babypuncher

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by babypuncher 2mo ago
Ah, so the class of people least impacted by the chaos happening down here. The class of people who couldn't care less about things like "civil rights" and "social safety nets" for the poor as long as they get their
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by babypuncher 2mo ago
Nobody really wins in a race to the bottom
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by babypuncher 2mo ago
I still don't see the actual point, as the meaning of the dash is already clear from the context around them. The em dash is surrounded by spaces, the en dash is surrounded by numbers, and the hyphen is used in compound words. A single
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by babypuncher 3mo ago
SpaceX stock has been tanking since its IPO, I don't think last night's scrubbed launch is the culprit. Might have something to do with Musk making outlandish promises (AI datacenters in space) and the fact that most of the compan
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by babypuncher 3mo ago
Leap days are predictable whereas leap seconds are not.
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by babypuncher 3mo ago
If I were to speculate, the point of phillips head was to just be easier to use than flat head while still being easy to manufacture 90 years ago. The better heads introduced since then have more intricate designs that require more precise
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by babypuncher 3mo ago
Two things can be true: Big Pharma can be evil, and their products are much better vetted for safety and efficacy than random peptides sourced form mystery factories.
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by babypuncher 3mo ago
> Plenty of people purchase digital movie rentals from Apple, Youtube, etcetera because they know they will watch it once, and the lower price in exchange for a temporary license is acceptable to them. I don't think banning this is
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by babypuncher 3mo ago
They're both to blame. Studio Canal insisted on a licensing agreement that works this way, and Sony agreed to it to sell their content. For Sony, the correct move here would have been to not list Studio Canal titles in the first place,
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by babypuncher 3mo ago
This whole administration is absolutely rampant with corruption. Just yesterday we had JD Vance on TV saying that if Watergate happened today, it would just be a 12 hour news story, because they are getting away with so much worse. Anyone w
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
Because it's not being used to deliver better products, it's being used to flood the market with even more garbage
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
and tech companies wonder why consumers hate AI
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
Easier and faster software development frameworks have made it cheaper to ship garbage software. Nobody really knows how to measure software quality, but agile development makes it very easy to measure software quantity , so that is what c
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
Have you not seen the tech price hikes happening? Steam Decks went up 40% overnight
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
The mad rush to build datacenters at this unprecedented scale is already wreaking havoc on the consumer economy. The needs of everyday people are far more important than the whims of a few trillion dollar tech companies run by billioinaires
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
I disagree. With how KDE handles this, I'm not at the mercy of the software vendor's whims on what windows stay on top and which ones don't. I have complete control through a standardized interface that can even be automated
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
I would buy a brand new CRT from a boutique manufacturer, even for a pretty absurd price. Whether enough people would is a tough question to answer though.
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
and they suck
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
What I find truly ironic is how CRT shaders work best on a 4k display with good HDR performance. 4k lets you scale the image and insert scanlines without scaling artifacts and with enough extra pixels to make the scanlines feel properly sof
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
Who needs an economy built on consumer spending when a handful of massive tech companies can just keep passing around the same trillion dollar check like a hot potato?
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
I can't speak for Gnome, but KDE makes it pretty easy to create rules that apply automatically to any new window that meets whatever arbitrary criteria you set.
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
> Chrome "picture in picture" window doesn't stay on top when I click somewhere else since Wayland doesn't allow windows to stay on top. Wayland doesn't allow apps to force themselves to be always on top. I would
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by babypuncher 4mo ago
Are they profitable? Is there any reason they can't be happy just turning a regular profit? This "growth at all costs" mindset feels toxic.
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by babypuncher 5mo ago
If people choose not to vote, then clearly their opinion on the issue wasn't very strong to begin with.
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by babypuncher 5mo ago
There is so much good free software out there for playing music that I have a hard time believing PlexAmp is worth $750. They know it's not worth it either, they just want to push more users to the monthly subscription for that sweet A
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by babypuncher 5mo ago
I just never stopped downloading music. We have modern download stores selling CD-quality music completely DRM free. I like knowing that no matter what happens short of an actual apocalypse, I will never lose access to any of my music. I re
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by babypuncher 5mo ago
DisplayPort is missing a lot of features that are meaningless in a desktop setup but important in a home theater setup. That's the only reason.
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by babypuncher 5mo ago
I don't know about internet, but it actually works the other way for GPS; Carplay/Android Auto relay the car's GPS data to your phone, because that is usually more accurate and it means your phone doesn't have to burn ba
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by babypuncher 5mo ago
I have been arguing for years that Win32 is the most stable Linux ABI. Commercial games are all proprietary software, so they're more prone to breakage as the libraries and APIs they depend on change or even disappear over time.
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by babypuncher 5mo ago
Yeah TVs typically don't have DP, because extra HDMI ports are usually more valuable in a home theater setting. Game consoles, receivers, video players all have HDMI and don't have DisplayPort, meanwhile every graphics card and la

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