My Pixel 7 is only getting 4 years of updates
Or if you don’t count the initial year, it’s just 6 years for 8+
Is it real that Arch users are rich and have mid level PCs and is always up to date?
I do have a powerful desktop running Arch (or rather EndeavourOS with the EndeavourOS packages slowly removed over time), but also a 15 year old netbook. There’s plenty of up-to-date lightweight software in Arch repos, you don’t need to limit yourself to old software.
Also it’s not like a new version of GIMP is suddenly going to use double the memory if you use the same tools in it.
The biggest issue for the netbook is web browsing, but that’s just about web pages being resource hogs nowadays. uBlock Origin and NoScript help massively. Trying to use an old web browser is IMHO a terrible idea - you’ll end up with broken pages and a massive pile of security vulnerabilities.
This is seriously cool. Although the current specs are a bit funny - if you take the largest possible disc size (360 TB), then it would take a million hours to fully write it at 10 MB/s (more if the storage unit is actually TiB). That’s over a hundred years.
Also if the goal is datacenter archival, then I wonder what the plan for practical use is - many individual discs with separate write “heads” (basically a RAID 0) to bring the speed up? And then maybe the maximum size per disc is a theoretical limit for the technology once we get faster access rather than something practical they intend to build anytime soon.
Absolutely agree with the fact that mAh should never have been used as a measurement of battery capacity, but increasing the voltage (while keeping the same actual capacity in Wh) makes the mAh rating lower, not higher.
1 Wh 1 V battery can provide 1 A (1000 mA) for an hour (1 V * 1 A = 1 W, 1 Wh / 1 W = 1 h) - that would be 1000 mAh.
1 Wh 2 V battery can only provide 1 A for half an hour (2 V * 1 A = 2 W, 1 Wh / 2 W = 0.5 h), and that gives you only 500 mA.
For context, AirDrop is a proprietary communication between Apple devices, but the EU forced them to open it up and adopt an open protocol called WiFi Aware.
EU forced Apple to adopt WiFi Aware, but not to switch AirDrop to use it - the intended effect is that WiFi Aware is available to developers who can then create their own alternatives to AirDrop that are not locked to one OS.
Also Pixel 10 series can currently share even to iPhones that never got the new iOS with WiFi Aware support, so claiming this is thanks to EU is absolute BS (although often repeated, for some weird reason). This is just AWDL (which was reverse engineered long ago btw, and there has even been an experimental implementation on Linux for years) + some reverse engineering of the actual AirDrop protocol implemented on top of it.
Funny thing is that the same issue was resolved for me by switching the other way around - from HDMI to DisplayPort. So there’s something weirder going on than a bug in DP implementation
Drawing over the PDF is not a digital signature. I haven’t seen a browser that can sign a PDF.
People might also assume that the quote in the post is from the article, and not just your rant
The biggest drawback of not providing any SSDs even as a fallback is obviously… what if the app just doesn’t draw CSDs?
Wayland requires apps to be able to draw CSDs, so that’s just a broken app. SSDs are optional extension. So the app should either use X11 (and rely on Xwayland to provide the decorations), or implement Wayland properly.
Charles university uses and develops something called ReCodex, and it is available on GitHub. As a student, it was very nice to use.
In fact, I think you’d be better off writing a deep dive into what/how environment variables work at build time, and also invoking commands on the CLI.
But LD_PRELOAD doesn’t really have much to do with build time behavior (unless you’re talking about replacing parts of the compiler) - it allows you to force a shared library to be loaded with higher priority than anything else, so it overrides symbols from other libraries.
It is recognized and used by Linux’s dynamic linker, which is run-time, not build-time.
Don’t know about the UK, but in central Europe it’s common for houses to get three phase power that can then be used on 400V three phase circuits and gets split (ideally evenly) into 240V circuits. And the fact that the phases have effectively zero coupling means that you also need to just try the adapter to find out if it’s going to work or not unless you happen to know how exactly your house is wired up, just like with split phase power.
Apartments usually get a single phase though, but IMHO it’s also less likely that WiFi won’t be enough there, so it’s questionable if that’s even a point for powerline.
You don’t need any swap space for suspend to work
It is, but it still works
The download will simply fail if the version pacman wants to download isn’t available on the mirror. The version is part of the download URL.
Wayland does force clients to be able to cope with a compositor that doesn’t do SSD - CSD support is mandatory, SSD optional.
That’s a weird question to ask under a post about an Android update. To answer anyway, the answer is probably yes - there is a GSI variant of Ubuntu Touch now, and there are projects that make your phone always boot into a GSI. If you combine these two things, you should get a Pixel that always boots into Ubuntu Touch.
Not with CGNAT
It’s a crappy clickbait title, I don’t see why it shouldn’t get downvoted
Some generally older software has buggy multi threading implementation, and forcing its threads to execute “interleaved, but never simultaneously” often improves stability or even completely hides the issue.
Also I know some games used to have big performance issues if they had too many hardware threads available, but I don’t know why exactly