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Comment #28922011
From what I watched of the presentation, there was also a fair bit of moving around. In my studio, we primarily used it as a way to hide main camera adjustments in the edit, usuall…
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Comment #28921965
You're right! They suck, this is the first time they've ever built a phone and they have no history of working devices to prove themselves!
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Comment #28921926
The bigger problem with Qualcomm is that they're primarily the reason why devices only got a two year span of updates and poor support. Each board built for each phone still had to…
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Comment #28921854
> The weirdest thing in the Google presentation is that several sections had presenters talking to a different camera than facing the screen. That just felt very strange. B-Camera …
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Comment #28914062
TLDR: Nope. > However, I don’t believe anything was actually stolen from, copied from, or even directly inspired by ART+COM.
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Comment #28889839
I think the post you replied to is a fantastic example of what I was referring to, btw.
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Comment #28885317
> Apple employees are reportedly required to link their personal iCloud with their work account/devices That's a big fuckin' nope and likely illegal.
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Comment #28885312
> We regularly BEAT on Apple. From my direct experience, anyone who speaks out against Apple's restrictive, walled garden approach and anti consumer practices gets downvoted hard a…
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Comment #28869929
Mint and Pop are still Ubuntu based, not to ignore the Debian underpinnings of Ubuntu. I've stuck with xUbuntu because it seems to be the most sane of the bunch when it comes to de…
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Comment #28869879
> One specific Linux issue I ran into repeatedly is that Chrome and Chromium by default refuse to trust Linux graphics drivers and instead do software rendering. https://i.imgur.co…
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Comment #28869843
From my experience: Linux > Steam > Proton > Windows Game works better than Linux > Wine > Steam > Windows Game There's really no reason to be running Steam in Wine when Steam runs…
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Comment #28869612
Proton. Play on Linux. Lutris.
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Comment #28869599
Anecdotal but no less amusing: I upgraded my desktop and used the extra parts to rebuild my Windows 10 system, the nearly cutting edge hardware on the newly rebuilt main desktop al…
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Comment #28860616
Consumer Reports buys the products they review. They can't be blacklisted if they're not relying on the manufacturer to send them a free demo/item. (Youtube/Blog) Reviewers get bla…
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Comment #28855137
> Just interested to see whether this approach is viable. Spoiler alert: It's not. The better SOCs end up becoming more proprietary because it's the companies' own implementations …
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Comment #28848532
> Why is there no money to be made? Not enough people care to use cut rate hardware that actually conforms to the 'wholly open' philosophy. Even Stallman couldn't maintain using fu…
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Comment #28831511
> Doctors are not immune from the effects of ego and hubris. And that's why you recommend someone who isn't a doctor at all for issues with the body? Sounds like ego and hubris to …
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Comment #28803703
I get zero suggestions for that within Google Chrome. https://i.imgur.com/2uREs6u.png I think it may be your own history popping up there.
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Comment #28792539
Color theme is generated from Wallpaper. Color theme consists of at least 3 colors taken from the wallpaper. At least 3 unique colors is enough to make the user potentially uniquel…
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Comment #28790188
MacOSX was released in 2001, so it would have had to have been System 7/8/9 by that point.
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Comment #28776618
Reusing passwords is one of the single dumbest things you can do online these days. Do not recycle passwords. Ever. Why? Any breach that involves usernames/passwords are account na…