Lammy

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by Lammy 1y ago
Yep, last year's 64-bit update is a great example of something that unquestionably breaks the old system requirements: https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/April_18,_2024_Patch
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by Lammy 1y ago
I really love the lavender — VAIO-core! I do wish I could get the other modules in lavender too, but I understand why they wouldn't want to fractally-complicate their stock keeping for those items. > the Laptop 12 can only fit a sin
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by Lammy 1y ago
> Quality LEDs are quite nice indeed This is true but irrelevant when cost reduction is the motivating factor for switching to LED lighting, because that motivation will extend to the upfront purchase cost of the lamps and they will buy
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by Lammy 1y ago
https://youtu.be/mpNn1nht0_8?t=219
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by Lammy 1y ago
> the nature of open source development is inherently at odds with corporatism No, you're thinking of “Free Software” — “Open Source” was explicitly pro-corporate from the moment the term was coined. OSI themselves will tell you tha
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by Lammy 1y ago
Being a much more complicated format than JPEG (WebP is based on the VP8 video codec) invites a huge attack surface because it requires so much more code to support. On top of that, the fact that 99% of people (even Apple's ImageIO!) u
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by Lammy 1y ago
> I struggle to understand the justification for other lossy image formats as our networks continue to get faster. Because Google's PageSpeed and Lighthouse both tell people to use WebP, and a large percentage of devs will do anythi
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by Lammy 1y ago
> Xorg proper is now reverting a lot of their changes They're returning to a previous state which they believe possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary? Somebody should come up with a word for that.
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by Lammy 1y ago
Not Windows 11; the last five feature updates to Windows 10, versions v2004, 20H2, 21H1, 21H2, and 22H2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history#Ver... “Luckily” I already had a physical Windows 2019 S
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by Lammy 1y ago
> the old intel GPU drivers I'm using a Xeon E3-1270 v3 which doesn't have integrated graphics. I'm pretty sure I don't even have the Intel iGPU drivers installed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li
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by Lammy 1y ago
> Why is this e-waste when compared to old Mac laptops It might surprise you to learn that 90% of computers sold are not-Macs: https://canalys.com/newsroom/worldwide-pc-shipments-q1-2025#...
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by Lammy 1y ago
I've already been living this life for half a decade, since my PC's motherboard only supports up to Windows 10 v1909 for some reason. No idea why or what component could be the cause, but the later updates indeed fail to install a
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by Lammy 1y ago
> for me, when both Facebook and Google rejected Jabber/XMPP federation :( I agree with you in principle, but this is only half-true. You're right that Facebook's XMPP was always just a gateway into their proprietary messa
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by Lammy 1y ago
Hacker News Commenters tend to believe it's possible to generalize hundreds of millions of people at once after seeing maybe a few thousand of them.
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by Lammy 1y ago
Complete speculation: They might not have had it in the first place or might not have had legal license to modify it themselves. The About Box shown in the article implies Microsoft just licensed MathType from Design Sciences, Inc. DSI got
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by Lammy 1y ago
I'm selling OxyContin on my Palm Pixi / man, chicken sandwiches, they cost a clam fifty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GMavkkkFtQ
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by Lammy 1y ago
I used to do the MusicBrainz thing with Picard and later with Beets, but I got sick of Somebody Else's Metadata because of MusicBrainz's (former?) policy where everything must be Title Cased regardless of how it's presented o
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by Lammy 1y ago
Norbit review: it was absolutely awful lol
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by Lammy 1y ago
> There was also the uproar at Leopard’s […] glossy dock “Seriously, pseudo-3D? Really? If a compulsion for gaudiness must be quenched, at least try to confine such exercises to more obscure features. Don't scribble all over the sec
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by Lammy 1y ago
check 'em https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dubs-guy-check-em
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by Lammy 1y ago
Tragic life story w/r/t Eugene Landy, but some truly amazing music. I'm glad his career bounced back in recent decades and he was able to die widely-loved instead of in obscurity. I will watch Norbit (2007) tonight in his hon
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by Lammy 1y ago
> all the secureboot implementations I've seen allow you to either disable it or enroll your own keys Here you go — now you have. Thank ${DEITY} for exploits! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/SurfaceRT#Secure_Boot
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by Lammy 1y ago
I refuse to endorse any mindset where my Personal Computer unquestionably running my code could be considered a bad thing.
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by Lammy 1y ago
The images and video clips are stored for 30 days. The metadata (OCRed plate, and timestamp) are stored forever. Sorry I mean “ may be stored indefinitely”. Source: the privacy policy of the shopping mall near me, who installed these thing
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by Lammy 1y ago
The marketing text feels like it's trying way too hard, to the point that it makes me second-guess my positive first impression. I do think the UI looks cool, and I did like Aero Glass too, but having the headline straight-up tell me t
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by Lammy 1y ago
Hitachi's press release where Preinstalled BeOS was announced: https://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/E/1998/981111B.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40712847
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by Lammy 1y ago
> What this means for GitLab customers — [a bunch of stuff about how customers can now back up more frequently and more robustly] Realtalk: They should rewrite this post's headline to be in a positive tense instead of leading with a
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by Lammy 1y ago
Once it's normalized it's just one more step to block everything. No thanks.
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by Lammy 1y ago
GP is right that XMP-supporting FOSS software is heavily biased toward media-management software, especially for photos, and that there is a distinct lack of a good Free Software file manager that supports XMP generically: https:/&#x2
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by Lammy 1y ago
“My software of choice has not prioritized supporting the universal standard” != “There is no universal standard”

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