xthexder

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Those specs sound like HDMI 2 anyway. HDMI 2.1 can do 4K @ 144Hz with HDR. Or apparently even 10K @ 120Hz.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The adapters have circuity inside, they exist. It's small enough to still just look like a cable because they fit the chip in a plug end.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Haha, I didn't even realize but the resolution is actually identical. My first laptop was a min-spec Macbook gen 1 (first Intel CPU model). It's the same 1280x800. The modern LCD (or OLED) on a Steam Deck looks way better obviously, and they're different DPI, but the performance hit is identical.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's what I was saying with the .ttf file being copyright. It's entirely possible to generate a new "program" that produces the same shapes while being a brand new uncopyrighted program. There's an infinite number of ways to describe how to draw a shape, only the one in the original file is copyright.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What is this even licensing? You can't copyright a typeface in Japan or the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces#Japan

Technically the .ttf file could be copyright as a specific means to reproduce the typeface, but someone could just run it through something to copy the shapes and then there's nothing to be licensed.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Considering the garage points that way, that might be the front? There's a problem with basically every part of it. The scale is completely off, since the common room looks more like a town hall.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is just nuts to me... My first laptop came with 512MB of RAM and only supported up to 2GB. They were still selling Macbook Pros with only 8GB of memory a year or two ago.

12GB SHOULD be enough to do everything, especially if it's running a linux OS. But I guess we can't have nice things because of memory hogs like Chrome.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Bring back Optane! I'm still using a couple PCIe cards in raid as my boot drive on my home server. The RAM versions of Optane were quite interesting too.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 23 points 2 weeks ago

Jellyfin is fully open source, and GPL licensed. If the current maintainers start making it worse, the community can just fork it and keep going. They also have no control over what you do with it, unlike Plex which has centralized auth servers they could ban you from.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 110 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

So there's this thing called a Fourier series...

Basically any wave can be created by adding together individual frequencies, and with some fancy math it's possible to go the other way with a Fourier transform and get how loud every frequency is (like is displayed in a spectrogram).

I think the real black magic is in how our ears and brains can decode the mess of information coming in and identify meaningful patterns.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

This has been one of my worries when I set up my NAS as encrypted. I ended up going through the recovery process a few times before storing any real data, since I wanted to be sure I could get myself back in if the OS drive failed or something gets corrupted and I have to unlock it from a live USB.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Instagram is also Meta, so it doesn't look like anyone actually left Meta's platform

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