I wouldn't attribute much of Apple's current success, really, to hardware nor software design - they are first and foremostly a marketting company and have excelled in this respect. Absent this, they would not be in the marketplace today, their markups would be wholely unsustainable and iPad's I suspect would have been a flash in the pan, rapidly forgotten in the face of convertible netbooks or similar. They make glossy hardware and software which shows well in print and commercials, with a few interesting bullet points suitable for a single-sheet, despite the mid-level build build quality and software which is either too simple or too fragile to truely be utilitarian.
For mechanical Apple keyboards, have a look at the Matias tactile line. Apple also used to make clicky alps-based keyboards. Can't stand the chicklet keyboards.
I don't care much for what Apple sells but the kids and wife don't hold the same opinion. I get to deal with all their gear when it inevitably stops working. I wish I could have a limited opinion thereof, but you're right, not practical. And mine is certainly both detailed, and cranky.
Sucking thumbs won't make you immune to allergies.. but it does make it quite likely you'll need dental work, the upper teeth get pushed out, the lower teeth pushed back, and if done regularly can result in requiring a rickanator to correct the jaw position and speech pathology to correct speech. If at all possible, get a pile of similar soothers, rotate them to dissuade a preference, and wean off as the kid gets around 4. No problems then, probably get just as much dirt in their mouth as kids will be dropping them all the time anyway.
A great success for Quebec, a continuing drag on Newfoundland -- seeing as we are essentially subsidizing 15% of HQ revenues, care of the Churchill Falls debacle following the Shawinigan L&P takeover.