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Re:Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:04PM (#50061215)
Could it be that it defrosts only by raising the temperature for a few hours just a bit to get the same effect and they food stays there?
Inflation in Switzerland is weird. It's not in groceries, but it's in coffee and restaurants, it's not in electronics, but it's in health insurance and rent. And there, it's very high - health insurance (mandatory) grows +5% per year, rent is complicated, but could be 10-20% per year or 0, depends on your luck.
Re:Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown on Friday September 18, 2026 @07:49AM (#49753018)
I really like the yamaha MIDI sound, shame they weren't that popular. Sounds much richer and more expressive than Roland. Roland might be more technically correct, not sure.
Re:Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown on Friday September 18, 2026 @07:47AM (#49753000)
That github repository has a sad closing story:

"development and maintaining of this emulator has stopped; this project also caused me pretty severe burnout [...] pressure to relicense the project and usage info/code from my code against my will/without permission or outright license violations"

you are awesome. I'm doing one such port and it's not that simple :)
Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:59PM (#49526407)
oh wow, I only saw the later version. Such a mistake!
Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:36AM (#49446228)
I think this is wrong - it will likely be PCIe gen 5. Apple doesn't say PCIe gen 6 anywhere and this doubling would be from the previous Mac Studio, which probably had PCIe gen 4. So this would match what happened on macbooks recently - upgrade to PCIe gen 5.

I think someone made incorrect conclusions and everyone just copied them.

Re:New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:10AM (#49434471)
Double the price of the base m4 mac mini in February :(

(it was late in it's lifecycle and there were frequent sales)

Re:GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend on Saturday July 18, 2026 @03:14PM (#48961257)
Those were great and 1070 was a great deal. Upgraded to a 3080 from 1070 last year, they are quite reasonably priced now.
Re:Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro? on Saturday July 18, 2026 @01:10PM (#48959975)
Not sure what you mean. Had a mk 4 or what the last one was - excellent. Now on core one (or what the name is for the enclosed one), also great.
Re:What's wrong with EU age verification? (Nothing) on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:37AM (#48747563)
buying alcohol without showing an ID might be possible in many places, but it's not a universal right.
Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world on Sunday June 07, 2026 @03:24AM (#48432676)
It gets better quite quickly though.
Re:Meta to cut 8000 employees despite $26B Q1 net income on Saturday May 16, 2026 @02:51PM (#48162721)
Like all the big companies: no social responsibility, only make more money. Not to employees, not to countries they operate in, not to users. Pure greed.
I did :) unfortunately approximately as many apps as on BeOS earlier :). Maybe with vibe coding it will get better this time.
Very enjoyable article. Never had a Be box, but used beos a bit around 2000 - when it was free to download. It felt great, shame there were no apps. Maybe if vibe coding was available then, it would have done much better. Loved the hardware part of the story - I just got a mac studio on sale and after many years of laptops, remembered how much fun it is to have things on a desk, permanently connected. I was cleaning up my vintage hardware, selling some old MBs after all full PCs were gone - had two dual processor pentium pro and pentium II workstations. Connected a USB to SATA/IDE/floppy connector, went through all old HDDs before recycling them - was such a joy to have desk space, not just my portable do-it-all.

Anyway, computers should be fun and this story definitely brings that across. Thank you!

Re:New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper on Saturday April 25, 2026 @06:28AM (#47900289)
Many PCIe4 or 5 drives
Re:Mac Mini and Mac Studio Supply Shortages on Monday April 20, 2026 @03:36AM (#47831365)
There was some article today claiming the updated versions won't launch before October.
Or it could be the same CPU as in pro/max with more GPU chiplets.
Re:macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:28AM (#47320892)
When I try to launch system settings through spotlight, it launches system info. They have the same prefix, but that's no excuse. Never happened since Tiger or so.
When you do business in a country and pay taxes (lol), you expect to be defended by said country in return, no?
In both Paris and Anaheim they could double the park space by moving parking underground :)
Re:TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe on Monday February 02, 2026 @06:03AM (#46854640)
If you care about your data, don't trust a backup system that already failed before. This is simpler and easy to verify:

https://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html

You can also get any AI tool create a good backup script for your particular setup.

> one of the biggest overall dangers of this technology aside from mass unemployment and making my RAM cost too much.

That's a beauty.

Re:macOS 26's Cut Corners on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:53AM (#46602616)
Just tried with Lightroom - sometimes the pointer changes, sometimes it doesn't and stays as the normal arrow. Sometimes it allows resizing in height and width, other times only one of them.
Re:Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief on Sunday December 28, 2025 @04:23PM (#46414660)
what about iCloud and News?
Re:AMD officially confirms fresh next-gen Zen 6 CPU details on Friday December 19, 2025 @10:41AM (#46327011)
Rumors = the author just made something up
Re:US threatens EU digital services market access on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @11:58AM (#46302075)
China blocked (many) US companies though, that enabled/forced the local companies to fill the void.

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