B0rax
@B0rax@feddit.org
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 2 days ago:
They started to support svg (which is 23 years old by now) in Office a month or so ago. What a time to be alive!
- Comment on Dystopika is a beautiful cyberpunk city builder without the ugly details 1 week ago:
Windows only in this day and age…
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 1 week ago:
Which in this case means: you need a constant supply voltage
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 1 week ago:
Doesn’t help when you need 3.3V and the batteries are now down to 2.5V they are not putting a boost converter in there.
- Comment on The number on this sticker... 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the point is the number. The point is that the arrows indicate the width, which is 1920 pixels. But the numbers indicate the height (1080 pixels)
So the sticker is mildly infuriating by having the arrows not correspond to the number, which is the topic of this community.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 4 weeks ago:
At this point, streaming the game (just the screen content) would be less of a bandwidth hog.
- Comment on Google as Darth Vader: Why iA Writer quit the Android app market 1 month ago:
Regarding your gaming point. Look up „game porting toolkit“ it is a native tool from Apple which lets you play most windows games on an ARM machine seamlessly.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 1 month ago:
Companies should publish schematics, drawings, 3d files etc when they mark a product obsolete.
- Comment on Anon is God 1 month ago:
No risk, no fun.
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops: Digital IDs make it tempting to leave your driver’s license at home — but that’s a dangerous risk. 1 month ago:
Or hold the power button and any volume button for 3 seconds. Same result.
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops: Digital IDs make it tempting to leave your driver’s license at home — but that’s a dangerous risk. 1 month ago:
Only on devices that don’t use a 3D authentication, which for example the iPhone uses.
- Comment on AMD hides Taiwan branding on Ryzen CPU packaging as it preps new chips for China market release — company uses black sticker to erase origin information 1 month ago:
If they want to hide that, why not just not print it on the box?
- Comment on PlayStation 5 Pro Blog Post 2 months ago:
To play online, yes. Has been like that for a loooong time on PS
- Comment on Hey, Mother Nature, it's September. Chill out already. 2 months ago:
Yep, that’s the beginning of climate change scientists have warned about since ages.
Don’t worry, it will get worse in the next years.
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold 2 months ago:
No. Remove the need for a server that the company provides for example.
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold 2 months ago:
The point is not to force them to invest into it, but to open them up if they don’t want to support them anymore.
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold 2 months ago:
You‘re welcome :)
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold 2 months ago:
Are you home now?
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
I am all for smart appliances, as long as they are local and work with things like home assistant
- Comment on Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers 2 months ago:
DNS filtering only gets you so far. An adblocker is still a very good addition