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My feed's been consistently good/crap (depending on the day), since way before the takeover, so I have not really noticed any big difference.

The only way I see it getting worse is generally nice and well intentioned people leaving because they don't like Musk, therefore making the space poorer.

I'm bilingual, people keep asking me what language I think 'in', and I don't think I think _in_ a language.

For lack of a better way of describing it, I rather think in concepts, sometimes the voice in my head likes to play along by imagining the words representing those concepts, sometimes in English, sometimes in Romanian, but the words are not necessary.

In dev words, I guess I think in structs and then optionally serialize those structs in En/Ro (JSON).

It seems to measure load, it instantly responds to me hitting the boost button on my soldering iron.

I think reliability is the Achilles heel of USB C regardless. I don't see those having a much bulkier head than a normal USB C power cable though.

I have both and I find the cable just as useful. Also, if for some reason you don't want it there, for example it is a bit bright for a nightstand, you can run it in reverse and it stays off.

I've used some by an Aliexpress brand called Soopii for some time now. I broke one myself, the rest are still going strong after ~2 years, and power testing with an actual USB C tester, they're quite accurate.

I had some glimpses of this effect as a kid, where to me for example there was a strong association in my brain between the the letter E, the digit 3, and the colour green, especially light green. Same for C, 5, and light blue.

As an adult, if I try to more strongly tap into my flavour of synesthesia, it starts to feel "made up"; Example, if I query my brain for "what's associated with 2" the response will be "orange, (but I think I just generated that now)" so I sadly kind of dismiss it.

I've been interchangeably using a UK-ISO and a US-ANSI keyboard for some time now. The only physical differences are:

- Short Left Shift and extra 1x1 key right of it, in ISO

- Enter key being 2x1 in ANSI and a weird tall shape in ISO

I do prefer the ANSI enter key nowadays, but I use ISO because of availability in Europe. I could move to ANSI but my work laptop would still be ISO for example.

For keyboard layouts, I use 'Romanian - Programmers' (Which is US English + the extra Romanian diacritics are made with a key combo, AltGr + A = Ă, AltGr + S = Ș, etc). I had made the change as using the Romanian - Standard layout would've made crazy difficult to type special characters: []{};'\:"|,./<>?.

What I would like to see discussed is how a true successor to QUERTY would look like, one that's not dependent on physical typewriter arms not getting stuck together, possibly an ortholinear.

This would have been SO useful in school!

I really expected a 3rd party company to be producing 3-pronged versions of that adapter. In the UK the ground pin is a requirement as sockets will not fully open up the other two before the ground pin is inserted, and Apple's UK adapter has a metal ground pin, BUT still it's not connected to the 3rd internal prong of the charger. The extension cables that you can still buy separately, and that used to come free in 2012-2015 MacBooks have the 3rd prong, hence are grounded. WHY, APPLE?

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I'm incredibly excited for the software that will inevitably get cloned onto the Quest!

I really hope the EU doesn't take this lightly and modify the laws accordingly. And if not, I hope Apple ends up split like Standard Oil. - Sent from my iPhone

I would love to see as many attempts at this as possible, as I am having an incredibly hard time visualizing / understanding more than 3 dimensions.

About 6 years ago I caught a bad flu which evolved into an ear infection that required antibiotics, my ears were in pain, really stuffed, popping etc. When I got that under control, I was left with what can only be described as tinnitus, a very high-pitched sound in my ears, almost undetectable in my right ear but quite annoying in my left.

It was there for about 12-18 months, but it slowly started to go away to the point I had to pause for a minute to remember if the left/right one was more affected. After 9-12 months I was only able to hear it if I was wearing ear plugs, and now I need to wear ear plugs and really concentrate to realize that it's not 100% silence, but it's close to 1-5% of what it was and even the "tone" of the tinnitus is more muted.

I'm not sure if they genuinely healed, if there even is such thing as temporary tinnitus (for more than a day/week), or if my brain just got better at filtering that out.

Computing.

I have been passionate about programming for a long while, figured it out at 14, slowly kept going upwards doing online courses, ended up doing CS in Uni at 19, did an industrial placement where I felt like I grew tremendously. At 22 it felt like my fuel has ran out, I had a terrible final year in Uni, Covid hit, I was terribly burnt out and I have not felt as passionate at my job since.

I'm just now slowly getting back into actually loving computing and delving deep into the things that I didn't have a chance to so far, like IoT projects, functional programming, compilers etc. I'm also really lucky to be working for a company and in a team where it's understood and accepted that we don't run at full capacity all the time, and given freedom to put as much as I want on my plate for a while.

Apple Magic Keyboard, Mouse and Trackpad are stil Lightning, I cannot believe it

This looks like great work, and I am really hoping work on this continues!

Lovely game and art style, and the idea of 80s style games is great!

I would throw in my two cents with the following idea: I would love a modern, well made collection of classical games such as the one linked, available on many platforms, with cloud saves, even to the point of which game was picked. I would love to decompress by playing Solitaire for 5 mins in my lunch break on my iPhone, come home, open the computer and finish the game up on the big screen and enjoy the cards jumping all over the place.

Yet somehow it's one of the most productive and successful languages to have appeared in the last 20 years.

Finally, I've been looking to find something like this for a while now!

I'd argue with FSR at that screen size it is not useless at all. You watch video? It's super crisp. You're playing a 2D platformer at native 1600p? It's super crisp. You're playing a super demanding game? Render at 800p and either FSR or the fact that you're at exactly 2x scale with 1600p makes it so the image is super crisp as well.

VRR missing is probably the only thing holding me back from swapping my Ally for it. It's sooo underrated of a feature, especially in hardware like those Windows handhelds.

For FPS games you wouldn't

I'm starting to get the FOMO after buying an ROG Ally. The Legion Go is quite a heavy boy though at over 800g

Can't you already install 3rd party apps on Android?

It's a sad state of affairs to see apps having to advertise themselves as 'offline'

I'm very much a fan of choice here. I haven't personally used cash more than twice in the last 3 years, I love the convenience of Apple/Google Pay, but cash clearly still needs to exist