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But op said their RTL-8157, which is also RealTek, is good?

Better analogy would be that even though the coffee machine is still worse, we choose it because it's more convenient (at least I think that's the case).

I love this kind of stuff (ASCII art, if you will), but it just breaks down too easily as soon as Unicode characters (mainly CJK, as I'm Chinese) and fonts are involved. For exampl…

I never really use AI via API that much, so I'm surprised reading 'merely' 6000 emails will cost $500?!

Chinese people have been developing similar obfuscation protocols and playing a cat-and-mouse game for years, and most of them are "open source" (in quotes because lots of them hav…

This happens more often than you would think. During COVID, lots of live shows (concerts, etc.) in Japan moved to streaming (and most of them stuck, so thanks to that, lots of larg…

The article said Kanagawa so not Tokyo. Well, close enough.

This has to be trolling, right? I find it hard to believe that anyone, no matter how dense, could come to this conclusion after this whole saga.

How do you allow scripts for tools installed globally?

Sometimes it's not very clear what I really want when typing. Also, Google Search's AI answer doesn't prevent the actual search results from still showing below; so if I later real…

Very good write up but I lost it a little at the end. Could someone clarify for me? The author said: You cannot just use the shortcut trick to install the evil extension directly b…

I don't want either, if I'm indeed "searching." But I find that often times I am indeed just looking for a quick answer, and Gemini/Google's "new" search does it fine. It's one of …

I lost my 10 years old account this way after being flagged about 2-3 times due to travel. My account really isn't that important but still makes my blood boil at the time.

In the video, some debris seemed to fly away from the explosion in a wavy path (top left). I thought things only moved like that in video games. What causes that kind of movement?

Good article, but I'd like to ask about two small technical details (I've used Bambu before, but I'm not very familiar with the 3D printing ecosystem). 1. OrcaSlicer: so it's a for…

I keep seeing people mention OpenRouter. Does it effectively bypass regional restrictions for you, so you can use something like the Claude API from unsupported regions such as Hon…

Well TBF, the original Notepad++ isn't too good in this regard either. Whenever I opened a N++ window in a remote desktop session and leave it open, and then use the same computer …

I failed to find the "86%" figure. The total energy mix shows "66% renewable".

I've probably said this a bunch of times already, but based on my past experience, any analysis built on month-to-month changes in the Steam Hardware Survey should be taken with a …

I always thought "opt-in" (not "opt in") meant something you have to actively choose to enable; otherwise, it stays off. So calling something "opt-in by default" sounds like a misn…

The CSS doesn't even load here: https://trustcompliance.xyz/_next/static/chunks/17psh0.nytnh... : 404 Not Found

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Just curious: why your otherwise neatly formatted table uses a different format for the last row?

Majority of laptops works "pretty well out of the box".