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by j3097736 10y ago
Because most of the failures I see are simply a product of bad design/cost cutting. Otherwise we would have plenty of other devices based on the same technology fail.
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by j3097736 10y ago
But what about the time spent moving it around/waiting for the technician/trying to repair something clearly not designed to last/shopping for a new one?
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by j3097736 10y ago
>pv < image.iso > /dev/sdb Huh? pv can cat stuff on it's own, and it will be able to make a progress bar based on the filesize pv image.img > /dev/sdb
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by j3097736 10y ago
That's not a fair comparison with gif/apng if the thing can pick between webm or mp4 to get hardware acceleration and start/stop off-screen videos.
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by j3097736 10y ago
Animations can be easily edited with an image editor and most people probably don't want to spend time playing around with ffmpeg flags.
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by j3097736 10y ago
Try replacing those with videos and stand back as the CPU fan spools up at full power.
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by j3097736 10y ago
It's pretty impressive to see more arm64 than i386
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by j3097736 10y ago
All of those vulnerabilities are pretty useless unless you can get the data out easily, the CIA solution seems better
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by j3097736 10y ago
What if one just wants basic audio as provided by ALSA
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by j3097736 10y ago
Oh, nice
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by j3097736 10y ago
Because Google usually does a pretty good job as far as performance is concerned. ie: They have a simple 404 page instead of some novelty page with funny text and a random webm playing in the background
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by j3097736 10y ago
Parent was referring to "equivalent of VT-x and VT-d" which translates to svm and iommu.
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by j3097736 10y ago
It's just a nozzle integrated in the arm, not part of the wiper blade.
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by j3097736 10y ago
Why wouldn't it?
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by j3097736 10y ago
Lazy loading really sucks when you're left with a blurry image because it timed out while serving the full image (can happen even with an acceptable connection). Unless it's really clever I'd prefer if they just let the brows
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by j3097736 10y ago
>only Sounds like you need an adblocker, Firefox ESR + ublock Origin should be enough to make a 10yo single-core machine usable for common web browsing
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by j3097736 10y ago
>Windows account, which was the key to his PC. The windows 10 experience
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by j3097736 10y ago
But why switch to a tiling window manager when XFCE + dmenu + custom shortcuts is good enough?
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by j3097736 10y ago
millions of flies can't be wrong
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by j3097736 10y ago
>So the only "upgrade" path is to replace the entire PCB. Except that it's not a tightly coupled design so there's enough space to add more boards. Somebody that only want to play with gadgets shouldn't review so
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by j3097736 10y ago
How to NOT "create compelling ad experiences": 1) After the content has loaded it's broken into pieces by blank spots which slowly fill up with ads 2) Loading the page maxes out a recent CPU 3) Page with ads does 3x
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by j3097736 10y ago
>will become boring after you see it couple more times The only websites left in my whitelist are those that only have static image banners.
53.
by j3097736 10y ago
There's https://github.com/NicolaeNMV/BehindTheOverlay which can also remove other kinds of overlay popup
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by j3097736 10y ago
Subscribe to a subset of the lists you would normally use.
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by j3097736 10y ago
Even the 2.5" ones inside laptops that are basically desktop replacements and run cool enough seem to fail a lot compared to their 3.5" brothers. Good thing SSDs exist now.
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by j3097736 10y ago
The only characteristic unique to firefox is a customizable UI, everything else can be done by existing browsers.
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by j3097736 10y ago
Because bittorrent is designed to be easy to implement to favour adoption, they could have created a more performant DHT and added something like eMule's automatic upload speed sense but that would have been more complex.
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by j3097736 10y ago
I believe most of them also derive IPs from MAC addresses because I always get the same addresses, even with the routers NVRAM set to read-only and different OSes
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by j3097736 10y ago
>That sounds pretty much in line with all the CPUs that followed. Because the Intel CPUs that followed actually had power saving features, previously found only on mobile versions. Those P4 would just run hot all the time, not pleasant b
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by j3097736 10y ago
My HDD on Linux barely has any disk access and is perfectly usable, meanwhile windows just loves trashing it for minutes, even with page file & unneeded services disabled.

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