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timw4mail··on An ad-free Android TV
All DVDs are 480p max.

I was a floutist as well. I think part of it is that you just get used to the level of whatever sound device you use.

timw4mail··on Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
And make it actually work well. I'll take the old 9x era control panel over the new text-only, harder-to-navigate settings app.
timw4mail··on The Curse of Soldered RAM
As someone who likes small-screen laptops: no. The screen size is not the problem (unless it is also low-resolution), it's the battery size, and what the battery can power for a "reasonable" amount of time.

13-14" is the sweet spot between power storage, size, and energy efficiency in my opinion.

timw4mail··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
Ewww... I remember having to work with that trash.
timw4mail··on An ad-free Android TV
Even soundbars are better than TV speakers. Proper speakers would still be better, but TV speakers are nearly useless.
timw4mail··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
A lot of that uncertainty has to do with USPS, who keeps getting slower, and their delivery date estimates are at this point often 2-3 days more optimistic than reality.

At least in my experience, UPS, Fedex, etc., tend to deliver when the estimate says.

timw4mail··on Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers
Ugh, that swap of default direction for scrolling drives me nuts!
timw4mail··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
I think it's pretty decent, especially compared to a few other color e-ink devices I've tried.
timw4mail··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
Pretty similar to Apple.
timw4mail··on Allow Carriers on Planes
The world doesn't exist without people.
timw4mail··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Except for the tire and road wear. The extra weight isn't free.
timw4mail··on The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning
Hah! One could only hope.
timw4mail··on The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning
Ram is boom or bust industry. The big manufacturers remain because they were either wise in their bets or lucky.
timw4mail··on Linux from Scratch
In my experience with Gentoo, the hard stuff is well beyond the base setup: it's getting sound, bluetooth, auto-mounting, etc. setup the way it is in the bigger distros.
timw4mail··on Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader
For the Pro, you will want a 3d-printed dock, or a really thin USB-C cable to use with the pogo pin dongle.
timw4mail··on Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader
With the original X4 discontinued, none of the XTEink products now have USB-C, they all have the pogo pins.
timw4mail··on Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader
Standard or not, it's not the standard.
timw4mail··on Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library
Seriously? Wow.
timw4mail··on Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library
Floats? A fan of pain, are we?
timw4mail··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
While I've had issues doing bios updates on my Framework, it's been more due to the fact that my main drive has too small of an EFI partition to update with the main drive in the laptop (who knows why it takes so much space to update the firmware in the first place).

That said, with another drive (and a larger EFI partition), I've been able to do 4 or 5 different bios updates on my AMD 7040 Framework 13.

timw4mail··on Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
That's the app I'm looking for a direct replacement for as well.
timw4mail··on Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks
Not using YAML is huge.
timw4mail··on How to think about software quality (2022)
I think a good way to put it is this: every abstraction is a gamble.

There are likely a lot of safe bets, but even choices that once made sense can become an issue later.

timw4mail··on FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
There's a font manager in Crosspoint and Witch, you can download that font directly from the device.
timw4mail··on FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
I have not seen any support on the mini readers.
timw4mail··on FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
My favorite at this point is Witch reader (https://github.com/jpirnay/witchhunt-reader). All the features of Cross-point, with better book rendering, and more features. I've tried a lot of the various alternatives, and keep coming back.

If you want all your book series displayed together, AALU (https://github.com/dawsonfi/aalu) might be worth a look.

And Crosspoint OS itself is still really nice.

timw4mail··on 98% Isn't Much
And I see the opposite: Safari is a valuable check on constant additions and bloat to the web platform.
timw4mail··on 98% Isn't Much
Progress, or constant churn for the sake of Google's stranglehold on web standards?
timw4mail··on The Boeing 747 begins its final descent
While true, aircraft fatality statistics generally are not split that way.

The 747 is a safe aircraft, but there have been a lot of fatalities associated with it, due to pilot error, terrorism, improper repair/maintenance, etc.

timw4mail··on The Boeing 747 begins its final descent
Hard to beat other planes that have not had fatal crashes or hull losses, especially when you consider the Tenerife crash.
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