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Yes, it does. It always renders internally at 2x which means that's all applications have to support. Then it downsamples the final framebuffer to the resolution of the display.

At the time Apple Maps came out, Google Maps on iOS was limited to bitmap tiles and had no turn by turn directions, whereas Google Maps on Android had both dynamic vector based maps and turn by turn directions.

Apple Maps forced Google to improve Google Maps on iOS.

Apple Maps data was definitely substandard when it was released, but it has improved considerably since then. I vastly prefer it to Google Maps, especially for turn by turn directions when I'm driving.

Steam Deck OLED 3 years ago

The Switch is 1280x720 and the Steam Deck is 1280x800. They're not the same size.

48Khz can theoretically be better because the anti-aliasing and reconstruction filters can have a gentler slope, but modern oversampling converters make this moot now.

Raspberry Pi 5 3 years ago

The audio jack on Raspberry Pi's has always been terrible quality anyway. Ok in a pinch but it's not a huge loss. If you want quality analog output from a Pi you need a DAC hat.

I love so much about this! A few thoughts:

I love that it's a proper UK mac layout. This is so hard to find in the mechanical keyboard world.

I'm not sure about the mix of key profiles. I'm sure you've tested it (or are testing it) but I think a version where every key had the same profile as the modifiers would be stellar.

The rotary encoder is cool, but sticks out way too much. I'd buy a keyboard like this to be portable, and the encoder gets in the way of that.

I'd love a ctrl keycap to replace the capslock as I always map that, but that wouldn't be a dealbreaker.

Yeah, I've used Administrate a bunch. All those things are possible in Administrate as it generates controllers that can be customized, so anything it doesn't do out of the box can be added easily. It's also easy to define custom input types and content types.