Sunspark

45 ms·

541.
by Sunspark 5y ago
They do? Ugh.. hopefully not continuous emitting of pulses.. I can hear some ultrasonics due to my cochlear implant, and it's been really annoying how these days Lutron is selling motion detectors that use both ultrasonics and IR. They
542.
by Sunspark 5y ago
An old font that is legible at small sizes is New Century Schoolbook (not the Microsoft MT version). I am talking for print and/or high-dpi phone screens. It has an old feel to it, but it really is quite surprisingly legible. For lo-dp
543.
by Sunspark 5y ago
For body text, I would say the 1st and 4th in the screenshot are the best ones. Which ones are they?
544.
by Sunspark 5y ago
HERE Maps is better than Organic Maps if you need routing.
545.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Lots of people have plenty of bandwidth. I certainly do. It's the service providers who refuse to send it. It's pretty pathetic, because if you obtain a 4k to 1080p re-encode from a third party, you will get a better picture quali
546.
by Sunspark 5y ago
doom9 has a lot of good discussion.
547.
by Sunspark 5y ago
As long as they don't take it as an excuse to reduce bitrates further. It's getting pretty bad these days with macro-blocking everywhere. This practice really took off when covid started. I actually cancelled Netflix because of it
548.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Fair, but in this case I think the tablet should be usable. Sure it's old and only a dual-core cpu, but checking the list of hardware accelerated qualcomm decoder codecs it supports, it lists: vc1, divx, divx311, divx4, avc, mpeg2, mpe
549.
by Sunspark 5y ago
What about all the older CPUs and GPUs out there that don't have hardware support for AV1?
550.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Why don't apps like this leverage gpu hardware acceleration? On my old tablet, Netflix runs a-ok, the media player has hardware acceleration and runs a-ok, but Amazon Prime stutters. I haven't checked it in years, so maybe it is b
551.
by Sunspark 5y ago
If security updates were truly that critical, Google would push a play services update that would immediately kill all Google service connectivity to underscore that a no-longer-supported device is forbidden to use and force everyone in poo
552.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Burkina Faso had a great man once, Thomas Sankara. He actually gave the country the name it has today. If you are interested, check out this collection of clips of him speaking and marvel at the contrast between him and what we have today:
553.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Don't you find the low-resolution and the low-contrast of the first generation panels annoying?
554.
by Sunspark 5y ago
It had a transflective LCD.
555.
by Sunspark 5y ago
I learned today that technically he died years ago. It's not that he was healthy and then today he passed away. Apparently he had a stroke years ago and couldn't walk, use the bathroom, eat, talk, etc. on his own.. everyone had to
556.
by Sunspark 5y ago
I still have a fleece top from 30 years ago and I still have boots from 35 years ago. I have a jacket that is probably close to 50 or more years ago. I have 1 suit, and it's probably also 30 years or more (I seldom wear it, it's b
557.
by Sunspark 5y ago
I have a CBD oil that has no THC in it. It is an acceptable compromise for when you wish to stay clear but still need some of the benefits.
558.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Check out HERE maps. Solid.
559.
by Sunspark 5y ago
I am affected by this. I am sorry to hear that Google is running low on cash to pay for the bandwidth consumed by my two-user email/calendar suite.
560.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Why do you want the source code open sourced? This product was last released 23 years ago. What would you gain today from having access to the source code?
561.
by Sunspark 5y ago
I think it depends on the company. Larger corporations like banks tend to have management types who are sociopaths or giant egos who only care about making themselves look good to their own boss. They expect their reports to work unpaid ove
562.
by Sunspark 5y ago
It's a lot of work. One guy pulled it off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
563.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Interesting article, and all this time I've been blaming the streaming services for their incompetence with transcoding making everything dull, muddy, washed out with the wrong gamma, etc. And it turns out it was actually the incompete
564.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Let me respond to this question with another question. Can you disprove the existence of space aliens? No, you cannot, because they are statistically possible. Are they plausible? That isn't what is being asked here, the plausibility,
565.
by Sunspark 5y ago
No, there isn't especially after 2 years. This does not however mean that in the absence of wet market evidence that the only possible answer is lab leak.
566.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Disprove it? No. We do innocent until proven guilty in our jurisprudence.
567.
by Sunspark 5y ago
It can be, only for Android.
568.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Jony Ive fancies himself a wizard of design. Well, he dropped the ball when he decided to go with white text on a light green background. This is called low-contrast visibility and reduces accessibility for those with visual impairments. Jo
569.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Bumble, what you want to do when dating.
570.
by Sunspark 5y ago
Too bad their streaming video platform uses low bitrates. So disgusting seeing big square macroblocks, esp.on dark scenes. Cancelled it months ago.

More ›