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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (9 children)

From the article it sounds like the limitations come for some app types downloaded directly from a browser. I think this doesn't affect alternate app stores like f-droid where you are effectively delegating approval to their process.

I have come across the other limitations mentioned with the Home Assistant companion app which I could only get matter registration to work with the version downloaded from the Play store.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

I can second the alcohol free beers. The modern ones have excellent taste and hit the refreshing hoppy spot for me and are much better than juice or sodas when it comes to calories. I'm not totally dry, I drink 2-3 units a week, but I'm certainly feeling better for not having alcohol every day.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

I'm forever telling my children to pay attention in car parks because they are full of moving cars.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Does anyone know what the underlying filesystem is on DSM? The ability to easily replace disks with a degree of redundancy across the 4 bays is the biggest plus point for Synology although I have no doubt all the bits underneath are the Linux storage stack.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's a shame because I really like the point and click nature of DSM. Although I'm a happy Linux hacker I don't want another Linux box to suck up my limited admin time just to store files.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Bold of you to assume we'll make it that far. I'm not convinced that our current networked CO2 phase isn't another great filter event.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Android gets a leg up from being built on a FLOSS base but I don't think it was the community that pushed Android to where it is today. That's taken a lot of money and resources from Google and it's phone partners investing in the slightly more open platform than Apple.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's not really true. Yes avoiding complex instructions makes the front end easier to pipeline but there are lots of smarts in the backend to do prediction and scheduling to keep the execution units fed. The ISA might be free to use but no one is sharing their highly optimised server silicon architecture designs.

RISC-V's challenge is can they standardise the software ecosystem enough that things just work across a multitude of chip providers or does everything devolve into specialist distributions taking advantage of each manufacturers "special sauce" custom instructions.

Gaining design wins over Arm's microcontrollers for bespoke hardware was the easy bit. Replacing stuff in the server space is much harder and something that took Arm decades to make inroads into.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I pay for it so the TV and web experience is ad free. I use PipePipe on my phone because the native client won't stop pushing shorts at you.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 23 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It's not like Android is especially open to drive-by contributions anyway. I don't think really changes much for the downstream consumers of the releases.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We'll go from Google sucking up all our data to another entity sucking up all our data and selling it to other people. How much funding does it take to keep Chrome running?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

Pre-cut with comedy edges as well. But the methodology seemed valid as another poster said, giving cars the same limited eyesight as us seems like under engineering for safety.

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