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by foresto 11mo ago
> It has nothing to do with being a multi-billion dollar corp. Cloudflare is the multi-billion dollar corporation. It has everything to do with that, because they are the primary cause, and their resources and position make them by far t
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by foresto 11mo ago
"We have decided to endlessly punish you for using what few tools you have to avoid being exploited online, because it makes our multi-billion dollar business easier. Sucks to be you."
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by foresto 11mo ago
While we're at it, the Steam Controller kind of resembles a space invader. :)
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by foresto 11mo ago
Let me guess: were they alkaline batteries, left in the device while not in use for several weeks or months?
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by foresto 11mo ago
I've heard that Elite Dangerous is nice in VR.
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by foresto 11mo ago
Allow me to recommend low self-discharge NiMH batteries (Eneloop brand is excellent) and a good charger made for that chemistry.
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by foresto 11mo ago
As someone who has been building my PCs for decades, I have to admit seeing some appeal here: It's apparently small, quiet, capable, and easy. I'll keep building my own, but most people don't, and the value of saved time and
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by foresto 11mo ago
Or the NeXTcube. https://www.inexhibit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NeXTcub... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/NeXTcube...
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by foresto 11mo ago
I think this is fine for a mass market device. It might be easy to forget, but most gamers are not using the higher-end hardware that enthusiast discussions tend to focus on. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey Perhaps
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by foresto 11mo ago
Coincidentally, their adoption of Google CAPTCHA (along with requiring javascript) is why I stopped using archive.today. I don't particularly want either of those entities executing mystery code in my browser, or on my computer at all.
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by foresto 11mo ago
A bit of searching turns up lots of references to SketchUp Make 2017. Could this be what you mean?
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by foresto 11mo ago
Android users can enter *#*#INFO#*#* on the phone app's numeric keypad to open a diagnostics tool, which includes a submenu that shows signal strength in dBm. It's handy for locating sweet spots and dead zones in my home.
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by foresto 1y ago
I find git bisect indispensable when tracking down weird kernel bugs.
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by foresto 1y ago
> He is also very difficult to work with and isn't very welcoming to newcomers. That's a charitable way to describe him. In our one direct interaction, he was condescending to the point of insult. (I believe he was incorrect as
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by foresto 1y ago
I was just going to ask if this was it... https://www.plasticlist.org/ ...and then I saw your link. I'll leave this comment here for the convenience of others.
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by foresto 1y ago
I wonder if the author is aware of the health effects of handling thermal paper. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5453537/
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by foresto 1y ago
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24446 Thanks for responding well to constructive criticism.
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by foresto 1y ago
A few examples from a little over a year ago: Heavy reliance on the range interface, without automatic support for common range-like types like arrays, so calling code must be cluttered with wrappers. Insistence on returning things exclusiv
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by foresto 1y ago
I like a lot about D. My main criticism of the language is that it quickly becomes too noisy as more of its nice features are used. I think this could be fixed, for example with better attribute defaults in function signatures, and I think
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by foresto 1y ago
> I can't stomach same-network requirement. The Android app let me add a peer by IP address. Once I opened traffic on the right port, it crossed a network boundary just fine. My case was an adjacent network, but I don't see any
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by foresto 1y ago
> As far as I'm aware, their flagship Xperia phones do support bootloader re-locking [1]. The last one I tried (xperia z1 compact) bricked itself when I tried to re-lock the bootloader. Maybe it's safe on newer models? If they
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by foresto 1y ago
Is DAVx⁵ not sufficient?
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by foresto 1y ago
That would be interesting. I have long wished that Sony phones would allow re-locking the bootloader to an OS signed with my own keys. Some of their Xperia Compact models have been excellent, but they haven't been making them like that
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by foresto 1y ago
Is there something important in banking apps that cannot be done with a web browser?
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by foresto 1y ago
The old logo would seem at home on a shelf of classic O'Reilly books. :)
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by foresto 1y ago
> will sell cops and the government anything they are willing to pay for Anything they are willing to force us to pay for.
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by foresto 1y ago
> I don't understand gamers with 15 years old hardware leaving bad reviews or whining when a game chokes above 720p with minimum settings. 15 years old? Have you seen many examples of this (I have not) or are you exaggerating to mak
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by foresto 1y ago
Good to know, but my script is for a different workflow: It checks for updates to remote dependencies of my running custom containers. (For example, when alpine:latest points to something new.) It then prints a message for cron to email to
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by foresto 1y ago
I run rootless containers on a low-power system. With Docker, I found rootless setup to be a PITA, despite having experience with unprivileged LXC containers. The manager daemon constantly consumed system resources even when no containers w
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by foresto 1y ago
> It works, I played the entire back half of the game on Linux. How could you already have done this with the native linux build, which was just released today? I would think BG3 too long a game for that. Or are you talking about playing

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