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drspod ,

unless it’s derived from Latin “Wug*, wugīs” in which case there are two Wugi (wûg-eye).

Wouldn't a wug, wugis group noun be wuges plural?

drspod ,

but it does make me happy to see articles condemning their moves almost every day

Did you read this article? It's a pro-Microsoft article published on MSN (Microsoft Network).

drspod ,

I lost my earbuds in a remote town in Chile, so tried buying a new pair at the airport before flying out.

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True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make.

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I wish @Apple would devote an employee or two to cracking down on such a technological, psychological abomination as this.

He wants to take away a budget option from developing countries where people can't afford the expensive version of the proprietary technology, and he wants Apple to be the one to do it?

Fuck this guy.

drspod ,

He was in the airport, remember. Not in a local market.

drspod ,

Correct. A piece of paper with the golden (aspect) ratio would have the property that if you remove the large square (with side length equal to the shortest side of the rectangle) then the remaining rectangle has the same (golden) aspect ratio.

The ISO216 ratio of 1:sqrt(2) has the property that if you cut the paper in half then both halves have the same aspect ratio as the original larger piece.

People tend to confuse these two properties as they both involve the remaining rectangle having the same aspect ratio as the original piece, but the process to bisect the sheet is different.

drspod ,

Why not post your blogs to a fediverse platform? Do they need to be on a separate hosted system? You'll probably get more people reading and engaging with your posts if you are just posting to a Mastodon instance rather than hosting on a separate web platform and hoping that people stumble across it.

drspod ,

Google *had good search. It's been dogshit for some time now though.

drspod ,

I used Qwant for a few days and then it popped up a modal dialog asking me to turn off my ad-blocker. Never used it again after that.

drspod ,

Go on then, LTT. Delete your youtube account.

drspod ,

I’m also going to try using the eSIM to trial Google Fi

You degoogled your phone and then want to route all of your mobile data through Google servers?

What file format do you store your media in?

Hello! I recently listened to a podcast that talked about how storing media files in .av1 format is very efficient and storage-friendly. I've been storing my files in .mkv format, but now I'm considering using Handbrake or a similar service to convert all my video files to .av1 if it's more compressed than .mkv. So;...

drspod ,

If you're not storing on a filesystem that calculates and checks erasure codes then you can always generate PAR2 files yourself.

drspod ,

What bust? What do you think cloud providers are using for long term storage? SSDs in datacentres are for databases and hot data-sets. Anything that is written for archival purposes or only read infrequently goes to HDDs.

HDDs are still the most cost-effective way of storing data and probably still will be for some time yet.

drspod ,

Technology also isn’t going to improve drastically any more

https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/company/news/news-topics/2024/05/storage-20240514-1.html

drspod ,

the browser is just not there to compete

Have you even used it?

drspod ,

Some more projects here: https://hackaday.com/blog/?s=lawnmower

Maybe skip the first one (running DooM on your lawnmower), I don't think that will help.

drspod ,

The paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.18828.pdf

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