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  1. Re:I had a N9 on Jolla Goes For Debt Restructuring (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have N900 and for about a month LG G4 and I remained using N900. Without QWERTY it is unusable, to write TODO lists, notes, even to write URLs, those on-screen keyboards take forever to type together with many typos, and it is just inconvenient. When I need to do anything with the phone I SSH to N900 but I haven't yet found anything similar in Android. There are some chroot Linuxes but I could not get sshd running there. IIRC I got sshd working on Android itself but the shell is unusable there (or maybe I even did not get sshd working there, not sure now).

  2. What if that 3000mAh battery has 0.001V = 3mWh while that 600mAh has 230V = 128Wh. TFA does not say anything meaningful, just that its author is idiot. Explanation how to read mAh was funny in that context.

  3. Re:New features every few months on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query · · Score: 1

    SQLite already has that as "INSERT OR REPLACE", MySQL as "REPLACE INTO" etc.

  4. Re:Seems to me on Report: Red Hat Buying DevOps Startup Ansible (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Red Hat Satellite is open source - Spacewalk.

  5. Re: Disgusting corporate welfare on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 2

    Only speed primarily matters. IIRC Musk said that driving 250km/h (allowed on German autobahns) Tesla will make only 80km for a charge.

  6. Re:It's nice to mention Jáchimov in the artic on Chemical Evidence Shows the Nazis Weren't At All Close To Having the Bomb · · Score: 1

    The spelling is JÃchymov.

  7. If the apps needlessly drain battery then fix the apps. This is what Free software is about. That the apps are not Free? So you have opened the can of worms, try to catch them all.

  8. Software using OpenGL on OpenGL Library Mesa 11.0 Brings Open Source OpenGL 4 · · Score: 0

    Sorry for that obvious question but is there left any software still using OpenGL? :-) (mesa demos do not count)

  9. kernel - not OS - is at 24 on Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24 · · Score: 1

    The OS is of very unspecific date, both older and younger. But media likes everything simple.

  10. Re:Hmm, the only reason to use Firefox... on Big Changes From Mozilla Mean Firefox Will Get Chrome Extensions · · Score: 1

    Maybe because Firefox is Free and Chrome isn't? How can you patch Chrome sources? The question should rather be why not to use Chromium.

  11. Re:This will be the death of mechanical hard drive on Intel Promises 'Optane' SSDs Based On Technology Faster Than Flash In 2016 · · Score: 1

    I run my multiple servers in RAID. "failing before you realize it" - mdadm --monitor immediately reports that. I haven't yet faced the second failure of degraded array. Besides RAID6 I guess only a few blocks would get lost, the drives do not disappear completely from my experience.

  12. Re:This will be the death of mechanical hard drive on Intel Promises 'Optane' SSDs Based On Technology Faster Than Flash In 2016 · · Score: 1

    Reliability does not matter much, even the most reliable drives need to be in redundant RAID. And then the reliability does not matter anymore.

  13. Re:LibreOffice didn't rise from the ashes on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 1

    Due to the licensing terms LibreOffice can import code from OpenOffice.org but not the opposite way. For the opposite way they need to fake it somehow like pretend a clean room reimplementation or so. I do not know what happens in reality.

  14. Re:That word does not mean what you think it does on Tesla Presses Its Case On Fuel Standards · · Score: 2

    You need Superchargers only on highways, otherwise you charge at home or at work. You do not need them particularly in cities.

  15. WebM on Twitch Is Ditching Flash For HTML5, Just Like YouTube · · Score: 1

    And will Twitch also switch to WebM? I didn't know that site until now to care about.

  16. Re: Yes I'm old.. on What the GNOME Desktop Gets Right and KDE Gets Wrong · · Score: 1

    On my 16-core (not counting HT) Haswell my C++ application builds 80 seconds. And rebuilding patched GCC + running its testsuite I do not wait for as it takes an hour or so. I discarded my box from 2005 after calculating that in a few months I would pay more on electricity than what is worth a new hardware. BTW I haven't played games for about 20 years. But sure for text files editing a 2005 box may be fine.

  17. Re: Yes I'm old.. on What the GNOME Desktop Gets Right and KDE Gets Wrong · · Score: 1

    IIRC sometimes BIOS update helps but ... only sometimes. But those PCs not flashdisk-booting were really old, like 2005.

  18. Re: Yes I'm old.. on What the GNOME Desktop Gets Right and KDE Gets Wrong · · Score: 1

    "backup is on RAID6", not that "backup is RAID6". I have data on RAID5, then I do incremental encrypted backup of them to the same RAID5 and then I copy the backup off-site to RAID5.

  19. Re: Yes I'm old.. on What the GNOME Desktop Gets Right and KDE Gets Wrong · · Score: 2

    Still more reliable than an optical disc. The real backup is on RAID6 with automatic weekly cross-check on at least two sites, this way I do it (although only with RAID5 myself, that is not great).

  20. Re: Yes I'm old.. on What the GNOME Desktop Gets Right and KDE Gets Wrong · · Score: 2

    Optical discs are dead for about 10 years, since cheap flashdisks.

  21. Re:Confusion on French Government IT Directorate Supports ODF, Rejects OOXML · · Score: 1

    It only shows how poor Slashdot became (when they explain what is OOXML).

  22. Re:Why keep funding any of it? on Jolla Spins Off Hardware Business · · Score: 1

    If you want Android OS then go for it. I stay with the Linux OS where I have been learning all its library base for 20 years and I have a lot of my own codebase I do not plan to waster time porting to Android OS (if it is possible at all). So I use N900 with Maemo - that is Linux _OS_ and I will use Jolla after I get TOHKBD this month as it is also Linux _OS_. Nobody cares about what is / is not using Linux kernel, how do you find out what kernel is that device running on? And why do you care? Android is Android, that it runs on Linux kernel is irrelevant. Even in the OS you use kernel syscalls always via libc interface.

  23. Mb!=MB - Re:104Mb on Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free · · Score: 1

    So you mean 13MB? That's still pretty big.

  24. Measuring code size in kilobits seems very unusual to me.

  25. Re:Which browser? on Chrome Passes 25% Market Share, IE and Firefox Slip · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it is often not so much compatible with latest Google web services. I do not say it is Firefox's fault but nobody cares about that part.