GamingChairModel @ GamingChairModel @lemmy.world

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I mean, that's basically the author's problem, then. I suspect the software support just isn't there for the hardware that ships on this particular laptop, to where it's easiest to manually put it in some blurry non native resolution, as the least crappy solution.

What's the current state of Linux support for high dpi screens? As of two years ago I had some issues with getting things to work right in KDE, especially with GTK apps, by manually fiddling with system font sizes and button sizes, before I ended up donating that laptop to someone else.

What’s tricky is figuring out the appropriate human baseline, since human drivers don’t necessarily report every crash.

Also, I think it's worth discussing whether to include in the baseline certain driver assistance technologies, like automated braking, blind spot warnings, other warnings/visualizations of surrounding objects, cars, bikes, or pedestrians, etc. Throw in other things like traction control, antilock brakes, etc.

There are ways to make human driving safer without fully automating the driving, so it may not be appropriate to compare fully automated driving with fully manual driving. Hybrid approaches might be safer today, but we don't have the data to actually analyze that, as far as I can tell.

What's annoying, too, is that a lot of the methods that have traditionally been used for discounts (education, nonprofit, employer-based discounts) are now only applicable to the subscriptions. So if you do want to get a standalone copy and would ordinarily qualify for a discount, you can't apply that discount to that license.

Is it just me, or do new office features seem kinda pointless or unnecessary?

I feel like almost all the updates of the last two decades have been:

• Security updates in a code base that was traditionally quite vulnerable to malware.
• Technical updates in taking advantage of the advances in hardware, through updated APIs in the underlying OS. We pretty seamlessly moved from single core, 32-bit x86 CPU tasks to multicore x86-64 or ARM, with some tasks offloaded to GPUs or other specialized chips.
• Some improvement in collaboration and sharing, unfortunately with a thumb on the scale to favor other Microsoft products like SharePoint or OneDrive or Outlook/Exchange.
• Some useless nonsense, like generative AI.

Some of these are important (especially the first two), but the user experience shouldn't change much for them.

Rechargeable batteries weren't really a thing in the 70's. For consumer electrical devices, batteries were one use, and anything that plugged in needed to stay plugged in while in operation.

Big advances in battery chemistry made things like cordless phones feasible by the 80's, and all sorts of rechargeable devices in the 90's.

(latest version "Froyo")

This is Gingerbread erasure!

Everyone gets to run sequencing, but this post is about 23andme nearing bankruptcy, where they would run an auction for their records, including this genetic information of its customers.

Sorry best I can do is a programmable turtle that moves around as a pen.

Honestly, this is an easy way to share files with non-technical people in the outside world, too. Just open up a port for that very specific purpose, send the link to your friend, watch the one file get downloaded, and then close the port and turn off the http server.

It's technically not very secure, so it's a bad idea to leave that unattended, but you can always encrypt a zip file to send it and let that file level encryption kinda make up for lack of network level encryption. And as a one-off thing, you should close up your firewall/port forwarding when you're done.

Yeah, if OP has command line access through rsync then the server is already configured to allow remote access over NFS or SMB or SSH or FTP or whatever. Setting up a mounted folder through whatever file browser (including the default Windows Explorer in Windows or Finder in MacOS) over the same protocol should be trivial, and not require any additional server side configuration.

Yeah, I mean I do still use rsync for the stuff that would take a long time, but for one-off file movement I just use a mounted network drive in the normal file browser, including on Windows and MacOS machines.

If the logic gates can feed back onto themselves, you can build a simple flip flop that can store a bit.

Trick the algorithm by reporting all MMA content too.

it doesn't work once you leave the atmosphere.

Fun fact: just this past week an experiment on a lunar lander confirmed that GPS signals can be detected from the surface of the moon. I don't know if those signals can give any kind of location precision, but it is an interesting finding.

The origin story of Brave is entirely right-wing. He was forced out of Mozilla because of his public stances on political topics. It's no secret that after being forced out for his politics, he went on to create a new browser company.

just realised

"Just"? No, he's always been open about this, and that's why his appointment as Mozilla CEO was so controversial in 2014, and why the board revolted and he ended up resigning 11 days into his tenure.

The whole origin story of Brave is steeped in right wing politics.

What if I told you that there are really stupid comments on Lemmy as well

I think in terms of cultural exchange of ideas and the enjoyment of being on the internet, 2005-2015 or so was probably the best. The barrier to entry was lowered to where almost anyone could make a meme or post a picture or upload a video or write a blog post or even a microblog post or forum comment of a single sentence and it might go viral through the power of word of mouth.

Then when there was enough value in going viral people started gaming for that as a measure of success, so that it no longer was a reliable metric for quality.

But plenty of things are now better. I think maps and directions are better with a smartphone. Access to music and movies is better than ever. It's nice to be able to seamlessly video chat with friends and family. There's real utility there, even if you sometimes have to work around things that aren't ideal.

I get your perspective, but I think it's inaccurate when applied to current consumer behavior. The iPhone market share is like 60%. You can't tell me that 60% is inherently more consumerist than the 40% that is Android users, especially when we're talking about how Apple users actually tend to keep their phones longer before upgrading/updating to a new phone.

Especially when we're talking about the mid-tier, non-flagship model in the lineup, like the non-Pro iPhones.