xthexder

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

It was mostly working 2 years ago when I tried it last. I just had some weird frame dropping issues at the time that I can only imagine were fixed by now. This post is making me want to try VR again on my linux install

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like a nice little device. I've already got a similar Logitech keyboard that's a bit bigger and is missing the IR remote, but I'm still able to turn on my TV via an HDMI CEC command.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's also slightly confusing because CTV is a major TV station in Canada. I've never heard CTV to mean Connected TV.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I just run an old PC plugged in to my TV. It's been running Windows, but I'm strongly considering switching it to linux now that it seems HDR on linux is getting stable. I might even use SteamOS directly since it's got a nice interface for controller use.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The only time that would make a difference is if you're staring at a blank page and the only thing causing the screen to update is the clock. Theoretically the GPU could go completely to sleep, except for having to draw the updated clock every second.

But there's a reason battery life is commonly measured as "hours of video playback". If the laptop's not actually doing anything you may as well turn it off and get weeks of battery life.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Not a single cannabis store that I know of in the US accepts credit card. They're all cash only because the banks don't want any part of it. (Technically it's still federally illegal, and they don't want to get in trouble as national business)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

The ISP will always know the IP you're connecting to. Encrypted DNS might get you slightly more privacy for sites using shared IPs like with Cloudflare. But in a lot of cases, there's only 1 website per IP, so the ISP still knows where you're browsing. A VPN solves this by routing all traffic through the VPNs IP first. But you can still be tracked just the same by the VPN and to an extent, the VPNs ISP.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Since this is an opinion statement, you're actually quoting the primary source right there!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The goal should be to have less uninformed people overall by educating the population. But unfortunately the people in charge keep voting against funding education (and basically anything beneficial to society).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I returned a bunch of smart outlets I got at Home Depot after I got fed up with waiting for the app to launch just to turn a light on or off.
I also don't want to have to talk to it, so switching to Home Assistant with Zigbee button remotes has made my experience so much better. And on the plus side, everything still works when the power or Internet goes out because I've got it on battery backup.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is there any country on earth that hasn't at one point been involved in a land dispute?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, multiple languages or even putting an ê or something in an English password to mix things up. It makes perfect sense to allow.

It's a good thing they require each codepoint to be treated as one character for the length limit, since "🤔🤣" is 8 bytes on its own, but the unicode prefix is trivial to guess.

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