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glglwty commented on Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health care   economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/mastazi
GoOnThenDoTell · 3 years ago
Please no. They have too much info on everyone already
glglwty · 3 years ago
Which is exactly why they might be able to make healthcare cheaper.
glglwty commented on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent   twitter.com/senatecloakro... · Posted by u/enraged_camel
tempestn · 3 years ago
And why does that matter?
glglwty · 3 years ago
It makes sunrise and sunset symmetrical
glglwty commented on Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance   looking-glass.io/... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
gnif · 4 years ago
We have tried very hard to rectify this with the B4 release by adding a documentation project to the repository, which is available in HTML form here:

https://looking-glass.io/docs/stable/

glglwty · 4 years ago
Thank you! Although TBH linux gaming has been usable to the extent that I probably will never have to run windows ever again..
glglwty commented on Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as residents are pushed out   euronews.com/next/2021/07... · Posted by u/privateprofile
cletus · 4 years ago
A common quote on HN (and one that I firmly believe in) is:

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

This so applies to AirBnB. It's not salary per se but those that benefit by renting out units or those for whom this has saved them money I've found typically get so defensive about AirBnB to the point of calling detractors NIMBYists and the like.

I've long thought that AirBnB allows people to profit off something that others around them bear the negative externalities from but I think it's even worse than I would've pegged it. Clear negatives:

1. Reduces housing supply;

2. Creates safety problems;

3. Creates nuisance problems; and

4. Brings temporary residents into neighbourhoods that have no tie to that neighbourhood.

To be clear, I don't have a problem with people renting out rooms or an ADU on their property. Most cities don't either.

But AirBnB is clearly used to create illegal hotels and that's the problem.

glglwty · 4 years ago
Externalities caused by Airbnb opposers: 1. Block people's access to tourism 2. Worsen the economy by artificially cuts demand from supply 3. Hurt tourism workers including restaurants workers, etc 4. Create segregation which is partially what nativism is about 5. Hurt people who live there and love talking to travellers

If you don't want "other people" in your sight and zero nuisance, buy the entire street. Personal preference relying on inefficient resource allocation should be paid for.

glglwty commented on Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance   looking-glass.io/... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
COGlory · 4 years ago
If anyone is interested, the main developer, who goes by 'gnif' spends a decent amount of time on the dedicated Looking Glass sub-forum on the Level1Techs forum, here:

https://forum.level1techs.com/c/software/lookingglass/142

Level1Techs also has a ton of information and help both on the forum, and their YouTube channel, about setting up Looking Glass and VFIO. The main host of the YouTube channel, Wendell, has forgotten more about nitty-gritty system administration than I will likely ever know in my lifetime. He also just seems like a genuinely good human being.

glglwty · 4 years ago
I looked into this project (and related GPU pass through projects) a few years ago. Putting the discussion and even some issue tracking into a "support thread" in this forum makes getting information really difficult. It's the same experience when you want to install LinageOS and realize you have to go through a long thread on XDA and sometimes reddit to solve any issue you may have.
glglwty commented on Librem 5 Evergreen vs. PinePhone (Part 2)   thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2021/0... · Posted by u/ThatGeoGuy
glglwty · 4 years ago
I find it unsettling that people make purchase recommendations solely based on the merit of the phones given purism contributed more patches to the Linux phone ecosystem.

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glglwty commented on Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing   economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/furrowedbrow
lebuffon · 4 years ago
Observation

IMHO This: :-) is an emoji. These new-fangled things on our phones are tiny pictures. As pictures they communicate differently than ascii characters because they are a different medium.

But that horse has left the barn...

;-)

glglwty · 4 years ago
That is a 顔文字 not 絵文字
glglwty commented on iPad Pro M1   apple.com/newsroom/2021/0... · Posted by u/tosh
swiley · 4 years ago
This is something I've been saying: Try cloning and building even a moderate project from github on iSH on the latest iThing with Apple silicon and compare the same on a pinephone with a decade old budget SoC.

One will get painfully hot and visibly tick through a large fraction of the battery while not letting you look at anything else or look away from the screen without killing the 10s of minutes long operation while the other just does what you asked, does it quickly, and lets you do other things (on the phone or not) while it's working. And of course if there's something you don't like about the OS you can just change it on the phone. No need for some crazy setup process even to modify system software/configurations.

You might say it's not fair because iSH isn't running natively but it's your only choice on the iPhone.

EDIT: to be clear: even just running git clone on an iPhone in iSH can take upwards of 20 minutes and chew through ~20% of the battery on normal sized repos.

glglwty · 4 years ago
I own a pinkebook pro and it can't survive a kernel compilation (which is quite a normal thing to do for this device because it doesn't run on mainline kernel and requires patching) without dying from the battery drainage while plugged in.

u/glglwty

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