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Modding has been a thing for 20+ years though, people spend money for aesthetic purposes only.

And I mourned every second of it.

Instead, value that different humans value different things, life would be utterly boring if everyone was the same, wouldn't it?

To be fair, it can affect the non-modders as well. I remember being very annoyed when I found out, after I had already bought it, that my current GPU comes with RGB lights that automatically turn on.

I jest of course, but I do seem to have min-maxing tendencies.

Well, the better news is that awareness is the first step towards being able to iterate/fix something :) Take care!

Modders min-max for aesthetics!

The spec hasn't even reached stage 4 yet. Chrome only added support 58 days ago. Safari already added support in their alphas.

Sure and that’s nice going forward. Yet unlike with Chrome, older devices won’t be updated making this a nice add-on at best.

The specification reached stage 4 just yesterday. That was the motive behind the blog post :)

People keep calling this "a phone chip" when M1 was literally "a phone chip" to begin with, based on A14. It's entirely reasonable that in 4 generations of "phone chips", the A18 reaches the speed that M1 did during its "one-generation" rework.

The M1 was beefed up in quite a number of ways. More cores, much bigger GPU, double the memory bandwidth, more clocks, more power, a massive io subsystem that just didn't exist period with thunderbolt, pcie, etc.

You are correct that the architecture was indeed the same, but it was quite a different chip. "Literally a phone chip to begin with, based on", to me, misleads from how different the m1 was. But yes, they appear to share the same architecture.


It's just momentum. You buy windows because you have windows. You buy windows because there's not really much of a choice. You have windows because you're not going out of your ways to reconfigure hundreds of laptops at your company just for your employees to be less comfortable with Linux.

Now introduce a choice… and things might change.

With the vast majority of software nowadays living in the browser, your OS matters less and less, especially for a business that buys machines for its employees.


As OS matters less that’s probably not going to entrench Microsoft less. Their relationship with OEM:s is not market based but a two way relationship.

At this point I would not be surprised if MS started to subvent the PC manufacturers to favour Windows over Linux if that ever comes to that.


> At this point I would not be surprised if MS started to subvent the PC manufacturers to favour Windows over Linux if that ever comes to that.

I've always assumed this has been happening since the 90s.


I would have expected MS has charged some fee for Windows but honestly no clue.

I'm sure there are readers with actual insight here :)


Generally you can see the Windows fee. Just go to an OEM like Lenovo and configure a laptop without Windows. It'll be some -$ amount.

Yes but also this has never been an issue on any phones (i.e. never heard a complaint), and you take that to the toilet. By comparison a laptop camera has much less access to your private life.

People who are truly worried about cameras will cover it regardless of indicator.


I was never able to properly parse large man pages, I'm so happy that llms can now prepare half a usable command without spending an hour reading a time without a single usage example.

What I usually do when I have to read large man pages like bash(1) is I read them as PDFs:

man -Tpdf bash | zathura -

Replace zathura with any PDF viewer reading from stdin or just save the PDF. Hope that can be useful to someone!


my manpager is `vim -`, can't beat that

You probably can — by using neovim:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Neovim#Use_as_a_pager

https://neovim.io/doc/user/filetype/#_man

I've also been running (neo)vim as a manpager. You get the same features as with vim (like easily copying text or opening referenced files/other manpages without using the mouse), but neovim also parses the page and creates a table of contents, which can be used for navigation within the page. It doesn't always work perfectly, but is usually better than nothing.


`tldr` is also great. It's essentially a collection of example invocations of *nix commands.

TIL that what I have wanted in manpages for years exists. Thank you!

tldr is so good, i wish it was a part of the os the same way manpages are just to help out newcomers

The sriracha sauces one you mentioned are effectively copies of the sauce made and popularized in the US by Huy Fong.

So it's not so much that "sriracha is like ketchup" but just that you don't know the origin of the sauce. It's like saying "we have a lot of cola products in France, what's so special about Coca Cola?"

Now, if you were Thai that would be different story, as "sriracha" means a completely different sauce (and place) in Thailand, and thus more "generic"


If you see penis everywhere that's on you, unfortunately.


To me this looks 100% like what you used to see on Tumblr. Just pure random art with a theme. The difference is that back then it used to be gifs.

I'm honestly suddenly having issues unlocking my iPhone 17 Pro in broad daylight. Feels like it doesn't work in the sun anymore. No hair, just eyeglasses.

I've found you can do one of two things to some door this:

1. Turn around and face the other way. 2. Make a visor with your other hand on your forehead.


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