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Sure, but that's a fair bit of extra time and friction to watch an HDR video versus just clicking the play button on Windows or Mac and being done with it. It's also nice on Window…

One can choose to have neither a Samsung Account nor a Google Account on a Samsung phone, as I have done, and use F-Droid and Aurora Store as I mentioned in a parent comment. The l…

Yes, I concede these niche operating systems won't show me ads. But can I play an HDR YouTube video in a web browser on my HDR display using FreeBSD or OpenBSD? No. One can't even …

I can disable the Ubuntu terminal ad in seconds, whereas the last time I tried to install Debian I gave up after several hours of dealing with getting the correct proprietary firmw…

You can quickly disable all the Windows start menu ads using either gpedit.msc or regedit. On Linux Ubuntu there's a least one Ubuntu Pro terminal ad I remember having to disable, …

Only downside is no blue bubbles texting family, ha ha. Seriously, the switch was easy. My Samsung phone included a migration app that transferred over all photos and other importa…

At least with Windows one can 100% disable start menu ads using either gpedit or regedit. A major reason I switched from iOS to Android are the much more powerful adblocking option…

When a 300mph Japanese maglev passes close by it looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gp4DcRsELc Imagine living in the SF Bay Area and seeing a BART train move like th…

Playstation 1 didn't do perspective correct texture mapping. If you scroll way down this WebGL tutorial page a few examples are shown: https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/w…

> Nah, just create the world at a state where modern medicine can cure cancer, like we're on the slow road to doing. We would have cures for every illness if not for human selfishn…

I needed this cute video to tell me what the heck conker is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLGuZZraIqg You and your opponent each attach a chestnut to a shoestring. You try to de…

Only iPad Pro has M4? Once upon a time during the personal computer revolution in the 1980s, little more than a decade after man walked the moon, humans had sufficiently technologi…

Consider a simpler example from basic math. Is 1/x infinite when x==0? The answer is that 1/x is undefined when x==0. In calculus one can take limits as x "approaches" 0 but x==0 i…

How were these drawings made? It seems the only accurate way would be to painstakingly excavate soil around the root systems a few tiny clumps at a time so as to record how the roo…

This appears to be more limited than what CBMC[1] (the C Bounded Model Checker) can do. CBMC can do function contracts. CBMC can prove memory safety and even the absence of memory …

Again, my intention wasn't to downplay the importance of the EPA's ban. My intention was to point out that natural sources of pollution remain, as natural sources of pollution is s…

I never said the EPA ban was bad. My point was to point out that natural asbestos sources remain a threat. I was quickly massively downvoted though because readers assumed I was cr…

An EPA ban can't do anything about natural mineral asbestos that occurs near many residential areas. Floods continue to contaminate residential areas with natural asbestos and have…

For many years the XOR sprite cursor was patented, but the patent seems to have expired in 2013. One of us should make the request to the GNOME/KDE/Wayland/DE people and link the e…

There's a video that is better than the linked article about why Tolkien disliked Dune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqeftRRpB0 This video mentions that Tolkien started a seque…

Aliens could plausibly sterilise earth from light years away using an electron beam, according to a great Kurzgesagt episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybKnGZRwcU An electro…

Nowadays how well are old-school X11 window managers doing necessary interop with the desktop bus to keep modern GTK/QT apps rendering correctly on 4K HiDPI screens? I was forced t…

So I read through the materials on mesh shaders and work graphs and looked at sample code. These won't really work (see below). As I implied previously, it's best to research/discu…

> The new modern APIs are not to be understood as graphics APIs, rather as GPU APIs I've heard this repeated a lot in internet forums, but my experience working through hundreds of…

Does WebGPU enable a pure 2D game with many sprite animations to not need to pack a texture atlas for best performance? I.e. can I tell the GPU, "Draw these 1000 quads using the fo…