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abhinavk··on Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
Discord tab also uses 500-600MB of RAM. This is private resident bytes of the tab excluding browser and its helper processes.
abhinavk··on Kitty 0.50
Same with darktable.
abhinavk··on H.264 Is Magic (2016)
Gnome ships wallpapers in JPEG XL. Decoding support has landed but export support is either sparse or untuned.
abhinavk··on H.264 Is Magic (2016)
Gnome is pretty ahead on JXL support though. They even ship their wallpapers in it.
abhinavk··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
It's an one time action and it turns off touch services on Windows and prevents any app to change its behavior after detecting a touchscreen.
abhinavk··on Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account
The recovery image of my laptop is based on an old Win11 build where Microsoft login is now broken. So it falls back to local account after failing. Best bug!
abhinavk··on The case against JPEG XL
Both are open I think.
abhinavk··on What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
I remember it like that too. Or is it Mandela effect?
abhinavk··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Does macOS not have hibernate/suspend-to-disk?
abhinavk··on Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
Ensure your network has no <WiFi6 devices.
abhinavk··on Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device
The original Motorola exists as Motorola Solutions in USA. Mobility was spun-off.
abhinavk··on Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
Yeah. I had to access it by archive[dot]org

What ISP do you use?

abhinavk··on Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
Their source is StatCounter. I would trust the trends but not their absolute values. This month, Steam reported an increase to 4.01% while Cloudflare's human activity reports ~6%.
abhinavk··on Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
Do you mean really ortholinears like Planck or columnars like Corne, Sofle, Kinesis?
abhinavk··on Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
Yep. I am waiting for half-duplex UART splitkb support to come so that I can move everything over.
abhinavk··on Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
I am deep into custom keyboards but I only buy ones with hot swappable switches. Some keys like AWSDEHJKL etc are bound to fail sooner than others.
abhinavk··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
That's the price of Enterprise/Business plan. He might be using the free community version.
abhinavk··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
I install the IDE as well as tools inside distrobox.
abhinavk··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
You can modify the fs using rpm-ostree. It will overlay your changes on top of the immutable image. The recommended way is to create toolbox/distrobox which uses containers to isolate stuff.
abhinavk··on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
On iOS atleast, Live Activities are separate from Notifications. So I can still monitor food or grocery delivery even though I have turned off their notifications.

Now a few apps have started sending notifications through WhatsApp because they have my phone number. e.g. Amazon

abhinavk··on Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)
6(ax) works on 2.4GHz too.
abhinavk··on David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
He wasn't always a narrator.
abhinavk··on David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
Crew ain't a single entity.
abhinavk··on Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused
You know `/etc/passwd` doesn't really have passwords in it.
abhinavk··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Maybe you didn't read the draft. It's either a delayed April's Fool joke or AI slop. Even if you take it seriously, it will require updating every v4 device in existence.
abhinavk··on Mozilla Thunderbolt
Firefox has a new Chrome-like profiles support as of v149.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management

abhinavk··on Honda is killing its EVs
Which are a lot more efficient than an ICE.
abhinavk··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
Motorola Mobility vs Motorola Solutions. Different companies. Different owners. Different nationalities.
abhinavk··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
The elected president of Iran is more like a Chief of Staff to the actual leader.
abhinavk··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
Gboard for iOS has been discontinued though. On top of that, 3rd party keyboards are a bit limited on iOS (which might be a good thing for some people).
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