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by giobox 2y ago
Definitely a place for this in the market, especially given the whole fiasco around the secret BarTender change of ownership: > https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-o... I hate when O
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by giobox 2y ago
If the lights have adjustable white balance, you almost always can sync light color temp to time of day with home assistant's flux: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/flux/ This works with almost any
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by giobox 2y ago
The main drawback with keeping the switch "dumb" and only using smart bulbs is someone can turn off power to the bulb etc, which is why I and parent commenter focus on automating the switches. If someone turns wall switch off and
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by giobox 2y ago
I've had great results with the Aquara zigbee stuff - almost all of them work fine connecting to HomeAssistant via generic zigbee USB adapters, and can be found online pretty cheaply. I have >50 of their switches and sensors at the
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by giobox 2y ago
Even better, get smart switches that don't use wifi or IP addresses. I'm personally of opinion my homes core features should not rely on needing IP addresses, working DHCP or DNS etc just to turn a light bulb on and off. Home assi
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by giobox 2y ago
You are forgetting the massive price difference though. For sure a P3 was great if you had an unlimited budget, but a quick look at pricing sheets for September 1999 shows a 600mhz P3 at ~650 dollars. The 300mhz celerons, easily over-clocka
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by giobox 2y ago
I also ran a dual Celeron system overclocked to 450mhz - it was great value in 1999. Abit even launched a motherboard that let you run dual Celerons without modifying the processors, the legendary BP6: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by giobox 2y ago
Steam works great while the benevolent dictator (Gabe) is still alive and in direct control. What happens to the company and its services once he dies is extremely concerning to me given depth of my own investment now in game licences on th
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by giobox 2y ago
Funny to see movie people going through the same pain PC gamers did (lamenting the loss of "big box" retail games - the reasoning is much the same), especially the complaints around the loss of things like booklets etc.
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by giobox 2y ago
Right exactly. Any discussion about this topic that doesn’t separate LFP (lithium iron phosphate) based batteries from the wider discussion about lithium ion is missing one of the biggest changes to battery tech in recent years. Not all lit
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by giobox 2y ago
For sure its been a sweet spot for a very long time for budget conscious gamers looking for best balance of price and frame rates, but 1440p optimized parts are nothing new. Both NVidia and AMD make parts that target 1440p display users too
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by giobox 2y ago
> we were all buying them as soon as we saved up enough money Except most of us didn't. Valve actually gave some decent numbers in 2008. In just one year, Orange Box had sold over twice as many copies as Episode 1 did on its own. Th
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by giobox 2y ago
Another point to remember in all this, is that in the early to mid 2000s game companies were obsessed with the idea of "episodic content". There were many other games in this time period ended in the same trap, that promised a num
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by giobox 2y ago
This used to be fairly common for H1B roles of any level - I don't find it surprising almost no one wants to fire a colleague ultimately, so doing whatever you could to reduce the number of applicants while still paying lip service to
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by giobox 2y ago
They have variations of the program in some European countries. It's been a long time for me, but in the UK they used to just whitelist university domains (we didn't use .edu TLDs either).
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by giobox 2y ago
Interestingly Nvidia make the exact same claim in 1999 when launching the Geforce 256. "3-D graphics systems maker nVidia (NVDA) Tuesday unveiled its next generation graphics accelerator, which it hopes will deflect some of the attenti
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by giobox 2y ago
Ah interesting, hadn't seen Photomator before. That does appear to indeed bring a more Aperture type experience to the editing process.
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by giobox 2y ago
The big thing Aperture nailed though was photo-management workflows - it was never that great as an image editor . I don't see anything in Pixelmator that moves the needle in an Aperture/Lightroom-type direction by integrating ph
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by giobox 2y ago
You are absolutely correct that DosBox still doesn't get Wing Commander 100% perfect - it however does at least get a playable experience with the CPU cycle controls, and a much better experience than running it in dos in say VirtualBo
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by giobox 2y ago
The issue with Windows support for tools like Pixelmator is that a great many of its features are wrappers around OS level image manipulation libraries that come with macOS/iOS - Windows doesn't have anything like the rich image m
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by giobox 2y ago
One of the primary reasons for using DosBox vs virtualization, at least for actual DOS software, is that lots of old DOS games and apps are designed to run on a specific x86 chip and clock speed. The classic example is the earlier Wing Comm
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by giobox 2y ago
> I feel like Apple kind of buried this in their press release The press release describes the single core performance as the fastest ever made, full stop: "The M4 family features phenomenal single-threaded CPU performance with the
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by giobox 2y ago
This used to be much more true, but almost all PC games support 21:9 now and 32:9 support pretty common too. "most games" screwed up is an exaggeration IMO. Even on games that don't officially scale, on PC they almost always
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by giobox 2y ago
I saw this exchange too and was shocked - it is Matt who has chosen to add this checkbox and chose the wording of the question - if he cannot explain who should or should not check it, or what he means by his own words, how can anyone? Hi
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by giobox 2y ago
I also use and love the exact same 49" CRG9, but if you do the 2x retina math, to deliver the pixel pitch Apple customers expect on desktop in the 32:9 display form, that would realistically have to be a 10240x2880 display at a minimum
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by giobox 2y ago
LetsEncrypt + DNS challenge + DNS provider with letsencrpyt compatible API for modifying records works fantastically well for getting "real" https/SSL working for private IP addresses, the automatic renewals make it largely s
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by giobox 2y ago
No, it really does say this. There is expressly no free TV licence for being blind, instead a 50% discount. https://www.gov.uk/free-discount-tv-licence https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one&#x2
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by giobox 2y ago
Back when I was working on an L1, I continually lobbied my employer to apply for an H1B for me to give me more options in the event of losing a job, or even just the ability to change employer at all really. This is one of the most signific
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by giobox 2y ago
This was certainly the case in most of Britain. Scotland has a separate education system from England and has today and historically offered different high school level qualifications ("Highers" etc).
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by giobox 2y ago
I try not to get overly-annoyed at this kind of thing too, but to me it just demonstrates an incredible lack of self-drive, or curiosity, especially in the CS domain. If the students are genuinely curious, there is nothing to stop them lear

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