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frazorth ,

That doesn’t make it “trash”.

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I was just wondering if anyone was going to provide an upgrade path for my NanoPi Neo 3.

This looks small enough to do that job!

[Edit] Checked out the specs, I don’t think this is going to beat the NanoPi Neo 3 at all.

But it’s good to see other folks try to make the machines tiny.

frazorth ,

I only had bad experiences with an XPS, then I found out that the Linux model was a cut down version so that Dell didnt have to support the fingerprint reader and other gadgets.

Lenovo at the time were working with Fedora to get all their fingerprint drivers upstreamed so the choice seemed obvious.

AMD T14 Gen 2, and it’s still great.

frazorth ,

lemmy.world/comment/10598212

He just has horses he was trying to dump on other people, but positioned it like it was a nice gift.

frazorth ,

Essentially, this hinges on whether demanding price parity with other platforms is anticompetitive…

No it’s not. This hinges on whether you can sell the generated free Steam keys on other sites for less than the price you have set on Steam.

You can absolutely sell your game on another site for less. You can’t sell your game on another site for less and make Steam pick up the infrastructure costs.

frazorth ,

The only claim anyone has ever documented is detailed in the article.

An accusation doesn’t necessarily mean they’re right though. Something people get confused on often is Steam Keys, which are completely separate to Steam Store purchases. Valve do ask developers not to “give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers”

You can read through all the claimants key documents if you like 😉

steamyouoweus.co.uk/updates/

So far no one has ever shown Valve asking for price parity with other outlets, and this doesn’t appear to be any different. Just a lawyer looking for a payday.

frazorth ,

So you don’t understand what a monopoly is?

Because you don’t have to be the only player in the overall game to be a monopoly, just simply big and powerful enough to be unaffected by the other players which fits Apples description.

frazorth ,

Precisely. This is why the EU is harder on these companies.

When you get big enough, there are different rules to ensure that you don’t distort a market by killing competition. That is anti-trust, and that is considered a monopoly.

The Curious Case Of The Underselling Arena Tours (www.stereogum.com)

“Who can afford to go to multiple shows?” says the anonymous tour manager. “Two tickets to a show, you’re talking probably about $200 with fees and everything. You go to a meal around the show, you’re talking at least $100 or $200 for a nice dinner. Then you got parking and babysitters, then you add the VIP stuff to...

frazorth ,

They didn’t create it though (At least that’s the argument).

Very few artists make money through record sales, and this has always been true not just recently with Spotify.

Even in the '80s bands were starving but then people pointed to Guns and Roses as examples that made money from record sales. Record labels signed contracts with bands to record and press albums, they took 90% of the money and gave artists cash up front. Unless they were already Aerosmith, the deal wasn’t great.

People bitching about Spotify taking most of the money, whilst it might be wrong, don’t seem to know their history. If you want to support bands it has always been about seeing them live and buying merch.

Artists don’t get good deals from Spotify because their labels are signing bad deals for them and it doesn’t matter “if they made the music”.

frazorth ,

Not musicians “these days”. This has always been the case.

frazorth ,

No one said it’s okay.

We said “buying albums doesn’t directly support artists”.

Artists make a recording of a bunch of songs. A label buys that copy of a recording and makes a bunch of prints.

Album goes on to make millions, band had sold that copy of the recording so doesn’t get anything from the secondary selling.

Label then licenses that recording to Spotify. Spotify then makes money on people’s subscriptions and gives the 60% to the label they licensed it from. Notice how the artist isn’t involved here?

No one is a fucking slave you idiot, and no one is justifying it. Pirate the album and go to shows and buy their merchandise. This has always been the way, and remains the way.

frazorth ,

Quite a few of the dumb phones have WhatsApp. Although the maps experience would suck.

Personally, since they already have WhatsApp, having a good camera and 5G tether are my two wishlist items. 4G tether is probably fine for the most part but the good camera would be missed.

That with an iPad mini, so that I can still use banking apps and maps but I’d have it in a bag so that it’s not simple to access and I could leave it at home would be my ideal.

frazorth ,

You mean like this? Nokia 6300, has WhatsApp, apparently has Google Maps, 4G for tethering. Shitty camera is the drawback for me, otherwise it hits all the spots.

www.amazon.com/dp/B08NCGGBVZ

frazorth ,

That’s a shame as the 2780 doesn’t have WhatsApp.

frazorth ,

No, unfortunately only on the model I shared. There are comments about WhatsApp being removed from this model so it gets a lower rating.

frazorth ,

It died a long time before that.

frazorth ,

What do you mean I can’t install Windows on my new MacBook??? I thought it was only Linux that you had to think about what hardware you were purchasing before whining about incompatibilities.

How much did the transition to cashless impacted inflation ?

Is used to be common for store owner to put the cash directly in their pocket. Which is not possible with electronic payement. Meaning that you add 20% VAT to the price, an when transforming the money in a salary need to pay for unemployement/health/retirement insurance to finally get a taxable income....

frazorth ,

It’s also been shown that people are more likely to impulse purchase when not using cash, and moreso with contactless via a phone or watch.

Trying to tie a decline in cash purchases with tax evasion is impossible.

frazorth ,

isn’t actually being manufactured by Antec, but is in fact just a rebranded version of the Ayaneo Slide.

frazorth ,

isn’t actually being manufactured by Antec, but is in fact just a rebranded version of the Ayaneo Slide.

The article says it is.

frazorth ,

Genuine question, how accurate are Tazers? If the partner was in a headlock, was there any risk of tazering the wrong person while the gum was more accurate?

The real problem here is that Americans just keep arming everyone, so then you have crazies with the guns.

frazorth ,

You make it sound like I don’t put American cops in the same group as Americans.

The cops are armed because everyone else is armed. Demilitarisation of the police force can only come in when you can have a sensible conversation about your gun ownership.

It’s not like owning guns actually protects you from bad cops.

frazorth ,

As an outsider, the whole thing seems insane.

frazorth ,

I’m still on my Galaxy S10e.

The last normal sized phone with USB C and a headphone jack.

frazorth ,

Ah, I thought the latest ones were going big again. I’ll have to check them out.

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Not quite sure about that. Wtf is that aspect ratio?

I’ll have to figure out of I can see it in person, because it reminds me of those 2000’s crappy ultra wide monitors that claimed a normal size but because they were extra wide it ended up being smaller.

[Edit]

Ah, it was the Asus Zenphone. I was going to get the 10 because that remained <6" and I still might because that aspect ratio on the Sony looks insane. I don’t know how anyone could reach the top of that without a ladder.

Anyway, the Zenphone 11 only comes in 6.8". Which is stupid.

frazorth ,

Same, we got married while she was pregnant and we were emigrating.

That was 2010.

frazorth ,

Interesting back story.

Lord Buckethead has been three different people in different elections.

Count Binface is the second Lord Buckethead, the one who made the character famous when he stood against May in Maidenhead.

frazorth ,

Gradle, with it’s transitive dependency modifications is a huge pain in this area.

It used to be that if a library ended up having a flaw then it would be flagged and we would get the dependency updated. These days security block the “security risk” and you have to replace your dependencies dependency. Fingers crossed you can get it to actually test all the code paths.

If an second level project gets a flaw, and it’s used indirectly then we should really look at getting the import updated so that we know it works. If that import is abandoned then we should not be updating that second level dependency, either adopt and fix the first level dependency or look at an alternative.

frazorth ,

I can understand event announcements, my job applications are for foo widget builders, so let me know if Foo Widget Con is happening with hiring companies or Foo Widget User Group so we can all get together and share in our pain.

Outside of that, most posts are meaningless.

frazorth ,

Hopefully this is satire.

If I create an open source project I can run it however I want. I do not have to create a board to manage it, there are plenty that have a single developer doing all the work, like VLC, and like Sqlite they may or may not even accept PRs. It doesn’t stop it being open source.

If I do create a foundation, I can fill it with whoever I see fit. If there is a board, then generally they have the last say but there are plenty of projects, like Python used to be, where there might be a board but the founder remains the benevolent dictator for life and will stop them doing stupid things that distracts from the core project. Look at Linux, the project is mostly self maintained but Linus will gatekeep anything that doesn’t meet his definition of success.

If my rules for my project is that all board members have to be a furry, then that’s my right, and maybe the board of furries will vote to overturn that. Or maybe they won’t. But you can’t tell me how to run my project, this isn’t a democracy.

frazorth ,

Of course I’m not entitled to community contributions. Just as a user, you are not entitled to me fixing your big reports.

That doesn’t stop it being an open source project, and a lot of developers don’t want to deal with a needy community for their own mental health. It was an itch that they scratched.

frazorth ,

My point is not that you can’t

I’d just like to remind the passing reader that creating an open source project does not entitle you to do whatever you want and tell people to “make their own thing” if they don’t like it.

It was literally what you said, even if you didn’t mean it to be. And I don’t think that being a dictator for your project is necessarily “toxic”, I have projects that take contributions and I work on others that do not. Bikeshedding, and horrible politics, are both real things and sometimes for your own sanity, not engaging is the only option because community is not the reason I work on some tasks.

Some projects are just natural candles to moths who will talk to the projects like this:

reddit.com/…/i_am_new_to_github_and_i_have_lots_t…

Fuck that.

frazorth ,

But are they all moving back to California?

Last I heard was most are going to Nashville which has absolutely terrible traffic and infrastructure, soaring land costs and pushing 100 degrees, arming teachers, arresting folks for DUI even if you’ve not had a drink. Weather has absolutely nothing to do with any of the decisions because the CEOs don’t go to the office. It’s all about the latest city tax break.

It’s weird that people are talking this up like anything Texas has done would cause this. The people in charge don’t give a shit about you, they don’t give a shit about you living in 110 degrees weather, and they certainly don’t give a shit if you die because of a pregnancy complication.

frazorth ,

Like?

If there is something missing, add it either as an issue or a PR in the project.

github.com/mpsq/arewewaylandyet

It would help your case when saying that it’s not ready. It might also inspire people to fix it if they see something that is missing.

frazorth ,

Nvidia didn’t want to play nicely and give standard APIs.

Their work around was other extensions that don’t actually do what’s needed, but sort of works in some scenarios.

All the GPUs I’ve used work fine, it’s a Nvidia throwing it’s toys out the pram situation which should hopefully get resolved as they open source the high level drivers and so the correct APIs can be implemented.

frazorth ,

What were you trying to screen share with?

Most of the apps people are using are Electron, which has supported Wayland and the pipewire screensharing for nearly 4 years. However since Chrome/Chromium doesn’t enable Wayland by default, Electron won’t. Which also means that no one tests it in their apps.

I’ve had such success just ignoring the apps and using the web client since that’s up to date and doesn’t require the app builders to enable features.

At least under Fedora.

frazorth ,

However since no one tests it I’ve found them to be really buggy. Hence why I suggested just using the web app.

Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established (apnews.com)

A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

frazorth ,

All you said was complete stupidity. 19 years of rule under Hamas only produced terrorist tunnels?

All of that is a direct response to 30+ years of Israeli genocide.

frazorth , (edited )

the only thing they built for the Palestinian people has been tunnels to commit terrorism from.

I wasn’t the one who said that tunnels were the only thing they have done, that was literally you. But it’s also irrelevant because I wouldn’t expect any infrastructure works to be prioritised when a small country is under attack.

When the IRA demanded their land back, we were allowed to agree with their cause of no occupation without saying that their tactics of bombing trains was a good thing.

When the LTTE violently attacked Sri Lanka, people were allowed to feel for the ongoing Tamil persecution, without agreeing to the murdering.

Why can’t I say that Hamas is a product of its environment, caused by the pain that Israel creates while also saying that the actions of Hamas are terrible.

frazorth ,

It’s okay to be wrong.

frazorth ,

Not stupid in the slightest.

Basement -1

Ground 0

First floor 1

Second floor 2

It makes sense to me, but it’s also what I’m used to.

frazorth ,

Hang on, the description was about possums, but the title is in an opossum group, and your comment is about an opossum.

I’m going to have actually look up whether it’s opossums or possums that have a smooth brain.

frazorth ,

Skype for Business was not Skype. It was the rebranded Office Communicator, which Microsoft started calling Skype for Business after acquiring Skype.

It was basically a bad clone of MSN Messenger.

frazorth ,

No problem, I’m not surprised that you blocked that train wreck from your memory.

frazorth ,

If this works out, then we won’t need specific hardware dedicated to codecs. Buggy drivers can be bypassed as long as the GPU supports Vulkan. VAAPI could be eliminated since everything is moving to Vulkan.

We can use GPU acceleration on Nvidia without needing to use special hacks for their drivers.

VMs that can have Vulkan pass through will be able to have hardware enabled acceleration.

There’s quite a few ideas that this could unlock.

frazorth ,

mobile website exists if you really need mobile access to your bank.

This isn’t actually always true.

frazorth ,

There’s been an uptick in Whooping Cough recently of there has been more coughing than sneezing. It can be treated within the first couple of weeks with antibiotics, but if you missed that window then the infection has already passed and you have the side effects for about 8 weeks.

Nasty stuff.

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