jwcooper

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by jwcooper 5mo ago
I was on a Macbook Pro (multiple models for many years) and jumped to the 12th gen intel framework. It is fantastic laptop, just showing its age a bit (mostly battery life as I still have the smaller battery and 12th gen intel wasn't t
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by jwcooper 6mo ago
This is ridiculous. The school will notify you if the student is not at school, or the teachers will eventually (or their grades/missing assignments). Also you don't need to track your kids to enable school time mode, if you want
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by jwcooper 8mo ago
Oh yup, you're right on that. I guess my point still stands as Bayer and BASF kind of fit the bill as well.
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by jwcooper 8mo ago
The problem isn't with the farmers. The problem is the monopolies that surround the farmers. They buy their seeds from massive corporations that have patents on seeds. They sell their produce to global multi-national corporations that
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by jwcooper 8mo ago
> The sticking point like always will be media playback (read: DRM/widevine). That is the graveyard where Linux browsers go to die. If Kagi can legally and technically solve the widevine integration on a non-standard Linux webkit bu
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"Bullshit" – The New Way Health Giants Hide Billions(hntrbrk.com)
4 points by jwcooper 8mo ago|0 comments
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by jwcooper 9mo ago
Your grandma doesn't need to know what wayland is to use linux. This is an enthusiast forum for people interested in this exact topic.
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by jwcooper 9mo ago
Most of this article seems unnecessary in 2025 and is very specific to Arch. For most distributions you can simply install the (proprietary) nvidia drivers and you're good to go. There is generally no tweaking or command line changes n
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by jwcooper 9mo ago
You can do that now, and for at least the last year. Very few games don't work anymore, and most that don't are using kernel level anti-cheat or are generally hostile to users anyways (Fortnite and Destiny 2 could work, but they a
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Google's rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia(cnbc.com)
3 points by jwcooper 11mo ago|0 comments
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by jwcooper 2y ago
Microsoft is going the opposite of what you're suggesting. Their games are coming to Steam, Playstation and Switch. Also, their game division isn't exactly thriving right now. They have a ton of studios, but they are not selling h
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by jwcooper 2y ago
The Steam Deck is basically the successor to the Steam Machines. The actual hardware didn't go that well, but they laid the foundation in software for what we have now. So, in a way, the Steam Machines were a great success. Also, Valve
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by jwcooper 2y ago
I figure if it's good enough for login.gov [1], it's good enough for my sites as well. I also find devise pretty simple to get setup and use. It's so easy to mess up some small thing while writing your own auth. I've alw
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by jwcooper 2y ago
I'm not saying GitLab is poorly designed, but a poorly designed website will be slow on the fastest of languages or frameworks. It's not necessarily a Rails or Ruby problem here.
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by jwcooper 2y ago
Same here - ads in their "prime" (more like sub-prime now) video service were what made us cancel as well. Honestly, it's been fine. It turns out a lot of other retailers have almost caught up to Amazon with choice and some e
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Virtual Display over Web Serial(adafruit-playground.com)
3 points by jwcooper 2y ago|0 comments
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by jwcooper 2y ago
Mostly cost - a 55" Samsung Odyssey Ark computer monitor is like $1800. You can get a similar TV for 1/2 that price.
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Ex-Honeywell engineer's invention could power moving EVs and aircraft(startribune.com)
3 points by jwcooper 2y ago|2 comments
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by jwcooper 3y ago
They would have needed controllers and actually cared enough to support steam on it. There is zero chance Valve would release HL:Alyx without full steam support on the device. That being said, I get what you're saying - that a killer g
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How "Legal" Is Palworld? – Video Game IP Lawyer Explains [video](youtube.com)
2 points by jwcooper 3y ago|0 comments
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by jwcooper 3y ago
This is a pretty good video (11 minutes) where a video game IP lawyer discusses palworld vs pokemon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkNcV0kpxvg Mostly surrounding the similarities in pokemon vs pal visual design. Spoiler..
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by jwcooper 3y ago
This is a survey from gamers. There are a lot of games that only work on Windows, or work much better on Windows. It's only been somewhat recently that games that support Linux have exploded in numbers. Somewhat coinciding with the rel
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by jwcooper 3y ago
It's because they break the other distributions by version. Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS 64 bit VS "Arch Linux" 64 bit Other Ubuntu versions appear to be in the "Other" category.
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by jwcooper 3y ago
We also just canceled our decade+ prime membership. It used to feel like a great deal, not anymore. $150 a year is just too much for what they offer when we didn't use the music or photos or very limited kindle offerings.
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by jwcooper 3y ago
Reminds me of Moonring that recently came out. It's an homage to the old Ultima games, but is new and looks and plays fantastic: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2373630/Moonring/
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Toyota cuts 2023 EV sales forecast by nearly 40%(electrek.co)
33 points by jwcooper 3y ago|61 comments
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Consumers have yet to develop a taste for Kernza, the environmental wonder grain(startribune.com)
26 points by jwcooper 3y ago|9 comments
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Hardcore Vulkan Debugging – Digging Deep on Linux and Amdgpu(themaister.net)
4 points by jwcooper 3y ago|0 comments
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by jwcooper 3y ago
This is what Framework set out to do (and is pulling it off so far...I'm typing this out on my 12th gen framework). They have an entire marketplace of replacement parts you can buy, including screens. They've even got battery upgr
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by jwcooper 3y ago
Rails seemingly handles it the same way as Laravel and it all makes sense very quickly. The argument here that you would end up with 'addresss' is silly as you can also quickly handle that with a new inflection and it rarely even

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