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4y ago
Numan Athletics was an arcade game that played up this angle: https://youtu.be/X2K3hs7AUhQ
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An EverDrive 64 sells for $100-200 and is often marked up to $300+ territory. The idea of a $10 EverDrive is really exciting.
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Surely we could do better by hosting something in orbit. I found an interesting case: the USS (Unix-Space-Server) Langley, launched in 2015: https://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/uss-langley/
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4y ago
Payment via an insurance policy is more typical in these cases.
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>There are many things my 2010 era Core2Duo running Ubuntu 10.04 can do that my fancy new Ryzen desktop with Debian 11 can't and won't ever be able to do. Things I cannot give up because they're too important for my daily
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> Would it be possible to remove the battery and run them entirely on AC power? Unfortunately, it seems this is not possible. https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/316746/Will+this+phone+t...
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4y ago
Plenty of end of life uses work just fine living off of a charger. For instance, setting up an old iPad or iPhone as a home hub ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207057 ) requires the device stay plugged in already. I
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Now that we have validation that Apple is sticking with a numeric naming convention, I wonder how they will handle the upcoming naming clash with the M7 through M12 motion coprocessors used in the A-series chips.
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4y ago
Although it is primarily designed and labeled as an export mechanism, I can verify that it does work as a backup mechanism. I regularly use it to sync up new 2FA accounts to a backup phone. Simply choose to keep the accounts after exporting
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4y ago
Among other things, hard drive labeled capacities are noteworthy for using the decimal definitions.
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5y ago
While often related, refresh rate is not inherently tied to blurriness. High resolutions improve sharpness while ULMB, Lightboost, or even using a CRT can reduce ghosting to improve motion clarity. High refresh rates primarily help with per
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5y ago
The Digispark[1] and its clones use the ATTINY85 and offer flashing over USB via the Micronucleus bootloader[2] using V-USB[3]. It comes at the cost of a significant chunk of flash storage, but the convenience is excellent. Plus, V-USB supp
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Up to 2315 https://polydle.github.io/
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> I suppose the real problem is that it's too difficult to provide appropriately-sized images for different user agents. I use a <picture> element with multiple versions as a <source>. This allows the browser to choose w
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Also worth looking at is the DOJ antitrust complaint filed against Google in 2020: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7273457/10-20-20-US-v... It makes a similar set of complaints for the same practices and, i
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It’s not an especially fair case, but I was surprised at how poorly VSCode ran on a Raspberry Pi 3 when I tried it awhile back. Running it with a remote connection to a beefier machine would make for an amazing thin client.
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5y ago
It could get tedious depending on how many sites you want to block, but you can add "-site:google.com" to exclude google.com, for instance.
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Sometimes I go into deep-dives to try to find some truth to a contentious issue. I think it’s important not to take the easy path; certainly not if you want a well-learned opinion. Any sense of superiority this gives me is dashed when I rea
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Constant FPS mode will make a big difference here. More details: https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/360045797752-Re...
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If you like this brand of wonderful nonsense, you should check out his other videos. He usually posts a video on at least one wacky idea each year, then publishes a research paper about it at SIGBOVIK[0], a joke computer science conference
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It’s an old article, but it’s laid out nicely here: https://www.macworld.com/article/1152935/jailbreak_exemption... Essentially, bypassing DRM is a violation of the DCMA unless it has received an exemption from th
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It’s a good read. Here’s a link to the write up: https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=28.%20pokewalker
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There was a recent paper published at ACM CCS 2020 that attempts to identify malicious changes to extension updates. Might be worth a read. You’ve Changed: Detecting Malicious Browser Extensions through their Update Deltas https:/
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But they do a great deal of backporting anyway. Enterprise and Education users can run a slow path that gets bug fixes and security updates only, for feature updates as far as 30 months back. This is not offered for any other editions of Wi
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Modern CPUs like these are shared memory multiprocessors. Programs on these CPUs are often designed to run on multiple cores at the same time to improve performance, necessitating communication between cores, to coordinate and share work be
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The difference is that a movie streaming app streams fixed content while game streaming essentially streams arbitrary apps, albeit limited to gaming in this situation. From Apple's perspective, this sort of precedent could lead to enti
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Are they accomplishing anything that couldn't and isn't already done well be an NVMe M.2 connector? All that comes to my mind is a miniscule space savings.
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$19: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHJA3AM/A/20w-usb-c-power...
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Strange that that's an option. Looks like some sort of legacy option so Unreal Engine devs don't have to deal with the store. Image of the option: https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/epic-games-store-c73
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If it helps, all of them are "by Instagram" or in some way complementary to Instagram. None of the top results are impersonating Instagram.
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