Flatfire

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[–] Flatfire 15 points 3 months ago (6 children)

A government funded utility that utilizes regional GIS and aerial mapping would go a long way. Google's got the upper hand on directions and traffic reporting though, so that would take more time to make effective. A lot of that is genuinely due to the number of users that exist on the platform though. I think if you tried to implement similar location data analysis for government infrastructure, people would be up in arms at the idea, despite being perfectly happy to provide the same data to Google.

It's unfortunate that Google is as prevalent a default service as they are, but it's hard to ignore how good a service they offer, and how long the development period has been to get them there.

[–] Flatfire 4 points 3 months ago

I wonder if this is at all related to the EU changes to eBook DRM standards, where the standard Kindle Adobe DRM isn't compliant

[–] Flatfire 6 points 4 months ago

I use Wayland exclusively, but unfortunately I don't think I have an answer for you since I'm not entirely familiar with this idea. Is your concern just for the configuration of a universal set of hotkeys configured within the compositor rather than a desktop environment?

I wasn't aware that x11 facilitated this. I'd have figured keyboard mappings are abstracted from the compositor and left to the DE to handle, aside from core binds that allow dropping back to tty

[–] Flatfire 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bunchie, is that you?

[–] Flatfire 33 points 4 months ago

Bonus security because you're clearly developing for legacy code.

[–] Flatfire 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Simple solution there is requiring certification in Canada under Canadian supervision.

[–] Flatfire 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think the complaint is that it got linked in the linux community? Idk

[–] Flatfire 1 points 4 months ago

I suppose the organization I'm in never made use of those. Wasn't even aware that they offered an alternative to power automate as a means to integrate with MS software lol

[–] Flatfire 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You know, people gripe about it endlessly, but after they rewrote it to be more performant, most of my problems with it ended there. It's fine as a chat client. Calls work well, video hasn't been a problem, screen share quality is decent and you can even provide remote support through it in a pinch. It doesn't even consume 2GB+ of memory when sitting idle anymore.

As far as Electron apps go, Teams hasn't been terrible for a long time now.

[–] Flatfire 11 points 4 months ago

Jut to add, he was otherwise a part of OpenAI and contributed to their evolution until it threatened his own business model.

[–] Flatfire 10 points 4 months ago

Well this is... disappointing. I picked up an A1 at the end of last year because it "just works", and I was tired of fighting my Ender 3 instead of actually printing with it. I'm extraordinarily happy with the quality of the printer itself, but I'll be refraining from updating the firmware I guess, as I don't allow it to use cloud services, and it lives on my LAN as the only means of management.

[–] Flatfire 13 points 4 months ago

Except we do. Canada's military isn't large, but it's quite modern. We've been a significant part of training Ukraininian forces on how to use NATO equipment. I think you're a bit confused.

And while I don't agree with our participation, Canada hasn't been a peacekeeping corp in a long time either, having been a player in the war in Afghanistan and Syria. We've pretty consistently assisted American troops in these areas. Canada is a member of NATO, and a developer of arms and munitions as part of the indistrial military complex. We aren't reliant on an island across the ocean for our own protection.

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