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New comment by crwll in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

crwll — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:41:30 +0000

Garmin watches can start Spotify playback offline just fine. You need to have synced your playlist within last 30 days, IIRC, and that's it.

New comment by crwll in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

crwll — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:37:28 +0000

In my experience, fractional scaling and 4k support is finally fine on at least whatever GNOME and Wayland Ubuntu 20.04 ships with, with two major caveats:

* Chromium-based applications (the browser and Electron apps like VS Code) still don't know how to render themselves with fractional scaling and end up ever so slightly blurry (but correct sized) on fractionally scaled displays. Think like very old applications (like Control Panel) on Windows 10. I use Firefox so it doesn't bother me that much. There's a issue in Chromium bug tracker following this, but I can't find it right now.

* Screen sharing full screen or other windows than browser tabs doesn't work on Google Meet / MS Teams. This is and has been an issue in Wayland since forever.

New comment by crwll in "Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access (2015)"

crwll — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 06:44:36 +0000

Apple most definitely has no dominance for its smartphones anywhere. Even in US where it's larger than anywhere else, Apple's market share is much less than 50%.

New comment by crwll in "Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition"

crwll — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:09:49 +0000

In addition to nightly builds of TST, there's also an alternative called Tab Tree that works with 57 and is available right from the official Add-ons site:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-tree/

New comment by crwll in "Android N developer preview 2 is out"

crwll — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:39:20 +0000

The Verge isn't doing its research (as usual): The blob emojis are not going anywhere (it's just the "people" emoji that are being changed). See screenshots at http://www.droid-life.com/2016/04/13/whats-new-in-android-n-... for example.

New comment by crwll in "Facebook Messenger Platform"

crwll — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:09:39 +0000

I don't think any toilet built here in Finland since at least the 50's (some of those still exist, earlier I'm not sure of) have needed a plunger either, those things just work. The US plunger thing just baffles me. And banking too, sure.

New comment by crwll in "Being ‘wasted’ on Facebook may damage your credit score"

crwll — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 08:09:05 +0000

Why would you keep your FB posts public and not limited to your friends or to some subset of those (depending on what you are posting)?

Comments here seem to once again indicate as if everything posted to Facebook was automatically and irrevocably public. I don't really see that going on at least on my group of friends.

New comment by crwll in "Why Are People Still Playing Ultima Online?"

crwll — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 20:18:05 +0000

Agreed. What's even more staggering is that Ultima Underworld 1 was actually released before Wolfenstein 3D, the predecessor to Doom! (March vs May 1992). Doom only came out December 1993.

New comment by crwll in "Pebble Time review: an underdog among smartwatches"

crwll — Thu, 28 May 2015 08:11:15 +0000

> 3. The Fitbit HR (I wear it on my other wrist) is way better for telling time. I can hit the button and see the time faster than the 360 -- this has to change in some way for the 360 to be a smartWATCH.

This I find weird with both Moto 360 and Apple Watch - how can those be even considered as a useful watch if they don't show the time all the time? As a regular watch wearer I find it absolutely mandatory that the time can be seen always, even from small angles, without needing to touch the watch or do any wrist movements.

Any normal watch of course does this. Pebble, LG G Watch R and some other Android Wear watches do this.

New comment by crwll in "Firefox 38 released"

crwll — Tue, 12 May 2015 18:05:39 +0000

Flash existed for Symbian OS (think Nokia smartphones) way before there was iPhones, and those devices naturally had even lower hardware specs.

(I still agree that not supporting Flash was the correct choice for Apple, though.)

New comment by crwll in "Your wifi shows me where you live, work and travel"

crwll — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:28:53 +0000

You can also do this - cell tower location based WiFi enabling/disabling (and a lot of other stuff) - with the free Llama app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llam...

New comment by crwll in "Microsoft Band"

crwll — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:45:33 +0000

Did you read the linked product page? It specifically boasts sleep tracking and 24-hour heart rate tracking.

New comment by crwll in "Nexus 9"

crwll — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:50:08 +0000

They might well release a 64GB version later. They released a 32GB version of the N7 2012 some months after initial release and removed the 8GB version.

New comment by crwll in "JamVM – A compact Java Virtual Machine"

crwll — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:24:44 +0000

There is currently no released version of Android that uses ART out of the box. It's available behind the development options in KitKat and as default in the L developer preview, but that's it. The "optimizing applications" screen comes after system upgrades also with Dalvik.

New comment by crwll in "The Apple Watch"

crwll — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 06:50:18 +0000

Sony Smartwatch 3 has NFC (and GPS). Too bad it's rather ugly. AFAIK, it only currently uses NFC for pairing to a phone, but the hardware is there and Android Wear will hopefully soon include complete support for it, like they recently did with watch GPS support.

New comment by crwll in "iPhone 6"

crwll — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:49:38 +0000

Spotify is available in most of Europe and South America too. In fact US got it pretty late.

New comment by crwll in "Moto 360 review – Beautiful outside, ugly inside"

crwll — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:55:04 +0000

Not necessarily. Remember the huge problem with 2013 Nexus 7 having wifi and bluetooth on at same time? Many bluetooth keyboards and some other accessories just wouldn't work at all with wifi enabled. It was broken for the longest time. Looks like it still is not working properly for some users:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/ORce7P9...

New comment by crwll in "Netflix 4K streaming goes live but only on newest TVs"

crwll — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:04:33 +0000

I have a ~90" projector screen with a bit over 3 meters of viewing distance and I could definitely use larger resolution than 1080p. Also, many people have 120"+ screens (but my living room conditions don't currently allow for that).

I don't really know why everyone assumes that a large screen must be a TV. Projectors are really inexpensive compared to large televisions and allow for a LOT larger image sizes. Brightness and lamp life problems are also largely a thing of the past. I have a three and half year old ~900€ full HD projector (Benq W1000+) and would not even consider going back to a (relatively) tiny and expensive TV.

New comment by crwll in "Quake III bounty: we have a winner"

crwll — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:08:17 +0000

Doom (or Doom 2 which had basically the same engine with just bugfixes and support for Doom 2 entities) didn't actually need an FPU. Even 386DX's or 486SX's had no FPU so no games from the pre-1995 era really depended on it.

I remember Falcon 3.0 and perhaps some other simulation games having support for FPU for those few who had one however...

New comment by crwll in "Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007)"

crwll — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:58:00 +0000

Were they actually generally ever coupled in Europe in the first place? In Finland they weren't.