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by graynk 5y ago
I've been using Pop OS as my daily driver for several years now on my desktop with Nvidia videocard. Never before have I experienced such a stable Linux distro.
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by graynk 5y ago
Can I ask why is this on HN? How is this in any way related to tech?
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by graynk 5y ago
LIV is also the name of a fairly popular VR-tool [0] for capturing in-game footage combining it with the view from real-world camera, so I was confused at first [0] - https://www.liv.tv/
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by graynk 5y ago
UPD: I checked out Graal Native. It was somewhat painful to make JavaFX work with it, due to reflective nature of the framework (which does not work very well with Java Modules), but I managed to make a native image with Gluon plugin for Ma
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by graynk 5y ago
I am making a simple image editor for myself to use on Linux, and honestly? After looking at different bindings for Qt and GTK on Go/Rust/Java and looking at other GUI frameworks (all of which are in beta state, it seems) I went b
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by graynk 5y ago
Absolutely agree. Thankfully, threadreaderapp and nitter exist (for now).
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by graynk 5y ago
I actually liked this a bit more than Psst, thank you for the comment
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by graynk 5y ago
> This leads to thirty dingdingding notifications I've disabled all notifications, save for blinking LED. So if I happen to look at my phone - I will see that there are some unread notifications, but other than that - no sounds, no
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by graynk 5y ago
As Gretchen McCulloch put it: the message bubble _is_ the full stop. It did happen organically, and it _is_ an alarming event when someone who usually doesn't use full stops in chat suddenly decides to use one. Tom Scott made a video o
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by graynk 5y ago
> We know how markets work Badly. They work badly. > But instead they insist on continuing to mis-price their products They are not mis-priced, they are already a pretty hefty buy. If the prices were to increase even further, _then_ i
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by graynk 5y ago
GCP has a spending limit, but it is by no means transparent[0] Basically you add a budget to your project, create a pub/sub channel, then make a lambda that subscribes to the channel and turns off billing when it receives an overbudget
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by graynk 5y ago
> loss of top menu There's a Unite extension for that: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1287/unite/
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by graynk 6y ago
> At the time, the Windows API was essentially completely open to mess with, and I had discovered a bunch of weird things, like the fact that setting (!) the mouse cursor position was even possible It's still possible, I did that a
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by graynk 6y ago
> That said, I try to insure that nothing I make wastes the players’ time by having them do things that aren’t productive or creative. > And this is why I like Nintendo games. I've sold my copy of Animal Crossing because I felt i
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by graynk 6y ago
> every single app out there implemented their own "screen resolution" Every single app doesn't need to render heavy stuff to fullscreen. I have 2K monitor, but I can't run every game out there with 60-75 FPS at 2K, n
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by graynk 6y ago
I agree about upscaling the end result, some games do that and I really appreciate it. Lately DLSS took it to the whole other level though
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by graynk 6y ago
> Just use the resolution that's configured: if I wanted to change it I'd change it. So you're saying you'd want to change desktop resolution each time you want to play a performance heavy game? > Non-native resolu
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by graynk 6y ago
Looks cool, but the author should test this with different terminals and different settings. I have gnome-terminal with white background and black font, and ox uses its own dark-grey-blueish background with the black font from (I presume) m
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by graynk 6y ago
Took me by surprise as well
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by graynk 6y ago
> The TPM cannot prevent that Wait, why? I mean, they would be able to access the TPM, sure, but not the keys that would unlock the hard drive. This was my understanding when I played around with TPM: if the boot order has changed, no ke
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by graynk 6y ago
Some channels on Telegram show up as not accessible to Apple users because they "distribute pornography" even in cases when that was not the main purpose of the channel. There were cases when some users reposted porn gifs to group
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by graynk 6y ago
> They have a duty to protect their customers from clicking on unsightly and wrongful content They don't. > Customers expect that from apple They shouldn't > I wouldn't want any kid to end up accessing this channel o
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by graynk 6y ago
Aether looks cool, but why do you provide only Snap builds on Linux? I wanted to try Aether, but I avoid Snap as much as possible
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by graynk 6y ago
> The "old" frameworks such as the GTK bindings are either unmaintaned or not complete or both gotk3 is maintained and most of the widgets are in place (technically it's not "complete", sure, but still). My bigge
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by graynk 6y ago
I've been moaning about it for years now. I really hate the experience that web-apps provide. Electron is not much better in that regard. I want my apps to be native, I'm willing to pay for it, please stop moving everything to the
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by graynk 6y ago
> if you do this in the time you would be watching Netflix instead of the time you are supposed to be working And why would I be doing that? Configuring and learning your work tools is part of work, it should be done in work time.
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by graynk 6y ago
It's been that way for a couple of months at least. This login screen can be blocked with adblockers, but the fact that it's making rounds only now kind of shows that no one was using it anyway
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by graynk 6y ago
Because God forbid you actually have to use the card you paid for, oh no, we can't have that. No one should work with machine learning, edit video or play games, Intel HD should be enough for everybody /s
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by graynk 6y ago
> If you pick 10 random people in Russia and ask them about this show, all 10 will either not have heard of it or react with disdain. I have no idea where you get the notion that it's popular in Russia. And that's why it has 8.
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by graynk 6y ago
> Create a standard, ask Unity and Unreal Engine to support it It's called Vulkan, I believe. Or, you know, OpenGL even. Doesn't change the fact that it's the developer who will have to support it. Also doesn't change

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