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by lloeki 3y ago
USB-A too: fat part bottom, connectors up, logo up. This also doesn't explain why three-state and five-state also apply to resp. mini+micro USB-A and USB-B. Oh wait, people don't look at the port front and center and fail to memor
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by lloeki 3y ago
> There's going to be video-only cables From my understanding I think that is not technically possible because to pass video they need the data lines but maybe I'm mistaken? IIUC again even if it did work I think these would be
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by lloeki 3y ago
> This isn't talking about computers. It's talking about a tablet that already suffers from intentionally crippled capabilities. You're missing the point: how can one blame Apple for a missing feature that is nonexistent O
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by lloeki 3y ago
The post is mostly covering "mind" and "metabolic" things, but the effect extends to "body" things: - more likely to avoid hurtful situations (lower attention, zone out events, micro sleep events, reflexes dimi
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by lloeki 3y ago
> It requires an iPad with a USB-C port Does it? If there are no iOS limitations specific to non-USB-C devices maybe it could work with an iOS 17 device + Lightning<->USB-C adapter.
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by lloeki 3y ago
Maybe I'm a bit of touch with non-Apple hardware but except for iMacs from 2009-2014 and their Target Display mode, I don't know of any computer or tablet that can be turned into a screen without third party software+hardware, so
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by lloeki 3y ago
You would actually see it departing both forward and backwards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
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by lloeki 3y ago
> those things are not particularly similar. the tree that nobody can hear while it's falling still has a real and measurable impact on its environment in various ways, Consider a hypothetical game like No Man's Sky. A tree fal
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by lloeki 3y ago
> lazy evaluation A common general pattern in games is to not process that which is not seen or known not to have any interaction - e.g there's no point in making NPCs/enemies move or think in the last room of a level (or a far
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by lloeki 3y ago
> I remember reading some rant by an open source developer This one? https://github.com/gco/xee/blob/4fa3a6d609dd72b8493e52a68f31...
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by lloeki 3y ago
Nice that it tells you that some colour is not available in your current gamut but it is in e.g P3... which reminded me that my monitor is P3-able but I forgot to set the proper profile!
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by lloeki 3y ago
Yes iOS. I tried a similar setup with Tailscale but it disconnects too frequently for such a use case due to iOS VPN limitations, and that's not even considering the fact that it's userland and eats the battery 30% faster when on.
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by lloeki 3y ago
I mentioned it; it is a very nice safety feature, we tried to use it (we were on the public beta) but it doesn't quite fit our use case, where instead we want something completely unattended, whereas Check In is more intentional, like
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by lloeki 3y ago
> on her own initiative My daughter is 3yo so a bit early ^^, but 2 years ago I bought my nephew (then 8, loves to tinker) a Pi 400 plus a couple of kid-oriented introductory programming books (about Scratch and Python, very nicely done
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by lloeki 3y ago
> My family leaves it on voluntarily at all times. Same. > I check to see if my wife’s left work yet to know if I should start dinner I (we) don't even do that, on purpose. If we want to know, we ask by message or call. > The
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by lloeki 3y ago
> Japanese localization Shift-JIS or whatever 0x5c shenanigans were immediately brought back to mind. https://web.archive.org/web/20061208222907/http://blogs.msdn... Still makes ripples to this day:
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by lloeki 3y ago
Or their watches, which is part of what makes them able to have an always on display and hit e.g 20+d on my Fenix 7 (or more if you turn off continuous HR). The comparable Epix has an AMOLED display and has to turn it off to achieve the sam
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by lloeki 3y ago
Completely forgot about this one, yet I spent so much time playing it! Absolutely true that pacing is key. The version I had had cycle-based speed so it became unplayable when I changed computers for a faster clocked one, which prompted me
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by lloeki 3y ago
> while outside in the sun on a hot day, you'll know what I mean, the performance is much worse. Once I've had it outright shut down and show a black screen with a pretty thermometer, how's that for "performance is mu
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by lloeki 3y ago
I don't think people (or the author for that matter) "forget" that, it's more of a statement about shutup10 needing to exist. At which point did this Operating System become a Persistently-Shovel-Things-In-Your-Face Syst
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by lloeki 3y ago
> I wish Apple would separate the updates of their bundleware from their OS. In a way it's a bit of a philosophical standpoint: macOS is the whole indivisible thing developed, built, and released in lockstep, kinda like FreeBSB base
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by lloeki 3y ago
> I love the idea of all application windows being able to be moved into tab groups. Are there window managers that do similar things? Haiku Stack&Tile! https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.ht
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by lloeki 3y ago
Distance to mouse means I either have to stretch my arm in long-term unhealthy positions leading to shoulder, neck, and upper back pain, or offset the keyboard and have the non-keypad not front and center. Typing numbers on a single row is
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by lloeki 3y ago
> Is that something you can configure in DfM No > or are you saying you sort of roll your own DfM alternative? Yes, I set up a NixOS VM and use DOCKER_HOST=ssh://docker@<ip> If you want to have it easy you can roll wit
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by lloeki 3y ago
Oh my I totally forgot about sandbox-exec! I played with it some time ago, can't recall the context but it was about build systems / packaging (maybe nix?), doing the configure/make/make install with reduced privileges.
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by lloeki 3y ago
Not that I know of. What I don't know and which might make a difference is when evicting to disk, zswap decompresses and swaps to disk uncompressed† as if swap wasn't there, while macOS might (or might not) disk-swap it compressed
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by lloeki 3y ago
Don't know how compressed memory works for in Windows, but on macOS its role is equivalent to swapping. No memory is compressed unless pages are evicted due to not being used. If memory compression wasn't present then it'd be
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by lloeki 3y ago
> running a x86 windows binary - looking for 32bit stuff under SysWOW64 - under x86_64 wine in a x86_64 Linux container AOT translated to aarch64 by Rosetta 2 for Linux that switched the ARM M1 memory model to Total Store Ordering on a a
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by lloeki 3y ago
> I mean in terms of functionality, this doesn't give me anything extra to what using docker would do on macos (granted it's via a linux based VM) Ah, I understand your angel, in that your use case is to run namespaced processe
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by lloeki 3y ago
Anecdotally: - there has been images like that circulating on well-known platforms† for a long time. - I never heard of a single DMCA on any of these, even though they were on much clearer violation of the license. Apple might be pulling a

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