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by eggsome 6y ago
Here is a relatively recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24666968
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by eggsome 6y ago
I had a 2700U (Lenovo E585). Was super painful for the first year or so. Took 2 years for a BIOS update that solved the final problems allowing it to work without custom kernel perimeters. Ubuntu 20.4 was the first version of Linux that was
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by eggsome 6y ago
Did you see much change after the attempt to move the software guys out of Texas?
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by eggsome 6y ago
What about GPL violations: https://twitter.com/huaweimobile/status/256672638154457088 https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=66&topicid=242...
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by eggsome 6y ago
Speaking of Nat (and semi-related to this post), I noticed that when he did the reddit AMA just before Microsoft took control the only highly rated question that went unanswered related to censorship in China. https://i.reddit.co
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by eggsome 6y ago
This is true per "equivalent" unit of generic computing, but some older instance types have gone up in price (presumably to encourage people to migrate their stuff onto newer hardware). This is completely reasonable - but a pain w
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by eggsome 6y ago
A Cray X-MP could only do 800 flops. Even a first gen i7 is many orders of magnitude better than that.
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by eggsome 6y ago
Being a small and light application I thought the new Occulus Quest would be a great platform for SolveSpace.
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by eggsome 6y ago
Oh well, I guess the custom terminal I commissioned for playing ADOM will need to be ported. Details and source code here for anyone interested: http://adom.brinkster.net/forum/messages.asp?thread=6420&sta...
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by eggsome 6y ago
A much closer to complete (with multiplayer!) clone/re-implementation in Java here: http://mom.pjj.cc/forum/ And lots of current discussion on the MoM Discord here: https://discord.gg/wFNQf36
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by eggsome 6y ago
Which company did you use?
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by eggsome 6y ago
I generally don't bother researching beforehand thanks to Steam's excellent return policy.
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by eggsome 6y ago
Use the following when loading the module with PulseAudio: tsched=no fixed_latency_range=yes fragments=1 fragment_size=15 This was not enough for me. In the end I replaced my bluetooth (QC35 II) headset with a non-bluetooth (HyperX C
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by eggsome 6y ago
I'm not a mech engineer, but it looks like SolveSpace would do this properly?
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by eggsome 6y ago
I can't play games that I've purchased because of DRM. In some cases because I've switched to linux and the security breaching rootkits that they want me to install don't work correctly there. In other cases it's ve
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by eggsome 6y ago
According to this history written by one of the founders they were given a pre-release copy of Windows to get an early heads up on porting, but the engineers generally preferred to work with DOS: http://www.wordplace.com/ap&
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by eggsome 6y ago
I'm around 200hrs in. I concur with pretty much everything you've said, however I wanted to add 2 things. My mental model for playing has settled on "paying" for gold/wands with HP. As you progress though a level yo
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by eggsome 6y ago
What is your opinion of open source solutions like ArduPilot?
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by eggsome 6y ago
Is there a 2 axis graph that has both collision ratios and speed?
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by eggsome 6y ago
Don't forget about break pads: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/urai-bda0107...
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by eggsome 6y ago
Thanks.
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by eggsome 6y ago
Regarding 1: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981
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by eggsome 6y ago
Does anybody know of a project like this for old PCs? I want to plug a specific USB mouse into a 486 and the mouse chipset does not have the PS/2 emulation layer included with most mice produced in the early 2000's :(
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by eggsome 6y ago
There was a hard cap of around a month and a half: https://sites.google.com/site/edmarkovich2/whywindows95andwi...
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by eggsome 6y ago
Darknet Diaries is moderately engaging - but overly dramatic. They also dumb things down a bit (I assume to attract a wider audience?). I still find myself listening occasionally, so it's hard to criticize too much.
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by eggsome 6y ago
What happened to Trove? I signed up for that based on your involvement. Hope you're doing OK.
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by eggsome 6y ago
https://www.ebay.com.au/i/173997105683
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by eggsome 6y ago
"NAS" drives are typically set to not have a timeout mismatch for linux raid. See here: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Timeout_Mismatch
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by eggsome 7y ago
Be careful with the E series. They don't officially support Linux anymore and I had to wait 12months for a BIOS update to solve all the issues with my E585 :(
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by eggsome 7y ago
Be aware that for many cheap routers you can't do the VLAN tagging the "normal" way via the web interface. Like this: https://blog.mapstrata.com/post/internode_openwrt/ For people with cheap/cr

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