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by whyoh 3y ago
It's supported until 2032 [0]. And don't let the IoT name fool you, it's a fully functional Windows 10. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...
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by whyoh 3y ago
>From a European perspective, American means from the continent America, and not specifically from the US. I don't think this is true for most of Europe. For at least three different EU countries that I lived in, America and Amer
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by whyoh 3y ago
Does cloning profiles (by copying an existing profile content to a new folder with a new name) work seamlessly? Or does every profile have some unique identifier that can cause problems if just copied over? The reason I ask is because I hav
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by whyoh 3y ago
IndieHD ( https://indiehd.com/ ) has been around for almost as long as Bandcamp.
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by whyoh 3y ago
>the advantages of float encoding (practically infinite headroom) The best implementations have a dynamic range of about 140-150 dBA. Floating point is not needed to achieve that and it isn't always used (look at Stagetec products).
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by whyoh 3y ago
Buying a Mac to run Windows never made much sense to me. And it makes even less sense now, because you're forced to virtualize. There are many different PCs out there in many form factors, some are very small, some are fanless... It&
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by whyoh 3y ago
The difference is that Apple has a much higher dev budget and a clear economic incentive to promote mobile apps. I think Audacity devs should instead focus their limited resources on desktop (mouse+keyboard+big screen) use. Also because if
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by whyoh 3y ago
Have you tried to do an internet search? There are simple step-by-step tutorials that tell you how to do it (and no 3rd party software is required). Note: it can get reinstalled automatically after an update, but you can add a registry sett
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by whyoh 3y ago
>This seems like a degredation compared to the current abuse potential which is mostly limited to logging you out. I think it depends on who you ask. IIRC there was a stat that showed a substantial % of people only use WhatsApp rarely an
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by whyoh 3y ago
>Could someone suggest what would be the appropriate alternative here? 1. Identify to your carrier and get a new SIM, deactivate the old one. 2. Put the SIM in another phone and take back your WhatsApp account. Isn't this the standa
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by whyoh 3y ago
>Say what you want about Debian's volunteers, but they're a hell of a lot more trustworthy than the average windows software download website. Really? Software developers, who distribute through their websites, have an economic
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by whyoh 3y ago
>we eat it, drink it, we have been doing that for decades ... Not at this rate. And we're probably still many years away from peak microplastics in our food and water.
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by whyoh 3y ago
I thought this would work with the Windows' built-in "Nearby sharing" feature, but nope. Apparently this requires: 1. installing a Google's app on Windows and 2. signing into that app with a Google account
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by whyoh 3y ago
I hope "Use small taskbar buttons" is back too. The default taskbar takes too much vertical space.
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by whyoh 4y ago
>historically, we see that the rich and educated upper echelons of society have apparently always struggled with fertility Do you have a source for this? I've read that it was the opposite until the 19th century. (Supposedly the sou
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by whyoh 4y ago
If you mean OAuth, they've added it earlier this year.
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by whyoh 4y ago
>The GP does have a point though. No. What happened at the company FTX has nothing to do with blockchain and smart contracts. It could have been an online exchange for euros or dollars or Pokemon cards. Violating the ToS and stealing u
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by whyoh 4y ago
The goal of a corporation is to make profit, that's all the shareholders care about. To suggest that they're hiring sub-optimal candidates, just to hire one gender over another, is a bit far-fetched. But that's actually very
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by whyoh 4y ago
I really doubt it's coming from the CPU. Most likely from the motherboard, near the CPU area. Many motherboards have coil whine nowadays, especially when power saving features (like C-states) are enabled.
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by whyoh 4y ago
Right, most people aren't bothered by it or don't even hear it. I see a lot of complaints online, though, so there might be a market for whine-free equipment. It's quite annoying when you have to record some audio with sensit
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Ask HN: Why is coil whine in electronics so prevalent?
45 points by whyoh 4y ago|64 comments
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by whyoh 4y ago
People talk about these requirements being a blow to Apple, but Android phones are going to be the real victims. With iPhones getting USB-C and sideloading and so on, there are fewer reasons to get an Android phone.
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by whyoh 4y ago
Yes, illegal or discouraged in some other way (taxed more heavily, for example), whatever works best. As the article points out, you can also push towards this by mandating higher minimum wages for people in this industry (currently they&#x
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by whyoh 4y ago
I find the tipping practice unpleasant from both the customer and the worker's perspective. Of course it's nice to receive more money, but it's better if it's part of the salary. And as a customer, I'd rather pay a
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by whyoh 4y ago
>And best part: phone can be serviced on the cheap in almost any mall in the world. Everyone got spare screens, batteries,cases sell in dollar store. Swapping parts like that on an iPhone doesn't work (anymore): https://w
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by whyoh 4y ago
>Wi-Fi 6 is faster than the internal SSDs read speed... It isn't. Even the upcoming Wi-Fi 7 will be a bottleneck for modern SSDs. But the much bigger problem is interoperability between different devices and OSs for Wi-Fi transfers.
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by whyoh 4y ago
Searching videos on TikTok greets me with an anti-bot puzzle. And it still doesn't let me see the results unless I log in. It's pretty much unusable for me.
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by whyoh 4y ago
Anecdotal, but even with the new fans, stamped out grills still perform poorly in terms of noise. They're popular because they're cheap. I'd gladly pay $10 more for a PC case with a less noisy grill, but I can't find any
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by whyoh 4y ago
The other main source of PC noise nowadays is coil whine. That one is harder to deal with, because it's often down to just luck (and that's because companies apparently don't care enough to solve this problem during product
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by whyoh 4y ago
Related: "How do different fan mesh patterns affect fan and chassis airflow?" https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/tech-talk/wh_chessis

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