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e3a8on Pelicans on a bicycle

"Generate room with no elephant" https://imgur.com/BI61S1T

e3a8on What were the best books you read this year?

Signature in the cell - Stephen C. Meyer

The Divine Reality - Hamza Andreas Tzortzis

e3a8on Coincidences that make our existence possible

e3a8on Skymont: Intel’s E-Cores reach for the Sky

Comparison against Ryzen AI 300: https://www.phoronix.com/review/core-ultra-7-lunar-lake-linu...

e3a8on Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers

Somewhat relevant (from 2013, Google knows every WiFi password in the world): https://www.computerworld.com/article/1496628/android-google...

e3a8on A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop from GNOME to KDE

I can't get my head around why Gnome doesn't have an option in settings to prevent laptop going to sleep when lid is closed. In KDE you can configure that and much more regarding laptop behavior when charging vs on battery.

Why there is no option on Gnome to ungroup windows in dock/launcher without installing third-party extensions. On KDE it's one click. Not everybody likes to click 2-3 times to open desired window.

Gnome's default image viewer can't even crop or resize photos.

There is a ton things like this that make KDE far more usable out of the box than Gnome.

The only thing that is better on Gnome is HiDPI handling. KDE works kind of OK with wayland on HiDPI screens but some apps have issues with very slow scrolling, e.g. SublimeText and LibreOffice apps

e3a8on Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics

Ants do other amazing stuff too. E.g. they break seeds into two halves when storing so the seeds don't germinate. They also know that Coriander seeds germinate even when split into two so they split it into four parts.

e3a8on The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive

Wonderful work! Your articles are my favorite coffee reads

e3a8on SmartKnob – Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents

Tried searching by link before submission, it showed no results

e3a8on Interslavic Language (2017)

As someone speaking bosnian, I can read & understand it. Feels weird having to replace "y" as "i" in my head as we don't have "y" in our alphabet, and also some cases feel off.

e3a8on Ask HN: Best Laptop for Developer?

I've used HP EliteBook series since G1 (current is G5) all worked great with Ubuntu. G5 series is lightweight and IMHO well built.

Currently using HP Zbook G3 which came with external Nvidia card that I had to take out in order for suspend and screen brightness to work, other than that Zbook G3 works great with Ubuntu but may be too bulky for some.

It is worth checking HP outlet for notebook deals: https://h41369.www4.hp.com/pps-offers.php (under section "Notebook PCs")