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The first one might not make sense but it gets them the pipeline for when it does make sense in the future. Plus for a lot of things using LLMs they'd be fine with older tech, espe…

Phones and watches do that with LTPO OLED which I don't believe exists at higher screen sizes although I'm not sure why. This is supposed to be special because it isn't OLED so sho…

A 2080 is about the same performance as a 5060 and every game is going to be able to run on a 5060. You might not be running it at 4K Ultra with ray tracing enabled but you should …

I believe it's legal because rear doors have child safety locks so often can't be opened from the inside anyway. Although that doesn't cover opening it from the outside...

One factor is that a part of their measurement is tracking how many new companies are founded and estimating how many employees a new company is likely to have. These numbers have …

That's what Intel wants everyone to believe but not quite accurate. Intel was vague at best about what the motherboard manufacturers should and were allowed to do but even followin…

That's less of a thing here since this is "just" an ITX motherboard, a case, and a power supply. With the laptops replacing the board saves a bunch of other parts but here the boar…

The N64 is older than Pokemon.

Google Assistant is going away soon so this won't work anymore. https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/end-of-life-gemini-wi...

Safari doesn't support zstd, that means if you want to use it you have to support multiple formats.

Now drag a window from one monitor to the other. The choice on X is to have both monitors run with the same specs (well, not for everything but yeah) or to have two completely sepa…

There isn't a cheaper card that's worth buying over using the iGPU you already have so yeah, that's the low end.

Yeah, I worked on that but I didn't think that would count since it was a distro, not a desktop environment. In that case Novell shipped compiz in 2006 so even earlier.

My understanding is that most of the complaints about Vista being unstable came from the nvidia driver being rather awful [1]. You were likely to either have a system that couldn't…

GNOME 3 had a hardware accelerated compositor on release in 2011.

It's also meant to make it (somewhat) easier to apply various GPGPU filters and scalers before encode or after decode, like HDR tonemapping. The OS usually has some method to do th…

There are in fact two "to native" compilers for Kotlin, the one for Kotlin only is called Kotlin Native but you can also use graalvm native-image to compile any JVM language to nat…

sd_notify is for additional (useful) functionality, it would work fine without it. You can tell because it works on arch.

The focus on _latency_ is a recent thing. VTE was previously focused on throughput and low CPU usage, which are conflicting goals.

In Rust the answer is "it depends". Since the runtime is not provided by the language you can have implementations that are a single thread, thread-per-task, a thread pool, or what…

The font rendering thing is more complicated than that. Subpixel antialiasing doesn't work with animations and I'm pretty sure it interacts poorly with fractional scaling too. The …

According to [1] the estimated number of iPhone users (leaving out any Mac users) in 2024 is 1.46 billion. [1] https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/number-of-iphone-users

If you live in the US there is a good chance that was your phone company throttling Netflix and the app automatically switching to 480p to adjust to the reduced bandwidth. They pro…

They launched with one with a built-in disc drive and one without. For their mid-cycle refresh they changed it to a single model with a disc drive add-on but sell a SKU that includ…

Wasn't uMatrix dropped because at this point it's just a more powerful UI to do the same things uBlock Origin lets you do?