Comment They're making it hard to love it (Score 1) 140

by jlherren on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:31PM (#61870253) Attached to: Firefox Now Shows Ads As Sponsored Address Bar Suggestions

Really, I'd like to love Firefox, but it's so hard. It's slow, lagging behind and quite frankly it's fugly. Yet I consider it to be so important for diversity.

Comment Not that bad... (Score 1) 269

by jlherren on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:13PM (#60834000) Attached to: 'Google is Getting Left Behind Due To Horrible UI/UX'

I agree with some of it (Google Analytics is hell), but seriously, Gmail is not "worse than anything else out there". It really really isn't. I took this seriously for a second, but then the complete exaggerations started...

Comment Numberphile (Score 5, Informative) 31

by jlherren on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:40PM (#60477288) Attached to: Mathematicians Finally Answer 2,000-Year-Old Question About Dodecahedrons

Numberphile video on the subject that explains it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment "âOEApp StoreâOE" (Score 1) 267

by jlherren on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:42PM (#60411587) Attached to: Apple Threatens To Terminate Epic Games' Developer Accounts on August 28

Please, do a little bit more than just the minimum amount of effort.

Comment Not enough for Win10 indeed (Score 1) 200

by jlherren on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:25AM (#60211864) Attached to: Reporter Tests Walmart's $140 Laptop 'So You Wouldn't Have To'

I bought an ASUS netbook with 2GB RAM and 32 GB SSD a few years ago. I can confirm that it's not enough even for Windows 10 alone which will fail to do any major updates because there's just not enough disk space. The trick with the external USB drive for temporary space failed spectacularly and I was unable to salvage the windows installation. Since then I run it with Debian and that is very okay with the disk space. Only the 2GB RAM are sometimes a bit annoying. $140 for a netbook is quite a good deal if you are willing to run Linux.

Comment Drugs? (Score 2) 107

by jlherren on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:33AM (#59483462) Attached to: Brother of Drug Lord Pablo Escobar Launches 'Unbreakable' Foldable Smartphone

Nothing about this news is about drugs, why does it need to be mentioned three whole freaking times? One time even prominently in the title. Imagine you invent something great and new only to be introduced as "Roberto Escobar, brother of the late drug lord".

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 11

by jlherren on Thursday October 08, 2009 @10:04AM (#29680605) Attached to: Microsoft leaks details of 128-bit Windows 8

Why are we talking about data busses? This is about the processor, isn't it? Or am I mistaken that the size of CPU registers is not necessarily related to data bus width?

Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support 425

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 05, 2009 @06:39PM from the types-like-this-kept-me-out-of-good-schools dept.

mu22le writes "Today Debian gets one step closer to really becoming 'the universal operating system' by adding two architectures based on the FreeBSD kernel to the unstable archive. This does not mean that the Debian project is ditching the Linux kernel; Debian users will be able to choose which kernel they want to install (at least on on the i386 and amd64 architectures) and get more or less the same Debian operating system they are used to. This makes Debian the first distribution, and probably the first large OS, to support two completely different kernels at the same time."

Comment SImple: No need to (Score 1) 616

by jlherren on Friday July 18, 2008 @10:37AM (#24242153) Attached to: Warning Future Generations About Nuclear Waste

Does anyone seriously believe that this nuclear waste will still be around in 10'000 years? Or even 1'000 years? It wouldn't even surprise me if that problem is gone already in 100 years or even less. If you look at the development of science in the past 100 years, I am really very confident that in 100 years, we will have tons of fancy uses for that nuclear waste; and if we don't, we'll have tons of fancy ways to make it harmless or to get rid of it. It's also a mistake to believe that any human can make any useful thoughts about the future civilisation of in 10'000 years. Don't bother trying, you're not that smart, sorry. The future is more than capable of handling this.