B0rax
@B0rax@feddit.org
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 2 days ago:
Optics.
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 2 weeks ago:
Ah sorry, I missed it somehow. Thanks!
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 2 weeks ago:
Morrowind: openmw.org
- Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) 4 weeks ago:
Pro models have USB 3 or 4 Non pro iOS devices have USB2
Not confusing… but I guess this is enough for an article
- Comment on Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs 1 month ago:
How do you know that they are identical? Do you have a source for that other than „the seller said so“?
- Comment on OpenAI Finalizes $40 Billion Funding at $300 Billion Valuation 2 months ago:
There are some that are even more accessible. For example, if you use bing, it is right there at the start
- Comment on BYD announces charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s 2 months ago:
They already do. The 300kw you see around already have big buffer batteries to deliver these peak charging speeds.
- Comment on Anon is deeply disturbed 2 months ago:
Mind sharing the brand?
- Comment on Red Flag Warning? Neighbor Has Fire 2 months ago:
Is it common in the US to just burn stuff to get rid of it?
Sounds like an environmental nightmare…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It was a picture of a broken key and a new replacement key.
I am not sure why OP deleted it and all their comments… seemed like a perfectly fine post to me.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 3 months ago:
The subscription to heated seats was BMW.
- Comment on The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games 3 months ago:
I expected there would be more „pay to win“ now.
- Comment on Anon becomes a shrimp farmer 4 months ago:
You only have a criminal record if you get cought
- Comment on Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron 4 months ago:
…You wouldn’t!
- Comment on Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard 4 months ago:
But they still have a limited lifetime of a maximum of 10 years, regardless of cycle count.
- Comment on Discussion: Cybertruck involved in attempted bombing in Las Vegas auto-locked after explosion 5 months ago:
Can I see a source to that? I have not heard about anything that would confirm what you are saying.
- Comment on Discord’s New Age Verification uses AI and Your Face! 5 months ago:
I guess someone had that idea, sold it and then contracted some poor guy to implement it, even if it is bullshit and does not work
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 5 months ago:
The iPhone also had local speech recognition for quite a while now. It is available since the iPhone 6s and the iPhone SE. Both of which came out in 2015 - 9 Years ago.
- Comment on German cybersecurity watchdog warns of pre-installed malware on IoT devices linked to China 5 months ago:
You don’t understand. The end user is the importer. That’s the whole idea behind aliexpress, temu and others. They don’t need to adhere to any local laws because the customer directly shops on the Chinese website.
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 5 months ago:
What? Local speech recognition is already integrated in most phones. Open source options are also freely available… I am not sure what the news is here…
- Comment on German cybersecurity watchdog warns of pre-installed malware on IoT devices linked to China 5 months ago:
A recall in cheap Android streaming boxes dropshipped from China? Ha!
- Comment on anyone know any good android games? 5 months ago:
+1 for mindustry. If you like factorio, this is a game for you.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 6 months 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 6 months ago:
Windows only in this day and age…
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 6 months 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 6 months 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... 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 8 months ago:
Companies should publish schematics, drawings, 3d files etc when they mark a product obsolete.