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As the rate of 'hallucinations' seems to have dropped dramatically (at least IME as regards non-existent flags and the like), I'm more concerned with usage. I often use grep.app/GH…

> My last Linux desktop was fabulous. Happily drove a 4K display, I loved living in XFCE every day. There was one issue that was extraordinarily frustrating: if the machine sat unu…

(Un?)ironically enough, Mr Kling was one of the people that (indirectly) first got my attention wrt LLM coding. I watched some of his streams on the development of the JIT compiler…

In my teens/20s, I would have advocated for legalization of marijuana and thought any argument against it was some antiquated, puritanical nonsense. In the decade+ since, there's n…

Indeed, YouTube uses some sort of stripped-down Chromium (Cobalt I think it's called) with the client UI authored in HTML (and friends) for all of their clients and it's not defici…

This was my (hopeful) first thought on seeing this; his recent posts have been Quake-related. I do hope this is a harbinger of another installment. His others have been excellent.

Previous employer issued Macs with all sorts of Jamf spyware stuff on them but I could more or less install things as needed via brew (both internal-vended "taps" or whatever the t…

This mirrors my experience as well, when using things like ThreeJS. Any SOTA model can one-shot something that looks pretty similar to something from Three's examples, but things g…

Things like media playback via a web browser (and really browsing in general) are so superior to iOS it's not even a fair comparison.

> It also often loads icons slowly; sometimes loading them in one by one over time, sometimes all at once after thinking for a second. This is frequent, if not constant, on iOS for…

Underrated comment.

https://slickdeals.net/f/19004236-select-micro-center-stores... MicroCenter has(had? OOS near me) M4 Minis for $400! A remarkable bargain, even more so considering the recent hardw…

Mr. Sanglard's blog is one of my favorites. I hope the recent posts on Quake are indicative of his intent to write a Game Engine book on Quake. His others were excellent.

What hardware are you using? I'm not seeing near my advertised (and previously achieved, via Acer 'Gamer Router') with IDS on. IDS is probably overkill for a home network anyway. I…

> I actually like TVs as a hardware concept, and am a happy paying customer of several VOD platforms, so I would seem to be the perfect customer for all these sticks and mini boxes…

> I wonder if the Vega stuff will be much better. There's really nothing to like about the Fire TV sticks. I had one for a bit for the purpose of sideloading FreeTube via adb (I th…

> The modern Apple experience is defined by removing the head phone jack, the silent switch, and worse, the home button. I only "upgrade" phones every 4 years or so, typically to a…

> Dealing with files is nightmare (yes, people still dare to use files in a year of our lord 2025). This is one of the largest detriments for iPhones for me, personally. On Android…

> The terminal menu driven interfaces were archaic but a dream. MicroCenter (by me, at least) still uses what looks like some terminal interface for checkout and such in stores. It…

> I've wondered sometimes what software would look like if a crisis took out the ability to build new semiconductors and we had to run all our computing infrastructure on chips sal…

>, I discovered that NewPipe, an alternative YouTube client I installed through the F-Droid store, is actually much more reliable at downloading videos than the official client. Ne…

> On the desktop it breaks once a month, on Android NewPipe stopped working recently, and soon you won't be even able to install third party clients. yeah, I often download things …

Hello fellow 2000s era Urban Dictionary reader.

> I’ve been running pihole for 10-15 years, don’t even remember. Will take a look at Technitium. Looks like they have a Mac build, so I can just try it before attempting to replace…

I think one of the third party user.js projects does that. Maybe https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js