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Used Intel 8th gen based mini PCs seem like a pretty good value. 100-150 bucks for a pc from a somewhat reputable brand (lenovo, dell, hp) with slightly better multi core than N150 and ~6W idle if you manage to get it to stay in C10. Some of them have a low profile pcie slot, like M720q and M920q. Also the CPU is socketed so you could technically upgrade it to e.g. i9-9900K, at least the M920q is known to take one as long as you use a powerful enough PSU. Few of them (at least M920q) also support coreboot due to an Intel Boot Guard vuln which could be fun, I'm planning to look into whether it could be ported to my M720q as well.

The difference is that unlike Brave and Vanadium, Firefox doesn't come with an ad blocker. You will have to install uBO. If you want to also trim tracking query params, you will have to enable a non-default filter list. Modifications like these will make you stand out from the average Firefox user. It's the reason why installing more extensions and messing with settings is not recommended when using Tor browser or Mullvad browser. The GrapheneOS project also discourages it (https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing).

But you are still right, I don't have data for this or even a measure for uniqueness, it's just a guess.

While I still use Firefox on desktop, on Android I recently switched from Firefox mobile to Brave out of security concerns and frustrations with performance. It has built-in tracker, query param and ad blocking, and is recommended by the GrapheneOS people as a decent alternative to their Vanadium browser [0]. Additionally, I have a gut feeling a Brave user blends in a bit better with its default ad blocking vs say a Firefox user with extensions and filter lists of their choice, but this might be negligible.

On the other hand the affiliate, crypto and AI shit in Brave are quite disgusting tbh, but at least they can be disabled. I also miss Firefox sync a bit.

[0] https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/111966258971400137

I have been planning to get either Witrn K2 or Power-Z KM003C. If just cable testing is enough, the Treedix one is probably good.

Related: If you are looking for cables, this guy has tested a bunch (mainly for charging capabilities) https://www.allthingsoneplace.com/usb-cables-1

Very cool project, I feel inspired to try something like this myself!

I noticed there seems to be a use-after-return with the creds returned from CredentialManager::retrieveCredentials (C-arrays can't be passed/returned by value). One solution could be to return Arduino Strings instead

LLM rizzmaxxing is crazy

I don't know how to feel about that. To me it sounds like an awful direction for the desktop experience on macOS, but on the other hand iPads are currently held back by iPadOS

I very much enjoy Everything whenever I use Windows. I wonder what's the equivalent for Linux, plocate?

Fwiw this has been my setup for ~10 years now and I don't really see an issue with it. Screen locker crashing would have been a concern back in the Xorg days but I don't think it's an issue nowadays with the ext-session-lock-v1 Wayland protocol. I value startup speed and simplicity of my setup and have no use for features provided by a DM, so this has always felt like a no-brainer to me.

Where does it say the app comes with Graphene???

It sounds good but I feel little uneasy about them paying Yandex

Something like this? https://rog.asus.com/us/desktops/mini-pc/rog-nuc-2025/ No idea about the noise though, and personally I despise the design.

Nope, this is not relying on optimization, it's just how compile time evaluation works. The language guarantees "folding" here regardless of optimization level in use. The inline keyword used in the original post is not an optimization hint, it does a specific thing. It forces the switch prong to be evaluated for all possible values. This makes the value comptime, which makes it possible to have a comptime unreachable prong when switching on it.

There are similarities here to C++ if constexpr and static_assert, if those are familiar to you.

The talk in question showcases a widget in the start menu that's using react native. Apart from the meme itself, I have not found indication of the start menu being a react native app. Every time this comes up it seems to always lead back to that meme.

So the source is a twitter meme?

> The Start Menu is apparently a React Native app

What's the source for this?

I wonder if cosmopolitan libc[0] could be leveraged to create an actually portable executable™ without a rewrite, looks like someone has figured out compiling python 3.11.4 with it[1]

[0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

[1] https://ahgamut.github.io/2021/07/13/ape-python/

I should probably look into filtering out the LLM stuff with uBlock Origin rules or something.

balatro

I'm having kind of a hard time imagining how such position would look like. Only working on greenfield projects, moving onto the next project once the codebase gets intolerable?

Today I learned, thanks

Another (admittedly less portable) way to solve the resizing problem is to reserve a large virtual memory space using linux mmap with the PROT_NONE flag and then commit pages as needed using mprotect with PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE flags. I believe windows' VirtualAlloc/VirtualProtect also allows this

I have always wondered why MX Linux is at the top on distrowatch, it does not seem that popular outside the site

The numbers are so small that you can also just use a big array

I have used Stylus for CSS tweaks: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/styl-us/

Well the demo is showing a crossing of something that ms has defined to not be a real security boundary: "Administrative processes and users are considered part of the Trusted Computing Base (TCB) for Windows and are therefore not strong isolated from the kernel boundary." [0]

Another recent case: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-exploited-w...

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/windows-security-servic...

I'm not aware of any studies on this, Nvidia did do a study on the effect of sensitivity on aiming [0] but I'm afraid it didn't cover acceleration. Imo it very well could be given how many top aimers and pro players have successfully used configurable mouse acceleration solutions like RawAccel, InterAccel, Povohat's and Quake built-in acceleration. I feel like aiming with acceleration has a steeper learning curve though especially with steeper acceleration curves without an offset, so perhaps I still wouldn't slap default windows acceleration at newer players.

[0] https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2022-08_mouse-sensit...

What if I told you the cause was a failure of a dependency running CrowdStrike

What's the context for #2?

they probably just picked the opengl renderer for imgui