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by starsinspace 6y ago
I'm also excited about a non-x86 architecture on the desktop again. Monoculture is bad, and I find x86 to be especially ugly... As for switching... I'm increasingly unhappy with Microsoft's complete disregard of user privacy.
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by starsinspace 6y ago
To give a different perspective: I find Apple's move to ARM the most exciting thing to happen in desktop computers in many years. I'm typing this from a PC running Win10. Current plan is: as soon as ARM desktop Macs become availab
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by starsinspace 6y ago
Nitpick: for the Amigas they used Motorola 68000 series CPUs.
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by starsinspace 6y ago
Maybe you'd like to look into Jamulus: http://llcon.sourceforge.net/
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by starsinspace 6y ago
Jamulus is nice: http://llcon.sourceforge.net/ Yes, there is latency over the internet, but IMO you can get used to it.
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by starsinspace 6y ago
Maybe it was a mistake for the software industry to give up on the nice big colorful cardboard box with software inside it. Bought at a physical retail store, with CD-ROMs in it an a thick printed manual. Certainly gave more or a feeling of
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by starsinspace 7y ago
To me, "telemetry" is a violation of boundaries. And I don't think it's necessary to provide legitimation scenarios for not wanting that. For decades I have used personal computers and it was my machine and nobody consta
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Many of the classic Japanese Hi-Fi makers are still around and make good non-smart amplifiers and speakers. Take at look at the offerings of e.g. Onkyo, Yamaha, Denon, TEAC, Sony, Pioneer. A few years ago I bought a TEAC amp[0] + speakers[1
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by starsinspace 7y ago
So Sonos devices need "activation" via some server on the internet? Why? If I just want to stream audio within my own home, why is internet even necessary? And what happens when Sonos goes out of business and the servers are shut
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Another disadvantage of AirPods (and most other wireless headphones): they're terrible for the environment. Builtin batteries which will wear out, glued shut so no way to replace the batteries, tied to a stack of radio/protocol&#x
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by starsinspace 7y ago
> You're right, let's burn the library down because one book has a liable chapter in it. Jeez... You may want to re-read my comment. I have written no such thing, and it is not my opinion at all.
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Although efforts like internet archive are noble (and I find it occasionally useful), I'm not sure it's always so great that everything anyone does online will be permanently archived. I know many people feel that everything shoul
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by starsinspace 7y ago
I agree that "straight C" is not the best choice anymore... but C++ isn't great either. It inherits most of C's weaknesses and for libraries, it makes it very difficult to use the code from languages other than C++. By m
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by starsinspace 7y ago
You might want to read https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
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by starsinspace 7y ago
And they figured this all out without so-called "telemetry" in Win 3.1. Isn't that amazing. Almost as if today's "telemetry is absolutely necessary for improving UX" mantra isn't actually true...
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by starsinspace 7y ago
iOS already has a separate feature "offline dictation" which works on-device. I don't understand why that isn't used for Siri. Also about "recently"... back in the late 90s I had a desktop PC running Windows 98
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by starsinspace 7y ago
It's interesting how they talk about "doing as much on device as possible"... but Siri's voice recognition still works by sending the Siri request audio to an Apple server and doing the voice recognition there (only the
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by starsinspace 7y ago
> Cut out time-consuming distractions Good idea. Time for me to close HN now. Seriously... I spend (waste?) way too much time here.
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Does Fedora come with support for playing back common media formats these days? Last time I tried, it didn't even play MP3s, just showing some dialog box about how it can't play that due to patents or something. To solve that IIRC
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Same here. I see all this marketing hype about 5G but I just don't know what I would do with it. Maybe I could some day get gigabit internet on my smartphone then... but what for? Streaming 8K video on the go? I fail to see any use cas
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Cheap toys are generally worrying. Unrelated to Amazon specifically, but to get an idea, you can also take a look at this EU site listing some products which have been banned/recalled: https://ec.europa.eu/consumers&#x2
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Then how about Motorola, a US company in the same market segment, which also failed?
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Oh wow, I remember playing Exile back then! Found it on some shareware CD-ROM in the 90s. Was a nice game... I should check out their newer games!
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Yeah, you're right. I also wouldn't recommend to try just say "public domain" today for that reason.
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by starsinspace 7y ago
What I miss from the Amiga days is the wide spread release of "public domain software". People would just write applications, tools, games and say "released as public domain" and that was it. Do what you want, have fun!
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by starsinspace 7y ago
> Well, it worked on Star Trek. IIRC the official explanation from the makers of Star Trek is that the displays look like simple touch screens, but they are actually overlaid with structured force fields, so for the users it feels like a
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by starsinspace 7y ago
It was reworked to use so-called "modern web technologies".
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Same experience here: my late-90s PC HD floppies are almost all unreadable. The early-90s DD floppies from my Amiga are almost all still readable without errors.
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Maybe the article author is confusing data compression with dynamics compression [0]. The latter is a real problem with the terrible "loudness war" [1] going on for a long time, with many audio pieces (dynamics-)compressed to deat
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by starsinspace 7y ago
Sadly, offline dictation is a separate feature, it is not the speech-recognition used for Siri. Quote directly from Apple: "The recording of the user’s spoken words is sent to Apple’s voice recognition server. If the task involves dict

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