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An anti-cheat app would probably be quite surprised to find it's running on Windows 95 anyway.

Reflink conversion would be another nice feature to have. It allows userspace apps to create filesystem-native copy-on-write clones of files, so to the next app they work exactly l…

I think Bohemia parted ways with their publisher Codemasters, who retained the Operation Flashpoint trademark.

Down-rounds are very undesirable though. So those 332 likely have not had other options. True number of companies that wouldn't really be valued as high as their peak raise is prob…

Why would you expect Apple to give up their margin? The DRAM price hikes affect every smartphone vendor, even Samsung through opportunity cost. That means the competition will also…

SailfishOS runs most of Android apps fine. For bank ID, system attestation requirements might block them though.

The docker CLI tool is normally executed with user privileges, but there's dockerd, a daemon running as root that actually does the container execution.

High level waste disposal starts this year in Finland. The site is 400m underground in bedrock. It will not be really operated in geological timescales, but filled with sealing cla…

Solaris lives on as Illumos. Wherever the Solaris developers go, they build on that. Currently they are on it at Oxide. I'm sure Oracle milks commercial Solaris efficiently, but I …

The ISPs are a natural monopoly, or oligopoly at least, because it's expensive to lay cable for each home. Their business is quite profitable even when they don't get to control th…

Yes, I think it's the same in here, you have been able to ignore the letters without any consequence. Also from what I hear, the letters have been very inaccurate. I doubt the IP b…

How is the anti-P2P enforcement these days? I think there are companies gathering bittorrent swarm data and selling it to lawyers interested in this sort of bullying. In Finland at…

Since the Tapani storm of 2011 there's been a massive undergrounding of the power grid, so much of the rural areas are now also quite safe from outages. But there are still a lot o…

Your sound card works perfectly.

It's a reference to a classic comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Modern air-to-air heatpumps heat at over 100% efficiency even at those temperatures, they are very widely deplyoed in the Nordics for heating. And even where it is sometimes that c…

This is largely a misconception that's caused by the fact that EV fires are hard to extinguish with normal water sprays. That is because the bettery packs are designed to be water …

You can also recharge your geothermal well or ground heat collection field by heating the outgoing thermal collection liquid with either cheap electricity (rooftop solar?) or direc…

These weather systems are quite big indeed. It's cold and calm in the neighboring Scandinavian countries as well and typically in Central Europe too.

Z2 means you'll have two parity disks, like in RAID-6. That should be okay. The trouble with RAID-5 are the rebuild times that rise to multiple days with modern disk sizes. The dur…

Here in rural Finland, 4G/5G is the only option available to me. I'm getting 50-150Mbps download speed, but often just a dozen Mbps upload. On the night hours it's better and that'…

AFAIK it never pans out really. People turn out very stingy if they're faced with a decision to pay or not to pay for every article, so the revenues end up a lot lower than what th…

What is the performance in ML workloads like on AMD APUs compared to Apple Silicon?

There are operations that put cryptominers into any unauthenticated remote desktops they can find. Ask me how I know... Way friendlier than wiping your data though.

Cameras unintentionally left open would be much more typical if this was not the default. I agree that it still should be possible to have it off in every meeting after changing so…