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by jorvi 10mo ago
I'd rather have a wobbly phone (how often do you push on your screen when it is flat on the table?) and a proper OS than a proper phone and a wobbly OS. Gesture navigation on Android was introduced half a decade ago and it is still
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by jorvi 10mo ago
AMD does this subterfuge as well. Put Zen 2 cores from 2019 (!) in some new chip packaging and sell it as Ryzen 10 / 100. Suddenly these chips seem as fresh as Zen 5. It's fraud, plain and simple.
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by jorvi 10mo ago
Considering it was a LEA that put them in court, yes, I don't think they were playing word games. Otherwise the LEA would have just forced them in court to intercept. However, I also think threat model comes into play here. If you don&
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by jorvi 10mo ago
Private Internet Access has denied under oath that they have logs to turn over. There is no reason to think that more reputable activist providers like Mullvad or AirVPN would if a party like PIA already doesn't. I'd steer clear o
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by jorvi 10mo ago
> something closer to a real hospital team, where you have experts of different disciplines That is not how hospitals work. The surgery departement won't have a crack team of different disciplines to teach budding surgeons everythin
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by jorvi 10mo ago
That second model is basically the hospital model. You have 1 veteran doctor overseeing 4 learning doctors. For example operating rooms do this, where they will have 4 operating rooms with 4 less experienced anesthesist and then 1 very expe
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by jorvi 10mo ago
No, even when they switched to machine learning their translations still made mistakes that would have made you look goofy. And even today their models still make mistakes that are just weird. It is especially baffling because Google has mu
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by jorvi 10mo ago
It isn't really Yet Another Chromium Fork, they're the company that does most anti-ad research / development. Stuff like Project Sugarcoat[0]. Their adblocking engine is also native and does not depend on Manifest V2, making
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by jorvi 10mo ago
Google Translation never "became very good" and it still isn't when you compare it to DeepL or Kagi. Where it excels is quantity. Often, niche languages are only available on Google Translate.
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by jorvi 10mo ago
Jon Krakauer pointed something similar out in relation to the native people around Everest attaining a higher quality of life (and thus more Western lifestyle) as more and more commercial Everest expeditions started happening. Climbing tour
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by jorvi 10mo ago
Almost no fonts do this by default and instead offer it as context alternate, but I feel a font should always use a dashed or preferably dotted zero. Zero being slightly skinnier than capital O is not enough for rapid visual clarity.
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by jorvi 10mo ago
To be honest, this is like.. 5 years back? Maybe more. But I don't switch DEs that often. It's funny to see the two things that prompted the discussion (naming desktops and per-desktop wallpapers) come up heavily under that issue
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by jorvi 10mo ago
Overview is when you press the Super ('Windows') key. What appears is an unholy amalgamation of a launcher, a workspace strip, a window overview, workspace peeking, and a dock. Worse yet is that every time you go in or out of this
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by jorvi 10mo ago
I really hate that at some point in the past, KDE developers decided that they hated how deeply intuitive virtual desktops are and deprecated them in favor of something deeply unintuitive (Activities). Any issue or complaint mentioning it i
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by jorvi 10mo ago
There are two very simple causes to point to why touch keyboards turned to shit: 1. Crowdsourced word weighting: your keyboard's stochastic predictions are no longer mostly based on your typing, but rather on what 'everyone'
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by jorvi 10mo ago
You can choose to believe what you want, in reality Google decided to nuke people their battery for fringe benefit to themselves. They flipped the switch way ahead of broad hardware decode support.
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by jorvi 10mo ago
[Older] LG TVs do not implement CEC Standby command. You need a hardware mod: https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/libcec/issues/363#issuecommen...
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by jorvi 10mo ago
Wrong. Google aggressively enabled VP8 on YouTube even when there was very little hardware decode. Saved a few megabits per stream on their side, nuked everyone's battery but hey Google didn't give a hoot because that was an exter
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by jorvi 10mo ago
It most likely would prevent you from playing anything HDCP. HDCP is illegal (?) to reverse engineer, and there are special versions of HDCP2 specifically for HDMI. You need a license and a verified device for HDCP. That might not matter mu
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by jorvi 10mo ago
Yes and no. HDMI CEC works pretty decent these days, all the kinks have been worked out over the years and the only time it bugs out is if you use Chinese brands (looking at you, TCL) that write horrid firmware and never fix any bugs found
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by jorvi 11mo ago
If you present an operating profit of €25 billion USD, yes, in a healthy true market competition would force you to either A) eat into your profit margin by reducing prices or B) invest in R&D and capacit- Actually, let me eat my words,
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by jorvi 11mo ago
"prevent overcapacity" is just a fancy way of saying "we prefer to gouge consumers at little risk to us." Hopefully the Chinese manufacturers ram(p) up rapidly and spike Hynix and Samsung with heavily undercut prices.
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by jorvi 11mo ago
UnrealScript was the bomb, it was what got me started coding. Specifically replicating the gravity gun from Half Life 2.
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by jorvi 11mo ago
Yes you can adjust them via sysctl or directly as kernel parameter arguments. That isn't my point. My point is that Linux has some horrible defaults :+)
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by jorvi 11mo ago
Well, for the two examples I named: vm.swappiness defaults to 60, which is default from when everyone was still running spinning rust with a swap partition. Servers these days usually have very specific storage+memory configurations, wherea
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by jorvi 11mo ago
I really dislike that Linux proper doesn't by default have x.xx-server, x.xx-workstation, x.xx-laptop and x.xx-desktop kernel variants. Or just doesn't have defaults, requiring distros to think about what to set during compilation
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by jorvi 11mo ago
Quelle surprise (wink wink)! This is the first time I've ever seen "toot sweet" used. The more you learn :)
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by jorvi 11mo ago
Somewhere there is a dark timeline where the BSDs won, there are 50 commercial and open source variants all with their own kernel and userland. The only promise of interoperability is in extremely ossified layers like POSIX. There is, howev
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by jorvi 11mo ago
> toot sweet Not sure if intentional but just in case: the usual term is "tout de suite"
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by jorvi 11mo ago
Well, in your article it already clearly states performance tanks as soon as you go on battery. By 20-40%.. On another very reputable Dutch site, you can see the Snapdragon consistently lead the Lunar Lake laptop, and that's with Lunar

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