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See CoreELEC/LibreELEC/etc - totally replaces the (potentially dodgy) Android OS on these kind of streaming boxes with a stripped down Linux+Kodi setup

TVs running Roku or WebOS do have nice control APIs https://developer.roku.com/dev/docs/external-control-api https://github.com/chros73/bscpylgtv

It still blows my mind that no OLED TV has yet added simple temporal blending between frames, the kind of which MPV has had for decades. They could even take it a step further and …

What >100mbps content is there? 4K bluray just needs a bigger buffer to handle >100mbps spikes (Kodi for example offers this) and Moonlight/Apollo/etc is well into diminishing retu…

I solved mine by chronically exposing myself to very low noise during sleep - wearing good earplugs in an already silent room. To the point where you can hear your eyeballs move et…

A bug(?) exists to disable liquid ass on the Home Screen that still works in 26.3 - enable Reduce Motion globally in accessibility settings, then add a per app accessibility overri…

Yeah it’s more of an annoyance for sure. I only discovered it was a thing when intentionally MITMing a domain on my router

Even with default https etc, HSTS still adds some defence against MITM - browsers won’t let you even forcibly accept a self signed certificate

I’m always surprised people pick Lua when Pawn exists. I think I’d even still choose it over MicroQuickJS https://www.compuphase.com/pawn/pawn.htm

My solution to this is a pair of udp ports relayed to each other on a VPS via socat. Then you can point a home WireGuard server (behind cgnat etc) at one, and clients at the other,…

While I do like tone controls, I'm skeptical of the argument of adjusting bass/treble based on volume, e.g. the likes of 'Dynamic EQ' in D&M receivers. It has always sounded like i…

Not a Ruby/Rails person, but from a quick look there are still APIs named exactly the same between those versions. Very nice to see On the other hand, Laravel decided to change fro…

It's on PHP 7.4, so between RHEL and CloudLinux there's another few years left in it, before I weigh up rewrite vs another round of hacking modern PHP support into Laravel 3

Still maintaining a Laravel 3 project. Barely made it 2 years before maintainability became a nightmare and the only upgrade path was complete rewrite. Projects written without an …

You can see their panic - in my country they are running TV ads for Google search, showing it answering LLM-prompt-like queries. They are desperately trying to win back that mind s…

Nice, gives me Pawn vibes ( https://www.compuphase.com/pawn/pawn.htm )

>Full-text search is entirely client side (not via IMAP) Setting up server-side Xapian full-text search and disabling the crap client-side one in Thunderbird was one of the best im…

It's nice to see them add an option to disable this behaviour, now if only we could get an option to include Signal messages in iOS backups...

Not sure either of those capture the nuance of bad humour… ‘bad sense of humour’ can imply not finding anything funny or taking offence to jokes. ‘Bad humour’ in this context impli…

Lightning ports very rarely fail or get loose - it’s more robust than usb-c in that regard, which is already a high bar - it’s probably dust in the port

Works fine on iOS safari, two finger drag to move

Turning off the firewall could just as easily be a unnoticed configuration error that causes it to die on startup

Parent poster is making the (good and underrated) point that NAT makes this logic failsafe: Turn an IPv6 firewall off and you’ve got all incoming connections allowed. Turn IPv4 NAT…

The source sentence on cheese.com was: "It is the most popular Dutch cheese in the world, accounting for 50 to 60% of the world's cheese consumption." The glorified autocomplete fa…

This is missing a good justification for digging into realtime processing. For me that was to create a DIY receiver, so the equaliser/room correction needs to happen quickly and co…