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Waterfall··on GNU/Linux Smartphone Librem 5 Evergreen Update: Mold and Milestones
Linux is mainlining Snapdragon anyways, Linux is coming to phones with or without these projects. PostMarketOS was stated before and runs on some other hardware and these phones. You can run the Samsung phones with DeX and get Linux with good performance (until they killed it, there's others Linux on Dex projects though). The rockchip seems too weak for a phone, too weak for a laptop (even with 4GB) and an ok SBC although it's also lacking there too with new hardware.

At this point I don't know what I'd want a Linux phone for anymore, and with that performance when would I use it? This will at best run as well as a $100 2GB pinebook since it is the same specs and that runs Linux poorly. Now I have to install custom scripts with a Bluetooth keyboard or ssh from my computer, with power savings so it'll be even slower. Linux on phone sounds like the equivalent of installing Gentoo on a desktop. After installing PostMarketOS on one phone I found out that you can root Android, ssh into Android, run a browser that can use desktop chrome extensions and be pretty happy with Android. Not sure what the killer app would be with those qualifications satisfied.

Waterfall··on Amazon is delivering nearly two-thirds of its own packages
I think it had more to do with contracts. I thought servers prices would go down but it is done in blocks of time as contracts. It's why itanium is still around. On scale it also applies to large entities not having much momentum
Waterfall··on Amazon is delivering nearly two-thirds of its own packages
Why is the USPS doing so badly when e commerce is doing so well? Even if the post office goes away, Amazon will still keep doing well.

In Japan they use 7/11 to do deliveries to people and pay bills there like a post office. Maybe we can learn from them and use Amazon for that.

Waterfall··on Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store
Sorry because it's been jailbroken you are forced to use alternate stores on iOS. Or you could just not use it.
Waterfall··on Why Uber's business model is doomed
In America it is anti paternalistic. Why is this so different?

Nobody has replied or will touch how we preventable diseases such as cancer from smoking and obesity are paid for by healthy people and are completely preventable issues.

Every single example you use deviates from the original, more and more as unfortunate circumstances, but most problems are not cars crashing into you. It's mostly people killing themselves slowly though sloppy eating, poor impulse control and violence. Yes you stuck your hand in a grinder, now the government will take care of you forever. You were putting on hundreds of lb over decades of eating crap, you get free lipid medication, insulin paid for with taxes of other people. Thank you for gracing us with your presence, for existing you deserve the best. Please continue to live as long as possible, we don't want to lose an important person like that. This is the system you dearly love? It's going to implode, obesity rises and healthcare doesn't care, they simply treat them when they come, and if you don't have problem already the hospital cafeteria will put you in there soon anyway.

Waterfall··on Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store
What is in the level on apple silicon?
Waterfall··on Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store
You understand why others find it strange you don't and why they do though, right?
Waterfall··on Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store
When was the last time you used Android? That sounds true of 2012 or so but not after.

Android does have a poor status though, the value of it's phones drops precipitously every few months until it levels at $100-$200 a year later, or it was cheap in the first place and good like xiaomi. iPhones don't drop like that.

Waterfall··on Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store
You don't want the full capabilities of your hardware you paid for? The Nvidia Jetson is the controllable version of the switch and it's much weaker. You don't want your switch to play games and be a hardware accelerator? You don't want the best silicon to run your own software?
Waterfall··on Please read the paper before you comment
I agree. On certain places I just give up. That place that is complete different from your opinions? But who cares? Your comment on an echo chamber will just be deleted, ignored, you banned, downvoted at hell at best. The only places to give dissenting opinions is places where all posts have no score and are merited not by the ego of the poster but the content of the post, the anonymous places have been both the most accepting and the most toxic.
Waterfall··on Please read the paper before you comment
Just be a little smarter than the average commenter. It's not reached critical mass yet. https://github.com/dessant/buster
Waterfall··on Why Uber's business model is doomed
My issue is the unequal application of insurance. We don't care about the reasons for poor health and instead treat it. I never once said "muh freedom" was the issue, and in fact point out that people don't wear masks even today. The problem is the culture of freedoms and personal responsibility has completed deteriorated. Preventable illnesses like obesity, smoking are ignored as personal freedoms, and are allowed to run rampant while their preventable illnesses clog up the system.

Why is only helping the sick focused, at the middle of the story as if there is a predisposed amount of illness, and not on the circumstances that lead to it? People worry about single mothers but don't worry about them before they become single mothers. It's baffling.

Waterfall··on Why Uber's business model is doomed
Is that not the problems with a broken system? Who is forcing who to save people? Why SHOULD society pick up the tab for my broken arm, or his obesity?

When the same drug addict that can't pay his bills again goes to the same hospital and has no intetions of paying and the hospital is forced to take anyone what is the result? A healthcare system that is more focused on duration of life at any cost, versus that of quality. Preventable illnesses like drug abuse, obesity and smoking are everyone's issue when everyone else is paying for the purposefully sickly to squander all the money.

Waterfall··on Why Uber's business model is doomed
The whole system is broken. You are not rewarded for living well and eating healthy or exercising, you're penalized for other people's preventable diseases, obesity being a primary preventable illness that causes other problems. Universal healthcare doesn't care about the causes of illness, it just cares about paying it's working for treating the illness. If there is no requirements for keeping health to receive health insurance, and everyone who destroys their body gets healthcare at the cost of those who don't use it because they're healthy, why would a healthy person with no illnesses want it?

I'd love to see prevention before it goes to healthcare, but try even mandating soda sizes in the US... The only way is to make it unpopular like supersize me (although he was shady and never showed the food logs).

Healthcare should be paternalistic by definition but American culture cares so much about freedoms they won't wear masks during a global pandemic so it's incompatible.

Waterfall··on Why Uber's business model is doomed
It isn't short sighted, you just don't like it and try to use a moral high ground on the equivalency of why you should unfairly force me to pay for HBO when I don't watch HBO. "For society you need HBO, for later when you need it". How about you leave what other people in their lives need or want and focus on yourself?
Waterfall··on ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)
Low res rendered on a low DPI/PPI screen causes your eyes to strain. I will link you later.
Waterfall··on Why Uber's business model is doomed
You failed to understand his point. As a worker I don't want any of that crap. It's good that it's mandatory because someone will need it? I choose to work at these places if I want because I don't want social security crap, and I don't have a schedule so I don't need vacation and I don't need to call in sick at Uber. You like many who don't understand are putting it in the mold of a traditional job and people like you are not wondering why people choose to work long hours with no benefits, so you say everyone has to have certain hours and benefits, and are legislating without representing drivers or asking what they want. It has something to do with getting money now, not some far away 401k or social security. If I wanted European style wages I'd go to Europe where the problem becomes lower wages with useless "benefits".
Waterfall··on ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)
Sorry it was late I'll check better next time
Waterfall··on ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)
The contrast is a problem of eink screens. There is not much besides grayscale. That is why even if it's 1080 it looks like crap compared to an LCD at 720.
Waterfall··on ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)
That's what the research says. It is not an opinion of mine. Eye strain may also be defined differently. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/eyestrain/sym... I have had success with OLED screens with black backgrounds and red font
Waterfall··on Former Zoox employees sue, alleging rival offer was better than Amazon's
It's been declining for decades and over half a century. They didn't know how bad they were. Who supports unions in the US and what majority? Who said that?
Waterfall··on Former Zoox employees sue, alleging rival offer was better than Amazon's
In this scenario, is it better to have one larger Bloc cripple the smaller one?

They are deemed unlawful when you force people to join, teachers freedom of speech was considered violated when they're forced to join but disagree with the demands of the union. Is it fair to be forced to join, your dissenting opinion ignored and pay people who work against your own interests?

Waterfall··on Former Zoox employees sue, alleging rival offer was better than Amazon's
Unions only seem to benefit the union leaders. Union membership have long dropped precipitously for decades for over 50 years at least. Programmer are in no danger of being stuck like McDonald's workers. They're free to work elsewhere and the NDA are as good as toilet paper.
Waterfall··on ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)
How many Linux eink tablets or tablets with Linux are out there? I'm not being sarcastic I don't know of any other ones unless you count Android as linux and I don't even know if there are any aside from the pine tablet and I dont think it's out yet either.
Waterfall··on ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)
This reminds me of the hacking community of the Amazon Kindle. The firmware developers said they could have blocked it out harder but didn't because they didn't want to cripple the device for hackers. Apparently the Kindles run awesome windows manager.

I used to be into eink displays but the contrast ratio is too low and it looks too blurry for me so I went back to screens. Eye strain was the first reason they said eink was good for eye strain. Turns out it's the DPI or PPI, so essentially an iPad with retina is less eye strain. I use AMOLED to read since I read that the wavelengths of blue light also are bad.

Waterfall··on ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)
Ever thought about using methods to digitalize your notes?
Waterfall··on Wirecard hired actors to fool auditors
Why did you make up that BLM, yellow vests and whatever random domestic protest you made up isn't supported and only HK is?
Waterfall··on Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
Is there one that instead imitates pressure sensitive input and then follows the same pattern? With a sufficiently large brush and downsizing the image it could look very good. Maybe the lack of artifacts from the brush is the reason for the unnatural look
Waterfall··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
You said child pornography should be illegal, and ignored how it can be planted.
Waterfall··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
This is exactly what my issue is with many of his detractors. He's brave enough to state his opinions good and bad, and most people don't think beyond the first step of why or the context and continue the myth of it being a fact. It is depressing to see how this is not common news even here and people have every reason to dislike him for other reasons but they just wanted a reason to hate him.
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