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Re:ThinkNext Design on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:42AM (#46667750)
Doubt it was the thinkpad's fault. Sleep and bluetooth is still a shitshow on linux.
Re:Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently on Sunday September 21, 2025 @06:26PM (#45327232)
Where is it, if I may ask?
There are no similar APUs in the same price range. Unless you consider regular i5 CPUs as APUs, which they technically are.
I don't understand data caps, is it a US thing?
Re:Usability of Old Computers on Sunday September 24, 2023 @07:35PM (#37638178)
> I always see people remark "wow look how snappy old computers were" when they're essentially built like $10,000 machines if you were to actually have those specs at that time.

But the question is that, if you were to spend $10,000 or more today will you experience the same snappiness.

I would argue that it's impossible to replicate the low-latency experience of "retro" systems today with the overhead of modern software; no matter how much you are willing to spend.

Anyone considering to switch should keep in mind that these are projects with very different philosophies.

Neovim is always chasing the shiny new things; while that's exiting it comes with breaking changes, general instability and the possibility of changes that you might not like.

Vim is the exact opposite. You can drop in a .vimrc from 20 years ago it will most likely work fine. It should be noted that this focus on stability does not necessarily constrain innovation (eg. vim9script), it just sets a conservative pace of improvements.

Re:Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours on Thursday July 06, 2023 @07:48AM (#36614405)
I've got 1 word for you.

Metaverse.

> I don't want to offend anyone.

I like your intention, but that is impossible.

> Like using the word Jew. It's fine if you're saying "I'm a Jew" but not fine if you say "Get a load of that Jew over there".

Very fitting comparison, considering "wokism" is a pseudo-religion.

Re:Rarbg Is No More on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @11:39AM (#36139592)
1337x is a very good alternative.
In a video with Will Tennyson he mentioned that he keeps his body fat at 5%. Such low numbers will naturally give you a sunken look.
Using the word _capitalism_ here might be too much of an umbrella term. We cannot describe everything that is wrong with the world as capitalism.
So the only way Linux can become relevant is by becoming a dumb terminal for a web browser?
Re:Relive: 50 years of C, the good, the bad and the ugly on Saturday December 31, 2022 @08:11AM (#34196130)
> Sounds familiar.

I cannot decide whether it's an honor or an insult to be called a _fascist sympathizer_ for opposing the authoritarian suppression of speech.

Re:The Twitter Files on Saturday December 03, 2022 @07:29AM (#33842969)
> Anyone claiming to exist in this middle space is in practice a republican, just without the conviction that's typical to that party's base.

So it's basically, "If you're not with us, you're against us?"

Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:27PM (#33722035)
It has an LLVM backend so adding support for other architectures is not difficult.

JB already ported the compiler to Nintendo Switch several years ago.

https://old.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/cixsoy/jona...

I was in the same position until I came across his series "The psychological significance of Biblical stories".

It made me realize that viewing the world through a narrative structure was far more interesting than the materialist portrayal of the New atheists.

Re:Wii U Architecture on Monday October 31, 2022 @02:04PM (#33409917)
>Every game that's available for the Wii U digitally, is available for a pirated download. Straight from Nintendo.

Oh wow, how did Nintendo manage to be this stupid?

Re:A surprising way to lose your files on Windows on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:31PM (#33058794)
While 10/11 are inexcusably bloated mess, things like random BSOD or file corruption are much rarer.
Re:Why read Dostoevsky? A programmer's perspective on Saturday October 01, 2022 @02:13PM (#33048636)
Dostoevsky's mastery on human psychology aside, Crime and Punishment is one of the best thrillers I have ever read.
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:25PM (#33027421)
It's fascinating that I can just click and run a game compiled in 1996 (WINQUAKE) in Windows 11; but my ubuntu installation breaks after not touching it for two months.
Re:How to build a personal webpage from scratch on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:57PM (#33027119)
> I didn't know about Zola. I guess i just deemed Hugo "good enough" :)

Zola is basically a stripped down Hugo. I don't see any reason choose it over hugo other than it's obligatory "written in rust" advantage.

Re:58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere on Monday September 26, 2022 @09:43AM (#32983015)
Those are rookie numbers, Visual Studio (+ MSVC) build tools are pushing past 10GB pretty easily.
Re:The influence of Neovim on Vim development on Monday August 29, 2022 @03:48AM (#32635667)
> Neovim's Lua support can't yet do a lot of this stuff natively

That's the reason a DSL is usually better in these cases; I've used lua for scripting game engines before but I don't think it's a good choice for a text editor, especially an established one like vim.

If you use anything more complicated than toggling settings and autocmd's in your vimrc, I suggest you take a look at `vim9script`, it really is an enormous improvement.

Re:Jonathan Blow on Societal Collapse (2019) on Saturday August 27, 2022 @08:41PM (#32624662)
> Jai certainly isn't going to do anything about how buggy software is.

Nothing is going to do that, except the competence of the developer.

Something like a simple markdown renderer has little reason to use the GPU. But a terminal emulator has absolutely no reason to use one. The bottlenecks there are system I/O and legacy API's, not the rendering performance.
Re:Developing Godot Projects with Neovim on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @05:03AM (#32235932)
Many of us consider _Sonic Mania (2017)_ to be the best sonic game ever made.

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