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sorbusherraon The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

it is small, has absolutely no possibility to distractions like phone. none.

sorbusherraon The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

Big mac is 10 euros where i live. (11,8 dollars). Japan has extremely cheap prices and i feel like i'm ripped off.

sorbusherraon France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

For me the biggest surprise was that old ps2 usb racing sim wheel+pedals just worked instantly with linux, and I could use it in dirt rally without any pains. It felt amazing. oculus quest 2 also works very well with alvr, even wirelessly.

sorbusherraon Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

i worked as a bicycle mechanic when I got completely tired of it-world. This website saved my ass numerous times while fixing bicycles. Absolutely legendary webdesign also that just works well.

sorbusherraon Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

voice stifled by oracle inc you mean?

sorbusherraon Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?

foobar2000 at android. I have 40 gigabytes of flac/mp3 files on sd-card. It just works.

sorbusherraon Meta Segment Anything Model Audio

can i use this to remove all stupid tiktok music from videos?

sorbusherraon Poor Johnny still won't encrypt

I consider e-mails to be digital versions of postcards. Both are obsolete but have some usage scenarios. There is no need to use private communication in obsolete postcard type messaging, so there is no need for encryption. For private communications there are other better(easier) means which people use.

sorbusherraon Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997

Amazing! I find it extremely fascinating that somebody is able to create entire operating system. Not a easy task!

sorbusherraon Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

Linux is also good thing on the internet.

sorbusherraon Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

which is also owned by microsoft, that uses github data to train large language model. So, after decades of trying to kill linux and sabotage it, they finally figured out how to own it.

sorbusherraon From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod

I don't know...When I was kid we used to talk poking memory addresses for cheats while playing c64 games and we were all 9-11 years old. Kids do darnest things.

sorbusherraon PS5 Dashboards Flooded with Unwanted Ads–Sony Claims It Wasn't Intentional

I am so glad i sold my ps4 and instead of getting ps5 gotmyself a steam deck. Life is so much more fun with free multiplayer, cheap games and open source linux.

sorbusherraon Our Android app is frozen in carbonite

Sounds like Google has turned into Nokia. History repeats itself.

sorbusherraon Microsoft's full-screen reminders – upgrade to Windows 11 are back

what do you mean?

sorbusherraon A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign

I remember that day. It was the day I stopped using dropbox.

sorbusherraon Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

I have ryzen 2400G. no Windows 11 for that cpu. 2018 is too old I guess. Anyway Linux of course works and steam nowadays works so well with windows games I really have no reason for windows 11 anyway.

sorbusherraon Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?

cheap chinese retro consoles. Bought one december, now i have seven with different linux configurations. Also Steam deck.

sorbusherraon First real-life Pixel 9 Pro pictures leak, and it has 16GB of RAM

yes, very nice indeed, but it is 2024. Why I cannot install linux to my phone as easily as i can to my lenovo laptop? I am just so tired to android and ios. They are stagnated and do not offer anything special to me.

sorbusherraon City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment

from oracle to sap, its like jumping from pool of feces to pool of vomit.

sorbusherraon Solving the 100GB Game Download

I kinda did this when i got my steam deck. I mounted my nas to steam deck, added it as a steam storage and moved my games there. It works rather well. No storage required on steam deck. It is slower than playing from SD, but not that bad on smaller games.

sorbusherraon Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

I have outsourced all bs e-mails to chatgpt. It used to take 15-20 minutes to write "corporate emails" but now i just write them to chatgpt in real life language and it converts them. Works well. Bosses are happy, so am I.

sorbusherraon Ask HN: Anyone try semaglutide / Wegovy for weight loss?

I started using semaglutide 5 months ago. Combined with proper nutrition and working out (mainly walking 3x week), I have managed to lose 20kg in 5 months. I absolutely recommend it for people who have trouble losing weight.