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lproven
8,777karma·4,928submissions·December 30, 2013
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Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes, mainly about computers, for a living.
# Work
Currently the FOSS & cloud correspondent for the Register.
https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven
Work email: lproven+hn@sitpub.com
# Personal
Comments here (or anywhere else, unless otherwise stated) are personal opinion and not on behalf of any employer.
Based in Douglas, Isle of Man.
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recent activity (4,928 total)
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Text article, instead of video, for other video-haters like me... https://gekk.info/articles/hp-quickweb.htm …
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009 (220 comments)
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BLISS is not a place, it is (was) a DEC programming language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS For all that DEC is nearly forgotten now, it had far more effect on modern compu…
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> 2.x ran on the 80286 in protected mode, the only OS I know which did that. SCO Xenix. Concurrent DOS/286. DR FlexOS. OS/2 1.x. Coherent 2 (IIRC).
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WSL is the classic MS time-honoured manouevre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... …
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Always remember: A leopard can't change his shorts. https://wiki.lspace.org/A_leopard_can%27t_change_his_shorts …
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This was news to me, so I went digging. «
M-DOS During 1977 and 1978, Microsoft adapted both BASIC and Microsoft
FORTRAN for an increasingly popular 8-bit operating system called
CP/…
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Sure, but you can't run your Linux containers in them. But you can on FreeBSD. Which was my point.
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I wrote the article. My daily driver is a Xiaomi Poco F5. It is near the end of its life now -- struggles to last the day -- and it was stuffed with bloatware, but it was good for the price in 2023. M…
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> Are Xiaomi phones still legal in the EU Yes. I wrote the article. I use one. > with their proprietary chargers? Not true. It's a generic USB-C device. Does fast charge off any high-power …
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I wrote it. It is not about phone OSes. It is not about phone hardware. It is about phone VENDORS. The last paragraph should also explain this to you.
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:-D Glad you liked it.
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Agreed. Apparently the company worked on the Punkt phones.
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I wrote TFA. Did you note the final paragraph, before the bootnote? Do please read it and act upon it: let me know.
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> But what will my phone still actually be able to do if / when I stop my subscription? I have two of them and use one as my spare phone. I wrote this article. As far as I can tell: all that h…
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I wrote the article. Not that I am aware of, no. They are almost all Android devices which are available unlocked and with a different OS on from new. It is possible, but nobody's done it since S…
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Still maintained, still sold. https://www.lg.com/us/webos Could be revived if anyone could be bothered.…
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News just in. It happened in 2017. https://www.kaiostech.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS 2017 is also the year ChromeBooks first outsold Macs (by value,…
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I wrote the article. I think you did not read it. Read the last paragraph in particular. Not the bootnote, in the main text.
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> This article fails to mention GrapheneOS. No, it does not. I wrote the article. The article is not about phone OSes. The article is about companies that will sell you a NEW non-Google non-Apple …
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> in any US airport I've been to So that is half of 1%. Now try in any one of the other 194 countries in the world. I, sadly, live in a small island and fly a lot. I haven't been able to …
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No, because Docker is a tool for running Linux containers. You can use the Linuxulator to run Linux binaries on FreeBSD, including entire distro userlands in Jails. You can use Podman to build and man…
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It is not a Linux distro. It is not a Linux at all; it is a completely different, independent OS. It is not a Unix at all: it's an independent ground-up C++ OS that implements a lot of POSIX-type…
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Hey, that's my article. Thanks for sharing it! Here is some good practical info on the pros and cons of different de-Googled phone OSes: https://blog.gridranger.dev/mobile-oses-fe…
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> Windows 11's UI seems easier on the eyes than Haiku now. I feel the exact reverse. I find modern flat UIs ugly and hard to operate, which makes them more tiring. It is not just me: https:&#…
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AFAIK only M1 -- but yes, it's a major achievement: AFAIK this is the first bare-metal Haiku on Arm.
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Get it working smoothly with ErgoEmacs and I'll give it a look. Actually, Emacs folks, please could someone do an Emacs distro with ErgoEmacs pre-integrated, for instance that picks up the OS&#…
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Sort of both. > AmigaOS was a pre-emptive multitasking OS Yes, but without memory protection. > whilst PCs had to wait for Windows NT/95. While Windows 2 on an 8086 could pre-emptively mu…
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> I used a Microsoft PowerToy to switch between desktops, I think all the way back to NT 4.0. Sure, yes, me too. And there were 3rd party add-ons like 9Desks: https://www.hexagora.com&#x…