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by bsimpson 10mo ago
Steve wasn't exactly famous for playing nicely with other tech either. He signed his name to the "fuck Flash" memo, promised to publish interoperable specs for iMessage/FaceTime and never did, presided over the original
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
The genie effect was from the original X release in like 99. If there's a patent, it should be expired. But that's a weird line to draw for which shells you find unacceptable.
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
I tried a bunch of shells when I got my Legion Go, including COSMIC. It had the worst touchscreen support of any of them. Now that SteamOS is officially released, I just use KDE. Maybe COSMIC will be better at touch eventually, but since
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
FWIW, most USB docks are effectively this. DP goes in via USB-C and HDMI comes out the other end. I bought one from UGREEN on Amazon. I think it's called the 9 in 1. It does 4k@60 with HDR, coming out of SteamOS.
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
I frequently see comments that say the TV companies are the ones getting the royalties, so I looked it up. According to Gemini, the royalties go to the _original_ HDMI founders. That includes Sony, Panasonic, Philips, and Toshiba. It does n
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
There's no "supposedly." His kids are nepobabies that each run their own media company. His son is running Paramount, and his daughter has Annapurna.
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
Skydance is also known as the then-obscure company that picked up Pixar head John Lasseter when his reputation for being overly affectionate got him pushed out of Disney. It's one of the Ellison family's forays into media. David&
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
"What's left"? New Line has been part of Warner since they merged with TBS in the mid 90s.
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
That's conventionally called "studios+streaming" because the Warner Bros studio/brand is one of WBD's crown jewels. The way you've written it, someone could infer everything but HBO Max was going into "ot
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
Netflix stopped being the good(/least bad) guys a while ago. They've been raising prices relentlessly, banning casting, criminalizing account sharing (which THEY started by introducing profiles)… They're just as selfish and c
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
From what I've read, Ellison was ready to make him co-CEO of Warner Paramount, and then threatened a lawsuit alleging that WBD management has its thumbs on the scales because it's prioritizing bids that give their executives sweet
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
The Legion Go is basically that with some joycons and a screen. I keep mine in my entertainment center when I'm not using it handheld, and play plastic instrument games on the big screen. Looks like this would be an easy entry point t
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
You know that meme of Jack Sparrow riding a sinking ship to shore? That's how I imagined WBD. David Zaslav gets to transition from the leader of a reality show slophouse to one of the biggest power players in Hollywood, and all be has
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
BSD-0 is a public-domain-equivalent license. The guy who published it is one of the few people who has actually been involved in a lawsuit to try to assert a copyleft license. The whole thing was such a bad experience for him that he deci
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
The tension is that there's a big chasm of utility from those things until you're compete-with-Google-Search levels of good. I feel like I heard there was an Amazon UX study that said weather, music, and alarms/timers are al
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
I didn't know there was a new version of Remix distinct from React Router until I read this post. I thought React Router v7 was Remix merging back in, and that the Remix brand was dead. If they're looking to have a Remix v3 disti
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
Splatoon is a Nintendo game.
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
Same. First, I kept my idle account for the recommendations. Then, I kept my idle account because my family used it (why Netflix ENCOURAGED when they added profiles). Then, some new, money-grubbing PM rolled in and decided to lock my parent
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
I've had 23andme since ~2012. Haven't received a single email from/about 23andmedatasettlement.com
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
I just checked: Frame is Gen 3 and the article is Gen 5.
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
If you'd prefer to watch a video, the author was interviewed on YouTube 5y ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o I thought that video included one of my favorite programming legends, and apparently a bunch o
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
Don't love the scare title, but particularly don't love the inclusion of "Android TV," which has gone back-and-forth with "Google TV" as the brand name for Google's smart TV experience. (Even Wikipedia ha
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
That article was almost impossible to read with how often the content shifted around, presumably due to crappy ad scripting.
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
I make six figures, have read The Verge almost every day since it launched, and I have not yet bought a membership to pass their new paywall. The internet made information a commodity, and how we collectively pay for that information is sti
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
I don't know if it's a changing of the audience or a change in how people behave generally, but this place has been insufferable lately whenever anything remotely related to Donald Trump's administration comes up. One of the
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
Making an IDE sounds like an insane amount of effort. FWIW, the Fuchsia team was working on an editor that had a Flutter UI when run in Fuchsia: https://xi-editor.io/frontends.html
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
Can we mark this as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968065
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
I believe CDP is how Decky Loader (the homebrew sidebar for SteamOS works). It attaches to the web app that draws SteamOS's UI and injects its own plugins to the sidebar.
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
I wonder if the video team uses Mac, and just shot a quick clip with the closest USB port on hand.
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by bsimpson 11mo ago
For those missing the reference, NAMBLA is the "man/boy love association" (as in pedophiles).

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