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amlib

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    Comment #49190909

    Use the unhook extension, ublock origin extension and firefox. Also don't hesitate to use the "Block element" feature for ublock. Get some control back from big tech :)

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    Comment #49051173

    If you use the command line to do the update there is no need to reboot, however, the issues that the offline update is trying to solve still stands. Some programs can crash when a…

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    Comment #49001942

    I don't think apple makes actual tvs

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    Comment #48988182

    I'm not sure if this is what you want but you can set two lists of tags for each user that works as items blacklists and whitelists. Then you tag whatever media you want with those…

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    Comment #48961622

    It would even be common for phones to have 2 or more TB integrated had we not been co-opted to move all our data into the cloud.

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    Comment #48913014

    Let's ignore this point of the discussion. For how long do you think users stayed on wayland back in 2016? The vast majority of users experience was... nothing because it wasn't ev…

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    Comment #48911802

    Maybe that is far fetched, but I could see them specializing for some super high dimension multiplication and meanwhile 5 years later turns out "all you need" are 3x3 matrices and …

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    Comment #48911555

    > I tried to be an early adopter of wayland ~ 5 years ago. Found all sorts of things broken Yeah, because it wasn't ready. Pretty much no one recommended using it back them, if you…

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    Comment #48911011

    Isn't specialized hardware also a big risk? GPUs are more amenable to any big changes that may happen in the next 5, 10 years of AI research. Maybe we won't even be talking about L…

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    Comment #48898575

    > If Anubis were to be even more widely adopted, botnet operators would surely adopt and optimize native code solvers en masse. Then anubis adopts it itself, increases the amount o…

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    Comment #48882904

    >Yeah at some point in the past I had it mostly working. But basically now, what should I do? Maybe host a VM with an actual browser (not headless: just the real thing) and log int…

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    Comment #48881654

    You always had to keep whatever youtube video downloader you were using updated at a minimum. For a good while login cookies were only required for downloading restricted videos (w…

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    Comment #48836187

    Except for the hundred thousands if not millions of people who lost their Minecraft account due to the way Microsoft handled multiple successive account migrations, also including …

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    Comment #48819700

    Upon reading your comment I just booted quake3 in q3dm17 nightmare mode and immediately started having a blast. Was about to win the match but a bot took both the rail gun and the …

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    Comment #48760317

    I mean the devices where steam operates are fully open, even the ones valve makes. You can install any OS you wish, any software or competing store front and thus give them 0% cut.…

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    Comment #48751426

    They are the only platform owners championing for an open platform. That should be enough to consider them above all others, no trust required.

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    Comment #48751096

    It looks great on youtube at 4k, at least if you are somewhere where they are transmitting it through youtube.

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    Comment #48750449

    But also the reality is that most people have their devices connected through a shitty wi-fi connection and may be effectively limited to 50 or even less mbps, specially if you con…

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    Comment #48725998

    I remember noting how many of my games ran worse back in 2009 when migrating to windows 7. Most people discredited it as nvidia drivers being worse due to the new vista driver mode…

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    Comment #48677380

    And if you spent all that money on a single computer there was the expectation of sharing it with the whole family.

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    Comment #48677351

    And with modern streaming software like Sunshine/Moonlight you can easily defer high performance tasks to a powerful machine at home. You are truly free to use any device from the …

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    Comment #48640950

    I also fail to see how an ML model is necessary for what is essentially an AGC (Automatic Gain Control). Even something fancy following the EBU R 128 standard like https://lsp-plug…

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    Comment #48640404

    I just think that phones and specially old ones are quite bad at being repurposed, its hard to work with them when they were purposely engineered that way. You will have much bette…

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    Comment #48639697

    > when an old sub $99 mobile device can power three generation old games as well, and connect to a monitor Running an outdated, out of support version of android with limited app a…