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by mkozlows 3y ago
"Things you build yourself" aren't really in competition with pre-built things for most people. Also, that Dilemma costs over $200 for an RGB PCB plus case. Add brand-name switches and keycaps, and you're not far off the
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by mkozlows 3y ago
Modifier key plus the number row gets you that trivially, and it's no different from having to hit Fn + F-key on a laptop. But even better is that if there are things you use regularly, you can map them up to a more convenient place.
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by mkozlows 3y ago
I think this is honestly just a thing to get used to. I use the semi-colon/quote keys for [] and p/backslash for {}. It means I need to hit a modifier key to hit them, but you always had to hit a modifier key (aka shift) to hit cu
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by mkozlows 3y ago
Because they're expensive. It's the same reason that phones have higher DPI than laptops/tablets do -- what's economical on a 6" screen isn't on a 13", and what's economical on 13" isn't on
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by mkozlows 3y ago
Okay, my situation is that I have a monitor that displays a larger than RGB color gamut. When I set an ICC profile for my monitor in GNOME, and go to a page that should be in an sRGB color gamut in Chrome in X, it displays it as it should l
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by mkozlows 3y ago
I promise you that color management works in X, at least with Chrome.
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by mkozlows 3y ago
I've been using Wayland (on Fedora) for a while, and it's been fine. No crashes, no weird performance problems. I wouldn't even know it's not X... ... EXCEPT THAT it doesn't support color management (or at least, Ch
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by mkozlows 3y ago
That's the plan as of right now, but the clear intent here is to push the government to change the rules to allow NACS-only chargers. If a few more automakers (Hyundai and VW being probably the most relevant) sign deals with Tesla to u
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by mkozlows 3y ago
This is what Tesla fans say, but the actual reasons they give are weak. The advantages of CCS: It supports 800V today, it supports V2L/V2H/V2G today. The advantages of NACS: It's smaller, which nobody cares about except Tesla
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by mkozlows 3y ago
While there is a lot of activity going on to build CCS chargers, the current state of the CCS charging network is not great. This is a competitive advantage for Tesla. So GM and Ford wanted to sign deals to use Tesla's charger network
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by mkozlows 3y ago
But to be clear, that's not what this news is about. This news is about Tesla's push to get other companies to sign onto their previously-proprietary, still-Tesla-controlled "NACS" standard, en route to pushing the gover
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by mkozlows 3y ago
They did. It was CCS. Everyone except Tesla was on board to using it, and it was widely viewed as the standard going forward, and even Tesla was retro-fitting its chargers with CCS ("Magic Dock"), and presumably would one day swit
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by mkozlows 3y ago
The Atlantic had a piece about the "surprise EV rental": https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/06/elect... What they say is dead on -- EVs are great, but getting an EV in a rental
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by mkozlows 3y ago
The thing about how this is affects Tesla is "compared to what?" Compared to the historic status quo where there were no other chargers, and Tesla had exclusive access to a large-ish proprietary charging network, it looks like Tes
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by mkozlows 3y ago
Yeah, hard disagree on all that. As someone who lived through that era professionally, and who has had an "architect" title in the past, I was actually resistant to ever stepping into that role, because I had so many bad experienc
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by mkozlows 3y ago
The answer here is: Yes. People are being weird pedants about J1772 vs. CCS to try to confuse this answer, but if you have a home J1772 adapter that plugs into your CCS car, and you get an NACS car in the future, you'll need to use an
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by mkozlows 3y ago
You can plug a J1772 plug into a CCS car without an adapter, and you can't plug it into a Tesla/"NACS" car without one. I think it's meaningfully true to treat J1772 as CCS for this purpose.
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by mkozlows 3y ago
CCS is a superset of J1772, and "CCS charger" here means obviously "charger that is physically compatible with a CCS charging port, but not compatible with an NACS charging port." I'm glad the adapter life works wel
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by mkozlows 3y ago
The benefit for Tesla is simple and twofold: 1. If CCS took off as the standard (which it was extremely going to), then Tesla having an awkward proprietary charging port makes using a Tesla annoying, and they'd eventually have to trans
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by mkozlows 3y ago
That is completely unrelated news about Tesla agreeing to use the actual standard (CCS) in their chargers to get federal funds. This news is about Tesla working Ford and GM to try to kill CCS. They're opposite pieces of news.
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by mkozlows 3y ago
But of course it's going to provide more resistance. As you say, CCS was the obvious standard -- everyone (except Tesla) building a car was using CCS, and everyone (including Tesla) building chargers going forward was using CCS. You co
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by mkozlows 3y ago
It's not 4K per eye. They say 23M pixels across two eyes, which is 11.5M for each eye. 4K is 8.2M. It's 40% more pixels than 4K, with the intent presumably being to be able to display a 4K-resolution display within a larger space.
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by mkozlows 3y ago
It's not 4K, though. They're not giving a lot of information, but "23M pixels" for two eyes is 11.5M pixels per eye. 4K is 8.2M, so this is 40% more pixels than 4K.
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by mkozlows 3y ago
I'm going to push back on this one for Linux: The "developer edition" thing was nice when they first started it out and Linux laptops were super-rare. But even then, it was clear that this was a Windows machine that was awkwa
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by mkozlows 3y ago
Yeah, 12th gen Framework works basically perfectly. They have a guide for installing various distributions (the one for Fedora is here: https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Fedora+37+Installation+on+th... ). Following that,
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by mkozlows 3y ago
The idea is that staff+ engineers can drive high-complexity work, right. There are arguably two types of that work: 1. Work where no individual component is complex, but there are a ton of moving parts and interlocking dependencies and inte
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by mkozlows 3y ago
I'd argue that if you're a staff engineer, you need to be adept at navigating the "political nonsense." A director/VP should be able to think of you as at least as senior and capable of handling ambiguity and being
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by mkozlows 3y ago
Based on the reviews, a motherboard swap to Intel 13th gen will significantly improve it.
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by mkozlows 3y ago
I'm also curious about this for the 13th gen one. My hope is that it shares the 12th gen's excellent Linux compatibility (the only thing that doesn't work with that one is that you need to turn off the light sensor for the br
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by mkozlows 3y ago
As a counterpoint, I love that they're subtle. I don't want big things glaring out at me. (But when they're disabled, there is an orange section. If you don't know that it's possible, as your family probably doesn&#

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