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by thastings 10d ago
Even if I would not read it back to back on release, it would be a pleasure to have a reliable and citable reference on hand. Whenever I stumble upon new complex problems, outside of the regular, often fairly repetitive statistical question
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by thastings 2mo ago
https://xkcd.com/927/
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by thastings 2mo ago
From personal experience, many apps work suprisingly well on Phosh. The thing keeping me from using a Droidian phone with Phosh was a seemingly device-specific issue with answering regular phone calls. Kind of ironic that the linux phone co
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American Invasion of Greenland (2029)(falloutfanfic.fandom.com)
4 points by thastings 8mo ago|2 comments
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by thastings 8mo ago
This a link to an article that takes place in the Fallout Universe. I hope that the year in brackets shows well enough that posting this is just a joke in connection with current events.
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by thastings 11mo ago
Droidian[0] currently supports a relatively new Motorola phone[1]. A Snapdragon 8+ gen 1 device, so the performance isn't bad, and most features seem to work, including Waydroid. I've noticed incoming phone calls causing a glitch
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by thastings 2y ago
Thanks for this! Haven't heard of this agent yet, but it really seems promising.
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by thastings 2y ago
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I must add this: when we work and focus, especially when using digital screens, we tend to blink a lot less frequently. If tear composition is not good or there are other exacerbating factors (e.g. a
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by thastings 2y ago
I got a PSP-3000 during high school, and loved it. In addition to playing native and PS1 games, it was a very powerful media player as well. Much more versatile than most phones at the time, especially with its nice, though not very hi-res,
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by thastings 2y ago
There were some games that had a feature called game sharing. This let you send a smaller version of the game, essentially a demo, to another PSP over wifi, and this let you at least try the experience without owning the game. Burnout Legen
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by thastings 2y ago
Despite the limitations, many games pulled off amazing graphics. Many in the thread compare it to the PS2, but that's unfair. Doing better than PS1 graphics in a handheld was quite an accomplishment back then. Interestingly, the qualit
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by thastings 2y ago
I'm impressed! Bloodlines was the only AC I've ever finished completely, and even though the story was odd at some points, I found the gameplay and the graphics to be spot on for the platform. Very enjoyable for teenager me back t
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by thastings 2y ago
Tell us more! I still beleieve that the PSP is a killer platform, those games are beautiful with 60 fps mods at high resolutions. I never really stopped playing them, just moved them to my phone.
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by thastings 2y ago
I can add that Linux is also pretty solid on Asus machines well, despite the company actively advocating for MS on their sites. I have an old G46, some i7-1065 Zenbook Flip, and a newish Zenbook with a 6800U. All of them running Debian 12 w
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by thastings 2y ago
Exactly! The Minimal Phone[0] seems to be headed in a better direction in this sense, as the 'limitation' of that device is the screen being eink, but the OS is more or less vanila Android. Interestingly, I got used to using my re
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by thastings 2y ago
I'm really looking forward to this phone. However, their limited take on Android is very limiting, as a phone often needs to be at least a 2FA device as well. Without some support for Play Store/F-Droid, this can't really be
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by thastings 2y ago
If you need to enter the BIOS: bring up the terminal, and write `systemctl reboot --firmware-setup` This reboots systemd-powered systems to the UEFI menu. May not work on other init systems, but SteamOS is based on Arch with systemd.
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by thastings 2y ago
As others have already stated, without either actual paying users (not the celebrities) or some form of advertising costs can become very high quite fast. Even though you are against all forms of advertising, some really privacy oriented fo
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by thastings 2y ago
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I must add COSMIC here, as most comparisons seem to occur between GNOME and KDE. I've used the former for years, but slowly realized that needing to use various extensions to achieve a usable de
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by thastings 3y ago
Yes, a similar pattern can be seen in Toyotas, where the RAV4 became enormous, and the C-HR filled the gap of a similarly sized SUV. No. 1940[0] from xkcd comes to mind. [0] https://xkcd.com/1940/
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by thastings 3y ago
This is an awesome library. I've used it for multiple, mostly internal tools. The more complex one were a tool for cardiac action potential analysis and another for the evaluation of multiple choice tests. Complexity exploded over time
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by thastings 4y ago
I used to work with a cardiac electrophysiology group. The software used for acquisition and analysis was quite old, written for DOS back in the mid-1990s. At acquisition, files were named like YYMMDDXX.0nn where XX stands for the setup whe
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by thastings 4y ago
Reminds me of an Asimov short story where the world's whole economy was managed by four supercomputers [0]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evitable_Conflict
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Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm(rentry.co)
48 points by thastings 4y ago|53 comments
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by thastings 4y ago
Exactly, came here to write this. Disclosing the contribution of ChatGPT is quite important though from a transparency standpoint. I wouldn't mind seeing it in the methods section either.
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by thastings 4y ago
It's quite odd, as I tried with a few devices from the local network, it seemed offline. Even a down detector[0] showed it to be offline, but I can access it via mobile date. ISP issue maybe? [0]: https://www.isitdownrightno
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Microsoft.com Is Offline(microsoft.com)
2 points by thastings 4y ago|3 comments
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by thastings 4y ago
Sorry if this was already mentioned, a quick search didn't turn up exact matches to what would be my $0.02. A simple and relatively safe option would be to go into a computer store that has many machines that can also be tried. Look fo
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by thastings 4y ago
Being a fan of the good old Codemasters racing games, I've always wished for an open-world game containung the combined areas and tracks of DiRT 1–3 and maybe DiRT Rally 1–2, as well as some GRID originals connected with NFS Hot Pursui
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by thastings 5y ago
This is a very important point. Xiaomi is selling premium phones with unreal amount of ads (like im their Calculator app...), but these phones have amazing support from the communities, both from Lineage and upcoming alternatives like Ubunt

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