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jackyard86
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About jackyard86
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Comment #48409969
I prefer software rendering, I don't use compositor, and I never will. In software rendering, CPU only updates screen when changes are detected. And the change completes as fast as…
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Comment #47623472
Weren't they announced that they would make Windows more user-friendly just a few days ago? Did they break their premises already?
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Comment #47348940
It't true that the ThinkPad display kind of sucks. Though I can upgrade to a 2K OLED panel for additional 80 USD. That makes the E14 30 bucks more expensive than the Neo.
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Comment #47348325
MacBook Neo with 512 gigabytes of storage configuration costs 1,200,000 KRW (Approx. 810 USD for reference) in my nation. I can get ThinkPad E14 with a decent lunar lake CPU and 16…
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Comment #47097594
I visited change.org to sign the petition for them, only to get spammed by far-right extremist propagandas supporting nazism like this: https://imgur.com/a/E6LMUcB I regret giving …
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Comment #46187142
Schizoid personality is not a "disorder". Having your own ideal and philosophy and not sheepishly following corporate and government propaganda (so called "trend") is what every ot…
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Comment #46093881
I tried wayland multiple times before, but the lack of xsct equivalent and the awful input delay (compared to X11 window managers without compositor) made my experience very frustr…
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Comment #46092376
Clippy was the Copilot from the late 90s: A pointless annoying gimmick that disrupted everyone's workflow.
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Comment #46054601
The coconut death claim is an exaggerated lie. From the Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_coconut ): "In his paper, Barss observed that in Papua New Guinea…
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Comment #45943613
Stop referencing Twitter posts. The only thing I see in it is a popup that I should sign up for their platform.
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Comment #44919513
It still hides your cursor though.
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Comment #44919326
This is not about "lack of humanity", but about violating fundamental UX rules such as hiding your cursor at random times. It's offensive. You don't have to sacrifice usability whi…
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Comment #44666690
You get the said 10 year old chip cheaper, with lower power consumption and smaller physical size, on newer and improved fabrication methods.
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Comment #43892637
I don't think machines should rely on an opaque logic to assume and "correct errors" on user input. It's more accurate to "fail" than handling out an assumed output. And also: > th…
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Comment #39258477
That Russian word had a useful information. It means "contrast", and that obviously implies "Increase the contrast to reveal the secret message".
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Comment #39247987
Huh. Apple seemed to have finally completed their conversion to USB-C. And then they came up with yet another proprietary connector for the battery pack? That's frustrating.
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Comment #39152642
I was daydreaming (just a really dumb daydream) about a 'universial language' that would include all the words from every known language, just few minutes ago before I discovered t…
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Comment #38912097
Well, I agree that I'm really bad at arguing, but one thing for sure, it's not a trolling.
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Comment #38908418
Same are these devices function, but Apple is paying for those who share their stories.
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Comment #38908294
I've never seen a single article about Android devices being so durable that it survived a great disaster, or saving its owner's life from polar bear or something. I believe it's t…
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Comment #38908148
Apple is really focusing on this tell and tale kind of adversiting recently, I guess.
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Comment #38908069
I have the original Pixel as my daily driver. Everything works flawlessly including banking apps. Don't recommend anything older than Nexus 5x, they're way slower than I remember, …