tony

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[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They're getting there with windows 11.. first it was 'hey you're compatible with windows 11' now they've stepped up to a full screen non-skippable screen a big 'upgrade to windows 11' but still with a button to stay on windows 10 hidden in the corner. It's only a matter of time before that button disappears.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 13 points 2 years ago

It's shown itself with the latest kerfuffle.. the discussions (apart from the occasional nutter) haven't devolved into people calling each other nazis yet. In fact some have been positively educational.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 19 points 2 years ago

It's never really been an accurate measure.. it's a hard thing to do, since federation is so loose. The estimate varies between 10m and 14m users currently (I presume 'active' users is based on posts).

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 13 points 2 years ago

You'd think that, but that's pretty much what X has been doing all along..

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 3 points 2 years ago

2.1 is ancient.

A heck of a lot of old stuff has been deprecated in the intervening years.. it's possible your drivers don't support emulating that old.. although I'd found most can still do 1.x (because it was relatively simple, fixed pipeline).

TBH though if you're writing anything new I'd start with vulkan, as it's really the next gen and nowadays supported everywhere.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 8 points 2 years ago

Al Jazeera has people reporting from the palestinian side, so it is possible.. Actual details, obviously neither side is going to leak.. we'll be fed propoganda from both sides until it's over and probably after too.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk -3 points 2 years ago

We got offered 4 day weeks.. most people didn't take it although I note a couple did as they're not around on Fridays any more.

I have enough work to do without compressing it into less time..

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Well yes, but that stuff contained hydrazine. It's not that sensationalist.

I'm just surprised the people making it didn't get jail time.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hear she's got a nice sideline going in Dalmatian coats.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk -1 points 2 years ago

Those are extreme cases.. they're buying a 48k car (that seems on the high side) but trading in an 8k car (so old/cheap or both).. of course the loan is going to be large.

Normally you'd time the trade.. my current car was an upgrade on my last but the monthly payments reduced because I timed it so the value of my existing car was reasonably high.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I got offered a more expensive product for free if I'd change my review. So I changed it to 1 star instead. Judging by the glowing reviews a lot of people took the offer.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Laserdiscs were huge for being able to stop on a single frame - I worked for a place that used them for language teaching, so you had to stop dead on a sentence for it to make sense. At the time mpeg could only stop on iframes that could be 10 seconds apart, and paying to get iframes mastered where you needed them was mucho expensive (even decoding required hardware.. mpeg encoding in software was a pipe dream).

Compressed video still has this problem to some extent but it's mostly worked around in software.

Also the hardware to interface to a PC was basically a simple analogue capture card and a serial link for the control. Cheap, at least compared to the mpeg decoders of the day.

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