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What Linux distro surprised you the most?
  • Fossapup 9.5 how fast yet compitent it is at what it can use. Loading into ram with just 300mb or so ram being used it's blazing fast the newer the machine it runs on. It's downside is it's smaller community driven development being in need of consistant conversion of regular apps to it's own puppy .sfs format which is needed to install them, if they had people churning new .sfs apps out all day every day of the year then eventually it would over-shadow many mainstream OS's it's just nitro level speed and stable to boot. It needs more love from the dev community to go that extra mile.

  • Fairphone launches a cheaper version of the Fairphone 5 with less memory and storage - Liliputing
  • People should focus on a better single lifetime lifespan OS, not churning out further e-waste and recycled devices that will inevitably become none circulatory e-waste that will return back as what it once was, yes it will reduce that waste numbers for a time but not prevent it, wheras OS regulation to force a single unified OS per company name would stop it altogether wouldn't it, if they said all hardware must have a unified OS that does not age out and all hardware must be able to here after use the same baseline OS development that also must be unified this day forward....now deal with it or close shop if you want to change this e-waste problem for real that is theoretically the only way likely you'd impact it in a stop immediately way for good.You'd apply it to both phones and computers and also consoles but allow the shells/housings to be made of fully recyclable materials so they can be re-housed slide out slot it design would work for motherboards aka a modular case/housing design.

  • Fairphone launches a cheaper version of the Fairphone 5 with less memory and storage - Liliputing
  • You just use anything don't you that it caters for dual core+ spec then stick to one base OS the devs place thexrest of the requirements to run other options in addon format to the store but everything hardware related can use that OS in some way shape or form provided it is dual core pkus spec with say 2gb ram+ ddr3 or higher is suitible is the way to go this way old e-waste become new upcycle as well, the devs make what they like for it 3 categories in the store for types so FOSS/paid and In-App but all apps to be made ad free so sh@t doesn't trickle in ad based software and pay walled ad based software are what make all stores eventually a sea of sh@t any way.

    That is the way stores should be and the an OS should be in fact I'd go as far as to say if e-waste is such an environmental disaster as portrayed and it very likely is, then why not regulate things to a minimum production level any way to prevent it eg. if you manufacture phones you must create a baseline OS not multiple variants of the same OS only one in order to stop the excess sale of hardware that all becomes e-waste due to forcing updates remove the ability to force new itterations through software age out. You don't need devices to solve this just a regulation one rule no updates generating e-waste that would mea they get one OS and streamline it they can only generate a new one every 15-25 years minimum if you want iacnewer OS but the hardware presently functioning must still be compatible to the baseline and open source all mjst be to provide a development continuation indefinitely none to but clesed off on purpose that one idea argue you can but something in this vein or derivative would be the answer not paying 3x the cost of other phones for one lesser phone.

  • Fairphone launches a cheaper version of the Fairphone 5 with less memory and storage - Liliputing
  • I say to all manufacturers and developers just get one OS and stick with it, and then there is no further e-waste if it's cross compatible from a dual core spec hardware upward it just runs faster the higher spec you go, there will be no hardware or OS incompatability just an ever improving OS one fits all old and new.

    All fairphone are going to do is become e-waste just with a smaller footprint than the rest but e-waste none the less, I do not see them surviving long either.

  • Fairphone launches a cheaper version of the Fairphone 5 with less memory and storage - Liliputing
  • There's a far easier way make just make a fair OS it costs nothing extra if ithe OS is running on a backbone of the low cost devices at say dual core as a baseline to any spec above for higher speeds, you never then have to worry what phone you build because the OS runs on them all a bit like linux without the caveat of aging out in 3-5yrs.

    You don't ever have to look the b@llocks just so you end up being plain b@llocks becauee your draining off every resource to beautify the OS and add none essential features, you could choose to install none essential apps or features and individual updates to add features later without needing sh@t loads of background processes to run in the native OS, included on purchase of a device you just start with a generally cross compatible basic spec OS and keep that base foundation forever it updates only through a open source app store which if needed will request to allow the installation of specific elements that certain apps require to install and the feature addons that embed in the OS are also in the store in a section dedicated to this, and their accompanying app to use anything of these features are linked to that section or placeholder assigned in the storefront.thus nothing ever dies from being incompatible or to old ever again or from any forcable update requirement, people are left happily building and catering to all the specs and brands of device as axwhole and indefinitely/forever litterally. Not singling out devices to cater for just so comlanies can force recurring purchases from the publoc of the new necissary hardware, it's a matter of software throat ramming to sell hardware by forcing updates to the hardware and binding that hardware specific list (database of devices) to the store/s and software in a stores compatibility list. It's simply "Double Dipping And Manipulation" that's basically what I call it for software and hardware or DAM for short lol said like "DAM!!!" (aka damn missing the letter "n" at the end) basically I mean you get shafted as your device unescissarily ages out of the stores due to deliberate phase out of the OS and hardware totally unescissarily etc lol

    But the idea behind fair for the production is good, it's simply not going to really appeal to anyone much except for those who are dedicated to saving the planet with a phat wallet or purse. Not to any large marketable community with enough members to keep it afloat for long or is that just the whole idea here?

    They'll likely end up e-waste like everything else that's forcably aged out of relevance to turn a buck and just add to the sh@t that's poisoning the planet again in some smaller way than the rest but none the less doing so in a similar way with a smaller footprint that's all.

  • Happy 25th Anniversary, Sega Dreamcast!
  • Soul Calibur

    House Of The Dead 2 with the light gun

    Dynamite Cop

    loved mine should never have sold it they were eons ahead of their time way more advanced graphically than anything at that time in the console market and the internet play I never could try as it was totally uneconomically viable, but had SEGA hung on and survived and the online side took off they'd probably be king at this point and still pumping out new true next gen console hardware instead of Android and IOS apps and re-boot mini consoles of the original megadrive and so on? Damn shame they flopped with the Dreamcast, but I loved mine had it a a week after release day I think it was.

  • What movie did you watch as I kid which you shouldn't have?
  • Yeah I still giggly at this scene in Aliens

    Hudson: Hey Vasquez you ever been mistaken for a man?

    Vasquez: ........No....Have you....???

    Best cone back ever her facial expression when she says it is priceless.

  • What movie did you watch as I kid which you shouldn't have?
  • Yeah it was pretty realistic in some parts and B grade garbage in others but the movie overall was amazing it was the suspense and the invisible attacks and the acting chops that made that movie it scores 8.1 out of 10 all the other Jaws movies are steaming piles of doo doo though in comparisson, and the higher the number the movie the more ridiculously infantile and deranged the premise/plot gets lol to a point of the shark is now telepathically linked to the victims family it's seeking revenge on the familycand it's following them all the way from America to Jamaica to chomp someone up who just haplens to be the son of the voctims mum WTF? lmfao.

    I could see one chasing you or circling you in real life especially if you whacked it over the head with something like an awe and it didn't kill it, but telepathic sharks with a axe to grind? That's when it starts to take the p@ss one drip too far haha.

    But don't let that disuade anyone in any way from watching them all, they can be dark and good in certain parts, they all have character of the era they were made that by today's movie production standards makes everything today just look compketely dull/generic/plain and regurgitative un-charismatic cr@p

  • Fairphone launches a cheaper version of the Fairphone 5 with less memory and storage - Liliputing
  • looks way over priced for a mid range spec of a 2021 era hardware in both old and new devices that you'd pay £200 or less for back then but all it is is 2gb ram extra same type of ddr standard added on and only then 256gb compared to 128gb is thexdifference a sd card can be bought and used adopted storage method to go way beyond or equal to the difference for practically $4-10 so neither phone from fairphone is fair priced being as they are being priced up at $500-600 it's 100% out of normal realms of common sense to buy it, they simply just won't buy it in the numbers then to keep the comoany afloat because the pricing is ultra over inflated, it's old spec standard hardware trying to be upsold for triple it's retail value

    For some kind of logical alternative product slightly less spec but half decent for that era's hardware then a moto g range device a g10 and upward should be comparable bit slower half the ram at 3gb but some are much higher and the g10 new was just £120 delivered back in 2021 with a 8 core soc by snapdragon, so throwing weight in the product being worth triple that you'd expect about 9gb ram if that were a thing 256gb storage and a newer 3x faster chipset at triple that price it is £360 so you can imagine the shock at fairphone's costing nearly twice that tben they should be 6x faster and 12gb ram physical ram not virtual as well, the camera a 108mp or higher etc etc the specs do not justify the cost never will even halving it

  • What movie did you watch as I kid which you shouldn't have?
  • Jaws at about 5 yrs old and Robocop a couple of years later at about 7yrs old the uncut version loved them both except jaws made me phobic of the ocean and open water so paid a price with that one lol although I have all 4 movies on dvd watch them from time to time. Have both Robocop original and the newer one which is sh@t comparitively, no surprise being just a 12A no swearing and or adult humour no guys exploading on windscreens from being melted down with toxic waste then hit by a car lol and no fist spike weapon either. It will never hold a candle to the original movie which is a true product of the 80s and a must own movie, one rad movie.

    I still can't believe Jaws was classified just PG and still is that's to savage for kids really not all of it the shark looks awful corny and cheap tat but the scenes you don't see it and the man in the pond where you see it sideways it looks real then it bites his leg off and you see the leg sinking those scenes aren't fit for kids no way. .

  • What do you think of never deleting the browsing history to use as a preemptive search engine replacement?
  • That is a cool idea you know, all you'd need is a tool to preview sites in a half size page with the list on the other half of the page and then you just tap the selected sites you want with a multi select option that let's you highlight them in bulk so you can export them into a bookmark collection, then set up a freshly installed web browser with only those specific bookmarks, cooler still then would be a way to pin those bookmarks a single page or multiple pages with a thumbnail represent to represent each bookmarked page in your browser window and you then just choose from them like a UI (User Interface):with tiled thumbnails for the sites to choose from amd or web linked content and servers.

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