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ESP32 is a great SOC. Watch out for RAM issues though. I have an e-reader using an ESP32 that only has 180kb or so of usable RAM which makes things very difficult to work with. You will need to specify that it has to be the versions that have addressable RAM. Unless of course, all updates are entirely firmware and the limited memory is just to hold the text editor buffer.

The current "too dangerous" hype today is Anthropic's Mythos. They say it is so mighty that they will wall it off and only grant access to approved corporations.

I agree many meetings could be an email.

Look at it this way though, this site is low-key a CV portfolio piece because he isn't just writing about dithering, he's demonstrating that he can research, analyze and then both code and create a site at a level most vibers cannot.

If it supported it, 100 Hz paired with a mouse set for 200 Hz was nice and smooth.

The Croscore fonts ARE the Liberation fonts, just renamed.

I keep both for naming compatibility and also because the 1.0 Liberation versions had truetype hinting (2.0 and up did not).

They still do. It's the required font for all US Supreme Court legal work.

Have you tried eye-patching as a therapy to train the non-dominant eye?

As a lay person who likes to look at fonts closely, the purpose they are intended for matters. I don't like the Atkinson font for body text because I find it too round. For a transit sign I suppose it is fine since it would be printed at display sizes and only momentarily gazed at.

Calibri is a high-quality font that works as body text, but it's cold.

Times NR on paper is fine, on screen it is not fine unless you have a high resolution display.

I don't like newer codecs like AV1. I find them blurrier. Perhaps the bitrate is too low, but they do seem blurrier compared to h264. Even VP09 has often seemed better.

h264 is a very good codec.

Another example of why Android is better for this use case. With Firefox for Android you can install an extension to force h264 from YouTube and the problem is solved. With iPhone, you cannot. You must buy a new device when you need a feature or support.

China and India are two-thirds of the human race. With population numbers like those, this is large scale adoption.. just not in our market.

I hope the watchdog wins. Amazon already compresses the bitrate so much on the video, it really wasn't very nice when they decided that subscribers also now had to receive ads on top of that.

And not even the nice Cerveza Cristal kind of ads.

In North America, the problem is other than the fact they didn't allow dimming lights for whatever reason, they made a separate regulation for LED lights compared to the old incandescent lights.

The old light regulation actually had a limit on how bright the running lights could be.

The new LED light regulation says you can have it as bright as the manufacturer wants it to be.

So now there is the problem of misaligned headlights that don't point at the road but instead point at cars, and are as bright or brighter than the old incandescent high beams.

I have to have my rear-view mirror permanently flipped at night now. I never needed to do that in the past except when some idiot actually was using their high beams.

Those flashing lights aren't even road legal in Germany. I never set mine to flash and I'm not in Germany.

I believe flashing lights are actually less safe as it encourages the driver to look AWAY from you. I certainly don't keep staring at a flashing light.

I run OpenWRT on my TP-Link and have been happy with it.

The radio sounds much like Intel's ME.

I think we all know there's a problem, but we don't have the power to do anything about it because what alternative is there? Ancient hardware?

Be careful. Not only are you at risk of being the permanent tech support guy, but if something goes wrong somewhere, sometime, it's your fault because you endorsed the product.

My usage of KDE today is on the Steam Deck. I actually did take the time to set it up to look nice.

I have three observations to make.

1) There is a pain point in KDE involving windows on top of another fullscreen window. Specifically, the Live Captions app. This is a design problem that other OSes like Microsoft Windows doesn't suffer from. What happens is, if you leave the taskbar in place and want to have the captioner running over video and make the video fullscreen, you can't with KDE. I eventually figured out a hacky workaround in that if I turn auto-hide on for the taskbar, I can then alt-tab the Window and it'll stay on top. I did see some talk about this window behaviour. It's nuts that an accessibility feature needs the user to make the taskbar auto-hide first before it works. It would be nice if there could be a setting where it is "this window is on top of everything".

2) SteamOS as having a large device-specific installed base, I think there is value in the KDE team encouraging Valve to turn KDE from a snapshot to a rolling release as Fedora has done where KDE is rolling but the rest of the distro is a snapshot. Why this matters, is because when it comes to bug reports and the like, the KDE bot basically closes them because Valve's KDE is "unsupported" because they only seem to rebase once a year or two. I know they did move to 6.2 with 3.7, but I found 3.7 buggy and thought KDE looked worse and had worse scrolling performance (maybe setting conflicts from the 5.27 version?) so I just switched back to the 3.6 version with 5.27 where everything looks right and scrolling moved smoothly. I know they changed the kwin compositor a lot in the 6.x series, and I suspect there are regressions in it, so if it isn't rolling, people are stuck with a buggy compositor? That sucks.

3) Setting upgrades.. so with SteamOS, Valve was shipping the 5.2x series of KDE. Now 6.2, and the next rebase is probably going to be 6.x on Wayland instead of X11. So there's a lot of legacy cruft settings that carry on and I think they cause glitches. I always used to do clean install of Windows versions, and think it would be nice to be able to do that in KDE, but there's a lot of legacy cruft with various settings and conf files scattered in various random folders. At some point it really should be cleaned up.. one central folder for all settings.. no some settings are stored in a KDE4 folder, and others are stored in this other one KDE5 introduced, etc.

The Seneca isn't using rubber dome switches as the wording implies, it's using capacitive switches (like some HHKs) which includes a rubber dome as part of the component. It is not the same kind of switch as you would find on free keyboards.

You are trusting them. They control the client, how the keys are created/stored, etc. Javascript, etc. If they were to suddenly turn one day, they could.

This is the weakness of cloud services.

I booted into my 7 partition the other day because for whatever reason my frayed 10 partition wouldn't let me run an offline defender scan.

My suggestion is, install Microsoft Security Essentials (you can get a copy of the installer out of archive.org) and definition files are still published for it and are up-to-date. MSE is what became Defender in 10. The Defender in 7 is not the same and doesn't scan for the same things. MSE is needed to replace it.

I wonder how it would do with the djvu codec which tends to have been used specifically for archiving documents. I suppose it is best applied at source if the physical material is at hand.

Might still be worth taking a look at as an experiment since this codec separates text, background and images into different layers, even when converted from another format.

In an era of offshoring, outsourcing, automation and now uncontrolled mass migration from incompatible cultures into the west, it is undeniable there are problems.

Arch-capitalists push for these things in order to reduce cost as much as they can without consideration for society's future or well-being. E.g. laying off American workers in order to hire H-1B workers from corrupt countries where many lie about their experience and/or forge credentials. We have all seen how everything is getting worse in multiple countries now because of corporate control of society.

I do not for a second believe that they actually will implement UBI. There will be conditions attached to it. I don't know what the conditions are imagined to be, but it won't be as simple as these breathless articles about UBI make it sound.

Meanwhile, all these arch-capitalists are building their private doomsday bunkers underground.

Why are they building bunkers underground if everything is fine?

Just like bots trawl the web to train AIs with, why would using different code sites be any different? If it's visible, they will still show up and scarf down the code for training material..

So, given that this will happen everywhere, does it really make a difference what MS does?

Some of the Samsung apps are better than alternatives. Google is not the best at everything.

This is OK for me because I use these with full (or medium) hinting and anti-aliasing off in some apps, and greyscale anti-aliasing in other apps with the v35 interpreter.

v40 with slight hinting and greyscale or subpixel works, but I don't tend to use the fonts that are meant to be used with slight hinting and later fonts can't handle anti-aliasing off at all.

You can easily do this on a per-app basis with flatpaks.. you can set an environment variable with flatseal, and you can drop a fontconfig folder with a custom fonts.conf in the flatpak's var directory.

I don't think there will be one, a company would need to commit to salaried devs. What would the value-added proposition be for them that they can't get by using any other distro out there?

$150B is pretty cheap if it comes with ready-to-go chip fabs.

The longer you wait the cheaper they will be because of the age.

Yes, and the different browsers on iOS are all actually just skins on top of Safari's WebKit.

For me, I like being able to set a default font/size/colour for all websites as an override. Chromium browsers don't do that out of the box.

I like that it quarantines most of Facebook's shenanigans with cookies and the like.

I can't compare Brave's adblock to uBlock Origin, but it's probably good enough.