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by hakfoo 7mo ago
That's one of the things that freak me out about Wayland. The DIY/BYOB experience is perfectly viable in the X11 world. I don't think I've ever had a piece of software balk at me because I used FVWM instead of kwin. I
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
wlroots is self-described as "about 60,000 lines of code you were going to write anyway." It's also a moving target and you'll probably have to retool when wlroots updates. That seems like a huge burden to carry around,
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
You can still get a handful of non-RGB cases. They're usually sold as the "Silent" version (i. e. Fractal Pop series, Gamemax Titan Silent series) since the non-glass side panels often have sound-deadening material glued in.
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
It sounds from their blog posts, they tried to crib some config details from the MSI Intel boards they had done work with, but it seems like a relatively small part of the story. I bought one a few months ago because I had wrecked the PCI-E
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
The tech people have done a terrible job of using their leverage. They're inventing the cool hardware and infrastructure, but for some reason, they let the content people dictate terms. I want to see the LGs and Samsungs of the world
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
It's probably a turtles-all-the-way-down problem. Three or four blank lines is probably the least hostile and most foolproof way to handle addresses. But the cart software has distinct address-line-1, address-line-2, city, state, zip-c
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
I went year-make-model many years ago when I did an autoglass website. The filtering value is big as you said, and the model year as a first filter is easy to type in, and probably gets you reasonably close if you're off-by-one. Accid
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
It looks suspiciously like a Kensington Slimblade. That makes me wonder if the functionality could be done on random off-the-shelf trackballs in firmware or drivers, in which case you're not a product, you're a feature.
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
I got my General in late 2024, but haven't done much with it. Collected a few HTs, built one little 2m-specific antenna, but I'm a bit embarrassed to hit Transmit when I'm not sure I've got everything configured right
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
I understand the Fitt's Law concepts behind a top menu bar, but I wonder if this is a scenario with moving goalposts. On a 1984 Mac, you had like 512x384 pixels and a system that could barely run one program at a time. There was littl
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
There's a very reasonable argument behind that, though. "Sending" a file to another disc or on the network is non-transformative. At the far end, it's still a file . But "printing" is inherently transformativ
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
20 years ago, I used it a bit for my undergraduate work. Mostly as a "word processor that's prettier than... I suppose at the time, the old WordPerfect 8 for Linux"
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
The weird thing is that my family has started going to Red Robin recently. They started doing one thing right at least. Their recent $9.99-with-drink special happens to be pretty exactly what most of our party wants when we go to a burger
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by hakfoo 7mo ago
PATA-SATA adapters, the $3 AliExpress kind, seem to handle CHS fine. I have dumps of 40Mb and 200Mb drives from such adapters.
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
They didn't have to box themselves into "pitching electric cars to right-wing climate change deniers." I've heard there are rumours there are least three or four countries outside the US. In several of them, EVs are sel
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
I always wondered how ARM lost the plot there. Considering the original ARM use case was a desktop-computer shaped thing with some degree of expandability, they had to solve the same problems that the PC did in bringup/enumeration&#x2F
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
I'm curious about "good storage conditions". What are the threat models for tape, and how much do they vary for discs? I assume if I leave either in my car in an Arizona summer day, it's toast. But are tapes more prone
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
I bought a 3174-1L from my university because it was $20 and I didn't know that 1) it was a boat anchor without the rest of the system and 2) it wouldn't actually fit in the back seat of a Hyundai Sonata and 3) it was wired for 20
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
How are they getting 20% on a deposit that presumably could be called up at any time, and how can I get in on it when the stupid "High Yield" accounts I can find top out at around 4%?
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
There is definitely some room for reputation in the enthusiast/direct-to-consumer market. Crucial had one of the best marketing positions in the business: - They had a captive supply chain. There was no risk they'd switch from Sa
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
System integrity also ends at the border of the system. The entire ecosystem of ATM skimmers demonstrates this-- the software and hardware are still 100% sanctioned, they're just hidden beneath a shim in the card slot and a stick-on k
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
Humanoid robots are a lot of sizzle-- they promise all sorts of flexibility, at the cost of hugely higher cost/complexity/unreliability. If you can scope your problem to some degree, you can probably make some purpose-built automa
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
We're missing a part of the case though: why do you need to be a car-maker to be the vanguard for self-driving taxis? The best case scenario for a self-driving company would be to target software and sensor solution packages that they
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
This was a huge own-goal for their brand image. If I buy a FTDI based adapter, it might brick, and I lack the detection skill or supply chain control to be sure that it won't happen. If I buy a CH340 or PLwhatever based adapter, that d
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
It's fascinating how education has COMPLETELY fallen off the radar politically in the last 10-15 years. Even before we introduced a WWE manager for the Secretary of Education, we stopped discussing educational competitiveness. I can r
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
Crypto is arguably among the worst assets for that threat model though. When they called in the physical gold, people could squirrel away their $10 and $20 coins in wallsafes and shoeboxes to trade with trusted partners later. Declaring th
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by hakfoo 8mo ago
1. PHP and C. 2. I wish C had PHP's native "associative array as junk drawer" data structure. Conversely, I wish PHP had more support for a "long lifetime" task that wasn't expected to vanish at the end of a
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
There's also 4) Manufacturers could position the price of spares at a level that's intended to provide pressure to scrap salvagable devices and put the customer back into the market. The classic "it will be $150 to send the
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
For that kind of scam, all you really need the cooler, which are often parted out for legit reasons (watercooling, replacements, probably some specialized high-density and rackmount plays) and may be available as a spare or "second-shi
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
Wayland should have been been a research project rather than a full replacement for X11. Build it as a proof of concept implementation with just enough functionality that enthusiasts can get it up and running and add to the conversation ea

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