kasabali

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by kasabali 7d ago
its manufactured on a smaller node so probably has more leeway for higher freq on all core loads. I’d also be weary of single core scores,Geekbench is known to be favoring specialized instruction sets like AVX or encryption extensions more
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by kasabali 8d ago
The problem with this is Microsoft foresaw it and pushed (bribed?) OOXML through ISO and now there's no standing on "forcing" an open standard without OOXML being one.
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by kasabali 11d ago
Sure, if you ignore PQ completely. Not that libjpeg-turbo is pinnacle of quality but hardware encoders, seriously?
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by kasabali 11d ago
joke's on you, it has never worked for me.
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by kasabali 16d ago
IMO Aero parts looked phenomenal but older Win32 parts like toolbars etc. didn't fit and looked odd
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by kasabali 16d ago
> Based on rumours Samsung finally cracked the secret on removing creases… That's every year since it's introduction
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by kasabali 19d ago
That's textbook FUD.
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by kasabali 21d ago
xdotool and wmctrl is what you need
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by kasabali 21d ago
It may be 20 less but still hundreds. I'll never understand the LTSC advocacy, it is still the same thing except they mopped up the most disgusting looking liquid seeping out to the floor but didn't touch the huge turd sitting in
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by kasabali 21d ago
> - 100% minimal designed for absolute performance coded ground up in rust Rust didn't exist in 90s yet Windows' performance was pretty good speed, consumption or bloat-wise.
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by kasabali 21d ago
> https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator made all those tools obsolete and useless for the most part, "debloating" after it's installed is always bad business. Unattended is no "magic&q
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by kasabali 24d ago
Play services isn't an "app", it's a highly privileged system service that has access to everything and some more.
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by kasabali 24d ago
> You can create an account with no phone number during Android device setup. Yeah now they have IMEI and all the other device specific info anyway they might as well forego the phone number
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by kasabali 24d ago
> For extra privacy, you can sign into the Play Store with a Google Account that isn't tied to anything else. I dare you try creating a Google account that isn't tied to anything else. Nowadays you can't even create an acc
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by kasabali 29d ago
"For a device with 8 GB, an app can use no more than 2.25 GB in the foreground, 1.5 GB for user-perceived services, and 1.5 GB in the background" These are still very generous limits I doubt that'll help at all
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by kasabali 29d ago
"... it's on a Mac ..." Tells you everything you need to know about Windows in 2026.
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by kasabali 1mo ago
Android is a heavy Rube Goldberg machine, it's amazing it even works at all.
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by kasabali 1mo ago
That’s a ridiculously unbalanced system and I very much doubt it was the norm. Even the cheapest systems in early 00s that came with a Celeron and 128 MB RAM had something like a TNT card with 32MB ram, that’s if not a bottom of the barrel
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by kasabali 1mo ago
This isn’t true anymore beginning with DDR4 speeds.
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by kasabali 1mo ago
Because it's a big fat lie
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by kasabali 2mo ago
Still goddamn bloat. No amount of sharing will change that.
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by kasabali 2mo ago
Cheapest local brand 15" CRTs could do 1280x1024 in early 2000s. because you weren't limited by the panel unlike LCDs. You'd need better than perfect vision to be able to make use of it, though.
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by kasabali 2mo ago
> ~300MB is perfectly acceptable if it works well, looks good and does what it should do. No it isn't. It isn't a word process for gods sake. It has one literally one job and 300 MB is like an order of magnitude off for that. T
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by kasabali 2mo ago
> It is clear from the article that what eats up so much RAM is not the weather app itself but the framework it runs on. There is a "Renderer", a "GPU Process",... eating most of it. You say tomato we say tomahto At t
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by kasabali 2mo ago
> mpv --idle --force-window 160 MB That's still a HUGE amount when you remember mplayer (which mpv was based on) ran on PCs that has had less RAM than that.
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by kasabali 2mo ago
> Nautilus is probably pre-indexing directory structure so it doesn't have to read disk every single time you open your home folder. That's good No it isn't good, and no it probably doesn't because it is kernel's
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by kasabali 2mo ago
15 years ago 4GB was comfortable and 8GB was abundant. Today 8GB is bare minimum.
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by kasabali 2mo ago
"base spec" is doing the heavy lifting here, not "soldered". DDR5 modules supporting 8000 MT/s CMP/EXPO profiles are available. 9000 is available with CUDIMM modules.
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by kasabali 2mo ago
I'm afraid in a few years iOS will actually (not as a joke) be the more open and customizable option
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by kasabali 2mo ago
imagine the 2 grams you'll be losing by skipping the m.2 connector

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