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- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 day ago:
Poorly aimed headlights are the real killer. They might not even be brights, they’re just aimed to the heavens because people don’t know how to maintain their car.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Whatever’s the most debloated version of firefox or chrome.
You will not get all websites on something thats light weight. Web browsers are basically mini operating systems at this point.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Valve randomly stocks tthe steam deck all the time. I swear they’ve got like one guy running the whole show, and he stocks things one unit at a time.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
For $35 I’m guessing whatever on FB marketplace.
Android phones tend to become pretty worthless after like 5 years, but are still perfectly good for emulation. Hell 10 years ago I was emulating the DS without any issues.
- Comment on Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs 2 days ago:
I have a slim q charger for my laptop and it’s about the size of two phones stacked on top of each other. The factory brick is pretty slim too so I never really cared. It fit well in the bottom of my backpack.
Also many modern high end machines come with smaller GaN chargers. It’s mostly the cheaper models that come with the classic brick.
- Comment on How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10? 6 days ago:
You still need some sort of exploit to be able to hit your machine. If you’re behind a firewall and not raw dogging it on the internet then you’ve got a decent layer of security.
At that point it’s just your web browser (or your brain) that needs an exploit to for something bad to happen. And both chrome and Firefox will be supporting 10 for years to come.
- Comment on Beloved whale mural painted over for FIFA World Cup artwork 1 week ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-sFA-1REss
Non (extra) google tracking link
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 1 week ago:
Yes, I do.
Officially I’m 9-5 with an hour for lunch.
- Comment on Help using a page turner on Kobo Libra Colour 3 weeks ago:
Does it officially support Kobos? From what I can tell you need to program it to work with whatever device you’re using, they don’t typically “just work”
- Comment on Anon goes back to Windows 10 3 weeks ago:
No lag with the right-click context menu
Give it a month of BS software adding itself to the menu. Mine used to take 10 seconds to load if I right clicked on the desktop. Just the run with GPU option took like 1/4 of a second or something absurd. Like WTF nvidia.
- Comment on Would it be unnecessary or annoying if I put "boycott israel" post it note on a sodastream at Lidl? 5 weeks ago:
Idk, violence is pretty annoying.
- Comment on As EV batteries improve, ChargePoint debuts 600 kW fast charger 5 weeks ago:
Google says about 10 gallons a minute, and each gallon is about 33KWh. 330KWh in a minute is about 20,000 KW or 20 MW assuming I can do math correctly.
- Comment on Previewing the Framework Wireless Touchpad Keyboard 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, this keyboard has it too. But not all devices remember. And that’s the problem. Sometimes it’s software on the PC that controls it, other times it lives in the keyboaed. But some devices are stupid and will forget when you disconnect/change devices.
- Comment on Previewing the Framework Wireless Touchpad Keyboard 5 weeks ago:
If they can make it so if you press F1 it actually does F1 without any BS software then I’m sold. I love my Logitech K400 but if I press F2 and not FN + F2 and miss getting into the bios one more time I’m going to commit a crime.
Bluetooth + dongle + wired? Hell yes. This is perfect for tinkering with computers, and actually using it.
- Comment on Introducing Framework Laptop 13 Pro 5 weeks ago:
I’m curious how good the trackpad will actually be. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the force touch pad in the OG 2015 MBP, but later models made it better. But I still prefer the actual clicky pad on the 2014 and older machines. But on PCs?
- Comment on Microsoft's Silent Lockout: Why WireGuard, VeraCrypt & Windscribe Can No Longer Update Windows Users 5 weeks ago:
The type of person running WireGuard on Windows probably either can’t, or won’t use Linux.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 1 month ago:
Shouldn’t the sims 4 be considered free to play? The base game is free, only the dlc is paid.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 1 month ago:
This is revenue. How many people are buying those games now? Older games are also usually heavily discounted so that’s even less money. And if the game was bought second hand then it’s entirely irrelevant.
- Comment on Why do I almost never see people flying drones? 1 month ago:
They’re not that expensive, but they’re not cheap. The DJI mini goes on sale for like $200 fairly often and that’s an insane value for what it is. But yeah, unless you live in an area with a lot of great views you’ll probably use it a handful of times then leave it in its box.
Unfortunately the US government is trying to outlaw them so we might not get newer models.
- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 1 month ago:
I’ve never had issues with Anker cables, but I’ve also never had to deal with their support.
For a DisplayPort cable the best I’ve found is the “Club3D CAC-1060” my GPU/monitor has signal integrity issues that leads to getting black screens as gsync turns on and off. This cable has gotten me the least black screens.
But outside of edge cases like mine a DP and an HDMI cable is a DP/HDMI cable. They’re not doing crazy things like USB C does. They either work or they don’t.
- Comment on Distro for upgrading a 15 year old Mac? 1 month ago:
Pretty much only the very first year of Intel Macs had 32 bit EFIs. Coincidentally the only 2007 machine with a 32 bit EFI was the Mac Pro. But the 07 Mac Pro was basically identical to the OG 06.
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 1 month ago:
What’s your budget?
- Comment on Is a video streaming co-op a useful idea? 1 month ago:
So sharing your plex library, but you’re paying for access? That’s probably more illegal than just letting your friend access it.
- Comment on When you send old camcorder cassettes to a digitising service, do they watch the contents? 1 month ago:
Depends on the service. There’s a lot of really bad ones that just seem to dump the video to a file and call it a day. Any good service will be monitoring the tape, but not sitting there watching the whole thing.
- Comment on Why is stack overflow so horrible? 1 month ago:
Anyone who unironically says just google it, and doesn’t google it themselves and provides a link to a concise answer should be shot on sight.
Same for the RTFM crowd. So many manuals are filled with so much fluff that just gets in the way of actually being useful.
- Comment on How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us? 1 month ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Depends on how long you plan on ignoring them.
Gonna use it once a month? Yeah 40-60%s a good range to keep it in. More than a few months? Depending on the idle discharge, but probably want to charge it higher so it doesn’t go flat. 0% charge is a lot worse than 100%, especially for LiPo batteries.
- Comment on Is 71° F (21° C) the ideal weather to wear shorts? 1 month ago:
As long as it’s above 0F I’ll wear shorts. My legs don’t get cold unless it’s really windy.
- Comment on not so free thinking now are we? 2 months ago:
Jokes on you, I don’t have that reaction.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 months ago:
I mean in terms of disk space sure it takes up a good bit. From what I can tell winsxs takes about 10 gigs of space. But the actual wow64 subsytem only takes a 1-2 hundred MBs of RAM which is nothing for giving you that much backwards compatibility.
Rosetta 2 is going away in the next Mac OS, but that’s not going to have a massive impact on anything. The biggest impact will be the installer will be half the size since it doesn’t need twice the executables. You can download an Intel or Arm specific installer of Mac OS and it’s already half the size.
why doesn’t Microsoft treat Windows in a similar vein?
Because then nobody would use Windows. People use windows because it runs all of the programs they love. If it didn’t people wouldn’t put up with their bullshit.