GhettoComputers

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by GhettoComputers 4y ago
Does anyone turn these old devices into a project and install cool software on it only to never use it again? I stop using multiple devices because having several iPads is as useful as having several phones. I install stuff to “give it a lo
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
What program do you have an issue with? Wine has been supporting a lot of non gaming software for a long time better than Windows itself. Proton has similarly been good for a long time, it has been big. The deck wasn’t some magical finished
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Does anyone else get confused by "apps" and "executables"? This one uses the term "Windows Apps" for ".exe" files, I wondered why anyone would want to run a Windows App https://www.microsof
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
>What has replaced that in modern classrooms? You mean free game bundled with your OS? Nokia: Snake Windows: "3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet" or Solitare TI83: If it was used, hopefully phoenix. If you want a good EV Nova
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Ask HN: VLAN VM/multiseat gaming server for older games?
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
It doesn’t make much sense, how would money be guaranteed to come back after making its way to through the government and back? The cost of electricity already functions more efficiently; don’t take money out of peoples pockets so you don’t
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
What is “fair competition”? Can you define it?
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Have you seen this talk? Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25788317 tl;dr Software efficiency is traded for time efficiency, you see this less with hardware constra
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Google isn’t dumb. They are an advertising company that creates hype with other experimental products (to increase stock prices) they fully intend to dismantle, and buys out functional tech companies. They are using hype to increase their s
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
That solves nothing, it only lines politician’s pockets. The cost of electricity is the deterrent currently, which is why you don’t see everyone mining. If you want to make electricity cost more, it’ll “solve” more than crypto mining, it’ll
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
For anyone into photography, an unrelated topic is that Amazon prime offers unlimited photo storage, you can upload all your RAWs as long as you keep your subscription. The next generation of cameras should move away from SD cards. I can’t
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Agreed. I’ve been at a friends with all the streaming subscriptions. The most used is HBO (been watching Silicon Valley and they got tons of movies), Amazon is second (terrible ads at the beginning, sells movies as well), then Disney+.
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
They shouldn’t have changed the definition. I saw them as the same as flu shots. They call them seasonal flu vaccines, the COVID ones have the same issues but decrease their efficiency rapidly. If people knew it would lose its efficiency so
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
It would cause tick saliva from causing infection for a lifetime, it matters so you can give a vaccine and not need to upkeep it especially in rural areas. It matters because it will prevent it forever. I think I’m thinking of something tha
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Ideally we’d want neutralizing vaccines wouldn’t we? Before the pandemic, my idea of a vaccine was a preventative measure that worked for long periods of time. I read Harvard did a study of tetanus shots and found boosters had no significan
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Will this be a neutralizing vaccine? I like the idea of mRNA based vaccines but unless it prevents infections and is permanent like for polio, I don’t see any great uptake if it’s expected to decompose rapidly like the COVID vaccines.
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
I’m reading the law and I don’t see that issue. All the issues are from the requirements of the FDA, making it patent free solves nothing, unless you’re talking about another industry, the cases are all from healthcare patents from the wiki
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Hasn’t it always been corporate interests in academia? Stanford was a joke when it was founded, MIT was being petitioned into becoming a tech school. Patrons of sciences have always been funded by private interests, there isn’t any corrupti
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Where did you get that idea from the article? Altruism isn’t a fantasy like Robin Hood, there’s a way to do it correctly; it’s why Aaron was interested in policy. Dumb altruists are in a worst position, and giving out free information from
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Windows can run Linux in the subsystem and has a better Android emulator than Linux. Windows doesn’t run old windows programs as well as wine though, and if it hasn’t happened yet I can’t wait for the day you run legacy windows programs in
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Yet Windows has Linux subsystem and Android emulation. Games sure, but all these OSes are just good at running VMs now.
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Do you see yourself ever using a phone docked?
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Don’t they? Free and open source stuff is often an implementation of closed source or commercial goods. Without Bell labs, there’d be no Unix, no BSD, no Linux. Commercial can run by itself, but free systems cannot. Linux isn’t GPL3, so th
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Do it manually. I wonder what automatically means legally or scraping. It’s pretty hard to enforce those requirements, because I assume it’s being broken by search providers. If it’s a derivative work like copilot, I wonder if there’s a leg
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Usually it’s sensors and it does usually make sense unless it’s also processing the data, IoT is usually simple switches. Aside from graphics such as video streaming off the top of my head, processing the data is not often useful aside from
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Thank you for this, I hope to see you around too, we’re both Eva fans!
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
> Memes today seem to increasingly serve the function of a means of communicating ones personal opinions towards a subject with often times quite nasty undertones. Many memes today focus around an element of domination of the perceived o
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
What do you think of substack? I like it as decentralized news. Medium dropped off the face of a cliff but substack has freedom of speech, email lists that is controlled by the writer, and they made it a subscription based long form article
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
One is unregulated, the other is sanctioned. Uber found a loophole for bypassing taxi medallion requirements, and following the law is doing it by the book, renting/buying a medallion to ferry people with a vehicle. Loopholes are commo
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by GhettoComputers 5y ago
That’s assuming it doesn’t get cut along the way, and it doesn’t already destroy lives or cause overdose on its own. It’s hard to see it as a moral matter, like all business it’s just sales. Knowing purity doesn’t prevent the OxyContin issu

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