fatboy93

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't even care about other features. The tiling home screen of the OS was really nice to use and when used properly by the apps could result in a "live" OS unlike the iconographic interfaces of iOS and Android. The homescreen was also old-age friendly and really a pleasure to use.

The OS ram like really smooth on 512mb RAM, unlike their counterpart android phones which were struggling back then with 2-3GB RAM.

The lumias themselves had a ton of useful features like tap to wake etc, which didn't consume much battery and in general the Nokia cameras were top notch for the time.

Basically, the OS got killed because of a chicken and egg problem with the apps, and the OS being from Microsoft, got a death knell because of the reputation. Also for some fucking reason, Microsoft decided that the already low userbase WP7s were to be depreciated rather than provide an upgrade path fo WP8 and WP10.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If you have to ask the question, then the answer is always NO

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Iirc, the business line (ThinkPads) were not affected by these, but who knows.

But yes, my oldest laptop is a ThinkPad and I love it very dearly!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I use gonic with sonixd on my laptops, but probably might move to supersonic from sonixd.

On my phone, Tempo is really awesome!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Unable to read the paywalled article, but ROCm is like Nvidia's CUDA for their GOUs. These used to be supported on and off for consumer GPUs, but get aupported mostly only for datacenter ones. Linux used to be supported, but they are bringing ROCm to windows as well.

Probably AMD is planning to improve support for consumer GPUs, since their GPUs are competitive to Nvidia's at a lower price point, given that local LLMs, Image generation and other AIs are in a kind of a booming trend.

Currently, Nvidia has CUDA which is more or less the industry standard, so AMD with their ROCm and Intel with their OpenVino etc are trying to chip away at the monopoly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Dpending on what you need, there are plugins which can detect intros, change UIs etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not sure if this would be useful, but my university uses ThinLinc. We can use the desktop and other stuff in the browser.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Thank you for an interesting discussion! In particular I like the fact that you listed out a lot of sustainable practices!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

This is kind of hilarious, how are native planst classified as weeds and pests, when they are the most adapted to the climate in the region and consume lower amounts of water. Lawns with nothing but grass should be classified as pests.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This is such an amazing album with Sirius and Eye in the sky blending in so well

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

British museum is just the "accidental" offsite backup plan for a lot of history and cultural artefacts.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Not opensource, but i love juicessh. I keep coming back to it all the time.

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