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by gman83 5y ago
I've tried to switch to Linux every year for the last decade, but I never manage to complete the switch. I tried again in January and this time I couldn't get Firefox to use GPU acceleration at all, making all web videos extremely
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So Stumbleupon
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Not only that, imagine living in a country with terrible public education. I'm sure crime rates and other similar indicators would be way up. Not exactly a fantastic place to live.
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by gman83 5y ago
I moved from Hangouts to Google Chat and so far it's been pretty seamless. What I like about it compared to WhatsApp is how easy it is to use across devices... phone, tablet, web. No messing about with QR codes, etc.
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by gman83 5y ago
Leverage? They're basically the only game in town. Who else is going to write a modern mobile OS? Microsoft?
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by gman83 5y ago
Yeah people act like the media is a wing of the Democratic party, but there's no way Trump is getting elected in 2016 without their free wall-to-wall coverage of him.
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Some of these are way worse than others, they're not at all comparable.
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To me AI is what is holding back video games the most. The graphics have advanced incredibly in the last 20 years, but the AI seems to be increasing on a logarithmic scale.
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by gman83 5y ago
I have some sideproject apps that I built with Flutter that I use on my Android phone, and I would make them available on iOS if I didn't have to pay any money to do so.
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by gman83 5y ago
Well, they own WeChat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat#Controversies
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by gman83 5y ago
There's a lot of peer pressure among kids to play certain games. I bought a Nintendo Switch for my kids, and they certainly love the games, but a lot of their friends play games like Clash Royale together. Games like this are full of i
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by gman83 5y ago
Patrick Rothfuss & George RR Martin in shambles.
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by gman83 5y ago
Flutter, Jetpack Compose, and SwiftUI all have React-like components.
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War via TikTok: Russia’s new tool for propaganda machine(apnews.com)
5 points by gman83 5y ago|0 comments
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Vox Media, BuzzFeed, and others working on alternative to Google’s AMP format(9to5google.com)
1 points by gman83 5y ago|0 comments
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by gman83 5y ago
Does the IPhone just work though? My wife has one and I always find it a pain to deal with. Simple things like playing videos often don't work with VLC (never had this problem with Android) so I have to use Handbrake to convert it to a
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by gman83 5y ago
Many US states have ongoing school indoor mask mandates. Also Czechia and Hungary are the two European countries most at risk of backsliding from democracy into authoritarianism.
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by gman83 5y ago
https://arcade.makecode.com/
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by gman83 5y ago
I'm using it together with the free version of this block plugin: https://wpstackable.com/
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by gman83 5y ago
Haven't those Google-made devices received an OTA OS change from (Linux-based) “Cast OS” to Fuchsia? Maybe that's got something to do with it?
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by gman83 5y ago
Wayback machine has the old version: https://web.archive.org/web/20211006161159/https://support.g...
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by gman83 5y ago
It's interesting reading the comment from Microsoft welcoming Flutter on Windows. Clearly it's good for Microsoft that Windows is being supported, but maybe this could lead to Google & Microsoft working on Flutter together? I
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Yeah I find a lot of toxic stuff on TikTok, but whenever I bring this up people say something like "ahh, the algorithm has discovered that you actually like toxic stuff, so it's your own fault".
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by gman83 5y ago
The acquisition strategy could have worked going forwards, seeing as there's not much anti-trust will in the U.S. against M&A, but the problem is that they missed the chance to buy musical.ly (bought for $1 billion by ByteDance in
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by gman83 5y ago
I was recently in a similar boat, I didn't like the themes on Themeforest, so finally I used the Blocksy theme (free version) and it was perfect for what I needed. Really recommend it: https://creativethemes.com/blocksy
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by gman83 5y ago
My airpods broke so I bought some €25 Bluetooth earbuds and honestly they work just as well for my needs. The best thing is not worrying about losing or breaking them.
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If you want to use a custom domain with gmail for free do this: https://medium.com/wolfpak-labs/custom-email-with-domain-for...
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It's been pretty well demonstrated, for example in pigs: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sx4s79c
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Last time I checked, there were dozens of commercial satellite ISPs ramping up their launches. Do these companies have a plan to deal with potential collisions and the potential space debris that would cause?
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‘The Corpse Bride Diet’: How TikTok Inundates Teens with Eating-Disorder Videos(wsj.com)
4 points by gman83 5y ago|1 comments

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