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by salamandersauce 5y ago
So is the main difference instead of using the R markdown package to compile a PDF or whatever you use a standalone tool? I'm not quite sure what cross-language means here I guess. Does Quarto also offer more beyond what R markdown doe
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
I guess I never noticed his because I never zoom or pan notebooks or change the canvas size? I just treat it as a notebook with a page the size of screen. Panning and zooming is something to be avoided on eInk IMO. I didn't even notice
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
It depends how you use it. I've gotten over 20 hours screen on time reading mainly comics with it set to refresh every page and WiFi on downloading issues along the way. I don't use the frontlight typically though. I don't ch
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
You could always load your own books since the first Kobo (in fact the only ways to get books on there was USB and Bluetooth with a Blackberry). This literally just removes the first setup requirement to log in with an account. You also don
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Why do you say the Boox Note app is unusable? It works well in my experience, it can sync automatically to Dropbox and I can sync notebooks between my two Boox devices. The only thing that sucks is the text recognition IMO. But it's g
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Yes there is. Sharp has their memory-in-pixel LCDs which are reflective and have less power consumption than traditional LCDs for some tasks. They've been used in stuff like the Pebble watches and the current Garmin Fenix line. I think
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
You could but Kobo devices expected you to log in with a Kobo or other partner account (Rakuten, FNAC, etc.) on first setup. This allows you to bypass the need for any account and just sideload books on. You could previously hack around thi
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
It isn't? I've never worked with Apple but they are pretty happy to cripple 3rd party smart watches to make their own look better. Or how big of frustrating mess it is to move data on/off an iOS device with iTunes vs. using i
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
The iPad Pros with lightning (except the 9.7") support USB 3. The connector can already do it and Apple brand USB C to Lightning cables support it if the device does, in addition to the USB 3 camera connection kit. They just haven&#x27
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Ha. I still had to do it yesterday because the PPI of my screen is 141 and so Nvidia set it to that and KDE half followed along making everything have larger title bars and fonts even at 100% desktop scaling. I had to set it to ignore the m
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Well ~ is basically just a shortcut to /users/ChuckNorris89. It's kind of surprising MS hasn't mapped ~ to go to basically the Windows home folder. In R on Windows you can use ~ to go there at least which is nice.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
I don't even think it's installed by default anymore either. It's not on my Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, Chrome was installed by default although it was pre-installed on my slightly older A51. It's basically just Chromium with a
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Yeah it's not good. I've only used a handful of times and every single time it just stopped playing in the middle of a song for no reason. It also sucks that they can't be bothered to create apps for anything other than their
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Yes they do. Prime comes with a limited version that "only" has a couple million songs. At least in some countries. They also have a higher tier called Music Unlimited that's more on-par with the other guys content wise but c
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
2.5Gb ethernet seems to be starting to trickle out at least. It's becoming a more common thing on desktop motherboards. Doesn't seem like there is a lot of 2.5Gb routers yet though.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
What happens when Activision decides its no longer worth keeping the server up? Or some other problem occurs keeping it from checking in, e.g. death of Nintendo Switch Online. I can still play Gameboy games I bought 20+ years ago with no pr
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Wow. No wonder Microsoft wasn't willing to shame Activision like Sony and others, they were in talks to buy it. Ridiculous.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
How does crypto solve that problem? Bitcoin has had a 1 year minimum of $30,000 and a maximum of $68,000. Etherium has had a 1 year minimum of $1200 and a 1 year maximum of $4800. I don't know about you but putting all my savings into
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Except not for software or digital content once you've started downloading it. From the FAQ on the site you linked: "If you purchase digital content - such as music or a video online - you cannot withdraw once downloading or strea
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
It is. Also really heavy because it used a lead acid battery. It was also wired in such a way that if the battery died it wouldn't turn on anymore unlike modern laptops that can run off the AC adapter directly. My parents threw theirs
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Not OP but the only show I've enjoyed on ATV+ was Ted Lasso. They have no back catalog either. Not enough content to even get me to browse around. Only had it because they bundled it with student subs of Apple Music, otherwise never wo
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
It helps that mappers added a lot of functionality. IIRC Super Mario Bros. is the "best" you could do on base Famicom hardware. Later titles typically rely on mappers to allow for not only increased game size but potentially impro
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Not technically a "new" game but something I was pretty amazed to see yesterday is a homebrew port of Tomb Raider to the GBA called OpenLara. It runs surprisingly well getting 15-20 FPS on real hardware. Insanely impressive and mu
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
A Vaio P is not a cheap option. They were expensive new and are kinda collectable so prices are high on eBay and other places compared to other laptops from the same time. It's also considerably smaller than even the 11" MBA, weig
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
They did sell a USB dongle that would take a PC's net connection and use that to make a WiFi access point for the DS or Wii.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
And yet subscription scams abound on the App Store. Apple makes it INSANELY easy to start subscribing to a $7.99 per week subscription that there is a load of scummy apps that try to trick you into starting one and people would be a lot mor
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
A laptop with a lower screen resolution has entered battery life but that has more to do with the fact you need brighter backlights to get the same brightness from a more dense panel. Pretty common to see 1080p versions of laptops that also
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
In more CPU demanding games it will start running into trouble. Even on a single-threaded performance level a Ryzen 5600X is about twice as fast as a Core i5-2500k from 2012.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Faster hardware maybe but I think the ThinkPad has other benefits, like being easy to repair and upgrade. I'm extremely frustrated at my 2018 MBP, I stupidly went with the cheaper 256GB option and really wish I could just pop in a 1TB
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
It's a lot of content though. Basically every movie/TV show these days is DRM encumbered either in the streaming app, cable box, the download file or on the disc. Besides some indie stuff the only non-DRM video content I can think

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