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trivialities777on Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

These days you can just install SMPlayer and have all the codecs bundled in the player.

trivialities777on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

The big thing keeping me from switching from Google Fi is how easy international roaming is. For every country I've been to, I've just had it automatically work within ten minutes of landing, at my regular price, without buying any addons

trivialities777on Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

That's true of every executive position, but not necessarily for HR or legal. Especially if they use an external firm.

trivialities777on Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

> (again, Ars Technica appears to be open for business today). There's certainly no legal reason why they'd need to wait to fire people.

They normally aren't, they probably write the stories on the weekdays and prepare them to automatically publish over the weekend, with only a skeletal staff to moderate and repair the website. Legal, HR, and other office staff probably only work weekdays, or are contracted out to external firms.

Their CEO posted a quick note on their forums the other day about this which implied they don't normally work on holidays and it would take until Tuesday for a response.

trivialities777on Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)

I just installed a similar one in my bathroom, except the handle is on the side instead of on top. Also has a pull-down flexible hose that snaps back in with a magnet, very useful for cleaning.

trivialities777on Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker

> how people wrap their head around multiple changes in multiple features at the same time?

Long before AI I routinely had 5 parallel development environments I would flip between. (I do distributed systems stuff, think HPC-adjacent clusters, when you're too big for Kubernetes and too small for supercomputing). One would be running long-running tests for my current changes, one being reset to a clean state, and 3 more on standby so I had 100% "duty cycle" (the reset took a while). You got used to multitasking.

trivialities777on Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker

> but it feels like a lot of setup

Ah, but you can have Claude Code set it up for you!

trivialities777on Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker

you can use https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree to have many "views" of a single git repo.

For more complex environments, use multiple VMs (common to have large VMs running in AWS/GCP for development and only use your laptop or phone as a thin client)