nicolaslem

Note that this is changing fast as laptops get rid of all ports in favor of USB-C which can carry DisplayPort. In practice many laptops sold today do not support HDMI but support DisplayPort albeit through a different connector.

The same can be said of cellular networks where in most part of the world connecting your own equipment is accepted and expected.

> main reason being I don't trust my ISP to handle my personal information with discretion.

Surely if the ISP wanted to do something nefarious, they could do it in the next equipment in line that doesn't sit in the customer's house. Anything before the customer's own router is the Internet where nothing should be trusted. Whether the modem belongs to the customer or the ISP doesn't really change that.

Lighting using using LEDs vs incandescent bulbs: streets and buildings are not ten times brighter than a couple of decades ago.

Sure on paper they are different things and they both involve different parties but in practice both are accepted everywhere. I never had a credit card but I have been using debit cards for decades and only twice an actual credit card was required: for booking a hotel abroad and for renting a car abroad.

Isn't using f-strings to build SQL queries a large footgun? I can imagine a junior developer introducing a SQL injection by not completely grasping the sqlbind API.

Using the quickstart example, visually both lines are very similar and both are functional, but one of them may introduce a SQL injection:

    sql = f'SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 = {q/value1} AND field2 > {q/value2}'
    sql = f'SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 = {value1} AND field2 > {value2}'

You will likely have to wait 18 months more. Typically AMD mobile chips get announced in winter and are widely available in laptops by summer.

Proprietary wireless dongles for keyboards and mice are often not Bluetooth.

GP was not suggesting playing with voltages but simply power limiting the card, which tends to be easier to do and doesn't affect stability but has a performance hit.

> My Xbox controller worked, then suddenly stopped working. I've been using PS controller instead which works great, but would vastly prefer the Xbox one.

If you mean specifically using Steam on Linux, you may need to add some udev rules for accessing the controller: https://codeberg.org/fabiscafe/game-devices-udev

I don't know about the prohibited part but that's exactly how LinkedIn got hacked.

See https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/86/ for details.

It is starting to be the default for new devices. I think that HDR is here to stay, not because it's ground breaking but because it is easy to implement with new display technologies like OLED or microLED. These technologies provide much better contrast and color reproduction, the HDR part is just the cherry on the top.

One nice side effect of HDR is that it forces the industry to tackle color management head first. This means going beyond sRGB as the default and often only option that had been the norm for decades.

I did but unfortunately it quickly turned into all parties involved blaming each other (it's your utility, it's your installation...) and it got nowhere. For the past year it's been much more stable than before so I don't worry too much about it.

That's the reading from my UPS, I believe it's RMS since it reads 234 V currently.

From my experience appliances tolerate a wide range of voltages. The outlets in my house routinely deviate from the standard 230V, with the lowest I have seen at 170V and highest at about 260V. I have not had any appliance malfunction.

Edit: I am not advising anyone to deliberately do stupid things, simply mentioning that from my experience the builtin margin is fairly large.

Similar e-fuses are common for preventing downgrading firmware, especially on consoles. Nintendo was famously running out of e-fuses to blow on the Switch because of the many vulnerabilities the console had.

Point being that these e-fuses don't blow up randomly by themselves.

Undervolting (removing the safety margin put in place for binning) and removing power limits is where the gains are today. Ryzen 5000 could get some pretty nice multicore gains by undervolting using PBO2.

> Where else do you get 64 GBs of unified memory attached to a somewhat capable GPU?

AMD has many APUs with decent GPUs, you won't run CUDA on them but the graphics capabilities are there.

And even then, wait a couple of months until it's on sale and the quirks have been ironed out.

"Runs perfectly after tweaks": https://www.protondb.com/app/1086940

Comparing Starfield and Cyberpunk 2077 is a bit unfair, three months in Cyberpunk 2077 was also stiff and unfinished.

I wish Valve used their weight to cut down on the DRM, online activation and micro-transaction bullshit.

I have a cheap HP combo printer/scanner connected to a Raspberry Pi and the experience is great: printing and scanning just works using the native apps on all our devices.

It took me a couple of hours to setup, but it's been rock solid since.

It is probably not very impactful alone, however Apple is very good at setting trends that everyone else wants to copy, for better or for worse (TouchID, the notch...). Apply the same heuristic to bigger appliances, cars or servers as in the article and it starts to be impactful.

Let's not forget ANY as in "from unittest.mock import ANY".

This is amazing and should be part of the Python documentation.

Portal 1 is the game that made me realize I get motion sickness from first person games. It really caught me by surprise. Amazing game though, 10/10 would do it again.

We are at a stage where games built for Windows actually run better on Linux so this argument will probably not be relevant for too long anymore.

Because I assume that Apple put a fairly low limit on the number of accounts that can be tied to a single computer.

Does anyone know how many users a single Mac Mini handles? While I admire the hacker mindset, this solution seems incredibly wasteful so I am curious of its carbon footprint.