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About a year ago, I found a YouTube channel[0] which consists mostly of a really smart guy (with a proper background in electrical engineering) buying cheap electronics from eBay/T…

I'd like to try passkeys out. I actually tried again on Amazon in response to reading the comments here. But it just.... doesn't work? I'm on a laptop running Ubuntu, I use Firefox…

Microsoft also didn't do themselves any favor with that naming scheme. In the current generation (I think?), you have: - Xbox X - Xbox S - Xbox Series X - Xbox Series S Compared to…

The extension IDs are UUIDs/GUIDs, so 128 bits of entropy. No site is going to be able to successfully scan that full range.

Okay, though, for very small hobbyist payloads, though, wouldn't hydrogen balloons be feasible? Some quick math tells me that you can lift approximately a kilogram of mass per cubi…

To anyone going down this route, there's a surprisingly deep rabbit hole when you look into "how copy the bits off the drive and into a .wav file". There are a lot of places where …

Do you have any tips and tricks to share? I'm running a self-hosted instance on an old desktop PC in my basement for me and a couple family members. Performance is kinda meh, and I…

In my case, I want file/photo syncing, calendar syncing, and contact syncing. Nextcloud provides all 3 in a package that pretty much just works, in my experience (despite being kin…

If they make their own distro, though, they're not really gaining more control. They're just enabling even more choice for someone who's looking for alternatives. Let's say, hypoth…

I was about to comment that SteamOS is based on Arch, but after looking at the actual graphs, they've got SteamOS as its own separate category. I wonder how much of that is "hacker…

and for me, the one (rather niche, I might add) game that didn't "just work" was working just fine after trying a different Proton version - which is literally as simple as opening…

You wouldn't be the first to suggest pneumatic delivery of burritos https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...

Is there any reason to believe that deleting a ChatGPT conversation is anything more than "UPDATE conversations SET status='user_deleted WHERE conversation_id=..."?

Apparently they have a "unexplained crashes must have an explanation determined" policy ever since there was a trend of uninvestigated unexplained crashes that were canaries in the…

Some alternators ironically require electricity to make electricity. They don't have permanent magnets inside, but instead use electromagnets. So from a stone cold battery, if ther…

As of 2013, manual cars (at least Mazdas) can still be roll-started, as long as the engine computer has enough power to function. My CX-5 even has a wireless-pushbutton start, not …

Can confirm. Daily drive Linux for software development, and have a Linux on a laptop for gaming (Silksong anyone? :D). I keep a Windows 10 partition around on the laptop for Fortn…

I recently bought a Samsung television, which came with a bunch of the smart nonsense. During the whole setup process I was thinking "I have made a mistake, I need to return this A…

Can you share what the experience is like debugging with gdb directly? I'm new enough that my first debugger experience was Visual Studio, and I currently use IntelliJ IDEs which p…

Can you share what the experience is like debugging with gdb directly? I'm new enough that my first debugger experience was Visual Studio, and I currently use IntelliJ IDEs which p…

Do you know how the GoG version handles achievements? I'm very used to the Steam achievement system, but obviously that's not an option when you're not using Steam.

> This is similar to 'ssh -L' functionality, but does not use SSH and requires a pre-shared symmetric key. I already have SSH set up and functional, what advantage does spiped offe…

GrapheneOS not only provides a sandbox for Google Play (meaning it's just another app with no special privileges, and you can grant/revoke permissions (including network!) as you d…

Apparently the GrapheneOS folks are talking with an OEM[0], which would allow you to buy a phone with a secure, private, non-spyware operating system straight from the factory. I a…

There's an Android app which seems to surface this exact same data: https://github.com/dh4/WeatherRadar