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pohuing··on Three-Minute Take-Home Test May Identify Symptoms Linked to Alzheimer's Disease
Certainly are in Germany. Many even give you a small coupon in return, so you can spend more money at the overpriced gas station kiosk.
pohuing··on The Mac app flea market
Google play store has a search button that's even reachable with only one hand. It's just not obvious that you can tap the search label in the bottom tab bar a second time to focus the search text field.
pohuing··on Performance Improvements in .NET 10
> This created an ugly split in the ecosystem because if you were using Container<X> you could not pass it to an old API that expected a Container.

Correct me if I'm wrong but allowing this would mean the called api might insert objects wholly unrelated to X. This would break every assumption you make about the container's contents. Why would this ever be allowed or wanted?

pohuing··on VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong
I hate to be like this, but no it's not(at least not on my windows 10/11 work laptop). It is not active globally, the Teams window containing the call has to be active(on my system).

And it would be a problem if it was, as ctrl shift is the default binding for show suggestions in IntelliJ and Rider.

All of the following you've already mentioned but I forgot you mentioning them in my rage at MS. Figuring out if I'm holding it wrong or not revealed another silly issue however: the push to talk button is hard coded to ctrl space, unlike other keybinds it doesn't show up in the keybinds dialog.

pohuing··on VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong
There's a bunch of annoyances in teams. The text editor is awful if you try to paste/send code for one. The screen sharing is shit by default and only lets one person share at a time for no good reason. It's fairly slow. And it doesn't have a global fucking hot key for push to talk/muting. Despite being integrated with the damn task bar(which is broken if you're on hold in one call and active in another, then it's too stupid to figure out that the mute button is intended to mute my active call, not the one that's on hold...). Also the teams feature gets out of your way, which is an issue if you're trying to use it like you would channels in discord or slack. Would be nice to at least have a notification pip there.
pohuing··on The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb
Opel is a German brand with a German headquarters and production, iirc, primarily in Germany.
pohuing··on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]
To jailbreak you need to be imprisoned. Since your only crime was buying an iPhone it presents apple as the tyrant. I think the term fits
pohuing··on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event
I think you meant to write anti choice not pro choice.
pohuing··on Don't animate height
And it's sensitive to dynamic scaling as well, isn't it? So it's possibly not 60% of a core at max clock, but maybe of a core clocked to 800mhz or something.

I fell for that shallow analysis myself once when I noticed just how apparently bad the gpu usage was for a big of animation in a web page, until I noticed my 30% load gpu still drew as much wattage as it did on idle.

pohuing··on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
Not only is it not a very small phone, I can't even properly type this message one handed. It's also not a good phone which I regret purchasing.

Zenphones until the 10 had easy to unlock bootloaders, leading to long in official support by the community. However with the 10 ASUS stopped that tool and they've been lying ever since that they're still working on it.

My zenfone is now on its final major android update, the rather minor android 15 version, and I've only got two years of security updates left until I need to look for a new phone. That's one thousand euros for barely four years of software support, it's such a disappointment.

That aside the camera is lackluster, it's auto whitebalance is horrific, turning the same snowy scene into a sunset or illuminated by fluorescent light depending on the phase of the moon and it's sampling questionable making images much more blurry in a surreal way. But the optical stabilisation is seriously impressive. Overall I preferred the pixel 4a's images though. A smaller phone and my zenfone's predecessor.

At least I get to just plug it into my stereo thanks to the 3.5mm jack though.

pohuing··on AI threatens to raid the water reserves of Europe's driest regions
In addition to the other concerns of evaporative cooling, there is one issue with a simple water cooled loop that just runs river water through a heat exchanger and then dumps it again. You can only raise a river's temperature so much before it becomes a problem for the ecosystem. This issue has in the past forced power plant shutdowns, so it's not that simple.

https://www.ans.org/news/article-6268/french-nuclear-plant-l...

pohuing··on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
The docs contain a sentence on them retaining any chats that they legally have to retain. This is always the risk when doing business with law abiding companies which store any data on you.
pohuing··on Dependency injection frameworks add confusion
Maybe you should read the manual then. Or change to a better Ide. Both Rider and IntelliJ can do this with no frills.
pohuing··on One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software
I'm in Germany which makes it a bit harder. Someone in the UK went through the trouble and all they got was an offer for a refund or an insanely outpriced option to downgrade the os iirc.

About the lie, they've repeated multiple times this would be an option a year ago...

See https://www.reddit.com/r/zenfone/comments/1ccy11g/asus_is_wo...

pohuing··on One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software
What cempler said. I tried the dongle approach when the jack in my pixel 4a was failing but found I didn't like it. Having the cable go out the bottom in the center is a terrible place for me, as I rest my phone on my outstretched pinky. The zenfone ticked all boxes on paper and in reviews. Great chipset, solid build, a form factor fitting my tiny hands(though in retrospect it's so heavy that my pinky hurts after a couple hours of reading). And a headphone jack which I use to plug my phone in my stereo and my Sennheiser headphones. Really the jack is the primary reason I got this phone. Coupled by the fact that until now all zenfones had a hassle boot loader unlock and a decent rom community it really was the best choice on paper. God damn it Asus, I wasn't aware they're that dodgy :/
pohuing··on One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software
For me it's them lying about providing a way to unlock the bootloader of my soon to be 1000€ paperweight(2 android updates only) called an Asus zenfone 10.
pohuing··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
It's a tool, not an intelligence, a tool that costs money on every erroneous token. I expect my computer to be more reliable at remembering things than myself, that's one of the primary use cases even. Especially if using it costs money. Of course errors are possible, but rarely do they happen as frequently in any other program I use.
pohuing··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
Yeah my ~1000€ Lenovo Yoga 7 Pro takes 18 seconds from cold boot(power button press) to signed in via windows hello. And that's with Bitlocker and myself having installed a whole bunch of background utilities.
pohuing··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
Soon to be? They already failed to deploy a website safely by exposing the db. https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-...
pohuing··on Anubis Works
There's this funny instance[1] of someone afraid their their gf might see them and think they're into anime. But anyhow using an image and the image itself is up to the site since Anubis let's you configure it.

[1] https://discourse.gnome.org/t/anime-girl-on-gnome-gitlab/276...

pohuing··on Show HN: Translate Japanese manga and Korean manhwa with Chrome extension
> but Microsoft had been notorious for nonchalantly shipping crazy MTL errors for past 3-5 years

For a while now my coworkers have been free of charge when they're available. It's pretty insane

pohuing··on What made the Irish famine so deadly
German curriculum is state and school difficulty level dependent to a degree, so what I say may not apply to Bavaria for example. I was taught quite extensively about the various German states with extra detail starting at the French revolution and very detailed Weimar and Third Reich.

Germany's role in colonialism was always limited compared to the other European powers. We were late to the game and lost them after WW1, so it was more of a footnote. It did mention our colonies in East Africa and South East Asia but only mentioned the genocide against the Herero without a mention of details. The Atlantic Slave and trade was covered in great detail both in history and English lessons. Same for the Spanish and Portuguese exploitation of South and Middle America.

pohuing··on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing
Even as a discord user I get annoying ads for game events called quests. So far I haven't had a quest for a game I actually play or want to play
pohuing··on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing
An animated profile, much larger file uploads and high resolution streaming.
pohuing··on Mozilla introduces a Terms of Use agreement for Firefox
Or install an add on that blocks the api yt uses to detect if it's in the background. It wrecks my charge though.
pohuing··on 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised
Don't android and IOS try to prevent background location tracking? The location permission dialogs don't even have that option
pohuing··on Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
About 6, jellyfin also landed trick play images recently, which gives you a preview image when hovering the progress bar.
pohuing··on You can still own music
I use jellyfin and findroid or symfonium atm. Jellyfin can be slightly finicky at times but mostly just works. Don't be afraid to use the refresh metadata button though, its file watcher isn't good at picking up changes in the files' tags in my experience.
pohuing··on To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
Even our Renault scenic from a decade ago seamlessly connects to my phone when I enter it.
pohuing··on Apple Invites
I wrote an "SMS" to the previous tenant of my new flat recently and it got seamlessly upgraded to rcs. With me on an android and them on an iPhone. This was using Google messages, which was the default on my zenfone for sms
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