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smetannik

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    Comment #48963067

    Why a spare machine has to be exactly a mac ? For iMessage?

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    Comment #48854377

    > slow computer > 25 GB of RAM What?

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    Comment #48754736

    For some reason, graphics is one of most popular topics for recreational programming.

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    Comment #48693735

    > Unfortunately, HDMI 2.1 does not work with AMD graphics on Linux due to shenanigans from the HDMI Forum. IIRC, recently, AMD got permission to implement HDMI 2.1 in their foss dr…

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    Comment #48664723

    Can you suggest some tutorials for Verilog and FPGAs in general? I have a spare Tang Nano 9k but I don't feel confident about blindly asking Claude to vibecode me a solution and st…

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    Comment #48633580

    Luanti more seems like an attempt to build a FOSS Roblox with Minecraft gameplay base

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    Comment #48566754

    This debate pops up every few years and the community still seems like don't have a clear consensus

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    Comment #48534065

    Looking forward for a new NTFS driver to try. I hope this new iteration will be better than ntfs3 from Paragon.

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    Comment #48522360

    Slint is an attempt to build a Qt competitor Although it's built in Rust, it supports a variety of languages + a custom DSL (like QML).

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    Comment #48518706

    I might be wrong, but this situation seems like a signal of desktop Linux adoption growth

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    Comment #48510921

    I wonder why something like LM Studio didn't work for the author?

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    Comment #48455620

    Please, stop using "written in Rust" as some kind of advantage or killer feature.

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    Comment #48102642

    They're selling it to investors. Population isn't their client.

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    Comment #47828435

    That list is quite long

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    Comment #47820331

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47786347

    This sounds more like a good excuse to go closed source. I feel that real reason might be revenue-related.

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    Comment #47767657

    Building the Better Go Playground - https://goplay.tools Tool to run, test or bench Go code online. An alternative frontend to official Go playground, but supports WebAssembly, syn…

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    Comment #47685086

    This didn't age well

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    Comment #47639606

    Android's terminal app is really slow and takes some time to boot comparing to Termux. Also, the Terminal app is essentially a webview (as I understand, the reason is architectural…

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    Comment #47633182

    Did oracle manage to circumvent 100k payment per H1B applicant? Also, why they need to do H1B instead of just outsourcing abroad?

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    Comment #47608907

    IMO unlike WP, EmDash can he harder to host. With WP you can find a plethora of cheap PHP hostings that offer WP preinstalled. If you need to tweak a theme - just download a .php f…

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    Comment #47461720

    This shouldn't be related to Wayland. It works perfectly fine on Niri, Hyprland and other Wayland WMs. What problem do you have?

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    Comment #47378459

    Back in the day when I was in school, I wanted to learn how to solder, so I started fixing my classmates headphones. This "service" ended up to be quite popular - broken headphone …

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    Comment #47074138

    MoltenVK was replaced by KosmicKrisp

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    Comment #47070069

    This cancer even reached W3C...