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It does seem like a huge gap in the market somehow. There is just not one thing that supports both gaming and media well with modern features. The oudated 2019 NVIDIA Shield TV Pro…

Steam Link is very oudated hardware which does not support modern codecs. I have tried both Smart TV and Android Streaming Box hardware to run various setups - both of which are th…

Yeah, in practice for a demanding game (RDR2 is a good example for me) I do lock at 60. There are many many types of games (platformers) that can achieve and are preferable to play…

If you already have Ethernet at both ends I cannot recommend enough game streaming. With the right setup it is almost identical to having my computer plugged in physically, and I a…

Reels are non-stop dopamine hits, just like TikTok. It's incredibly addictive to scroll through. That is by far the worst part of Instagram for anybody. Everything else outside of …

I mix British and American English all the time. Subconsciously I type in British English but since I work in American English, my spell checkers are usually configured for en-US a…

That's a tad frustrating,.since Imgur is now blocking all UK traffic. VPN is my main saviour these days for sites that don't also block the main VPN providers or data center IPs

Sadly, probably not, according to "Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?"[0] - linked from the Bazzite website. [0] https://areweanticheatyet.com

It's not the default. You cannot buy a new house today without being on a meter. That is the default. It's just our housing stock being so old and decrepit, where nobody can be bot…

I frequently notice when my menubar items overflow and get truncated behind the notch with no built-in way to actually see them! You have to hoop jump with janky tools[1] that actu…

This gap is filled by the likes of Couchbase where a single org controls the majority of the stack (spoiler/disclaimer alert: I've been working on Couchbase's Sync for 8 years) You…

This space is very much alive and well and I'm really glad there's more competition cropping up from smaller projects like OP. Disclaimer: I have worked on a sync backend for a com…

UK tech job pay is very bimodal and unfortunately both modes suck in different ways... In the major mode, it feels like 90% are gambling, crypto or traditional finance. The remaini…

I assume it had live data at the time of Black Friday, and the loading bar is showing progress towards them publishing a replay: "FINAL DATA COMING TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3"

You might like cool-retro-term[1] - it's fun to play around with for a bit :) [1] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Likewise for Tado's offerings. I think every "smart" thermostat has this capability right?

I am (very) biased but Couchbase has a pretty solid Mobile offering for native apps. I have worked on the Sync Gateway component responsible for replication for the last six years.…

More info here: https://network.status-ovhcloud.com/incidents/8mq79l7wcx8p

Try searching at somewhere like wallhaven.cc[1], which aggregates wallpapers with good tagging, colour, size and ratio-based searches. A lot of the wallpapers there come from other…

I like the look of wind turbines and even large wind farms. The UK has large fields of them offshore which are awesome to see on or even below the horizon. I cannot comment on the …

What's with the encoding on that website? It's virtually unreadable in my browser. e.g. From https://www.pilledtexts.com/files/nick-land/february.txt > “This can’t go on,” he…

You can find the paper on arxiv.org if you're interested. https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06376 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.06376.pdf

There's also a video presentation JetBrains Research have published alongside this paper: https://youtu.be/ris_UxYMn_Y

I don't have any PCB shots but I have some sample ikages from a cheap Noyafa which does 160x120 on my blog. The next model up (also much cheaper than FLIR equivalents) claims doubl…

One of my very first blog posts[1], which took off at the time on HN[2] was on this topic - in reaction to the trend of "horizontal page progress bars" (a.k.a. scroll bars!) What's…