Andrew6rant

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by Andrew6rant 1mo ago
I just linked you a post with a Touch ID-compatible mechanical keycap. Reverse-engineered from the Apple Magic Keyboard and requires a donor board, though
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by Andrew6rant 1mo ago
Fingerprint sensor is technically possible: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=120964.0 CC @gtsteve
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by Andrew6rant 6mo ago
There has been work already started on reverse engineering LEGO smart bricks: https://github.com/nathankellenicki/node-smartplay/tree/main...
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by Andrew6rant 1y ago
Agreed. I would call Apple's Magic Mouse the worst mouse of all time if it didn't have the cool feature of working as both a trackpad and a mouse. Haven't really seen that elsewhere
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by Andrew6rant 1y ago
> There's physically no way to permanently "brick" an iPhone. There definitely are (If you count jailbroken iPhones). I've managed to brick one by removing all thermal throttling limits and subsequently damaging the m
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
WindHawk mod can do this. Made by the same dev as Win7+ Taskbar Tweaker
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
> Please find me a clip where Trump supported Project 2025, I'll wait. Trump said parts of Project 2025 are "very good" in Dec 2024. Can't link a clip right now as I'm at lunch at work, but it should be easy to f
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
Tens of thousands of federal workers fired and all the "savings" add up to less than Musk's proposed stock pay package. Some people are too rich
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
There honestly might be a greater chance of something happening to the .cc domain (like what's happening now with .io) Harvard has a much larger population than the Cocos islands, I don't know why this project decided to rely on a
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
Woah woah woah, unlimited saves for only $2/mo? Clearly, we need an ad-supported $0.99/mo tier with a limit of 50,000 saves per quarter (additional saves $0.01 each). $2.99/mo is what gives you unlimited* saves to disk. * C:&
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
> Unfortunately, there are no 4K displays with 200+ DPI on the market. There are 4k 24" monitors (almost 200 DPI) and 4k 18.5" portable monitors (more than 200 DPI) you can buy nowadays
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
Windows version of the handheld will have 500gb more storage than SteamOS.
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
Buying a rental mustang or minivan might be a bad idea, but most rental vehicles are totally fine purchases. They actually have preventative maintenance done on them, and are sold at below market value.
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
> "I've sought alternative sources of news with a more old-school look, without success." There are a few news sites that have barebones/low-bandwidth or HTML-only frontends. For example: https://lite.cnn.
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
This can be solved with CSS. Extend the background blur all the way through the element and then use CSS masks to cut out the actual shape you want. With this, you can remove the border (or inset box shadow), and the edge of the glass will
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
Haha, Apple was still selling iMacs equipped with Fusion Drives in 2021. Really cool tech for the time, but should've stayed in the 2010s
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
Guess what year the NHTSA started using female crash dummies? 2003, thirty years after they started using male crash dummies. And the NHTSA's female dummies were essentially male dummies shrunk to 4'11" and lightened to 97&#x
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
Speaking as someone who has a severe peanut allergy, it does help. Like Dr. Gupta said in the article, it is "so disappointing" that companies add sesame to products that didn't originally have them (they've done this wi
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by Andrew6rant 2y ago
I haven't driven too many EVs, but IMO, a 2021 Chevy Bolt drives quite differently than a 2023 Nissan Ariya. The Ariya's real heavy, but it's surprisingly nimble. The Bolt feels zippy and doesn't weigh much more than the