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by account42 1mo ago
You do understand that these are PR stunts, right?
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by account42 1mo ago
Does ABI really matter when the lambda is always compiled in the same translation unit as the function from which variables are captured? Seems to me that compilers should be free to optimize the simple cases to a single stack frame referen
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by account42 1mo ago
> Heeey, our mobile networks are much less shitty than our railway services! :) Still mediocre compared to nearby countries.
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by account42 1mo ago
Which has been the correct name since before Twitter existed. You can also use "message", or "comment" if its in reply to something else.
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by account42 1mo ago
That's on you for failing to set expectations for how others you let into your home treat your devices. I can't imagine anyone I know thinking to "finish setting up" something in my home without asking and there would be
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by account42 1mo ago
Imagination is well and good but don't jump to assuming that just because you can imagine something it is already happening now. So far I have seen zero evidence that it is.
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by account42 1mo ago
A lot of TVs can still be used as a dumb display if you simply ignore all their other useless "smart" functionality. If anything, "large format gaming monitors" are a response to that usage from the monitor industry want
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by account42 1mo ago
FYI, Brother has also started enshittifying their printers so don't skip the research the next time you buy.
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by account42 1mo ago
Only if by "essentially bricked" you mean you can't use their "smart" functionality.
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by account42 1mo ago
Or even just realize that if the devices had this capability these companies couldn't resist using it to show you ads. Since these devices don't show up to date ads unless you manually connect them to a network you can be reasonab
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by account42 1mo ago
Wild. Still, paraphrased like that it triggers my "sure, that totally happened" detectors.
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by account42 1mo ago
Be specific. Which models and after what time. Mine has been running for two years now without insisting on updates.
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by account42 1mo ago
The question is specifically for monitors, for which this would have to be implemented separately because the discovery is different. At most a monitor should be associated with an automatic ICC profile.
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by account42 1mo ago
Have you asked "a large number of people" or are you projecting your fantasies?
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by account42 1mo ago
Then you're a hopeless cynic.
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by account42 1mo ago
That's just your computer having the same who-is-the-owner issue as a smart TV.
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by account42 1mo ago
Projectors can never come even remotely close to the contrast of an OLED. That's an inherent limitation of requiring a reflective display surface and not something that can be fixed with better technology.
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by account42 1mo ago
Do you have actual benchmarks for that? Bad TV response times usually come for unnecessary signal processing meant to make lower resolution / low frame-rate video look "better" and I don't see why that would be more comm
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by account42 1mo ago
Yes and I wonder for the cases where people claim it did require a connection if it actually did or there were "just" dark patterns that made it appear that way - e.g. it may be that an internet connection is required for some s
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by account42 1mo ago
Are you speaking from experience or are you letting your fantasy run wild before even trying?
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by account42 1mo ago
> and reported DCI 4K resolution (4096x2160) when connected to a PC Was that the actual panel resolution though? Because my 4K Samsung consumer TV also reports 4096x2160 resolutions in its EDID and will accept that input (but the native
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by account42 1mo ago
It really should be even in the FCC's interest to clamp down on unwanted transmissions just to keep the airwaves from being needlessly filled.
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by account42 1mo ago
Well my used-a-dumb-display relatively recent Samsung also has great color saturation and perfect OLED blacks. AFAIK you can use LGs in the same way but I haven't owned one myself. I wouldn't take anyone who cares about the sound
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by account42 1mo ago
Man get with the times and switch to mplayer2 already /s mpv can still do terminal ANSI-art output if you really want but it can also display pixels directly via DRM without a display server if you launch it from a random VT.
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by account42 1mo ago
Thanks. My collection has grown to the point where I'm considering adding some kind of front end to index/search/filter but this means that Jellyfin will not be an option. Probably I'll just end up hacking together some
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by account42 1mo ago
This is really the most healthy way to do things for small or medium-sized open source projects. Paying some people just creates and unnecessary hierarchy that is divorced from the how much they actually contribute to the project and can be
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by account42 1mo ago
If you know someone would act different if something would be disclosed there is always and ethical need to disclose it.
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by account42 1mo ago
That's why for productivity software I vastly prefer open source. Sure it can be janky sometimes but at least I don't feel like I'm being fleeced and sold to the highest bidder.
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by account42 1mo ago
What immense value? Has it solved world hunger? Has it provided abundant clean energy that no one needs to worry about it? Has it taken care of people's basic needs so that they can be free of work and focus on what's rewarding fo
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by account42 1mo ago
If she's anything like my mom, i.e. someone who has been using computers for a while now but never had the confidence to experiment with it, any small change will freak her out and there really is a long tail of those. It's not a

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