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by sspiff 3y ago
If anyone is looking for this, it's at the end of episode 30 from season 3.
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by sspiff 3y ago
Of all the children's programming my children have watched, Bluey is by far the nicest for us (the parents) to watch or listen to, and has been the most enduring in terms of popularity with our kids. Similar to Peppa Pig, the scenarios
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by sspiff 3y ago
Steam. I bought a ton of these on Steam and just copied the data files over to my sons tablet. Works perfectly, including localisation.
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by sspiff 3y ago
Interesting. My 5 year old sons favourite app on his Android tablet is ScummVM. I bought all the Putt Putt, Freddy Fish, and Spy Fox games on Steam, and after copying the data files over to ScummVM on Android, my son has been enjoying them
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by sspiff 3y ago
I've been using Firefox since it was still called Phoenix. It's amazing how we find ourselves in the same situation we did 20 years ago, at the mercy of a tech behemoth dominating how to access the Web, with the same Mozilla being
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by sspiff 3y ago
I love Rust, but I don't really care what language my editor is built in. That said, I'll give this a shot because: - no funky telemetry - the stack used (wgpu etc) means this might be sufficiently low level to be much more resour
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by sspiff 3y ago
I mean it's pretty obvious that it is not happening today - as Jobs has been dead for over a decade and Schmidt has no official link to Google or Alphabet since 2020.
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by sspiff 3y ago
I live in a European country, and while non-competes are legal, if a company chooses to exercise them, they are also forced to continue to pay you for the duration, and you can still take a non-competing job in the mean time. Non-competes a
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by sspiff 3y ago
Except then you're not testing on the hardware configurations people will actually run the software on. People do run software with HyperThreading on and on E cores and with Turbo boost and throttling. Having code that behaves better i
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by sspiff 3y ago
Never going to happen. Apple has been fighting any efforts that attempt to support building for iOS on non-Mac hardware. I don't know why it matters so much, but it seems to matter to them. I doubt the little extra money they made back
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by sspiff 3y ago
Depends. Most Linux users will run the latest security patches for all their software, not just the OS, because it all updates automatically. Additionally, a lot of Linix users run most attack vectors (like browsers or email clients) inside
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by sspiff 3y ago
The difference in experience for seeing a black or white background instead of a transparant one on the one hand, and missing HDR on the other is pretty big. 95%+ of humans won't even notice HDR being missing. Everyone with eyes will n
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by sspiff 3y ago
I would say at least in the context of extra data to extend the bit depth for HDR, that data could be considered ancillary? We've been rendering images in SDR forever, and most people don't have HDR capable hardware or software ye
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by sspiff 3y ago
Is this still the case? It certainly was in the early days of smartphones, where every update it felt like you needed double the memory to keep up. But I've been using devices with 4GB-6GB of memory for the past 8 years almost, and the
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by sspiff 3y ago
Have you tried the camera? How did you find it? I honestly don't care much about processor speed, if it can run a browser, messaging and banking apps I'm fine. But I need to be able to take family pictures which are good enough qu
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by sspiff 3y ago
I'm in a similar boat. I drive an 07 Volvo wagon, and it's practical, mostly reliable besides the odd repair and replacing wear items. It's still relatively safe, at least in terms of passive safety (it has a well engineered
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by sspiff 3y ago
If your friends can't accept that you will ruthlessly lie, betray, abandon and/or backstab them in a game that is designed for just such actions, are they really good friends? I used to betray my friends and supply there enemies w
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by sspiff 3y ago
That's an extremely sad point of view. Of course humans can accomplish things that are not economically viable. Perhaps it's become harder in our current society, but many great projects of man were economic folly. To give one adm
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by sspiff 3y ago
I still love technology, technical challenges and clever hacking. But 95% of real world work is not that. 95% of work is fairly boring plumbing or translating of requirements into something that will make money for the company. And that&#x2
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by sspiff 3y ago
It's not exactly FAT32, but close enough. I don't know if they provide any way to bypass the 4GB limit, but I doubt it. Still, that would be 4GB per file, and UEFI provides a file system access interface, so you could easily load
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by sspiff 3y ago
In my personal experience, I prefer people saying "I need you to" over "If you could just". The "nice" corner of the chart simply screams hypocrisy to me. Like they want to say or mean "do this" but t
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by sspiff 3y ago
1. Yes, that's exactly right. It installs a GRUB version compiled into a PE executable, typically. 2. Boot sector support requires UEFI CSM support, which most PCs have (but ARM based devices and Intel Macs don't). With the deprec
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by sspiff 3y ago
I'm European and I studied Latin for 6 years in high school and yet I found the test very challenging.
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by sspiff 3y ago
No, UEFI loads PE executables from a special partition called the EFI System Partition or ESP. There's no real size restriction there as far as I know. Before the ESP is accessed, there is no standardized way to customize the boot proc
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by sspiff 3y ago
First open source amdgpu release was 2015, so 8 years later. You could probably reasonably stretch an Nvidia 8800 GTX (the absolute top card in 2007) to 2012 if you were thrifty with the settings and resolution. But by 2015 you couldn'
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by sspiff 3y ago
Ahem, the Republic of China is their preferred name.
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by sspiff 3y ago
I wonder how much actual conversion happens in these kind of forms, anyway. Who are the people that sign up to newsletters of a random website before even reading anything? And who signs up after reading just an intro? I get the idea of the
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by sspiff 3y ago
Sorry, I didn't notice. I read the beginning but it was a bit long winded for my taste (insert comment about modern attention spans here). I skimmed through it but obviously missed the multiple paragraphs about the Walgreens saga (inse
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by sspiff 3y ago
A fun aside: Cooler Screens, the company making these, used to be the CEO of Walgreens, and Walgreens is their only "whale" customer. Walgreens began to sour on the idea of the idea of these screens, and the current CEO basically
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by sspiff 3y ago
Off topic: I ended up not finishing the article, because first it presented me with a full screen overlay asking me to sign up to their news letter, forcing me to click on "I want to read it first" to see the article. Then after s

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