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by qplex 7y ago
The Paleo-Eskimo, Dorset and Inuit cultures have existed in the Arctic North for over 4500 years.
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by qplex 7y ago
"As an example, one commercial QVGA OLED display consumes 0.3 watts while showing white text on a black background, but more than 0.7 watts showing black text on a white background, while an LCD may consume only a constant 0.35 watts r
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by qplex 7y ago
Adding to this: it's not just the textual content. Speech almost always carries an additional layer of information, imprinted by who or whatever spoke the words.
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by qplex 7y ago
Morpheus is the ancient greek god of sleep and dreams. The etymology fits better in The Matrix than either of these projects.
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by qplex 7y ago
If such mandatory "new platform features" dont have anything to offer for a program to make it better, updating it brings in absolutely nothing for the user but the ability to continue to use the program. I think it is pretty unre
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by qplex 7y ago
If the bugs eat the crops, there isnt any crawled over food left.
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by qplex 7y ago
Did you pay for Applecare? Most people do not get free replacements or repairs for their iPhones.
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by qplex 7y ago
>a premium reseller replaced the battery in 45 minutes for free. I bought the phone in Australia. Try that with your Pixel... Actually on a (Samsung) Galaxy 5 you could've just popped open the back of the phone and replaced the batt
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by qplex 7y ago
Counter-Strike was super fun during the time it took form (the beta versions from 0.5 to 5.2 ish). They tried a lot or different things, like dual wielding machine guns. The community was awesome also.
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by qplex 7y ago
I had a system boot loop on a Intel core-i system because a microcode update "disallowed" overclocking (this happened well before the spectre/meltdown debacle). The only solution was to prevent the os from loading the bad mic
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by qplex 7y ago
I get you're joking and while it seems to be trendy to put Xorg down, the reality is that it's actually the one that works. Wayland is still very buggy and not at all ready for mainstream use. I really don't get that Debian t
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by qplex 7y ago
Too late for that. DRM has been a thing in video games for a long time.
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by qplex 7y ago
This post doesnt make much sense to me since both the PS4 and XB1 are based on AMD APUs. Mobile is also not Intel. The only case to left are the Wintel PCs - and even that just makes Intel look bad since AMD CPUs run the games just fine. Fo
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by qplex 7y ago
Most of my 1.44MB 3.5" have rotted away as well. Sadly I don't have older ones left to test. I also havent seen a 5.25" drive in a long long time. What you should really do with floppies is to quickly copy the data to another
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by qplex 7y ago
I guess the reasonable size is relative. None of my laptops do this. The thermal design is basically broken if the CPU overheats and has to throttle to prevent a fire.
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by qplex 7y ago
Most likely it's standard procedure to clean every unit that comes in for repairs.
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by qplex 7y ago
I recently used Calibre to convert a pdf to epub. I agree the UX is lacking, but it works.
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by qplex 7y ago
It's pretty funny that pirated games often work better than the legal versions.
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by qplex 7y ago
It's for Linux also. From the article: "We currently have WebRender enabled in Nightly for: * Recent Intel and AMD GPUs on Windows 10 desktops * Linux users on Intel integrated GPUs with Mesa 18.2 or newer with screens smaller tha
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by qplex 7y ago
It's worth noting that Debian backports security fixes for firefox-esr and these come in more often than once a year[0]. [0] https://www.debian.org/security/2019/
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by qplex 7y ago
This (the OEM deals) is really by far the biggest problem that Linux has on the desktop. Microsoft still plays dirty and has done that for a long time.
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by qplex 7y ago
As far as I know the binary blob is packed with anti-user features such as ads and mandatory telemetry. It's not very sane to run anything on Windows.
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by qplex 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft (and Ballmer) still consider Linux a cancer. It's just progressed very far, and their latest moves are only desperate efforts to "embrace the cancer" before it completely consumes the marke
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by qplex 7y ago
This is not correct. Many manufacturers contribute drivers to the kernel.
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by qplex 7y ago
Most work isn't aimed at making technological progress towards a more ecological or otherwise better future. Most work is also not aimed at food production or housing anymore because of technology.
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by qplex 7y ago
Doesn't the audio quality take a hit when you transcode to MP3 though?
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by qplex 7y ago
Ahh. I remember being forced to install Quicktime 4.0 because I wanted to watch Star Wars: The Phantom Menace trailer. Another proprietary menace back then was RealMedia and RealPlayer. Some time later the .dll codec blobs for both QuickTim
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by qplex 7y ago
Linux on the desktop is very nice and easy to use, once installed & configured. However most people dont know how to install or configure Linux, Windows (or any other OS) on their devices. This also happens to be the reason why Linux is
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by qplex 7y ago
Is it? Pretty much every Android device has a WebKit (Chrome) based browser installed by default.
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by qplex 8y ago
Quake and Quake II didn't actually use Glide but a MiniGL wrapper for translating the OpenGL calls.

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