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Sleepy me was expecting something like "1000 thumbnails photos in Dolphin", and I almost opened Dolphin to start testing... but, whoah! Actual things turned different way :D

Are you considering an OS or even a somewhat powerful CPU? I'd prefer a TV with an ethernet + smb client, but not sure if it fits your dumb tv concept :)

Someone produces surveillance tools and is genuinely surprised they are used to surveil people against they will. I wonder what would makers of social rating system say.

I don't think is widespread enough to be "a thing", but it sure does exist. Techmoan made a video on it, but, AFAIR, he had to use modern decoder, so I'm not sure how it's made.

This is dreadful. I'm not an Apple user, but I suspect Android is not far from implementing similar "features". No way this is just "for technical reasons", it's clearly an agenda.

I had a chuckle too. Maybe it was, in 20th century.

I was actually expecting the HN link to be it )

But wait till you see quadrophonic records!

If they expand, I'm afraid, you're not gonna be part of it. :D

You know, that already happened before. When Germany tried to.

You sound nonsensical. Russian government did enslave russian population?? Just remember that "coincidentally" the whole Romanov (that's a stage name) family are germans. And official history is even more coincidentally was (over)written by germans.

2FA is hell. It was forced on people to control them, not to help them. There should be a law that would forbid banks and other companies to demand a phone number. But, unfortunately, things are upside down now. :(

Yeah, I did that. But I'm not sure now if that was that necessary - sometimes fingers slip to the nearby Ctrl key.

Yeah, reduces the free-hanging cable weight. Been doing this too for decades.

SCSI, SFP+ cards, FireWire audio IO interface, BD-writer (wanted to try XDCAM, but too expensive), USB Floppy disk drive :)

I knew this was a joke from the start, but I wish so much it would be true! I'd rather have just plain old .deb packages.

Why is there an itch among devs to drop Win7 support? Does it lack something THAT important in its API???

As soon as Linux gets as usable as Win7, I'm switching from linux. From Win7. To KDE (most likely). And not to anything else.

> chiplets have been proven to work extremely well in controlled situations.

Yeah, right. We always welcome less reliable and absolutely unrepairable video cards.

>> but I've had stuff break sufficiently badly that I couldn't boot to a graphical environment before.

Is there some "restore to previous state" (Windows-style) feature for that case? Because I'm too afraid to install Arch on my only working PC.

I've tried non-free KDebian last month. It still booted without wi-fi. But what's most frustrating - it didn't detect any partitions on my drive. The KDE installer I mean. lsblk showed everything just fine. Same with Neon live.

And guess what? It works in KUbuntu. But ubuntu is just SO slow now. ( And I couldn't install it of my current dual-boot anyway because it does NOT have option to NOT TO install new bootloader. :-/ I love Linux (lie).

Yeah, USB-A/B are the best, where applicable.

30 years ago: I copied games from FDD for speed

20 years ago: I copied games from CD and used No-CD patches for speed and reliability

10 years ago: I used No-Steam patches to play offline.

0 years ago: I used No-Steam patches to play on Windows 7.

The progress.

what effort? avoiding newer APIs?

Useless commenters rob lesser useless commenters of their time.

I'm 99% with the author. I'm watching my nephew actively playing with ChatGPT and saying "why would I want to write my program? I'll ask AI to do it". It's depressing. It's contrary to the concept of knowing how things are working. It's like people are voluntarily depriving themselves of knowledge. It happened before (yes, web-devs, I'm looking at you!), AI made a huge leap in this direction. But the thing is: AI is based on human knowledge, it is finite. Human progress is based on knowledge, re-thinking, observing, inventing stuff. If there's no prior knowledge, inventions and overall progress is impossible. When people throw away know-hows, they stop developing.

tl;dr It's like "Why whould I cook? My mom cooks for me".

PS: I hope AI doesn't read my posts.

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For how long are they gonna keep on doing this???

Tried it a month ago. Seems it's gotten slower compared to kubuntu 1804. But still better than the subject.

Imagine, gods forbid, getting lost in such a labirynth... 8(

Trolling... I mean, throttling video cards ) Making untiling textures.

Also, this probably could have uses in watermarking and encryption (if you want to do so, I'm not patenting this, just give credits :D )

Someone please come up with a better name for this tile! (T_T)

Like an 8-kite, shirt-tile, or an origami tile...