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Posted by sureanem

Is that really a real-world concern? Windows isn't free either, but it's not common to pay for it (save for OEM).

Posted by Screwtape
I think it's also the ability to move the mouse-cursor to the middle of the screen without the mouse physically moving?

Basically, when I tried to play Fallout: New Vegas under XWayland, I could only look left and right by a certain amount until the hidden mouse-cursor hit the side of my monitor. Normally, I can just fling the mouse and spin until I'm dizzy.

Posted by sureanem
(Enabling swap isn't recommended on SSDs, and I could just head down to the store and buy $50 of RAM instead of messing around with partitions)

Posted by funkyass
the MBTF for modern SSD is like on the order of millions of hours. my nvme is 2 million hours.

so enable swap, it'll be more proactive with swapping long-untouched pages to disk, and you'll get less IO spikes. Hell all modern OS's work on the assumption of a swapfile

Posted by Kakashi

Show spoiler

Let's all quote the spoiler without a spoiler and defeat the point of using a spoiler.

Posted by tomman

No, you're not being picky. This can be possibly seen as fallout from the "all controllers are Xbox controllers" model that the entire industry (not only some emudevs) seem to be fixated on.

Posted by tomman
We've got the RGB LED craze everywhere inside of our PRO GEAR SPEC TYPE GT-RAGE "gamer" PCs:

- in our PSUs
- in our motherboards
- in our cases
- and even in our videocards

(There is now even a bunch of competing standards for RGB lighting on motherboards, some of them driven over USB and others requiring proprietary mobo plugs and wires)

Now, get welcome to the next level: RGB-driven SSDs:
https://www.nikktech.com/main/articles/pc-hardware/storage/solid-state-drives/9699-hyperx-fury-rgb-480gb-ssd-review?showall=1

Too bad it's an "about average" drive (any Samsung or Crucial drive will give you better performance per dollar, and that's not getting NVMe in the mix yet - we're talking about ordinary SATA drives). But hey, it's all about the looks! Who cares about speed when you've got the bling?

Posted by CaptainJistuce

Posted by tomman
What the hell has Australia to do with cellphones?!

Don't tell me that they have to reverse the antennas down there so their phones can actually operate

Yep. Their radio waves move the opposite direction.

Posted by sureanem
I'm using an extremely poorly calibrated TN panel.

Posted by sureanem
Personally, I think they're overrated, just like SSDs.

Posted by funkyass

Posted by Kakashi
Why does BearOso know?

Posted by sureanem
I'm not Canadian nor have I ever set foot in Canada. "sureanem" is just what you get when you byteswap "username," so there are probably a lot of people going by that name online. Also, you can tell it's not my writing style from the comments.

Posted by wertigon
Back on topic; would a Librem 5 help?

Posted by sureanem

Posted by wertigon
Back on topic; would a Librem 5 help?

Bunch of snake oil. With their budget, they could make 3G much more secure (connect only to once cell tower at once, modulate power so that the tower-perceived signal strength remains constant, generate new IMEI for each connection), but instead they just separate it out and call it a day. At a bare minimum, they should make one with removable baseband chips where each baseband can only ever interact with one SIM card and vice versa.

They're fighting a losing battle though. The writing on the wall is clear as day, and it's a far more productive endeavour to see what positive effects these new developments have. Take the cashless society, for instance. Sure, the loss of privacy is regrettable, but nothing can be done about it, and when you see past this there are many upsides. For instance, I haven't seen hardly any gypsies for a long time now - they used to be everywhere, but now I mostly see them when I go abroad. With the old people dying off, cash is going to find itself in a position similar to, say, walking around with a funny look on your face and pupils dilated - entirely legal, but the police might want to have a bit of a chat with you. With time, it ought to become grounds for arrest. It's not hard to see then what would happen to the rates of crime and other such behavior. With no ATMs, how are you going to exfiltrate cash from the bank account?

(As for the concerns about human rights: it's like playing Russian Roulette and betting it all on red; either the people you agree with are in charge or they aren't, so that's 50/50)

Posted by wertigon
Aaaaand new iPhone is out.

Aaaaaaand Apple stopped being greedy.

Expect them to grow their iPhone by a *lot* for a couple of years.

[edit]Spoke too soon - The 11 seems pretty decent for $699. The other two are like, yeah I guess if you like photography. Still, I expect the iPhone 11 to really *sell*.[/edit]

Posted by sureanem
like when Mr. Schmidt pronounced it "Thor," as in the Norse god of thunder.

Posted by Screwtape

As it is, though, even though I immediately started NG+, I think I might uninstall it and grab the next game from my overflowing "to play" queue. Who knows, I might come back to it later.