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by jorvi 1y ago
> I always feel really grotty about evangelising for products You shouldn't. Word-of-mouth should be the primary way people discover products. In ye olden days, a region's best bakery or blacksmith didn't become well-known
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by jorvi 1y ago
> It really doesn't matter, you're again conflating the "kernel" and "desktop" distinction that's important here Right, under a post that says "Linux reaches 5% desktop market share". to whi
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by jorvi 1y ago
The problem is that people who want a small phone prioritize the size. Most of them don't care about the premium features of larger phones. So the Mini was a weird niche within a niche. Small phone with premium price and features. The
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by jorvi 1y ago
They aren't. Or not in the sense that it matters for traditional Linux desktop users, which is pretty much the only reason the metric gets brought up. Following your logic, people using the old TiVo setop boxes were also Linux users. A
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by jorvi 1y ago
You are being obtuse. 99% of Steam Deck users won't ever use the desktop mode except for maybe setting up emulation or Discord. In general, that makes Steam Deck users no more Linux users than people that use Android.
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by jorvi 1y ago
1 and 4 contain straight up ads.
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by jorvi 1y ago
Don't let everyone responding gaslight you. YouTube Premium is absolutely stuffed with ads[0] (sorry, 'promoted content' / 'sponsorship'). The only probable explanation I have for this is that Google has succes
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by jorvi 1y ago
Look at this Kioxia Excera drive[0]. It plummets from 6800Mb/s (850MB/s) all the way to 1600Mb/s (200MB/s). Its not really a well ackshually comment, there's real pitfalls. Especially when doing 4K. RAW 4K is 12Gb
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by jorvi 1y ago
A bit further down the comment chain, martinald has a great succinct explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44538489
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by jorvi 1y ago
Not sure what warranted such an aggressive response. I grew up in the 90s, on 56kb modems and PCs that rumbled and whined when you booted them up. I was at the tail end of using floppies. I never said I didn't love the speed of SSDs, a
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by jorvi 1y ago
It's not really the SSDs themselves that are incredibly fast (they still are somewhat), it's mostly the RAM cache and clever tricks to make TLC feel like SLC. Most (cheap) SSDs their performance goes off a cliff once you hit the b
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by jorvi 1y ago
It literally is quite that simple. I can tell you from experience via friends and acquaintances that tourists are crushing the locals out of Barcelona and Amsterdam. And I expect the same to be true of Warsaw or Berlin. And its not just tou
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by jorvi 1y ago
IBM saw their internal tech support requirement plummet when they switched to MacBooks. I've never understood companies that cheap out on laptops. Even if you only pay someone minimum wage (€1800), a high end laptop is ~1 month wage, a
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by jorvi 1y ago
You could have taken the 10 seconds to type in "PeaZip GUI" and seen that it is not a mobile interface and it is indeed much nicer than the 7-Zip interface. Instead you chose to make a useless snarky comment. Be better.
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by jorvi 1y ago
I wouldn't be too sure of the EU being a particular strong stalwart of public institutions vis a vis privacy. They keep trying to hammer through anti-encryption or logging or scanning laws. Big picture, there isn't a government in
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by jorvi 1y ago
.. but 7-zip has a pretty terrible GUI? Hence why PeaZip is so popular, and J-Zip used to be before it was stuffed with adware.
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by jorvi 1y ago
A submarine is propelled by a propellor and helmed by a controller (usually a human). It would be swimming if it was propelled by drag (well, technically a propellor also uses drag via thrust, but you get the point). Imagine a submarine wit
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by jorvi 1y ago
Yet another subscription. $48 per year for bookmarks.. no thanks.
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by jorvi 1y ago
QNTM is actually 'remastering' this into a book and then publishing it. There's also another great one about a spinning disc that ends up opening a portal when placed on a mirror. SCP-093.
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by jorvi 1y ago
Its very much a gendered thing. If you have lots of female (online) friends and late night topics with them ended up trending spicy, you might hear of AO3. FWIW the vast majority of writing on there is decidedly mediocre. There is also an e
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by jorvi 1y ago
> want to grow our business and advertising is how you get your name out there Or.. you know.. offering a quality product?
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by jorvi 1y ago
Oh, you mean being locked out by the vendor, not accidentally locking yourself out. Yes, that sucks. I have an old account at a FAANG they won't allow me to log in to despite me knowing the current password, my old passwords and the ol
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by jorvi 1y ago
Google aggressively forces you to add your phone number or a backup email, multiple pop-ups per month. When you make a passkey they again aggressively try to force you to have backup access methods. You really have to put in a good effort t
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by jorvi 1y ago
That is very rarely how passkeys work. You chose a worst case example and are comparing it with your best case example. Virtually all sites have one passkey, tied to your vault of choice (Apple, Google, 1Password, etc). You make one, and yo
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by jorvi 1y ago
Are you on an iPhone Mini? Just like the 5S / SE before it, corporations just sort of stopped testing that screen size, which leads to dumb UI gaffes like that. Another classic is button or menu text getting truncated. Spotify had that
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by jorvi 1y ago
What kind of knives are we talking about? I have a Leatherman Skeletool and a Buck 110 knife, and both are such high quality for what feels like a reasonable price (especially considering the warranty), I just can't imagine chinesium b
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by jorvi 1y ago
R1 sometimes fails against V3 for me too, so its not a specific dig against Gemini. In terms of code and science, Gemini is way, way too verbose in its output, and because of that it ends up getting confused by itself and hurting the qualit
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by jorvi 1y ago
This is everyone with every model. People sang praise from the roof for Google's Gemini 2.5 models, but in many things for me they can't even beat Deepseek V3.
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by jorvi 1y ago
Yup. The book torrenting case is pretty nuts. If I can reproduce the entirety of most books off the top of my head and sell that to people as a service, it's a copyright violation. If AI does it, it's fair use. Pants-on-head idiot
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by jorvi 1y ago
The problem with AliExpress is that you'll get a tip about time X, you click the link and the link is dead. You then search for thing X. You get about 1000 results of X from different sellers, most of them crap imitations and some of t

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