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neoberg··on Inner Speech
Interesting, thank you. I've found some subreddits while trying to undrestand this and it's amazing what some people experience and how different it is for everyone.

There is a person on r/hyperphantasia who says that they can look at a ruler, take that image and overlay it on something else to measure. Wild.

neoberg··on Inner Speech
I'm not sure if I have inner voice or not. Do you really "hear" a voice? I can imagine concepts as well as construct whole sentences in my mind but there is no actual voice that I'm hearing. Is this what's called inner voice?
neoberg··on WebGPU now available for testing in Safari Technology Preview
what's that mouse cursor in the demo video?
neoberg··on Noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over "Pay or Okay"
No it's not asking government to regulate the pricing. If facebook said "it's 100eur/m or you can't use it at all" (which they'll never say ofc) then there wouldn't be any problems because it's then the price of the product. The way it is implemented now is it's the price of privacy - which might be acceptable in other parts of the world but not in EU.
neoberg··on The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS
Because it's impossible while it's not in the digital medium?
neoberg··on Developer account removed by Apple
Not OC but exactly. They have a "monopoly" on the comments by their HN handle so they're responsible for what's written from that handle.

The same way Apple holds a monopoly on an ecosystem they created so they are responsible for what's happening there.

neoberg··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
Well the keyboard I use everyday fits my pocket. I'd definitely use this with my keyboard.
neoberg··on Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease
It would be interesting if it was like "those" adult toys. Steam Deck name came close tho.
neoberg··on Squad Solar City Car
Except of course none of these are issues for biking. Weather situation is the same as walking; you need to dress properly.

And there are countless solution for carrying kids or groceries. We go to kindergarten everyday by bike, a child trailer works very well.

> Or you might need to go faster than an ebike can legally go (12mph).

Yes, then you use the car or public transport.

neoberg··on Update to Kagi Search Pricing
I am a happy user but just checked my usage and I'll need the 25$ package - which I think is too much for search. I'm cancelling unfortunately.
neoberg··on All you may need is HTML
I was wondering the same. Yeah it seems like date formats are inconsistent. Maybe they need some other stuff than HTML.
neoberg··on Help! Is This Arabic?
Turkey
neoberg··on Help! Is This Arabic?
I grew up in a Muslim environment and I know al fatiha and more. But I don't understand a single word of it or can't tell if what I recited is a word or a whole sentece. I believe 99% of the population in my country are the same. Also we can't read Arabic script.
neoberg··on The design of in-car climate controls has gone backward
totally agree. In our previous apartment we had an oven with a touch screen and a stove with touch controls (no screen). They were our least favorite items at home. In a kitchen setting especially, it's very hard to operate touch interfaces.
neoberg··on Videos show Turkey's Erdogan boasted letting builders avoid earthquake codes
Knowing the people there; I'd be surprised if he didn't come even stronger after all this.
neoberg··on Mjolnir
Nvidia Founder's Ed. cards don't go well with sandwich style cases. The space behind the card heats as you use the pc and in turn causes the motherboard, cpu and other components to heat.

If you're looking for a sff case for Founders Ed cards, I would recommend "Sliger Console". It's almost made for this type of cooling.

neoberg··on Perplexity.ai prompt leakage
What is the process of creating these type of products around some prompts?
neoberg··on 3D in CSS
I did some 3d css demos back in 2013. This one got quite popular so maybe you might've seen it:

3D Macbook Air animation: https://codepen.io/neoberg/pen/DEZbKv

This one I think is more impressive but doesn't look as beautiful: https://codepen.io/neoberg/pen/DEwwNE

edit: Forgot about this one. https://codepen.io/neoberg/pen/doVQqv

neoberg··on Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
Not parent commenter but; I personally don't have any interest in what you described. Especially when it's something like mastodon, which is inferior in almost every aspect.

- All clients are straight up bad but this is mostly personal opinion. - I don't want to maintain and pay for a personal instance - On public instances there is always the risk of the admins deciding not to run it anymore without notice. In that case you lose all your followers. - Due to how it's designed; some things are very inconvenient. For example; when I click a link to someone's profile on the internet, I can't see if I follow them or not unless they are on my server. Then I have to copy their url, go to my instance, search and follow. Too much friction for a simple and one of the most important actions of the platform. - With these inconveniences (that are not easy to solve without centralization), it's imho impossible for it to go mainstream. It requires a certain level of tech-saviness. Even the concept of "choosing an instance" is confusing for most people. I don't want to just follow or be followed by techbros and edgy artists. I like having normal converstaions with regular people.

I would be interested in an alternative to Twitter but in its current state, Mastodon isn't that.

neoberg··on Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
As a side note; iirc the old version of Gmail was the first big scale example of SPAs.
neoberg··on Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market
thank god meta is not right
neoberg··on AI Art Tools and Resources in One Place
but is there a list of lists of such lists?
neoberg··on Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”
Multiple displays works well if both displays have the same or similar dpis. When they are different like one is hidpi and the other one is not, you get scaling issues.
neoberg··on Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”
HDR as we know today always meant 10 bit colour. Before that some screens emulated HDR in 8 bit color by doing dithering to -poorly- create the illusion of a wider luminance range.

edit: and 10 bit color support on its own is not enough for HDR. I mean I don't know why we are even discussing this honestly. HDR under Linux is not supported at all. It's not an opinion; it's an objective fact which you can confirm in a couple of different ways. You can not view HDR content if you're using Linux no matter what content or display you have. There is an active effort in the community to have HDR support in Linux but it will take a couple more years probably.

neoberg··on Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”
You're getting somewhere but still not complete. HDR formats we have today use 10bit or 12bit bit depths so that alone is a big difference. About the metadata, HDR10 uses static metadata meaning whole content will have the same metadata but HDR10+ and Dolby use dynamic metadata.

HDR content "will not" be HDR if you're playing it under Linux. It will however be HDR if you play it under Macos or Windows (keeping everything else like the screen and content same). There is no way around this right now. So in basic terms you will not see the dark blacks and bright whites under Linux.

> Edit - where HDR really is great is photography... You take multiple photos of the same scene with different ISO and shutter settings then stitch them together for more colours than would otherwise be captured. But a screen can either display colours or it can't.

It's the same for video or games really. With HDR you can record and display more details and contrast.

And that HDR photo you just described will not be shown as HDR even if your display supports HDR if viewed under Linux

neoberg··on Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”
> HDR is just a marketing term for software that increases the colour and black saturation of content beyond the actual input. For photography that means more saturation than what you see in real life, for video that means tweaking it after you receive the signal.

Not even remotely correct. It is definitely not a marketing term. HDR is set of specifications and formats for capturing, storing and displaying visual data with a higher than "Standard" dynamic range. It basically carries more data and it requires proper color management. It has to be supported by relevant drivers and the display server. Right now there is no way to view HDR content (video, photos or games) under Linux.

If you are interested; there is some effort going on to enable this but it will probably take a couple more years.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pq/color-and-hdr

neoberg··on Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”
> You mean "works if you don't actively try to break it".

No I mean "if you don't want to share your screen"

neoberg··on Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”
The biggest thing keeping me from using Linux for my desktop pc right now is lack of HDR support.

Apart from that the whole display servers world is just not working well. Some things still don't support Wayland, you can't share screen easily, X has it's own issues etc. HiDPI is still problematic with both; you get weird scaling issues with apps and and the occasional humongous mouse cursor. Using multiple displays with different DPIs you again get scaling issues. Setting up multiple displays still requires fiddling with xrandr, xinerama etc.

Just let me know if you need more examples. I tried to fully switch to Linux many times spending lots of time + money (bought one of the "recommended" devices).

neoberg··on Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”
Yes, this is exactly what I'm saying. You have to know which devices play well with linux to have a relatively good experience.
neoberg··on Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”
No. There are still missing -important- stuff and "works but you have to stand on your hands while singing" kind of things. It's nowhere near being friendly to an end user unless someone picks and sets up the hardware and the software for them.
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