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Suspicious Dish posted:What browser are you using, and are there any errors in the error console? firefox 37 on linux, and no, error console's blank
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Subjunctive posted:yeah, the "family has a lovely cell phone" set, not the "suzanne somers on late night TV" set. should hook em up with the Internet.org dudes
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Apr 11, 2015 15:00
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Malcolm XML posted:should hook em up with the Internet.org dudes oh yeah, duh
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Apr 11, 2015 15:20
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Lysidas posted:firefox 37 on linux, and no, error console's blank do you have javascript off
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Apr 11, 2015 18:28
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yeah
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Apr 13, 2015 01:52
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That would be why. The third-party contractor built the site in AngularJS to handle translations depending on your browser's language (I don't know why), so it requires JavaScript. I could rewrite it, but we have a new site launching at midnight on Tuesday, so it's not worth it.
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Apr 13, 2015 01:53
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cool i look forward to being able to look at the stuff youre working on 
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Apr 13, 2015 01:57
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Susp dish, can you reveal anything about the ARM variant of endless? I also didn't see any vids of the OS in use. Still want to know more.
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Apr 14, 2015 12:28
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 nice, gnome3 with a taskbar
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Apr 14, 2015 13:07
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381437927/endless-computers the kickstarter video has some video of the OS in use - looks nice edit "our first prototype ran on andriod - it was terrible" lol cowboy beepboop fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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Apr 14, 2015 13:09
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my stepdads beer posted:
so they turned ubuntu into android and put it on a buttplug/ufo hybrid that's cool i guess
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Apr 14, 2015 13:13
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my stepdads beer posted:
~endless fields of grain~
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Apr 14, 2015 13:35
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Symbolic Butt posted:I can see it now! minicomputers are several times larger than these things
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Apr 14, 2015 13:39
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there's a typo on the first line of the 500 gig model description Intel® Bay Trai-Ml N2807 chipset
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Apr 14, 2015 14:39
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i don't think endless is going to succeed but i really want them toSymbolic Butt posted:sure hope your company's minicomputer things take over the cheap laptops that barely works because it contains lovely code written by an rear end in a top hat who can hardly understand linux drivers this is exactly why i want them to succeed
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Apr 14, 2015 14:52
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Suspicious Dish posted:That would be why. The third-party contractor built the site in AngularJS to handle translations depending on your browser's language (I don't know why), so it requires JavaScript. doing the translation layer in js makes a lot of sense and it is a trend i really like your developers and designers can make changes as they see fit without waiting on your third party translators. users who reach a recently changed page get something that's 90% in their native language with just the recent changes in english at some point, the third party translator catches up and everything is back to 100%
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Apr 14, 2015 14:54
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I can't say anything about the ARM variant of Endless, other than what's on our GitHub page: https://github.com/endlessm/linux-meson Also, our code is open-source now: https://github.com/endlessm/eos-desktop
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Apr 14, 2015 15:17
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Also, if anybody has any other questions, feel free to ask. I'm basically on question duty the entire week.
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Suspicious Dish posted:Also, if anybody has any other questions, feel free to ask. I'm basically on question duty the entire week. why is it a desktop and not a netbook? what is it good for without internet access? i'm not being snarky, i really want to know what the intended purpose is why did the intel version come out first, and why bother with an ARM model? how have you not fired your marketing person? your firm's marketing literature literally uses the word "cheap" to describe the product, an inch away from "elegant." (guess which word will stick with the reader)
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:why is it a desktop and not a netbook? Laptops / netbooks didn't do well in R&D and user testing. Crappy keyboards / touchpads / screens meant the computers felt much harder to use for the experienced user, even with the same OS. Users told us they would use it plugged into a wall anyway. They don't have a no reason to carry a laptop around. Notorious b.s.d. posted:what is it good for without internet access? i'm not being snarky, i really want to know what the intended purpose is It comes preloaded with tons of apps that have content from Wikipedia and WikiHow, for education, games and other things. There's plenty more coming with that plan ("offline internet"), but I can't talk about it quite yet. Notorious b.s.d. posted:why did the intel version come out first Ease of manufacturing, and it takes less R&D. Notorious b.s.d. posted:and why bother with an ARM model? Price. Notorious b.s.d. posted:how have you not fired your marketing person? your firm's marketing literature literally uses the word "cheap" to describe the product, an inch away from "elegant." (guess which word will stick with the reader) The entire team has been working on this copy for two weeks, me included. There's bound to be plenty of mistakes that sometimes slip through. We're hoping to let it get across that it's quite inexpensive at $169, but it's a luxurious computer, it's not OLPC in quality.
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Apr 14, 2015 16:01
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does the non-wifi unit just have an unpopulated mini-pcie slot or is the wireless gear actually soldered onto the board in the higher-end models?
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Apr 14, 2015 16:07
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The antenna slot is just unpopulated. It actually really is $20 on the BOM, which is why we offer a version without it.
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Apr 14, 2015 16:09
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suspicious dish, your answers actually made sense. thanks for bothering i hope this poo poo takes off
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Apr 14, 2015 16:12
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I'm trying to be open and honest about everything, because I love my job and I care (if you couldn't tell from the two shots they used of me in the video). Also, I'm also answering Kickstarter questions, and am set up to answer HN / reddit / whatever else questions when they come in, so why not here?
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Apr 14, 2015 16:21
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:how have you not fired your marketing person? your firm's marketing literature literally uses the word "cheap" to describe the product, an inch away from "elegant." (guess which word will stick with the reader) From our marketing person: "The website actually says: Plastic, packaging and pixels are cheap. I need more context for this comment to answer"
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Apr 14, 2015 16:40
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tell him the context is "a shitposting computer forum on a comedy website"
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Apr 14, 2015 16:44
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Suspicious Dish posted:" I need more context for this comment to answer"
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Apr 14, 2015 16:50
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Suspicious Dish posted:From our marketing person: "The website actually says: Plastic, packaging and pixels are cheap. I need more context for this comment to answer" you're tying "cheap" into the identity of the product . the product is made of plastic, packaging, and pixels. and that composition is "cheap." "cheap" is a word meaning both inexpensive and poor quality, in combination. it carries a negative connotation in all but the most informal contexts your advertising is too formal to joke about "cheap"
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Apr 14, 2015 16:53
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is this an english as a second language thing? maybe the spanish-language ad copy is less hosed
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Apr 14, 2015 16:56
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Can I buy one of these things and have it sent to my decadent northern European socialist paradise? It sounds like something I would want to play with (and the money would go to something good, so I would not mind paying a premium).
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Apr 14, 2015 18:00
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Athas posted:Can I buy one of these things and have it sent to my decadent northern European socialist paradise? It sounds like something I would want to play with (and the money would go to something good, so I would not mind paying a premium). Yep. We're willing to ship anywhere, but it might cost more.
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Apr 14, 2015 18:01
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Did I seriously just see Tuxracer in the video on the Kickstarter page?
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Apr 14, 2015 18:03
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Yep. It's our most popular games from Analytics data.
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Apr 14, 2015 18:09
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tux racer is actually a good and fun game i'm not kidding at all
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Apr 14, 2015 18:11
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Or is that Tuxkart?
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Apr 14, 2015 18:13
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TuxRacer is the game where you go down a slalom. Super Tux Kart is the Mario Kart clone. Super Tux Kart is the good game and it's the one that's in the video.
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Apr 14, 2015 18:17
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what are the chances of having a tv if you dont have a computer?
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Apr 14, 2015 18:26
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Maximum Leader posted:what are the chances of having a tv if you dont have a computer? Crazy high.
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Apr 14, 2015 18:29
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Maximum Leader posted:what are the chances of having a tv if you dont have a computer? Everybody in our market has a TV or knows a neighbor with a TV they can borrow.
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