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Comment No MacBook For Me (Score 1) 77

I'm in the market for a new laptop and while the XPS 13 is almost the best option, the only thing has me considering the new MacBook Air and waiting to see what happens with the 13"(14"?) MacBook Pro is that I'd like a platform to do iOS development on. I already have an iPad and if I could do it all there to completion, I don't think I'd even be considering a MacBook.

Comment Re:Jellyfin (Score 1) 29

I started looking into Jellyfin recently, but it looks like the Roku app is still a work in progress. Might look into contributing if it helps getting it up and running faster. I'd been looking at writing something from scratch to replace Plex, but this look like an easier route. Seems like as soon as some application does something well, the developers always feel the need to "pivot" and screw things up and start adding a bunch of garbage the original users didn't wan't.

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Journal Journal: 2018 - 20-ish years on Slashdot 4

It's been ~20 years that I've been on Slashdot, although the last five or so have been far less engaged than earlier. After 20 years, I'm the same in some ways, different in many, many more. Some worse, but most for the better, I think.

Which is how it should be.

Comment Re: Hello Wine (Score 2) 585

I've done native code on Windows in industrial safety and automation. You'd think that's an oxymoron, but it can be made sufficiently robust.

I've dealt with bugs in Microsoft's SDKs, and dealt with multiple generations of drawing APIs. Played WoW and other games on WINE on Gentoo. Watched the incessant scrolling of FIXMEs on the console.

I'd love it if I could get paid to hack on WINE...

Comment Doubtful (Score 5, Insightful) 230

There are two things I find unlikely about this story.

1. That Second Life is still a thing.
2. That these are actual Trump supporters.

It's just trolls getting a two-for-one deal. They get to disrupt the Bernie supporters while at the same time painting Trump supporters in a bad(worse?) light.

Comment Windows No Longer King at MS (Score 5, Interesting) 314

On mobile Microsoft has pretty much given up and support Android and iOS as well or better than Windows Mobile now now on the Server side we've already seen .Net moving fast to Linux and now the third biggest lock in application on Windows Server(AD and Exchange being bigger) is coming to Linux. With AD and Exchange being pushed more towards hosted services in the cloud, Windows' future doesn't look too bright there.

Comment No. It won't be (Score 1) 182

Chromebooks will stay with Atom. They're cheap, efficient enough for laptops, and perform well. Plus manufacturers can use the same base hardware for Chromebooks and cheap Windows laptops if they stick with Atom. The closest thing to "Year of ARM Laptop" will be the Surface clones running android Android.

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