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"You guys are excluding the George Lucas movies from discussion right?"

We are not. Andor is the best Star Wars ever made, full stop. IMHO, it surpasses, by far, anything Lucas ever did.

guilamuon Why old games never die, but new ones do

I consider it better than 0 source at all. I also have access to the decrypted assets of the game and can personally confirm but the value of that is nil since I can't bring proof.

I'm pretty sure you could find dozens of sources confirming that too, but I don't have the time atm.

Confirmed here : https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/1agkxcd/the_gia...

(only one skin is a pay to lose skin with a bigger kit box)

guilamuon Why old games never die, but new ones do

No, this is just plain wrong. The hitbox is the same one on all skins. On payed skin like peely for example, the skin is bigger and will be more visible, but the hitbox stay the same. This is pay to loose if anything.

https://www.esports.net/news/fortnite/do-all-fortnite-skins-...

guilamuon Exercise before bed is linked with disrupted sleep

Would you mind to elaborate, pretty please?

guilamuon A $20k electric truck with manual windows and no screens? Meet Slate Auto

Jerry rigs everything did just that with an old army humvee. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vZL9uwyfOFezIOiBjkdW3...

guilamuon File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

It is portable by default, no need to install anything, just run the main and only exe.

guilamuon Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids

Nope : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitus_(sociology)

guilamuon Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids

The race or location of the parent absolutely determines their childhood. This has been studied for decades, and it's called Practice theory. It emerged in the late 20th century and was first outlined in the work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_theory

guilamuon A technical dive into the new Tokyo Xtreme Racer

That's the point here, running on very outdated hardware.

guilamuon I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too

Just use Freetube.

guilamuon The Google Willow Thing

This is very rare, so much I can't remember when was the last time it happened, but I was inspired by your words.

Thank you for writing them.

guilamuon Apple threatened workers over their talk about pay and remote work, feds charge

There was no deception. He said those words exactly: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/30/dona...

Days later, he explained them. Knowing him, he could have meant them literally. He said he did not. Again, after the fact and after the global uproar.

Those are the facts.

guilamuon Ryzen 9000X3D performance according to MSI

Wrong. Any competitive FPS is cpu bound and those 3ds amd cpus are doing great with those 1%low FPS.

guilamuon Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

Yes, w11 iot ltsc is the way.

guilamuon Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

I just asked your question in French and the right answer (the Fairphone Fairbuds) is in third position on the right: https://imgur.com/a/dmoaB5r

Google seems to be better at this, giving me the Fairbuds directly: https://imgur.com/a/7En4e9u

guilamuon AMD's Radeon 890M: Strix Point's Bigger iGPU

Be careful, most bios will let you use only 1/4 of the total ram for the integrated GPU. Some - really bad - bios are even limiting to 2gb totally ignoring how much ram is available.

guilamuon OpenAI slashes the cost of using its AI with a "mini" model

For some reason I can't edit and fix the typo. Anyhow, thanks for the correction.

No idea what the leaderboard says, it's just been night and day for me since Sonnet 3.5 got out. Maybe my use case is just what sonnet does best.

guilamuon OpenAI slashes the cost of using its AI with a "mini" model

Claude 3.5 sonnet is so much better in every test I made (coding and everyday mondain stuffs), it beats me why anyone would choose chatgpt (I'm using free versions only).

guilamuon Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128

Won't happen anytime soon : " Will Ladybird work on Windows? We don't have anyone actively working on Windows support, and there are considerable changes required to make it work well outside a Unix-like environment.

We would like to do Windows eventually, but it's not a priority at the moment. "

guilamuon How Good Is ChatGPT at Coding, Really?

These days, I'm using Claude 3.5 to create WordPress plug-ins with some success and some failures. What is sure though, is that Clause is miles better than chat gpt at creating WordPress plug-ins. The last 10 times I tried to create one with chatgpt, I had a total WordPress failure.

guilamuon RadioSide turns your spare device into a radio

Free radio, 0 ads, guaranteed (good) music discoveries everyday: fip.

https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip

guilamuon The EU regulates that by 2027, all phones be equipped with replaceable batteries

Most High end devices have 7 years of update now (Samsung, Google pixels). No current Gen battery can last that long.

guilamuon OpenDNS Suspends Service in France Due to Canal+ Piracy Blocking Order

Decentralized and own by everyone. Impossible to censore.

guilamuon OpenDNS Suspends Service in France Due to Canal+ Piracy Blocking Order

Probably a stupid question, but humour me please: is a p2p/decentralized dns resolver a technical possibility?

guilamuon EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves from chat control bulk scanning

Old article. This has been already rejected a couple of days ago. For now... It will come back though.

guilamuon Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale

More importantly it's available for Firefox.

guilamuon Show HN: Material Files – Open Source Material Design File Manager for Android

This looks perfect... well, just one thing if I may: any "compact mode" planned?

Everything is extremely "spaced" for no apparent reason.

Thank you very much!

guilamuon PHOLED Will Transform Displays

Yeah, also, but to be fair, I've got a 6 years old OLED phone without any burn-in, and a 3 years old OLED laptop without any burn-in.

So, I don't know, I guess unless you purposely display a static white element for hours every day for years, you won't live to see a burn-in on an OLED display.

guilamuon PHOLED Will Transform Displays

Oh, I agree. $1,200 monitors are mostly better than $300 ones.

A more interesting comparison here IMHO is with panels using the same technology, sold around the same price (IPS or VA) and lacking Mini-LEDs backlighting.

Rtings seems to conclude that Mini-LEDs backlighting is far better than full panel back lighting.

Hell, I'm using one right now (KTC M27T20, paid 330 euros) and it's just amazingly good... even if not as good as OLED.

Also, right now, OLED also suffer from text fringing issues : https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=...