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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
And the download takes days, as it comes from China and they are swamped with the new release out.
No, there is a Google Drive download of the ISO so it is pretty fast in 10-15 mins tops.
Where is there a link to that? From their site, the download link is 2-3 days
https://www.deepin.org/en/download/
Link below
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WnKiU-9HNq-WGxJHu6OVqEQuvRRt5gx3
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Interesting.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Interesting.
Also there are few US based Mirrors
https://www.deepin.org/en/mirrors/releases/There are instructions to setup your own mirror as below:
How to provide a mirror:
Synchronization command Space needed
rsync -av –delete-after rsync.deepin.com::deepin/ /var/www/deepin/275GB
rsync -av –delete-after rsync.deepin.com::releases/ /var/www/deepin-cd/50GB
※Note:
You can move the /var/www/ path in the above addresses to the server root directory;
Please add a cron job running every day, so as to keep deepin mirror you provided in the newest available state over a long period of time ;
We suggest you synchronize deepin package repository first, and then synchronize deepin ISO repository;
Please do not save other files in the directories related to deepin mirrors (such as unofficial packages) to avoid misunderstanding;
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@danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Linux blamed for shitty developer work from hardware manufacturers
Is what the article title should be.
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oh look, the issue is basically all about Lenovo. Anything that corrupts a Lenovo is good in my book.
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Apple Admits to slowing down older iPhones.
http://fox6now.com/2017/12/21/apple-admits-it-slows-down-older-iphones-to-prevent-battery-issues/
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@brianlittlejohn said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple Admits to slowing down older iPhones.
http://fox6now.com/2017/12/21/apple-admits-it-slows-down-older-iphones-to-prevent-battery-issues/
Not the worst reasoning for doing it, but my word they screwed the pooch in communicating this one. They spent years denying that they did it at all.
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@aidan_walsh said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@brianlittlejohn said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple Admits to slowing down older iPhones.
http://fox6now.com/2017/12/21/apple-admits-it-slows-down-older-iphones-to-prevent-battery-issues/
Not the worst reasoning for doing it, but my word they screwed the pooch in communicating this one. They spent years denying that they did it at all.
It is never the actual incident that is the worst, it is always the cover up.
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@brianlittlejohn said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple Admits to slowing down older iPhones.
http://fox6now.com/2017/12/21/apple-admits-it-slows-down-older-iphones-to-prevent-battery-issues/
In the end, the issue has more to do with battery technology than iPhone technology, according to the company.
This is like the Apple Laptops that completely flake out when their batteries die - the integration that Apple does at that level is both amazing and crazy.
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The GUI on Apple devices is just horrid. I had to do some things to one a few days ago or so and I just couldn't. I ended up going to CLI and thankfully a lot of Linux commands work on it.
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The GUI on Apple devices is just horrid. I had to do some things to one a few days ago or so and I just couldn't. I ended up going to CLI and thankfully a lot of Linux commands work on it.
OMG yeah, their Mac OSX interface is so painful if you haven't memorized how everything works and where it is. It's the ultimate "experts interface".
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The GUI on Apple devices is just horrid. I had to do some things to one a few days ago or so and I just couldn't. I ended up going to CLI and thankfully a lot of Linux commands work on it.
OMG yeah, their Mac OSX interface is so painful if you haven't memorized how everything works and where it is. It's the ultimate "experts interface".
Yeah exactly. It took me way too long to even find the terminal. None of it makes any logical sense.
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The GUI on Apple devices is just horrid. I had to do some things to one a few days ago or so and I just couldn't. I ended up going to CLI and thankfully a lot of Linux commands work on it.
OMG yeah, their Mac OSX interface is so painful if you haven't memorized how everything works and where it is. It's the ultimate "experts interface".
Yeah exactly. It took me way too long to even find the terminal. None of it makes any logical sense.
Pressing the
command key + spacebarand typeterminalis too difficult? -
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The GUI on Apple devices is just horrid. I had to do some things to one a few days ago or so and I just couldn't. I ended up going to CLI and thankfully a lot of Linux commands work on it.
OMG yeah, their Mac OSX interface is so painful if you haven't memorized how everything works and where it is. It's the ultimate "experts interface".
Yeah exactly. It took me way too long to even find the terminal. None of it makes any logical sense.
Pressing the
command key + spacebarand typeterminalis too difficult?Nothing is difficult once you know about or know how to do something.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The GUI on Apple devices is just horrid. I had to do some things to one a few days ago or so and I just couldn't. I ended up going to CLI and thankfully a lot of Linux commands work on it.
OMG yeah, their Mac OSX interface is so painful if you haven't memorized how everything works and where it is. It's the ultimate "experts interface".
Yeah exactly. It took me way too long to even find the terminal. None of it makes any logical sense.
Pressing the
command key + spacebarand typeterminalis too difficult?But that's not GUI related anyways...
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The GUI on Apple devices is just horrid. I had to do some things to one a few days ago or so and I just couldn't. I ended up going to CLI and thankfully a lot of Linux commands work on it.
OMG yeah, their Mac OSX interface is so painful if you haven't memorized how everything works and where it is. It's the ultimate "experts interface".
Yeah exactly. It took me way too long to even find the terminal. None of it makes any logical sense.
Pressing the
command key + spacebarand typeterminalis too difficult?But that's not GUI related anyways...
Oh, so you are talking about actually navigating using a mouse/touchpad?
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The GUI on Apple devices is just horrid. I had to do some things to one a few days ago or so and I just couldn't. I ended up going to CLI and thankfully a lot of Linux commands work on it.
OMG yeah, their Mac OSX interface is so painful if you haven't memorized how everything works and where it is. It's the ultimate "experts interface".
Yeah exactly. It took me way too long to even find the terminal. None of it makes any logical sense.
Pressing the
command key + spacebarand typeterminalis too difficult?Yes - because you have to learn or read about that option. It should be easy to find in the GUI.
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The GUI on Apple devices is just horrid. I had to do some things to one a few days ago or so and I just couldn't. I ended up going to CLI and thankfully a lot of Linux commands work on it.
OMG yeah, their Mac OSX interface is so painful if you haven't memorized how everything works and where it is. It's the ultimate "experts interface".
Yeah exactly. It took me way too long to even find the terminal. None of it makes any logical sense.
I have thought that for years.
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@brianlittlejohn said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple Admits to slowing down older iPhones.
http://fox6now.com/2017/12/21/apple-admits-it-slows-down-older-iphones-to-prevent-battery-issues/Paul Thurrott wrote about this behind his paywall today.
“I did some research, and decided to replace my battery,” he explained. Wear level was somewhere around 20% on my old battery. I did a Geekbench score, and found I was getting 1466 Single and 2512 Multi. This did not change wether I had low power mode on or off. After changing my battery, I did another test to check if it was just a placebo. Nope. 2526 Single and 4456 Multi. From what I can tell, Apple slows down phones when their battery gets too low, so you can still have a full days charge. This also means your phone might be very slow for no discernible reason.”
Put simply, as your iPhone ages, the battery becomes less efficient. So Apple is choosing to artificially keep the battery at roughly the same daily duration—calling iPhone battery life “all-day” is ludicrous, but whatever—over time. But in doing this, in harms the performance of the device. In other words, over time, your iPhone gets slower and slower.
So apple is choosing all day battery life over performance - /sigh.
