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by shantara 1y ago
Valve cares about battery life and user experience more than just raw power, and after watching multiple other handhelds deliver very insubstantial improvements over Steam Deck OLED at 3x power consumption, I tend to agree. I'm convinc
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by shantara 1y ago
The U.S. Army was secretly developing antimemetic weaponry as early as the 1940s.
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by shantara 1y ago
Scott Manley has published a video a few months ago explaining why putting data centers in space is an absolutely terrible idea. Lumen Orbit, the company mentioned, is a former name of Starcloud. https://www.youtube.com/watc
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Conquering FidelityFX FSR4 – Enabling the Pretty Pixels on Linux(themaister.net)
1 points by shantara 1y ago|0 comments
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by shantara 1y ago
As someone who grew up in Eastern Europe, I had a completely identical reaction. We had so many similar populists and idiots in power, one cannot help but recognize the obvious pattern. Many people in America seem to be convinced that their
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by shantara 1y ago
I was interested in zed as I was looking for a performant VSCode replacement, but its inability to fully remove AI integration and disable the prominent sign-in button made me lose any interest. Judging by the project’s response or lack of
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by shantara 1y ago
That’s true, but it’s only relevant for the initial setup. I wouldn’t think twice about giving up something so minor compared with the sheer anticompetitive nature of Synology locking down the devices.
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by shantara 1y ago
I’m running two Synology NAS devices, and I wouldn’t consider their app ecosystem to be their strong point. I started by trying to take advantage of the built-in Synology apps when I first got my NAS, but quickly realized how limited they a
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by shantara 2y ago
I love this reconstruction of green Sahara map: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cchurchili/40921572803/
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by shantara 2y ago
I’ve been reading the article about the failure of new Siri and this quote stuck with me: >Apple's AI/ML group has been dubbed "AIMLess" internally The article: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04&#
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by shantara 2y ago
What I had in mind wasn’t iMessage, but the fact that banking and digital ID systems such as Danish MitID are increasingly being built with the assumption that everyone owns a smartphone. https://www.mitid.dk/en-gb/
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by shantara 2y ago
We’re rapidly approaching the point where having a smartphone is becoming a necessity for being a functional part of the society. You could argue that is some countries we’re already past that point. A device of this social importance that’
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by shantara 2y ago
A counter-example: FlickType apple Watch keyboard https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/16/22676706/apple-watch-swip...
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by shantara 2y ago
Could you explain why are you flashing your keyboard so often? I have QMK keyboard, and I never felt like I’m missing anything by using it as is out of box. It also has a hardware switch for Mac/PC layouts, which is the only feature I
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by shantara 2y ago
Another amazing feature is the ability to flash a BIOS from an unbootable system. You insert a flash drive with the firmware file into a USB port, press a hardware button and the BIOS gets updated, even without a CPU socketed.
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by shantara 2y ago
A modestly sized list of WiFi networks (30-40 items) slows down and stutters while scrolling on a M4 MBP. SwiftUI is a performance disaster, and I refuse to use it outside of toy single screen projects
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Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server(blog.diego.dev)
322 points by shantara 2y ago|84 comments
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by shantara 2y ago
Similarly, in many Slavic languages the bat could be translated as “flying mouse”.
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Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator(github.com)
183 points by shantara 2y ago|38 comments
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by shantara 2y ago
This is a wild guess, but could this feature be disabled in an attempt at preventing some publicly undisclosed hardware vulnerability?
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by shantara 2y ago
In addition to this, Steam provides an option for developers to expose the older game versions to the players, which Valve themselves make an active use of. So if you have a specific old mod that’s not compatible with the new update, or don
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by shantara 2y ago
I’ve been following Larian trying to build a game of their dreams since early 2000s. It’s been immensely satisfying to see they finally succeed and achieve the popularity they deserved with the release of BG3. I also highly recommend Divini
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by shantara 2y ago
I can't recall any cases where a game delisted from Steam was removed from the libraries of people who already bought them. Meanwhile, Oxenfree was removed from itch.io, including making it unavailable for download even for those who h
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by shantara 2y ago
9800X3D is supposed to have Eco mode with a lower TDP cap, similarly to other AMD processors. I don't see it included in the initial reviews, but it would be curious to see the followup data. If the history is anything to go by, it wou
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by shantara 2y ago
A significant portion of the global shipping [1] is the transportation of fossil fuels, so a general transition to renewables would contribute to reducing that. [1] 40% according to https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelb
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by shantara 2y ago
I think you’re giving PCs way too little credit compared to Macs. AM4 motherboards from 2017 can have 5800x3d or 5700x3d CPU installed, the former of which is still #2 in the majority of gaming benchmarks beating anything Intel can offer fo
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by shantara 2y ago
And how many people regularly commute across the United States? The absolute majority of the journeys people make regularly is still quite short, so why not start by optimizing for them? Then continue with building high speed intercity conn
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by shantara 2y ago
LVFS seems to be focusing mostly on laptop hardware, isn’t it? I am currently looking into building a Linux-based gaming PC in the near future, and none of the major motherboard manufacturers appear to be posting the BIOS updates there. Am
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by shantara 2y ago
Bought on OLX, which is an Eastern/Central European version of Craigslist. Not a place that you should be buying expensive electronics without considering a possibility that you’re being scammed
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by shantara 2y ago
One of the multitude of issues found during Starliner flight preparations was that the wiring insulation was flammable, which forced them to rip out and redo the entire thing. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/

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