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Re:Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM) on Saturday August 29, 2026 @06:22AM (#49488620)
What about energy consumption? Wouldn't active cooling be needed for RAM as well as for CPU and GPU?
2160/12 is 180 weeks, or roughly 3.5 years, not 15 years
Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:40PM (#43028953)
I don't need music player on my pc, because mpv can be used for playing music. It also supports zip archives, so albums from bandcamp can be played without unpacking
Re:UI redesigns are mostly a waste of time (2019) on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:57PM (#40068045)
>A good UI, imho, is one that users can configure

It is better if UI works good out of the box. Of course, it is impossible to adapt to everyone's preferences, but configuration should be not too complicated, otherwise most users will not configure anything

Re:UI redesigns are mostly a waste of time (2019) on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:31PM (#40067726)
Of course, websites that look like they are from 2000 make people think "what is wrong with this thing?". But it is not necessary to do redesign every year. Just make website mobile adapted and update it only when UI trends change significantly (every 5-10 years) and it will not look abandoned