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Honestly, there's never been a better time to be writing games for those platforms. The SDK's are much improved from the proprietary stuff available at the time and the hardware is very well understood. People have been pulling off some utter witchcraft on the N64.

One of my monitors just did the same thing yesterday as the compressor in my office minifridge shut off.

I don't think my DP cables have any ferrite chokes built in...

There's almost certainly less than 69KB of useful human-readable information on any given page.

Is this materially different from panel self refresh?

I'm glad someone else said this because I was right about to. One of the things I love about Rama 1 is how it squashes the idea of a human centric universe where everything has to occur for reasons knowable by us. Rama is truly alien, inscrutable and fulfilling a purpose we don't get to understand. As soon as it enters our solar system, its gone for good, leaving a lot unanswered.

Its possible. I know from the BIOS revision changelogs that the T470 did get a patch to fix this, but the X270 never did.

I wonder if this can help with the extremely irritating bug (intentional?) on the X270 where if you give it a third party 9-cell battery, it will raise CPU_PROCHOT all the damn time, and my processor would drop to below 1Ghz clock speeds.

Back when I used to have an X270 I had a shell script that ran on boot which poked a register to disable thermal throttling handling. Not at all ideal, but it made the machine usable in the absence of official Lenovo batteries which they stopped manufacturing pretty damn quickly.

Their ARM64 boxes are fantastic, but sold out at the moment.

I feel like taking the approach of ramming the entire current desktop userspace into a phone is a misguided one. I can fully see now why Android reinvented the wheel across the board.

If I were to do a Linux Phone platform, I'd be targeting feature phone levels of functionality to begin with, with a focus on battery life and actually working telephony. I'd be aggressively throwing Wayland/GTK and all that nonsense in the bin just to get something basic working well. Draw straight to the framebuffer if you have to. This doesn't help with the app problem, but it sets a tide mark for quality & performance, and it can be iterated on.

Its a NEC MultiSync M551

I got mine 2nd hand on eBay as new old stock. £300 for a 55" 4K panel. The only thing I can ding it for is that the backlight local dimming is done in columns which is extremely distracting, so I turn it off. You have to remember this thing is designed to sit in a shop window in direct sunlight.

Ticks all my other boxes though, powers on as soon as my finger leaves the button on the remote, same with input switching and any other interactions with the OSD. Its completely braindead, just how I like it.

Oh, they also sent me the model with the touch digitizer installed. So I've got capacitive touch and pen input, it has a USB-B port on the side to connect to a computer.

I've switched to a low carb diet this year and have cut out just about all processed foods. I am considering getting a GLP1 injection privately in the near future. I'm hopeful that when I do get down to my target weight, my diet will remain changed, my habits will have improved and I'll be putting my new mobility to some use.

I don't plan on going cold turkey, I'll taper off the dose slowly and see what happens.

I don't think the bad sound is necessarily deliberate, its more of a casualty of TV's becoming so very thin there's not enough room for a decent cavity inside.

I had a 720p Sony Bravia from around 2006 and it was chunky. It had nice large drivers and a big resonance chamber, it absolutely did not need a sound bar and was very capable of filling a room on its own.

A dedicated GPU is a red flag for me in a laptop. I do not want the extra power draw or the hybrid graphics sillyness. The Radeon Vega in my ThinkPad is surprisingly capable.

That's very true, and I believe Wayland has a DRM leasing extension just for this use case. SteamVR uses it to punch through the compositor and draw straight to the screen.

I imagine because vsync and triple buffering introduce latency. There are cases like games where you don't want all that lag.

Its old enough to use a CFL backlight and those turn yellow with age.

Perhaps on the same package (stacked) but absolutely not on the same die.

You use PDO and prepared statements. Although realistically, you are going to be using a framework and some kind of Active Record pattern.

I've been running Fedora at home for about a decade now, and I've been doing my gaming on it for the majority of that period.

I've been running Fedora at work for about 6-7 years now too, with few issues. Work binned Adobe XD and moved to Figma which has made it even more viable.

The one and only holdout I keep a Windows 11 install around for is VR. With Valve's new headset due to release any week now, we will hopefully have a bunch of Linux SteamVR patches on the way to sand the remaining sharp edges off.

To not bottleneck the mechanical hard drives in their NAS, or to download games at a reasonable speed.

Or even just work stuff, I've had to shift around several TB of 3D assets for my job while working from home.

Microsoft's understanding of consent is about on-par with that of a rapist.

I did this. Got a new old stock unit for 300GBP, its got a SDM slot for gen8 Intel systems and Pi compute boards.

Yup, and you will get mainline linux kernel support and UEFI too. No mincing around with specially blessed SD card images and non-standard boot procedures.

I miss games using tracked music, its a really unique sound.

I've often wondered why audio in games never seemed to get back to this kind of realism.

Its shocking how primitive most game engines are with audio processing. You get linear/inverse square falloff on volume over distance and perhaps reverb in some places and that's about it.

Because you can actually fit 4 of them without impinging airflow from the heatsink. Mini HDMI is mechanically ass and I've never seen it anywhere but junky Android tablets. DP also isn't proprietary.

They do accept money from UK citizens, you can buy a 4chan pass to skip the captcha. I've done so in the past.

I use HN zoomed in at 133%. Its a lot more comfortable even when I'm wearing my glasses.

If you're getting to the point where you have to open a terminal, elevate to root and edit your hosts file, that's beyond a bored impulse. You know exactly what you're doing and you can stop yourself. That tiny bit of friction is enough to defeat the ingrained impulses and make you think.