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QNX becomes free for non-commercial use, releases Raspberry Pi 4 image

A long, long time ago, back when running BeOS has my main operating system had finally become impossible, I had a short stint running QNX as my one and only operating system. In 2004, before I joined OSNews and became its managing editor, I also wrote and published an article about QNX on OSNews, whic

osnews.com/story/141089/qnx-be

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@kravietz
Why would a UK news media do that? Don't they use metric units themselves? 😂

@romin
magick convert — their designated replacement for it, works fine for me 🤷

@theorytoe
Oh, I didn't mean to offend — it's actually quite an accomplishment: getting to floor 7 evading most of the fights, I only remember doing this playing as wizard and using a wand of digging on the floor below me — it makes a hole that spans over multiple levels if you do it like this.

@miffyoh
А что если правда? И каждое покушение было успешным, а они просто выпускали нового клона😮

@neural_meduza

@SuperDicq @kaia
The microwave oven I have now is nearly perfect — that wattage wheel labeled with just roman numbers might seem a bit confusing and it actually only goes up to 800, which might be a problem for some, but I mostly use it for reheating, so I'm fine with it. Otherwise I like it very much: just two controls, both rotary and no extra buttons, especially if the "touch" kind.

@menherahair @nyanide
Muad'Stdlib — to make it sound fscked up on even more levels 😅

@scarlett7447
Are all 4 gigs usable though? I might be wrong, but I think Intel chipsets of the time only allowed you to use 3 — it was indeed 4 in "About this Mac", but in top/System Monitor you could see that system could only address 3 gigabytes.

@splitshockvirus @gabriel
> Go follow him
You cannot order me around, you're not my mother! 😭
(Not that it would make it okay for my mother to order me around and of course I'm already following him 😁)

@Hyolobrika
I haven't tried GNOME (or any full DE) in a while — they might be all awful to me at this point 😂 I want just the basic window management: be it dwm or sway, and I want to map shortcuts to launch the software I want. I already rely on some GTK-based software so I have the libraries installed, GNOME software isn't something deeply integrated — in most cases it's just something GTK-based — already having those libraries makes me fine with it.
@admitsWrongIfProven

@admitsWrongIfProven
Single-user instance is low-maintenance, I'm fine with self-hosting, but I'm currently at the crossroads: either I keep paying Proton to host my e-mail or find a VPS and switch to hosting it myself, if I go for the later — I might host Plemora there as well and stop worrying about my hardware not being powerful enough or burning through the power bill too fast. If I go for the former… I'm keeping qoto in mind, thanks!
@Hyolobrika

@Hyolobrika
There are known exceptions… such as the Web (which is complicated… but interesting because it's an exemplar case of regulatory capture), but unification (uniformication? is that even a word) is inferior to standardisation — as it enables evil in order to poke us in the back to take over only one team.
@admitsWrongIfProven

@admitsWrongIfProven @Hyolobrika
Sometimes I grow tired of splitting my posts into multiple parts and think of finding an instance that won't make me do that or of adding a visible character count for the input field in Bloat, which would at least make the task easier… But then I wake up 🤪

@admitsWrongIfProven
I have once made a template for gnome-feeds — an RSS reader, but it was in Vala and in the next version the *syntax* of Vala changed and it required Vala itself to be updated — my god, more patching! Eventually someone added it to upstream void-packages and it's no longer a problem, but that gave me a taste of what GNOME software can be. The RSS reader isn't even that good ­— uses tons of RAM, so I no longer use it 😂
@Hyolobrika

@admitsWrongIfProven
Unlike Qt, which is a monolithic behemoth, software being GNOME usually doesn't mean a thing — it's not even that tightly integrated, it just means that UI is GTK-based, maybe with a few additional minor dependencies, which is fine by me. Again, that might turn out to not be true — there is software built in Vala.
@Hyolobrika

@admitsWrongIfProven
Most of my computers use Void and the system is very minimal and I do my best to avoid getting Qt installed — my distaste for which comes back from the days when Qt software in general was more bloated and slow, I know that in comparison it might no longer be true, but it's a matter of habit.
@Hyolobrika

@Hyolobrika
I'd choose that over any Qt software — to avoid building Qt, but damn… Flatpak? WTF that is?! How am I supposed to use that, why can't I just build it?
It's one of those moments: "Installation: just use our prebuilt container",— a container, how do I run that on my weird system, why can't I just build it and run in my system natively? 🤪

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