I dreamt of trying to leave a building after work and ending up at a tea shop in the fourth floor and being mistaken for a woman named Dunja who was supposed to deliver new tea. I apologised and told them I was just passing through, on my way home. So I went out the back door, but that wasn’t the way out. So I came back, asked them for the way out and they indicated it would be the same way I came in. A group of people was trying to get out as well, so I followed them. But they ended up taking the wrong door, so they went back to the tea shop to take the right door.

When I arrived at the tea shop a third time I introduced myself as Dunja and said I’d like to drink some tea. They told me to take a seat next to the panda, that should be good for me. I said it would be perfect and fitting and woke up.

I loved my N95. It showed what an oldschool smartphone could look like.

Until the N900 came along and defined for me what a modern smartphone should look like. Thus killing my enthusiasm for all future Android phones.

But the N95 was sturdier. I still have it in my backpack as a backup phone.

Meh, the Sailfish guys made the same mistake that Nokia made in not open sourcing their work. That has kept me away from them so far.

Then again their company is still in business so maybe it wasn’t such a bad move after all.

I’m reminded of when my boss asked me whether our entry test was too hard after getting several submissions that wouldn’t even run.

Sometimes prospective employees are just shit.

Faster? Gotta set up the lighting, choose the correct lens and angle, prepare and pose the subject.

I was thinking of peeing.

But they do sometimes poop before birth. Then the amniotic fluid turns green. It can be dangerous but usually isn’t.

They do that. The first one or two baby shits after birth are black and almost completely odourless.

That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Linux Terminal

NixOS: Always installing exactly the same bloatware.

“Despite”?

1 out of 3 are actually a myriad of Indian engineers?

Good luck achieving that compression without the bag.

GPS and similar systems are just big atomic clocks flying around the earth, shouting their time down to earth. A GPS (or other) device just needs to know the current time and the position of the satellites to calculate its own position.

The most control the US ever exercised over GPS was to encrypt the more precise parts of the satellite’s timestamps so that only military devices could get really precise positions. They stopped doing that when other systems went online. That was for the whole world, including its own citizens.

China’s system can’t be used for spying. It’s as passive as GPS. These things are harmless. No amount of control can be enacted through them.

It’s close enough for a doodle.

It’s stupid to not just use all the available systems. Don’t just support Beidou. Use Beidou, Galileo (European), GLONASS (Russia) and GPS. Makes lock on faster, increases precision and helps if one doesn’t work for whatever reason.

The US cannot just shutdown Iran’s usage. That would impact all other countries as well. GPS consists of only about 30 satellites for the whole world. Starlink satellites are much much lower and can thus be more easily associated with one country.

Maybe because Arch uses GNU tools (like most other Linux distributions).

How TF can you shut down GPS for just a country? That’s not how it works. And the US doesn’t get paid or sees your position or anything when you use their GPS. It’s an entirely passive system.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is pretty much like Arch with more graphical tools and more QA. And if you want to have it a little bit more stable like Debian you use OpenSUSE Leap.