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  1. Re:Would the company last that long? on postmarketOS Pursues A Linux-Based, LTS OS For Android Phones (liliputing.com) · · Score: 2

    What company? It's one guy with a donate page, which might pay for the cost of hosting.

    The rest is community-driven, where contributors are encouraged to port the base system to their device.

  2. Re:design by committee is always a bad move sailor on Ubuntu Will Revert Window Controls To the Right-Hand Side in Next Release (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    If they're adopting Gnome then they should default them to wherever Fedora sticks them.

    Unnecessarily fragmenting the cross-distro experience for the sake of quirky designers? Yeah, nah.

  3. Re:Free movement of Brits to the EU also ends in 2 on Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019 (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you're thinking of a 90 day vacation within the Schengen Zone, then yes all one would need would be a passport stamped. And I guess the same restrictions apply to US visitors as from my country in terms of re-entry and the number of visits permitted within a 12 month period.

    A tourist visit once or twice a year is thus different from current arrangements where EU citizens can come and go as they please, or reside or conduct business. In that case they'd be inhabitants of just another country and require visas like everyone else on the planet outside Europe.

  4. Well since this is a Moto article, I guess I'd ask for your next purchase whether you'd need a top of the range for 4 years.

    People on whirlpool and ozbargain seem to like the Moto G5 Plus, which can be had for about $AU350 - allowing you to upgrade every *two* years!

    (me, I'm still on a Nexus 4 and gave my mother a Galaxy S2 as a hand-me-down - both running LineageOS 14.1)

  5. foreigners butchering the language

    Yeah I was unsure what to make of that. Perhaps they wanted a sample of real-world usages but I rejected some that would make phonological errors that a first language speaker would never make - e.g. one guy sounded like he was Dutch or Scandinavian. It was understandable in the context but not 'English'. Another was a guy slurring accentedly (Asian) through syllables without enunciating the word as recognisable.

    So on the one hand, recognising 'proper' English vs comprehending something a second language speaker might say in the wild. And I'm conscious of this in that, thanks to English rapidly becoming the world language of the 21th C, first language speakers of English will be outnumbered perhaps 10-to-1 within 50 years (was 3-to-1 in 2003 according to wikipedia).

    And there's no way of giving feedback to the speaker as to why their input was rejected.

  6. Re:separating... on Say Goodbye To Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Leaving the EU would be one for the politicians and lawyers. I think their hope is to stay in the EU and keep the Euro.

    But in the Catalan case, the current constitution bans any secession, as an indivisible entity under the Spanish crown - which was said to have been agreed to for the sake of harmony with one hand tied behind one's back for fear of a return of the Falangist era.

  7. Re:Misread summary... on Say Goodbye To Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Well it's actually about Catalunya NOT Spain, as the separatists will tell you. They have an (unconstitutional) referendum for leaving occurring in about 6 weeks.

  8. Re:Quality doesn't matter when it's disposable any on iPhones Are Priced 'High in the Extreme' But They're Worth It, Says Apple Co-founder Wozniak (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    And for how long did it run when it was brand new? :)

    https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/i...

  9. Well iOS only runs on Apple hardware, so if you wanted to run it on a "Chinese Phone", you couldn't.

    But I've never owned an iPhone, so I don't know or care about what I'm missing out on. A late 2012 Korean phone does all I need running the latest Android 7.x release. If I need a replacement I'll simply substitute a model supported by Lineage OS and with a good repairability score on ifixit.

  10. 'trolley' ? on Michigan Will Build 25 Self-Driving Trolleys In 2017 (observer.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry for growing up in the wrong hemisphere but I'm just confused by the American usage of the word 'trolley'.

    It just looks like a 'mini-bus' to me.

  11. Re:Yes on 'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't mind the new interface, if it were complete.

    Too many tasks start off in the new settings window only to have to revert to the classic control panel interface because the setting you need hasn't been ported yet.

    As well as adding new features I'll never use on existing hardware, they could tidy up the interface so it's actually finished.

  12. Unfortunately the government's plans were ultimately thwarted when Russian hackers substituted rogue firmware for the audo-visual inputs.

    Live stream

  13. Re:You can't have a female James T. Kirk on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does Ben Sisko not still refer to Ezri as 'old man', some 2 hosts after she was a male, Curzon Dax?

  14. Bitter is a taste sensation in itself. Having travelled through Uruguay and Argentina, I'm partial to yerba mate - to the uninitiated it tastes like grass clippings filtered through a smelly sock! But once your tastebuds adjust, the bitterer the bettererer.

    Thence switching back to black/green tea, sweetness or lack of isn't something I'd ever add sugar for. And for badly roasted coffee, the lactose in a dash of milk should suffice. (any vegans - check the ingredients on your soy or almond milk - it likely contains some form of sweetener already)

  15. Yuck.

    No, really, people do that? What a waste of coffee.

  16. Re:No it doesn't on Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    clickbait headline is clickbait.

    Windows Phone is on life-support. They can't kill it per se because their OEM partner, HP, released a Windows 10 phone only in August last year.

  17. Re:YES!! WE WON! on Ubuntu Is Now Available On the Windows Store (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    That'd be interesting, to be honest - running Win16/32 applications in Wine under WSL that no longer work natively on an x86-64 Windows 10 installation.

  18. Re:Why this when Apples sysem is WORSE? on Google May Face Another Record EU Fine, This Time Over Android (itwire.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes a phone maker could go AOSP with f-droid or their own store but consumers will expect Google Play whether it's a Samsung, Moto, LG or whatever.

    The issue is setting defaults to Google services and baking Google bloatware in the stock ROM as a pre-condition to allow access to Play store.

  19. Re:More fragmentation of Android OS? on Google May Face Another Record EU Fine, This Time Over Android (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Specifically Fire OS by Amazon.

  20. Re:Take Off And Landing on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Kind of like a Borg alcove.
    Securely fastened into a vertical sleeping chamber where the cabin crew's responsibility us to monitor bodily functions during stasis.

  21. Re:I sure hope on Mozilla Employee Denied Entry To the United States (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    In my country we number boxes according to preference. There is no penalty for voting for a third candidate.
    Scenario:
    Don gets 42 votes, Jill gets 25, hill gets 33. Who wins?
    Well a quarter didn't vote for either. But if 80% of Jill voters prefer Hill over Don then Hill wins 53 to 47.

  22. Re:Cat food lobby on Research Finds 1 In 3 American Cats and Dogs Are Overweight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    the cats that have owned me were fussy. They never seemed interested in the expensive cat food from the gourmet pet supermarket.

    I would always get the samples to try because there was no point in buying a big bag they wouldn't eat.

  23. Perhaps both?

    My local tv news suggested the Ransomware concentrated largely on Ukraine - suggesting an agenda beyond the financial.

  24. Re:Kangaroo vs White-Tailed Deer on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    (Sorry to any vegetarians)

    Much better to market the vehicles as hunting machines.

    With climate change, it'd fix the environment in switching to gamey roo meat rather than continue to destroy the landscape with cattle farming. Cows belch emissions and require land clearing for pasture.

  25. Sob... I and the other 2 users of Firefox OS will tell you Mozilla was ahead of the curve but sadly killed the platform.