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I think you're mixing monitors and TVs together.

CRT TVs only supported vertical refresh rates of 50Hz or 60Hz, which matched the regional mains frequency. They used interlacing and technically only showed half the frame at a time, but thanks to phosphor decay this added a feeling of fluidity to the image. If you were able to see it strobe, you must have had an impressive sight. And even if they supported higher refresh rates, it wouldn't matter, as the source of the signal would only ever be 50/60Hz.

CRT monitors used in PCs, on the other hand, supported a variety of refresh rates. Only monitors for specific applications used interlacing, customer grade ones didn't, which means you could see a strobing effect here if you ran it at a low frequency. But even the most analog monitors from the 80s supported atleast 640x480 at 60Hz, some programs such as the original DOOM were even able to squeeze 70Hz out of them by running at a different resolution while matching the horizontal refresh rate.

That wouldn’t seem so much out of the ordinary, long-term thinking CEO is an oxymoron these days.

I can't wrap my head around that as well. Given OP's expertise and experience with technology, how was this option better than using a credit card.

Obviously I'm not claiming it was OP's mistake, that wouldn't make me any better than the guy who was telling people "you're holding it wrong™".

That’s actually part of the problem.

Pretty much every company will contract a 3rd party service to perform those checks, making sure they get as much bang for as little buck as possible. Said services are usually the weak link that shares the data with others, often through PNGs in public buckets so that Russian teenagers have an easy job CURLing them.

If the government took security seriously, it’d endorse a solution and then take responsibility for it, given it came up with the law in the first place.

It's so strangely creepy, it always feels like a it's cropped from a Giorgio Armani perfume ad or something.

It’s been 45 minutes and I’m already looking forward to the day Kevin Fang makes a video about this

It sure beats giving up, laying on the ground and letting the moss reclaim us.

I too won't be getting one, especially since I already have enough power at my desk.

But I love how amazing of an idea it is. A form factor and ease-of-setup of a console that brings all the best features of PC gaming (inter-generational compatibility, free multiplayer...) into the living room. And unlike with the original Steam Machine, the market is ready this time.

This legislation has a potential to "radicalize" a lot of people. I don't agree with many of the decisions by the EU, but at the end of the day the pros do outweigh the cons and in a hypothetical Brexit-like referendum I wouldn't consider agreeing with leaving.

If this passes, however, the pencil in my hand would definitely hover above the YES checkbox for a while and, actually, maybe even tick it. This alone would be enough of a straw to break the camel's back.

Wow, it’s always crazy how the folks who have nothing to hide get mad when the lock on the stall door in a public bathroom doesn’t work…

As far as I know, CDMA, compared to GSM, didn't have a SIM card equivalent. The identity information was baked into the handset and if you wanted to move your number from one phone into another, you had to get in touch with your carrier.

eSIM reintroduces this problem. Those who experienced it 20-odd years ago with CDMA may feel like home. But elsewhere, where it's always been a norm to have the easily transferable physical SIM card, it might be viewed as too much of a hassle.

Totally agreed.

The one thing I don’t see criticized enough is the lack of a SIM card slot in international models. I understand they physically couldn’t fit it in, but I bet it's a deal breaker for everybody who has no experience with CDMA phones, so basically everybody outside of North America.

>maybe they could just do one thing that isn't maximally profitable once in a while.

They tried that this year and called it iPhone Air

That's why they do it so stealthily, most of the time encryption isn't even mentioned. What they often do is talk about the need to "protect the children" at the responsibility of the service provider, who in order to comply would have to disable encryption on their own. It would technically remain legal, only banned de jure.

Also most average people don't know anything about encryption or backdoors, not even the meaning of those words. In their minds they have nothing to be concerned or mad about.

I'm pretty sure A Minecraft Movie has already made more money that the game had made when he made that promise.

Back then he couldn't have foreseen the size of the money printing factory that the game would become.

I don't think that the god-awfulness of Windows Update is in any way related to the hardware you're running when anything else on the market designed for the same purpose outperforms it.

Updates take ages to download and even longer to install. There is no verbosity option, only a progress bar that likes to get stuck. Did an error occur? Here's an unhelpful 0x%RANDOM% code, where the only mention of it online comes from those who also suffer from it.

How come apt, dnf, pacman or other open source utilities, that are often maintained by an individual, just work, when something with a development team sucks at it so much? While there are an under-the-hood differences between Windows and Linux, replacing system components and libraries should be the same everywhere.

According to the SHA256SUMS from Canonical's official download page at https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/24.04.3/release/ that is the correct checksum.

Try pressing on the original link and opening it in another tab, that usually bypasses opening the app for me.

Every installer there comes with an executable and those files you mentioned, for some reason they are always split into 4GB chunks, that’s why there’s so many.

AFAIK download all is not available, you will have to get them one by one. But after that they’re yours to keep forever.

I'm a Linux user who buys a lot of games on GOG and I've never had a problem running them using Wine stable, with the only exception being games that supposedly don't even work on Proton yet.

Majority of the games there don't even come in a native Linux form, and those that do can be a hit or miss when it comes to compatibility - at least one game I tried needed a dependency from a no longer available package. Alternatively a few titles come shipped with some kind of wrapper that's really just an outdated version of Wine surrounding a win32 EXE.

Also, isn't the point of buying something DRM free that you don't have to use a client or any other online feature? The offline installer has always been GOG's killer feature in my book, that's how you make sure the game gets truly preserved.

It seems to me the UK isn’t all that aware of just how gone are the days of the British Empire. I can imagine the OSA being somewhat relevant internationally in the pre-handover days, but not today.

I'm waiting for the day we get microwaves with an AI that turns them off once the timer reaches zero.

Still only enforceable if they leave the US soil.

A couple days ago there was a post here about how most LLMs enter an endless replying loop if you ask them to show you the non-existing seahorse emoji. Asking it to show you one and minimizing the window might be enough.

It's rooted in what smartphones are and have been since 2007, locked-down rectangles where the user has minimal control over the software. On a PC anybody can install anything, be it a program or operating system, this wouldn't be an issue if smartphones worked the same way.

I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before somebody tries to extend this to the world of computers.

I tried asking ChatGPT to generate an image of the seahorse emoji, ended up with a pretty sane result, though complimenting the picture and asking what the Unicode code for it is makes it enter the same loop.

The confusing nature of product naming is I think pretty typical of MS. It’s just like with personal accounts, where there is no Outlook or Hotmail domain for logging in, it’s still live dot com, and Windows Live hasn’t been a thing for at least 13 years.

I’m not sure that plain old telephone service allowed multiplexing, so it was probably just the latter