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People are praising how this new age of owning our stuff is here, while actually all this will bring is stricter lockdown in every level of the supply chain. Enjoy while it lasts, but I expect even more closed stuff, and less openness from these t.rends
Key takeaway: > And the existence of WebUSB, WebHID, and WebBluetooth mean that for some devices, depending on the specifics of which classes are used, a moment of user indiscretion in accepting a permissions prompt could permanently backdoor one of their attached devices.
The preceding sentence is equally prescient: > Operating systems aren’t really equipped to work with the user to ensure that a microphone stays a microphone, and doesn’t spontaneously turn into a keyboard that hits Win+R and drops a payload to steal all your data when the room is quiet enough that it can assume you aren’t watching. In a world of USB-C everything we no longer have power supplies that are physically bo…
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Perhaps you didn't read the text you just copied and pasted, but here it is for you: "I have never intentionally run pixel cleaning on this monitor and I never will, I don’t care, and I would like for that overlay to go away forever." No need for ackshually, the guy is clear with what he desires. That is, by the way, the point of TFA. I want my devices to do what I want , not what a product manager wants or what a du…
The user should be the final authority over what his computer does. Not the computer manufacturer. Not the OS developer. Not the 3P app developer. Not some product manager at a software company. The end user. Even time computer says no, or does something without your permission, or does something counter to your wishes, or alerts you to do something, or urges you to do something, or makes you opt-out, is a failure.
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How is it strange that among the 900,000 1-minute tasks you need to complete on a given day, this one is low on the list?
Some people's time is actually worth or even just valued more than others to be bothered doing maintenance tasks such as there. I have a life to live outside preserving every last minute of functionality out of a monitor, I'll buy a new one eventually regardless.
It comes down to the joy of doing things, and if the joy of using said monitor depends on a popup not being shown, then so be it.
I hope that the popup can be removed :)
People are praising how this new age of owning our stuff is here, while actually all this will bring is stricter lockdown in every level of the supply chain. Enjoy while it lasts, but I expect even more closed stuff, and less openness from these t.rends
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I did this but with a dedicated machine for the Silicon Motion sm750 GPU. A budget single HDMI output GPU card for servers and a max resolution of 1080p. It is based on an older VGA/DVI version of the same hardware. I'm still testing but oh wow. My new driver now works with my ultra wide 21:9 ratio at 2048x864, it also manages 2048x1152. The driver works well, and now has full DRM and DKMS support. It also runs on mo…
While that is cool, why do you need such a thing? More FPS? Less video RAM?
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Generally, I'm with you, but over the past decades I often saw companies being lazy about their software. So I think chances are good that we can make use of this situation. Not long ago, you had to accept certain decisions or servers going down with leaving devices useless. I'm hopeful that more stuff can have a 2nd/better life in our hands.
I like being able to have all this access, of course, but I'm not sure if "we" all truly have the character to be good stewards of this. Or rather I am sure that we do not. OTOH, maybe it needs events like these to build character. It just will suck for whoever turns out to be the collateral.
People are praising how this new age of owning our stuff is here, while actually all this will bring is stricter lockdown in every level of the supply chain. Enjoy while it lasts, but I expect even more closed stuff, and less openness from these t.rends
So if closed means they are secure, which 99.99% of end users expect, I'm actually okay with it.