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I think most people would find that two or three definition is all they really need. 1080p h264 at high bit rate for compatibility on the local network and low bit rate 1080p for s…

It would be cool if you could set custom header, sub header, and body text examples, then with some pre-filtering beable to hit randomize to find interesting pairings.

The Geforce GTX 1060 launched 10 years ago with a MSRP of $249. It spend 5 years and 4 months as the #1 card according to the Steam Hardware Survey. That makes it hard to feel that…

Saying 10yo 6GB will make most people think you are talking about a Geforce GTX 1060.

In the US, something like 39% of the population lives in an urban environment with a population of 50,000 or larger. That means 61% live in smaller areas. In my city of approximate…

What was your reaction to the CD then?

I think adding things, instead of updating existing things with missing data is where you get into needing a more serious app. I keep Vespucci for when I want to initiate an edit, …

> I am generally not in favor of adding regulation, but this is a place where I would support it. >Anything that you BUY needs to be your property. This could also be fixed by remo…

I thought that most of them were in for selling/commercially installing defeat devices so that others could roll coal or do other things with defeated pollution controls. I assume …

In my part of small city east coast USA it is allowed except in the downtown business district (where it is syill mostly ignored. On the one hand, not everyone wants to be required…

I would prefer a coding agent to be somewhat independent of the model provider. Providers are trading off on quality, features, and price so frequently, and I don't want to keep ch…

It appears to be usable for daily use for some people, in that enough of a web browser works that you could mostly get by. It would be hard to say it is really practical, nor that …

Maybe for the M6 or M7 generation that might happen?

Mastodon and blog both sound good to me. For some, they could alternatively use twitch or youtube.

I certainly understand the value of replaceable batteries. OTOH, I'm concerned about what this will mean for how many common upper end phones are IP67 submersion rated. I don't wan…

DO doesn't do high availability droplets, and their migration policy is will try, if we detect poor health of server before it fails. If someone starts thinking about redundancy an…

Do you have a link to learn more about that history?

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has loading images into Resolve before for this very purpose, so I'm interested in trying this at some point. There is a bunch of other stuff I th…

Hey, that's my essay. Never had someone submit anything I wrote to HN before.

This looks like a cool typeface in how much it can vary itself, but the price feels extremely expensive, and I don't like having to keep track of which of my library of typefaces a…

This keeps deciding that I am done describing my drawer before I can mention a single thing that should be stored in the drawer. I basically get paste the dimension and it decides …

I don't know about converting PowerPoint and Excel to Markdown, but for Word, I'd say open the file in LibreOffice Writer 26.2, and save as Markdown. Alternatively, use pandoc, and…

Open .docx file, save as Markdown to nicely preserve things like headings, bold, etc. I moderately frequently have reason to want to go .docx to .md because I have a lot of ediing/…

If you get a root shell once, why not change the root password then?