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by handrous 5y ago
Tangentially related: what's state-of-the-art for data protection & access control for small organizations? One runs into the "someone's gotta be trusted with the master keys" problem there so early & often that
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by handrous 5y ago
I had decent success with PS1 games on the Pi2, which surprised me. Most games I tried ran well. I haven't tried on the Pi4 but I assume it's really good, based on that. PS2 might even work well, there. N64 was another story, but
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by handrous 5y ago
Just checked, looks like Vulcan under DRM on the Pi4 works, and at least some people in the Libretro ecosystem have already messed around with it, so this could benefit Lakka. Awesome. Maybe this'll mean getting to play with some decen
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by handrous 5y ago
It's on its way out, but we used "blue" that way in the US, too. Boomer-aged people are almost certainly familiar with that usage.
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by handrous 5y ago
I seem to recall looking into wooden blocks for my kids when they were a little younger, and finding not that they need batteries, but the new normal-tier wooden blocks are now kinda shit—small, uneven finish and size consistency isn't
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by handrous 5y ago
Lots of great 70s and 80s toys that are still around are terrible. Super soaker? A joke, premium prices and way worse than squirt guns 1/4 the price, which are themselves not as good as early Super Soakers. Tank's not even removab
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by handrous 5y ago
Teenage-me once found a DOS porn text adventure on a used 286 I bought from someone up the street, at a garage sale. This was shortly before dual-core processors hit the market as a common item, so the 286 was already ancient by then. Never
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by handrous 5y ago
In my interest, too. Pay attention to non-geeks using this "feature" and it's clear that web push is the 3rd party toolbar[0] of the modern web. Crap they enable by accident, then don't know how to get rid of. [0] Ask so
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by handrous 5y ago
I'd not have called the usage rare, just situations that call for it. Maybe it is and I've just not noticed, though? [EDIT] notably, I think it occurs pretty often in recent movies, mostly referring to cars, ships, and space-ships
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by handrous 5y ago
Right, but my point is that the PC is kinda niche, itself, as a consumer product. "The next PC" is a very different prospect—and far more B2B—than "the next smartphone". It could still be pretty big, but it's alwa
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by handrous 5y ago
They all keep announcing AR features for their devices and operating systems, even though those are very niche except as a "gee isn't that nifty" demo on current hardware—anyone who's held a phone or tablet or Gameboy
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by handrous 5y ago
Most major tech companies seem to be betting that non-shit AR glasses aren't far off, and are prepping to be ready for that day 1. Big VR bets makes less sense to me. AR is the next smartphone. VR is the next... TV or workstation monit
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by handrous 5y ago
Current government treatment of finance and big business (and free trade, and neo-liberal policies generally) is pretty unpopular among voters for either major party. Whole thing's regarded as a bunch of self-serving bullshit for the u
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by handrous 5y ago
> I'm wondering if my local credit union wants to hold my BTC for me, if I wanted to do something like that. They'll do that now with a piece of paper in a safe deposit box, no? Other options for their holding your BTC, includi
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by handrous 5y ago
Hell, I know people who can hear just fine but who nonetheless watch TV and movies—in their native language, mind you—with subtitles on 100% of the time.
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by handrous 5y ago
As Gen X and Millennials eventually retire[0], there are going to be a ton of people with lots and lots of time on their hands, with vision and hearing and fine motor control mostly ranging between "so-so" and "terrible&quo
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by handrous 5y ago
Strongly agreed, of all the stuff I miss from my 2014 MBP USB-A is still #1 (HDMI is a very close #2, though). The only shit I have that plugs into USB-C are Apple devices and a monitor purchased specifically to work with Apple devices.
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by handrous 5y ago
That "legacy video port" supports cable runs of lengths far greater than USB-C, making it way the hell more useful for lots of use-cases. Plus most of the rest of the computing world still ships HDMI, so "I can't plug
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by handrous 5y ago
Standard, easy-to-spot-and-read icons or (even better) color-coding (or, better still, both), used by (forced on under licensing terms or by law [as in the EU charger laws], more probably, if it's to actually happen) every manufacturer
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by handrous 5y ago
I'd disagree. At least with 3 you know , simply by looking and without even having to try it, that the cable (well, the connector) is the problem, and not something else. You can rule out (or in) an entire bin of cables by eye.
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by handrous 5y ago
X/Y "Cusper" (I think most cut that off at '82?), or just an early or "elder" Millennial if you're slightly past that. Some like to add an "Oregon Trail generation" that covers the tail end of X
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by handrous 5y ago
The space museum (also home of the famous Space Camp) in Huntsville, AL sure is pimping it, still. That's the one and only future rocket for USA space flight, one might think if one's only knowledge came from a visit to that museu
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by handrous 5y ago
That's actually really cool if you wanted to send input over the same connection. Like, if the thing that's remote is the computer , not the monitor or projector. Put your noisy graphics workstation in the utility room or somethi
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by handrous 5y ago
> I'm happy to see HDMI ports showing up on more laptops these days! HDMI is going to be especially sticky, and great to have built-in, for years to come, most likely. AFAIK USB-C cannot replace it, because, like most data cable
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by handrous 5y ago
> Going back to your desk is a work problem, the office should just have those dongles in all the conference rooms and the problem you describe is entirely moot. You run into this a lot places where only some developers and maybe the art
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by handrous 5y ago
I definitely agree that USB-C makes a great connector for workstation-type docking situations, if you're getting to pick all the hardware for that purpose (which is what I've done, too). > USB-C to HDMI for video, also works fo
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by handrous 5y ago
Right, I'm not necessarily anti-touchbar as an idea (though I also wouldn't pay any amount of money to gain even some hypothetical good version of it) and wasn't that bothered by losing the F-keys, but as implemented it w
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by handrous 5y ago
> I mean let's be honest, how many of us are road warriors that need every single type of connectivity known to exist? Road warrior? It also meant you could grab it and go to the conference room and not have to take anything else
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by handrous 5y ago
My assertion, broadly, is that GraphQL is incidental to the good things that have grown up in its ecosystem, that GraphQL is per se not especially good or interesting, and that attempting to replace a traditional REST interface with it,
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by handrous 5y ago
You can pick up a 2015 MacBook and walk away carrying nothing else, and handle a wide variety of situations that may occur. Three things enable this: long battery life (don't need your brick); a touchpad that's not absolute hell t

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