Posts by jelabarre59

Re: Kill all background apps

Both sides of it come down to the same flaw in Mobile OSes. The hostility of the OS *and* hardware makers that YOU the person who purchased the device should not be allowed to configure it as YOU see fit.

Re: So...

Wasn't the Gmail app, but the "Email" app (which, if you were using Gmail, would be a bit unnecessary anyway). Don't even remember if I had been able to disable Gmail. Been so long since she's had to use it I can't remember.

Re: So...

Can I set an app to auto kill itself too?

Auto kill **AND** disable. The sheer arrogance that the vendor should decide for you which apps cannot be disabled, probably encouraged also by Google.

I had been setting up a phone for my daughter to use. I figured I'd disable everything she didn't need (to save on system resources) or that I felt I didn't want to have active. Certainly she didn't need email on the phone (that's what a computer or her school chromebook are for). Nope, couldn't disable it, and when I called the providerr "support" line, they said "Oh, email is a *required* app". Really? Says who? (probably our "friends" at Google).

Re: "restocking their supplies back to near-normal levels"

Things will correct themselves, there will be more layoffs and a few more players may drop out, leaving even fewer choices for buyers.

I know, it's getting harder to buy reasonably-priced systems that aren't crap-shit Dell.

Re: "restocking their supplies back to near-normal levels"

Very true. Plus with the prices of SSD's continuing to fall, you can cheaply make that 10 year old computer run much faster than when you bought it. Adding an SSD to an old computer is almost as good as buying a new computer, but it is much cheaper.

Is that why Apple welds their storage right on to the motherboard now?

Re: :-(

It had to be covid19, everyone is dying of covid19.

Not surprisingly, some agencies are just automatically assigning deaths with unreported causes as Covid-19, out of sheer laziness (or at least I'm presuming laziness, and not malice).

Re: Thank fuck for that

Absolutely, DAB useless if you want to listen to classical music with its wide dynamic range.

So then DAB would be good for hip-hop and Top-40 then.

Re: The future is behind you ....

a good vinyl has dynamic range. Most MP3's are compressed to nothing

It's where FLAC should really be an option. Almost never see that presented as an option for music downloads (other than a few Touhou doujin releases).

Re: The future is behind you ....

Personally I have a Sony Walkman ( NW-A35 ) ( I never was an Apple fan, except long ago when it involved computer illiterate people that wanted a computer [old macs were computer illiterate friendly.. modern Linux/NeXT flavored macs are not] ).

I find if you want an MP3 player on he cheap, just pick up your base-model TracFone or other pre-pay Android phone, and just never activate it. Put all your music on the microSD, install VLC or your other favourite media player app, and you're all set.

Re: The future is behind you ....

It's what I do. I have lots of music ripped from CD and Vinyl, plus purchased occasional albums from iTunes (when they actually have something I want) or from some doujin label's website. Plus whatever J-metal, Touhou doujin, Vocaloid, etc I can rip with youtube-dl. Oh, and a good batch of anisong I got from my brother's co-worker. And some music circles like Il-Cremonese/okame-P have some albums available for free download.

I just burn the MP3s to a CD-R or copy to a USB stick, and play on the car stereo that way. (there's where I'd like to find a car stereo that could play from DVD-R disks).

Nothing worth listening to on mainstream radio anyways.

Re: @HildyJ - Free

And what stops enterprises to approach the developers of an open source project they're interested in and offer them money in exchange for support ?

Nothing, actually, and that's part of the benefit of the licensing. But I don't think that's the market TDF is trying to address. I think they're trying to address enterprises that are seeking a single full-time provider of support, help, expertise and training.

Re: Free @NoneSuch

Using the suggested LibreOffice model, there should be a freely available Red Hat Personal Linux or something similar. Instead, we have Fedora which is like a beta program for some of the upcoming technologies, with an upgrade model that makes it impossible to do anything like an LTS release of Fedora. If you use Fedora, you're either frozen in time or on a fast running treadmill to keep up.

I expect that Centos is effectively fulfilling the role of a RH Personal release. It's meant as a long-term support version (presuming they're using the same support roadmap as RHEL). It's more obviously distinct from the Fedora tree than say Ubuntu's short-term and long-term releases are.

I think it's really a matter of semantics.

Re: Words matter...

As for "master" and "slave", replace them by "dom" and "sub" to be truly inclusive of the BDSM community.

"Seme" and "Uke" to be inclusive of the Yaoi/BL community.

Re: No problem with most of it, but...

the problem is, it's the fanatical that make the most stink (in more ways than one).

Welcome all to the world of Newspeak. Orwell was only off by 36 years.

Re: Isn't it obvious......

You aren't picturing a bunch of polyester class, moderately obese PHBs oggling shiny domain controllers and SQL-Server install disks ?

All depends on how sweaty and bothered they get by oogling. In which case I absolutely *DON'T* want to picture it.

When work gave me a Macbook (against my protestations that I'd rather have a laptop with a decent keyboard) I booted Linux on it without Boot Camp. Admittedly I wasn't interested in dual booting anything else on it though.

At least at work we had a choice between a MacBook Pro and a ThinkPad. Give me jet-black sleekness any day (and it's a decently sized model, not one of those wimpy X1's).

...and you could easily buy a Dacia Sandero to achieve the same ends. But it doesn't look as flashy in the office car park.

But James May would be impressed (at least until Clarkson drove a truck over it).

No reason you can't emulate x86 to run Windows in a virtual layer. Just don't call me to complain about the dreadful performance.

Isn't that one of the capabilities of QEMU? It's usually used these days for processor-native virtualization, but it can also do "User-mode emulation" and "System emulation". Definitely slower than native virtualization, but hey, you're running MSWindows, you should be used to "slow".

Terminal Services.

You can rent one in the damn cloud on a pittance-per-hour basis now.

But if you're on the move, you may not have the connectivity or bandwidth needed to do it.

Re: Downvotes

I have asked, in all seriousness if the PI can be managed via a similar MDM system. I have a project at work that needs multiple small computers to control various screens around the building.

And that sounds like a very reasonable request. I don't know that anything in the rPi firmware could provide that functionality (that level of system engineering is outside my experience), although I wonder if some sort of "hat" for the rPi could provide that functionality. Or perhaps there's some rPi-like SBC that has the capability.

Re: I expect that I will be downvoted...

Likewise with my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL from 2015.

Updated until the end of December 2019. Apps still updating.

It's a sad situation where **Microsoft** made a phone OS that was more open and better supported than iOS or Android. Engineering-wise it may have stunk, but you presumably could have fixed a lot of it's design flaws with extensions and add-ins (OpenShell for WinPhone maybe?)

Re: Entirely legal

Well I know that Telefunken (TVs), are just re-badged Vestels from Turkey

Telefunken is still around? Granted, the Telefunken we have here is an early-1960's Concertina, so I couldn't even get close to a comparison.

Re: Entirely legal

One thing a malicious hacker *might* do is to program your WiFi enabled aircon to be part of a DDOS attack, or to send millions of spam emails.

And who's to say the crap firmware in the air conditioner isn't already vulnerable anyway, regardless of what app you're accessing it with (but most likely the piss-poor outsourced one from the manufacturer).