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Re:Google ending ChromeOS support two years early on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:40AM (#49907478)
I also have one C720 - touch screen and 4Gb Ram plus 128G SSD.

Amazing device for it’s price!

Re:Linux from Scratch on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @10:51AM (#49713454)
For me also helps me to cross compile Nvidia kernel drivers for other version of kernel than running one. Plus compile stripped-down version of X.

All this for running on embedded Linux with 32MB flash drive running from read-only volume powering two kiosk displays.

Re:The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:49AM (#49692114)
Bulgarian here - for me DDR/GDR is well known. Also FRG.

XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp

Posted by mobilio on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:34AM
from the self-post dept.

https://xcancel.com "On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now. Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel."https://nitter.net "On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been...

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Re:We benchmarked Google Cloud's $512 VM – the speed wasn't the intere... on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @02:53PM (#48374562)
Not people! Just enterprises that want scalability.
Re:Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:05AM (#47932813)
can you share link to Liverpool so i can try it too please?
Re:M6 MacBook Pro could have four innovations new to the Mac on Friday March 06, 2026 @02:58PM (#47280284)
I have Chromebook with touchscreen. It's great to mix trackpad and touchscreen.

But after heavy use display became dirty because of human fat that remain on screen. I didn't notice similar things in iPhone/iPad however.

Re:10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips on Thursday March 05, 2026 @07:12PM (#47269036)
Yup!

I've read this decade ago... https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/whose-bug-is-this-anyway

Re:Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @09:59AM (#47233388)
and MacStudio!
Re:Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:08AM (#46868019)
25 years ago i used floppyfw

https://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/

to setup small router on 486 with 12 MB ram and run flawless. Later i get Linksys WRT54GL and decommissioned that machine.

Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle on Monday February 02, 2026 @07:06AM (#46855049)
BPIO anyone?
Re:CLI agents like Claude Code make self-hosting on a home server easi... on Monday January 12, 2026 @02:59AM (#46585402)
CF tunnels are game changers for me!
Re:Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping on Thursday January 08, 2026 @02:30AM (#46538287)
this was discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329109
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @10:27AM (#46376400)
and LZEXE
Re: on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @01:48AM (#46285542)
few days ago there was thread here about Valve and 20 years FPU bug...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009962

WoW was released 21 years ago AFAIK

Re:Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal lar... on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @02:39PM (#46222558)
Yes - there is a way: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp
Re:Why WinQuake exists and how it works on Thursday December 04, 2025 @03:29PM (#46152604)
NT4 lack DirectX. But in 1999 i got temporary access to some machine and copy few DX files from Win98.

As result - i was able to play some windowed games without 3D acceleration.

Re:Writing a DOS Clone in 2019 on Sunday November 16, 2025 @07:29AM (#45944617)
Russians built their own clone of DOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTS-DOS

And i've seen it 1998/1999 as i remember.

Re:Ubuntu Introduces Architecture Variants on Friday October 31, 2025 @11:59AM (#45773565)
Announce was here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-vari...

and key point: "Previous benchmarks we have run (where we rebuilt the entire archive for x86-64-v3 57) show that most packages show a slight (around 1%) performance improvement and some packages, mostly those that are somewhat numerical in nature, improve more than that."

Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta on Thursday September 25, 2025 @03:20PM (#45377628)
Yup

https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/

Re:Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster on Monday September 08, 2025 @09:16AM (#45167869)
Yup!

AudioPCI rebranded devices later sold as SoundBlaster cheaper edition.

Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:28AM (#44795980)
Bulgaria/Europe - also not available

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