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Re:An ad-free Android TV on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:30AM (#50259976)
All DVDs are 480p max.

I was a floutist as well. I think part of it is that you just get used to the level of whatever sound device you use.

Re:Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:24AM (#50258888)
And make it actually work well. I'll take the old 9x era control panel over the new text-only, harder-to-navigate settings app.
Re:The Curse of Soldered RAM on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:25AM (#50243241)
As someone who likes small-screen laptops: no. The screen size is not the problem (unless it is also low-resolution), it's the battery size, and what the battery can power for a "reasonable" amount of time.

13-14" is the sweet spot between power storage, size, and energy efficiency in my opinion.

Re:PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:27AM (#50182647)
Ewww... I remember having to work with that trash.
Re:An ad-free Android TV on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:52AM (#50166484)
Even soundbars are better than TV speakers. Proper speakers would still be better, but TV speakers are nearly useless.
Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:25AM (#50087435)
A lot of that uncertainty has to do with USPS, who keeps getting slower, and their delivery date estimates are at this point often 2-3 days more optimistic than reality.

At least in my experience, UPS, Fedex, etc., tend to deliver when the estimate says.

Ugh, that swap of default direction for scrolling drives me nuts!
Re:Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:26AM (#49964584)
I think it's pretty decent, especially compared to a few other color e-ink devices I've tried.
Re:Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:24AM (#49964558)
Pretty similar to Apple.
Re:Allow Carriers on Planes on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:55PM (#49848486)
The world doesn't exist without people.
Re:Toyota is finally taking its best-seller electric on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:57PM (#49835301)
Except for the tire and road wear. The extra weight isn't free.
Re:The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:19AM (#49740364)
Hah! One could only hope.
Re:The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:17AM (#49740331)
Ram is boom or bust industry. The big manufacturers remain because they were either wise in their bets or lucky.
Re:Linux from Scratch on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:34AM (#49712316)
In my experience with Gentoo, the hard stuff is well beyond the base setup: it's getting sound, bluetooth, auto-mounting, etc. setup the way it is in the bigger distros.
Re:Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:14AM (#49609919)
For the Pro, you will want a 3d-printed dock, or a really thin USB-C cable to use with the pogo pin dongle.
Re:Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:07AM (#49609850)
With the original X4 discontinued, none of the XTEink products now have USB-C, they all have the pogo pins.
Re:Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:04AM (#49609828)
Standard or not, it's not the standard.
Seriously? Wow.
Floats? A fan of pain, are we?
Re:Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:49AM (#49361581)
While I've had issues doing bios updates on my Framework, it's been more due to the fact that my main drive has too small of an EFI partition to update with the main drive in the laptop (who knows why it takes so much space to update the firmware in the first place).

That said, with another drive (and a larger EFI partition), I've been able to do 4 or 5 different bios updates on my AMD 7040 Framework 13.

That's the app I'm looking for a direct replacement for as well.
Re:Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:06PM (#49160078)
Not using YAML is huge.
I think a good way to put it is this: every abstraction is a gamble.

There are likely a lot of safe bets, but even choices that once made sense can become an issue later.

Re:FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @05:43PM (#49013869)
There's a font manager in Crosspoint and Witch, you can download that font directly from the device.
Re:FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @08:38PM (#49000339)
I have not seen any support on the mini readers.
Re:FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @04:12PM (#48997578)
My favorite at this point is Witch reader (https://github.com/jpirnay/witchhunt-reader). All the features of Cross-point, with better book rendering, and more features. I've tried a lot of the various alternatives, and keep coming back.

If you want all your book series displayed together, AALU (https://github.com/dawsonfi/aalu) might be worth a look.

And Crosspoint OS itself is still really nice.

Re:98% Isn't Much on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @09:55AM (#48817916)
And I see the opposite: Safari is a valuable check on constant additions and bloat to the web platform.
Re:98% Isn't Much on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @09:48AM (#48817829)
Progress, or constant churn for the sake of Google's stranglehold on web standards?
Re:The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:23PM (#48722156)
While true, aircraft fatality statistics generally are not split that way.

The 747 is a safe aircraft, but there have been a lot of fatalities associated with it, due to pilot error, terrorism, improper repair/maintenance, etc.

Re:The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent on Monday June 29, 2026 @10:22AM (#48719657)
Hard to beat other planes that have not had fatal crashes or hull losses, especially when you consider the Tenerife crash.

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