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by bpye 2y ago
Maybe I’m out of the loop, what happened there?
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by bpye 2y ago
I had this issue as well - Amazon (did?) have a bi-directional USB-C to DisplayPort cable [0], which works well for me. It looks like the 3ft one is still available. [0] - https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B081VK1KH
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by bpye 2y ago
I had that experience with OpenBSD as well. The summer after university I played around with it on a HP Chromebook 13 G1, fixed a bug that broke it's eMMC storage and wrote a touchpad driver - which ended up working more reliably that
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by bpye 2y ago
That’s not really true. Any device with USB-C video out is using DisplayPort, not HDMI. HDMI alt mode exists, but AFAIK never shipped in any products.
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by bpye 2y ago
This is such an annoying limitation. With monitors it’s one thing, as DisplayPort is normally an option as well (though with an iGPU maybe not), but if you want to display on a high end TV? You need to go find an active DisplayPort -> HD
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by bpye 2y ago
It’s also unfortunate since a UHD BluRay (>100Mbps) has a much higher bitrate than any streaming video service - Apple TV+ might be 30Mbps.
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by bpye 2y ago
I understand why we ended up with touch screens but I do miss physical keyboards. Swipe typing is fast-ish - but only for dictionary words, not punctuation, etc.
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by bpye 2y ago
> all you can get is DMA access into a VM that doesn't actually have much of interest in it, and no access into other VMs... Of course you have to ensure that you harden the interface between that VM and the host sufficiently.
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by bpye 2y ago
Porkbun seem popular, I do use them for a couple domains. I haven't heard of anything egregious.
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by bpye 2y ago
The registrar in question is iwantmyname, so I guess you can add them to your "do not use" list.
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by bpye 2y ago
Not 64 channels, but for 32 channels I'm a fan of the DSLogic U3Pro32 [0]. DreamSourceLab did historically violate the GPL license of Sigrok, but have since made the source code for their fork available [1], unfortunately last i checke
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by bpye 2y ago
> As an aside: Why can't DSL modems be a single USB dongle? They definitely existed in the UK for a time and were often supplied by ISPs. IIRC they were only supported in Windows XP, and drivers were never provided for Vista.
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by bpye 2y ago
There is an M.2 slot, though only PCIe 2.0 x1. Possibly still good enough for reasonable bandwidth.
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by bpye 2y ago
I never had a McIntosh whilst living in the UK but since moving to BC they've become a firm favourite.
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by bpye 2y ago
I'm a big fan of a McIntosh, and pretty easy to find in BC. The apple ranking site also rates them poorly, with which I disagree.
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by bpye 2y ago
Of course that depends somewhat on the venue and the cut they take of ticket and merch sales too.
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by bpye 2y ago
I would be pretty content if I could run macOS in a VM on an iPad, the core HW is near enough the same and macOS supports paravirtualised graphics, and yet...
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by bpye 2y ago
> Note that 5600MT/s RAM is overclocked; the fastest officially supported Zen4 memory speed is 5200MT/s This specifically did change in Zen 5, the max supported is now 5600MT/s
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by bpye 2y ago
Minecart-coaster?
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by bpye 2y ago
That setting disables JIT - on some or all sites depending on the value. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/enhance-y...
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by bpye 2y ago
I don’t know if I miss grey UIs, but I do miss the consistent design language and how easy it was to tell if something was a button, scrollable, etc.
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by bpye 2y ago
I would love to be wrong, but I can't find anything that suggests USB webcams work on USB-C iPhones - I did try in the past for different reasons but couldn't find any way of making it work. Some USB-C thermal imagers do claim to
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by bpye 2y ago
The actual security bulletin is here - https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5586 As it points out, this is an issue with the driver rather than the physical GPU.
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by bpye 2y ago
The UK manages to produce results within a few hours and all ballots, at least for general elections, are hand counted. I agree that for voting systems other than FPTP it is more work and may take longer - but it’s not an intractable proble
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by bpye 2y ago
It looks like they are upstreaming the kernel side changes, I don't see why the usermode side couldn't be proprietary?
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by bpye 2y ago
I had that issue with both AMD and Nvidia with the open source and proprietary drivers respectively. If I ran both at 60Hz it was fine, but my primary monitor is 144Hz and I couldn’t make 144Hz and 60Hz work well under X11.
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by bpye 2y ago
In my experience Wayland has been a better experience than X11, I have two monitors with different refresh rates and I could never eliminate tearing with X11 whilst Wayland works as expected.
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by bpye 2y ago
I do set a second alarm if I'm waking up for something particularly important - say a flight, but for a regular work day? I think one is good enough.
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by bpye 2y ago
I went out of my way to buy an old Sanyo radio alarm clock so that I don't have to rely on my phone or keep it on my bed side table. The neat flip digit display is a bonus. One dial to set the time, another to set the alarm.
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by bpye 2y ago
If you look at the UK for example, the physical network is publicly owned and maintained by National Rail, whilst the ToCs are (currently) mostly private. That said the ToCs are also going to switch to publicly owned over the next few years

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