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by branon 4y ago
Fair enough, could definitely happen. I figure I _do_ still leave enough space even when closing though. I've never wrecked a car yet, so I tend to doubt the machine when it challenges a what I'm pretty sure is a well-refined heur
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by branon 4y ago
Same experience. ACC doesn't brake anywhere near as hard as the emergency auto-brake, but when ACC is enabled and the car in front flips their blinker on and starts moving, I have to proactively feather the gas, otherwise ACC will ride
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by branon 4y ago
Oof, my experience with with auto-brake in a 2021 Subaru Crosstrek (anecdotal, sample size of one, all that good stuff) is much the opposite. It's too sensitive and tends to brake shockingly hard during fairly mundane maneuvers. When b
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by branon 4y ago
NewPipe is a godsend on Android.
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by branon 4y ago
Some see it as their duty to fight back against unjust laws/rules. You and I might do it by breaking terms of service, Musk does it by purchasing the platform and adjusting the terms. Two sides of the same coin really, only difference
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by branon 4y ago
AMD on Linux is the only platform where I don't have to install extra crap to use my graphics card. Even AMD on Windows pretty much misses this mark. Windows Update will swap in a "slim" driver package on first boot, but if i
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by branon 4y ago
Nice. You know I hadn't once bothered to click the "big plus button" UI element. I headed straight for the "three dots" UI element > Settings > Import/Export submenu, every time. Joke's on me for not
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by branon 4y ago
That page says it requires the base stations. Can you use the headset as a standalone display output without base stations? I can think of at least one reason why people would. As long as you had a compatible media player and video file...
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by branon 4y ago
Recently had a hard time exporting 20+ OTP secrets from Google Authenticator. I believe I discovered a bug in the app: if you long press a secret > edit > leave an empty string as the comment, and then export a QR code containing this
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by branon 4y ago
Oddly don't recall seeing EasyPost on here very much, but I do see BuildZoom a lot
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by branon 4y ago
> Mass shootings, suicides and rapes have happened because of the content of KF and ED I disagree. It is not possible for the content of a website to be responsible for heinous acts committed IRL. That autonomy can only be utilized by hu
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by branon 4y ago
Similar experience here, ran it in Firefox on Steam Deck and it seems to work, but freezes the whole system for a few seconds at a time quite often
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by branon 4y ago
This is really important. I've got 700 GB (and growing) of archived YouTube videos. Started downloading them a few months ago because I had noticed older stuff disappearing. Who knows how many videos in my specific sub-interest (ASMR v
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by branon 4y ago
I'm another one who was introduced to tech through gaming (RuneScape) and to programming largely through RuneScape macros. There are literally dozens of us!
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by branon 4y ago
icculus' ports are legendary, had many hours of fun with the u42004 linux port. nice to see this!
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by branon 4y ago
On the contrary I've had great experiences with Dell's business line (Latitude, Precision models). Likewise the business warranty is excellent - log into TechDirect and I can submit a ticket for any one of the machines in my fleet
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by branon 4y ago
I remember reading an article years ago (mid-2000s, must have been) about an entire book that used palindromes extensively. I believe it was sci-fi-adjacent, only thing I remember distinctly was something called "ylyly" in the boo
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by branon 4y ago
Bluesky is Twitter's right? Will be cool if they come away with something actually decentralized. Trial in beta with hackers, then one day, in-place swap Twitter to run on it. Pipe dream?
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by branon 4y ago
I don't think so, the site is a bit heavy but I enjoy all the Medium articles that make their way onto HN.
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by branon 4y ago
Without a login you can do nothing - so do that. Even if you have a login, if they've only given you that and nothing else, then you cannot reasonably be expected to complete the update on a Friday with no oversight and no support from
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by branon 4y ago
It's not really a boycott if it's just one person. Boycott implies concerted action by a group. Best of luck though. I'd refuse to buy Meta's hardware for other reasons. A Facebook account required to play has been a dea
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by branon 4y ago
SMS/MMS needs to die at this point. I am glad to see Signal take a hard line here even though it will cause some headache for users, of which I am one, though I do not use it to send outgoing SMS/MMS. These protocols are insecure,
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by branon 4y ago
Been using Transmission for years, my instance's stats is up to 1,902 days active across 72 sessions. Really rock-solid software, excited for the new version.
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by branon 4y ago
Telling that the personal website is the most resistant. Interesting idea that social media accounts could be taken down by good actors as a form of damage control.
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by branon 4y ago
I mean the real-world social aspect of the game - from eSports tournaments to casual/competitive play. Even the conversation we're having now. How others interpret gaming as a whole. A social system is created where only certain k
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by branon 4y ago
No, you have it exactly right. I posit that a service run by a platform-holder who has a legitimate need to validate players' identity in this manner, for these reasons, is not quite the same as the video games (even the multiplayer on
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by branon 4y ago
Email addresses aren't real-life identifiers, although they could be used that way. And on the inverse, I can buy a burner phone with cash and defeat Blizzard's requirement easily. But it's pretty clear what Blizzard is going
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by branon 4y ago
Smurfing being seen as something to be reduced/eliminated is also a very new concept to me. When I played MMORPGs, having a smurf (or "alt") account was VERY commonplace, it was simply an alternative way to play the game. Now
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by branon 4y ago
It's not logging into a server (MMORPG-like) that kills it for me, it's the push to link the in-game identity with a real-life identifier. It's not (in an almost literal sense!) a game anymore at that point. For the broad app
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by branon 4y ago
Games aren't games anymore, especially multiplayer titles. _Especially_ competitive multiplayer titles aggressively marketed towards the widest range of players possible. No longer are you simply one player among thousands, you are a u

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