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by Zak 9mo ago
Game studios care about selling games. If 3% of gamers game on Linux, game studios don't have to care much about it. If 30% game on Linux, they do have to care.
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by Zak 9mo ago
The fundamental mechanism seems to be that light mode causes pupils to contract by exposing the eye to more light. This decreases spherical aberration and increases depth of field just as using as smaller aperture on a camera lens does. Sta
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by Zak 9mo ago
So far I've found Firefox reader mode does what this aims to sufficiently well if I plan to read the page online, and saving a minimal version to Joplin works if I want it offline.
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by Zak 9mo ago
That more or less matches my experience. A quality PC with NT5+ preloaded and not too much bundled crapware would mostly just work when it was fresh, but it would not be working well a year later if not maintained by someone with a modicum
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by Zak 9mo ago
The idea that Windows "just works" is pretty recent. 20 years ago, any time I visited a relative who had a Windows PC, I was installing Firefox, fixing a driver, and removing spyware, if not outright malware. Either you were a pow
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by Zak 9mo ago
One study tested whether using TikTok/Reels/Shorts in the typical way, skipping videos any time the user wants has a short-term impact on prospective memory. The result was that there is a significant negative impact immediately a
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by Zak 9mo ago
Putting vitamin E acetate into vape liquid appears to be extremely hazardous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_vaping_lung_...
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by Zak 9mo ago
Fall fatalities for people 25-34 are likely related to working at height or recreational climbing, during which the victim is less likely to be using electronic devices.
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by Zak 9mo ago
Thanks for the additional detail. Do those apps actually give them advantages, or are they scams/malware? I wasn't asking about sideloading apps though. I was asking about modified operating systems like LineageOS and GrapheneOS,
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by Zak 9mo ago
I dislike Gnome on a pure desktop or non-touch laptop, in part because of UI decisions I think are meant to work better on a touchscreen. It's really good on a touchscreen though aside from the horrid onscreen keyboard.
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by Zak 9mo ago
It's a weird trait of our current economic structure that "we made a lot of money and we expect that to continue" could be seen as anything but great news from a company.
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by Zak 9mo ago
Windows has its own sharp edges, such as the crashes the author of this article experienced. It's hard to evaluate fairly. This author, for example is fed up with specific issues on Windows and new to Linux. He is likely be more forgiv
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by Zak 9mo ago
Tricking someone into installing a malicious app usually doesn't involve them having a third-party or modified operating system on their phone. I'm asking about that because I believe it's a hypothetical risk rather than a pr
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by Zak 9mo ago
Play Integrity and Play Services are two different things. Play Integrity is a remote attestation scheme by which apps can ask the OS to prove to a remote server that it is unmodified. It allows apps to refuse to run on devices with root or
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by Zak 9mo ago
There are several SMS clients on F-Droid.
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by Zak 9mo ago
Can you share what limits they did and did not impose?
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by Zak 9mo ago
You can have integrity checks that allow the user to choose which signing keys to trust. Some PCs with secure boot, and some phones such as Pixel devices support this. GrapheneOS uses it. In those systems, it won't boot without a good
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by Zak 9mo ago
I understand (but vehemently oppose) the argument for root detection. What risks to banks see from having developer settings enabled?
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by Zak 9mo ago
I'd be really interested to know whether a significant amount of fraud and fraud attempts involve devices with root or non-stock operating systems. This has always struck me as a matter of checkbox compliance rather than a commonly-exp
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by Zak 9mo ago
I'm not sure there's a lot of improvement possible purely in software with a contrast detect system and an old processor.
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by Zak 9mo ago
I'm sure a number of things are terribly wrong with the patent system. Amazon's one-click patent is another that comes to mind. Patents are for how , and the how there is "store the default payment and shipping info in a dat
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by Zak 9mo ago
The Panasonic GX series of cameras was very similar to what we see here, and prices for them remain elevated years past their discontinuation. I'm a little surprised they haven't introduced a new model in that lineup. The Fuji X-E
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by Zak 9mo ago
Something is terribly wrong with the patent system if anything about sticking the innards of a commercially-produced camera into a different-shaped metal case is patentable.
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by Zak 9mo ago
Unless something went terribly wrong, they'll look just like photos taken with a Panasonic G9 II. Samples from that camera are readily available online.
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by Zak 9mo ago
Taken to its logical conclusion, that idea suggests hiring business experts to start companies from scratch rather than investing in existing startups.
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by Zak 9mo ago
Talking about the shift raises the question of why it used to be the other way. Were VCs bad at picking founders who were honest and/or competent, or were VCs always wrong to mistrust founders?
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by Zak 9mo ago
> It's inconceivable that you can learn a programming language and be effective in it in a short time. I didn't spend any time learning Python. I just started using it and was fairly effective immediately. I already knew prog
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by Zak 9mo ago
That's valid, and I think a point that Cloudflare itself has acknowledged. Cloudflare is, however not quite as fundamental as domain names.
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My approach to this problem is to not install apps that could be websites, and to remove apps that send me useless notifications. Some apps use notification categories, which gives the user some control. A feature that would make this app
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by Zak 9mo ago
I'm going to join the list of voices requesting open source here. If you're not planning to charge money for this, there are several benefits starting with increased trust. Mobile apps are a cesspool of user-hostile behavior, and

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