I feel like 3D is a different kind of medium. Directors used to shoot movies that look good on a 2D screen weren’t fully utilizing the possibilities of the new medium. However, shooting movies solely for being presented in 3D would not have been financially viable.

VR suffers from a similar problem. But thanks to lower costs, compared to a Hollywood movie, it’s possible to target the smaller market of VR users.

I think I’ve boycotted sony for one thing or the other for the large part of my adult life. Only backed down in 2021 and bought some shares. Time to return back to normal I guess.

So… is it an obsession to want to be at least <100? Asking for myself. Send help :D

I get consistently better results on steamdeck vs PC due to lower controller latency.

Before you start establishing a working group to assess the impact of creating a commitee to judge the effect of switching to replacable cells, what if…

What if the companies just packed a few universal rechargable cells with their product? I meam the charging circuit is already a part of the design.

I feel like the opensuse is always on the outskirt when discussing distros, but their security reviews are often pretty brutal, in a good way.

I have a deep respect for them ever since they ripped a new one to the deepin devs / packagers.

So the google can spy on anyone’s phone calls without a consent (google screening), but if you want to record your own phone calls, there needs to be a mandatory warning. Makes total sense :D

edit: but at least this enables automatic call recording, not just a button, plus automatic deletion of old recordings. This is actually pretty useful.

I’ve patiently waited until the flashing guide for the roborock s8 was out, went to buy the s8 pro ultra, just to discover valetudo has dropped the support, because appearently a different version of the same robot was silently released, that would’ve been turned into a brick if I tried the installation procedure.

Now I have a dumb robot. It does like 95% of what I expect it to do, but I might at least solder an ep32 to the top buttons so that scheduling through the home assistant would be possible

Those are beautiful, but jesus christ on a unicycle, how did they end up supporting klarna? Offering people loans for a tea cup feels insulting.

Some people stuggle to learn a second language their entire lives. These badasses did it for a gig!

That sounds like a fancy speak for a Trusted Platform Module. Isn’t some kind of TPM mandatory to obtain a google certification for a new device?

The dawn of the 4G will forever be remembered as the time our civilization forgot how to make phones that can make phone calls. I feel embarrassed every time I randomly think about VoLTE.

“We think that the internet is real.”

• Peter Sunde

There’s no legal solution to a technological problem. Laws are always temporary, for better or worse.

people have stories how the dev is an ass

If an opensource project has an author who’s not a jerk, that’s when you get suspicious!

If they are training on historical dubs, just be thankful you’re not Polish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YSEI7ugaKo

I once put my homelab rack outside of my apartment, in the hall. Then used it to catch a bastard who kept stealing my bike light, and later tried to snatch the whole bike.

I love these weird micro-cult stories, thank you for posting this!

What made it extra weird for me was the fact that I grew up among people obsessed with tolkien and larping, ocasionally being labeled as a cult by the general public, except they actually pulled off the fantasy/scifi convention part. And they are still going strong for more than a decade. It was a humbling experience for me as a young adult to see my peers exhibit such dedication, discipline and organization skills just for the sake of building something together.

Seeing how the same drive can backfire under different conditions was quite a ride!

edit: To whoever it may concern, this story had almost frighteningly simmilar vibes as the story about the Zizians:

https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-one-the-zizians-how-harry-potter-fanfic-inspi

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Forgot to switch from personal to work account? :D

you’re not going to have much luck convincing anyone.

Oh boy, how I wish you were right.

No way, I thought the thrill of browsing sketchy appstores to find the other half of the ACR phone was part of the fun.

For those out of the loop - ACR phone is a dialer app that does call recording. It’s distributed through the play store, but without the call recording part, because that would be against the ToS. Once installed, it instructs you to go find the other app that serves as an accessibility module with access to the microphone. And by that I mean ONLY your microphone. The other side of the call is recorded only as an echo of the speaker caught by your own mic.