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The only thing I value from that list is the played/unplayed status, and resuming a title from where I left off. My two preferred clients handle that for me on my various devices.

I am definitely in the former category. I’m not dedicating the time to replicate a Netflix client equivalent with all the metadata (although I do make the time for FLAC albums). Th…

A few years ago I decided to give up on sdcards for my main 24/7 homelab server. I now use a small SSD connected via USB3 and a slightly modified version of this : https://framps.g…

The history is longer and more tangled than that. 1951 - Nationalised by Attlee (Labour) 1953 - Re-privatised by Churchill (Conservative) 1967 - Nationalised again by Wilson (Labou…

It’s fun and games, but you have to bear in mind that joke candidates never expect to win. It’s entirely possible that every anti-Farage voter could coalesce behind him. Upon winni…

Do you really have to make the exact same comment in every related thread? It’s just tedious at this point.

If you would cast your mind back ten years, I distinctly remember this bitter and callous attitude at the time. Wanting people who disagree with you to "just die out" is profoundly…

Lovely comment thread. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the “democrats”…

...and now we also have Nub : https://nubjs.com/blog/introducing-nub

I agree... I use a Pi4B 8GB as a home server with a number of duties. Less power consumption than the Pi 5 (and no heatsink), and it was the first to offer the combination of USB b…

> Dang sums it all, I dont perceive hn as being pro or against AI, it's a mix, but if you're polarized, whatever "side you're on" you'll feel the other side is over represented. It…

I have some doubt here, because I do know that managers of at least some seniority have the political antennae to be wary of taking responsibility for something they don’t understa…

> No consistency, chaotic application of different conventions, duplicated code, ghost code (does nothing), and perhaps more as I'm digging in. I didn’t understand this part. You s…

I think the biggest factor is fear. When we first started discussing LLMs a few years ago, it was easy to be amused and reassured when looking closer at all the inaccuracies. The m…

Ennobled?

I use a Pi 4B as a 24/7 home server in a country where domestic electricity is expensive (and worsening). Each Pi release is more powerful, but uses more energy. I found the Pi 4B …

To me, it looks a bit like a kit car (especially from the back)

The “own nothing and be happy” quote is from a blog post made by the World Economic Forum. I find meta-governmental organisations even more troublesome, and you can’t vote them out…

Apple sell Anker chargers on their website, alongside their own.

Apple Silicon only. Thanks for nothing.

> That's one interpretation of the irish refs. I think the more obvious one is that the first result was very close and needed to be clarified. Ah yes… and if the result was close …

> You forgot the part where the countries voluntarily join the organisation. It might be worth examining the word “countries” there. Both France and the Netherlands rejected the pr…

The original Bomba was the genius work of a Polish man, but was no use from 1938-1939 when the Enigma cipher was strengthened. At which point the Turing-Welchman Bombe was develope…

“during WWII, the US Navy… winning the U-boat war in the Atlantic” Sounds like typical US revisionist history. They developed ASDIC? HF/DF? Hedgehog? Even the depth charge? No, tha…