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Plugging in an iPhone still works as well, I plug my iPhone into my Windows PC and it pops up with the filesystem automatically in Explorer, and the photos are right there in the D…

Unfortunately your Kindle needs to be registered to do this, and it's often a phenomenal pain in the ass to get old Kindles to register, if it's possible at all. I've got two old P…

The preferred AV1 encoder that ships with ffmpeg, SVT-AV1, is faster than any software H.265 encoder now. You can encode 1080p video in real time at preset 6 (the equivalent of 'me…

It's not chip shortage related, the TV models being discussed are from 2015-16.

You don't need to modify the clipboard to do that, news sites were doing it long before the clipboard API existed. It's usually done with CSS, abusing display properties, positioni…

Check out an alternate web client, like https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit . Even compared to the old design it's much more lightweight and clean, and compared to the redesign…

My father has insisted on doing this for over 20 years, but he doesn't know how to do it himself. I expect a password-reset phone call from him every 2 or 3 days and have done sinc…

Reddit and Medium are awful for this. I don't know what they're doing, but every page has a small chance of infinitely looping to max out a CPU core forever, unless you block their…

Valve's new Steam Deck device runs Linux. If it proves popular, that will be a big incentive for developers to improve Linux support for their games, and help jump that hurdle.

How do you feel about the Windows official package manager, winget? I find it a lot more polished and usable than Chocolatey was, and didn't notice much difference compared to apt …

> If you want to allow me to consult it offline, that's very kind and noble. Just put a zip file somewhere I can download. To play devil's advocate: a majority of web traffic is on…

> They're subsidised by the game prices. You still pay for it in the end. Initial game prices can be higher, but you can sell the games. Here in Australia it's common for new games…

> Both services support adding non platform games through their shortcut/executable. The multiplayer services are independent and crossplay is an exception, that's what I think the…

A few major factors, in roughly decreasing order of subjective importance: 1. Console games are initially more expensive, but you can sell them used when you're done, which isn't p…

> they wouldn't be able to do a restore anyway. The Backblaze software doesn't handle restores, it just backs things up. To restore, you download zip files of selected folders from…

They were on the autism spectrum, and had written about feeling emotionally sensitive and easily overwhelmed. Unfortunately, that's all it takes for bullies who just want to have a…

> Because you can attach bots? or make calls, custom emoji? Because you can access an indexed repository of every conversation your team has had, organized by grouping, channel, di…

Metaphorical meanings for medical issues are some of the most common metaphors in most languages, and I would be surprised if you aren't using them yourself. Rejecting it seems fra…

The moment you started to see any real success with a company like this and become significant competition, John Deere would reverse their equipment-as-a-service DRM-based model, a…

It was already a thing, Node launched earlier in 2009 and there had been quite a bit of talk about it on HN already.

Netflix was a streaming platform in 2007. https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/01/8627/ By 2009, they had 12,000 movies up for streaming, and Netflix-compatible devices were …

Your source doesn't say school shootings are down from previous highs nor that they're very rare; it specifically only deals with shootings where _4 or more students were killed_ e…

Because the scientific evidence overwhelmingly shows that artificial sweeteners _are_ better for you. They have no proven health impact and eliminate calories. The idea that they'r…

I've always thought of aggression as something qualitatively different. To me assertive behaviour is behavior in pursuit of some objective, whether or not it's sensible or effectiv…

I guarantee you this design would confuse a lot of people. Imagine you're not the computer savviest person around, how you'd read this. - The large, bolded "Click to download" text…