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Re:The Steam Deck Is Software-Freedom Friendly on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:16AM (#43569155)
Deadlock is absolutely not a Team Fortress spiritual successor, it has much much more in common with Dota 2 than TF2, and is really full of interesting features and polish for where it's at in its development.
Still no remote/bluetooth capabilities. That's the only thing that would make me upgrade, the third-party remotes you can buy are all pretty clunky (bulky clip on the side of the Kindle, need to be recharged often, can only flip forward as they just fake a swipe on the right of the screen).
Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:38PM (#35264453)
I live in Montreal and I loved Dark Sky. So I'll disagree.
Re:Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI on Thursday September 22, 2022 @08:08AM (#32937719)
Gonna have to agree with the other reply, as a french-canadian, except for "servir comme un point de départ" which should be "servir de point de départ", that all sounds perfectly fine.
Re:Design of This Website (2021) on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @09:54AM (#30931957)
I mean, this has to be a joke right ? There is seemingly no way for me to go to the homepage from that link. This is less usable than anything else posted in these comments.
Re:My Life in E-Ink on Saturday February 20, 2021 @10:05AM (#26204588)
I've read for hundreds if not a thousand hours on my Kobo Clara HD. I've never heard of Koreader, but from what I see it seems only really useful for PDFs ? I never read PDFs, only epubs, and it looks like on Koreader I would be missing stuff like chapter progress, length to read next chapter/rest of the book, marking finished books, etc.

Am I wrong in thinking all these quality of life things for simple book reading are not present on Koreader ?

Re:Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage on Thursday June 02, 2016 @10:46PM (#11827953)
If only they wouldn't be such *sses about Windows Phone maybe I would be able to keep up with my friends this way ...
Re:Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @08:55PM (#10891831)
Works like a charm on my Surface Pro 3. Incredibly impressed, One note doesn't recognize my handwriting well but this is incredible as a math undegrad !

As many have said, an open-source app would be a godsend.

Re:BB84 – A quantum key distribution scheme on Saturday April 18, 2015 @03:00PM (#9400617)
Thanks, I'm gonna be attending UdeM next semester so I'm noting this down. Does this class require much CS education ? I'm going to be studying Mathematics but I have a good base of C#.
Re:Many McGill Education Students Cannot Calculate an Average on Friday February 20, 2015 @11:14PM (#9084659)
I agree with you. I have a lot of friends in bot pre-uni (as myself) and in techniques and I find it awesome how a CÉGEP strikes a good balance between general education and specific classes.
Re:Let's put the future behind us on Sunday November 23, 2014 @10:31AM (#8648984)
The article was interesting, but am I alone thinking that those tenebrous, click-baity titles are bad ?