kalleboo

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901.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Just watch out for the TS3 dock, a few of the USB ports on it are driven by a flaky chipset and should be avoided https://sebvance.medium.com/the-secret-caveats-of-the-caldig...
902.
by kalleboo 2y ago
The problem will also be getting gasoline, if just 90% of the cars on the road are electric, a lot of the gasoline infrastructure will go away.
903.
by kalleboo 2y ago
I had a SHARP Aquos Phone SH-12C with a 3D camera and lenticular display and some of the photos I took with that phone are some of my most treasured photos since the 3D aspect really brings you back to where you were. But back then everyone
904.
by kalleboo 2y ago
> it’d be tough for someone to justify spending $30K on a single purpose camera These are cameras that productions rent by the day for a specific shoot, not something they buy outright. Similar to high-end cine cameras, slow motion cam
905.
by kalleboo 2y ago
There was a period of a few years where they raised the sales tax in steps 5%, 8%, 10%, and stores were allowed to show the price without tax during that period, which has left some practices a bit messy since.
906.
by kalleboo 2y ago
At least where I live in Japan (not Tokyo), a huge portion of taxi drivers quit over COVID, and it can be impossible to get a taxi during many times of the day. This wasn't a problem at all 5 years ago.
907.
by kalleboo 2y ago
I think they're talking about Apple News
908.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Rumors are that Apple are caving on there "no controllers" thing https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/08/sony-vr2-controllers-ap... I think requiring the gestures as the baseline control scheme is smar
909.
by kalleboo 2y ago
At least when you purchase an iPhone new, Apple does push a "Personal Setup" session with their staff either in-store or online https://www.apple.com/shop/personal-setup (click the "Feature Focus"
910.
by kalleboo 2y ago
The programme is there for the convenience of the airlines. If someone arrives in the US and is denied entry, the airline is on the hook to fly them back. It's much better for them for the traveler to be denied before even boarding.
911.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Image if electricity or landline phones were invented today. Rural electrification would never have happened. (Similarly, if the web browser was invented today, it would never have made it into an app store)
912.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Yeah we should have all just stuck to Shift-JIS
913.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Cost. IPv4 is so expensive to support that one ISP out there is literally giving people Apple TVs with IPv6 support to replace IPv4-only Roku devices https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/03/06/roku-appl
914.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Maybe it's similar to the "Grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand, sold in USA" pears issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aH3ZTTkGAs
915.
by kalleboo 2y ago
The era of Kaleidoscope was so full of creativity, I have a lot of nostalgia for it. My sister and I would have wars for what scheme would be set on the family Performa, and it would change out weekly. There's also a Mastodon bot that
916.
by kalleboo 2y ago
The btrfs volume on my Synology NAS is 6 years old now, with 24/7 operation (including hosting web sites with constant read/write database activity) and going through several volume resize operations. No issues.
917.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Where I live (Japan), 10 Gbit availability is starting to spread, I just got upgraded a few weeks ago, the monthly cost is the same. Ended up building a router out of a used ThinkCentre Tiny.
918.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Yeah I had been under the impression that the point of captchas like this (and those "slide a puzzle piece" ones) weren't the solution to the problem as much as checking for human-like mouse movements.
919.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Those requirements have to be from the expansion or something, I played a lot of WarCraft II on my 25 MHz '040 Centris 660AV back in the day (we also had a family Performa 5200 so my house was the only place my friends could play multi
920.
by kalleboo 2y ago
If you really care, you can still get an excellently-engineered $300 toaster today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxAbz9mfaj0
921.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Even a CD every other month sounds high to me, buying a CD a week sounds insane to me, where would you even put them all? I owned like... 6 CDs total before I started downloading MP3s. I would just listen to the radio. My friends were the s
922.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Spotify has a free tier, which pays way less since it's ad-supported. Apple Music is pay only (with only a 3 month free trial)
923.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Some of the models do - I have the M720q and it has a small form factor PCIe 8x slot on the motherboard, but you need a proprietary riser board (cheap on aliexpress) to convert it to a real PCIe slot, and it takes the place of the internal
924.
by kalleboo 2y ago
In Japan they are very common for canned coffee, I dunno if it's because plastic bottles are unsuitable for warm drinks or something? (the drinks are kept hot ready to drink in the vending machine/store aisle) https://d
925.
by kalleboo 2y ago
So say they don't "own" the account and it doesn't get transferred. After the trademark is transferred, can't they still get the account shut down for impersonation?
926.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Even on Something Awful, people had large custom avatars and signatures that made them more distinct (who remembers winampdb?) so you recognized prolific users, instead of a small, gray user name
927.
by kalleboo 2y ago
> Firstly, it has been extremely common for albums to be sold with very compressed dynamic range, assuming the average consumer will be listening in noisy environments etc. However, the mastering supplied to Hi Res shops sometimes lacks
928.
by kalleboo 2y ago
> Hi Res audio is snake oil designed to sell the same thing multiple times, period There's a karaoke bar I go to with "Hi Res" logos on the speakers. These are basically MIDI files, in a loud bar atmosphere, who is going
929.
by kalleboo 2y ago
Yeah it's going to suck for Americans as the US has to lower their total emissions to match the country of Denmark.
930.
by kalleboo 2y ago
The company that acquired the rights ported a few of the modules to modern macOS https://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/afterdarkclassicset/index...

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