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Re:What is going on with ceiling fans on Sunday October 04, 2026 @04:23PM (#49957448)
Not exactly forever: I have a 20+ years old led "bulb" (it's large enough to deal with its own heat) that is barely able to light up a closet now...
Re:An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:04AM (#49867253)
The lack of security makes their agents look smarter than they are.
Re:A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:56PM (#49768156)
+++ Out Of Cheese Error +++ +++ Redo From Start +++
High resolution CGA, maybe? With only 2 colors copying the Mac UI would make sense.
Let's start with the CEO's pay.
Re:An iroh powered smart fan on Saturday July 11, 2026 @01:37AM (#48869088)
Because Uncle Iroh needs more fans maybe? (should have been a tea kettle)
Re:I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video] on Friday July 03, 2026 @01:40PM (#48777655)
How often have you used your hobby as an excuse to quote the movie?
So there was: InkBox OS, mostly for Kobo but with some Kindle support, it became QuillOS (wirh the same focus on devices) but when Kobo went with secureboot the whole thing moved to the PineNote. But all of that is very outdated now...
I wonder if there's a KOReader oriented OS for the Kindle, to go beyond jailbreaking it (it's nice, but a bit clunky to me)... There seems to be an Android port for some models so it should be possible.
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard' on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:19PM (#48238729)
Looks like little Bobby tables is a big brother now...
In unrelated news: I think the Magic-1 is still online. ( https://www.magic-1.org be gentle with it)
Re:I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] on Saturday March 28, 2026 @10:21AM (#47554873)
I think the main issue was he used Nintendo owned tools and libraries to make his game instead of the GPL ones, making the release of the port dependent on Nintendo's approval too. I guess even Valve didn't want to deal with their lawyers.
Re:JPEG XL Demo Page on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @02:38PM (#46710465)
There's a jpeg xl viewer extension available for firefox.
Re:Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs on Sunday January 11, 2026 @12:00PM (#46577412)
So... Follow Abraham Simpsons example, and tell stories that don't go anywhere?
And they could have called it "Androids dream" but didn't....
Why pretend when they are still hiring?
Re:Making tiny 0.1cc two stroke engine from scratch on Saturday December 06, 2025 @06:40AM (#46172547)
He did: It was just warm enough for the ether in the mix to evaporate long before it reached the engine, so it couldn't run.
Re:Nisus Writer: Schrödinger's Word Processor on Saturday November 01, 2025 @07:39AM (#45780887)
A quick search pointed me to https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
It sure make it easy to boot a 64bits OS on a 32bits UEFI machine...
Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM on Saturday October 18, 2025 @06:26AM (#45626251)
Well, it would be nice to be able to use my Kindle 4 again... Thanks to KOReader, it's no longer a brick, but most of my ebooks are kept hostages at Amazon.
The Android version of the game Fractal no longer work (So I use the Windows version). And the only way to play the Steam version of Dungeon Defenders on Linux is to use the Windows version instead of the native one.

Even if Windows ever did disappear as an OS, it would remain as a backwards compatibility layer apparently...

Is "finding a way to remove them, with prejudice, from my phone" a valid use case for them? I'm tired of Gemini randomly starting up.

(Well, I recently found there is a reason for it: I'm left handed and unlocking my phone with my left hand sometimes touch the icon stupidly put by default on the lock screen. Not that it would work: My phone is usually running with data disabled.)

Re:486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board on Saturday September 13, 2025 @12:25PM (#45233309)
I'm guessing the ITX-Llama is far less affordable next to reusing a "generic" FPGA retrogaming board.
Low on cyan.
Not sure if it was already posted here (most likely), and it's for a C64 but: https://youtu.be/MG3j_6DBCIE
Re:You will own nothing and be happy (Stop Killing Games) on Saturday July 05, 2025 @07:20AM (#44471936)
The community can't help every game unfortunately. Having a proper end-of-life plan from the start would solve that particular issue (Either by having documentation to keep the game alive, or a clearly stated expiration date, depending on games being sold as goods or services.)
I've been mainly on Linux for 20 years now (damn already?), what started as a cheap computer with second-hand parts with a more powerful windows machine mostly for games is now a powerful machine in its own rights with an outdated windows one gathering dust right beside it... It's not perfect, but I don't have to spend half an hour removing everything useless I can. (Or have Microsoft assume I have nothing better to do than watch a full presentation on how edgy their new browser is. I'm not going to forgive that one.)
Re:Put a data center on the moon? on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @04:57PM (#43188700)
What's the expected lifetime of the average hard-drive in a datacenter? And does Amazon allow next day delivery to the Moon?
Wasn't there an GA FPGA design to distinguish two tones that was so weird and specific not only did it use capacitance for part on its work but literally couldn't work on another chip of the same model?

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