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Comment · 2 days ago
Comment · 4 days ago
Agreed; they're super cute. Cuteness-factor is one of the reasons I ended up with the Framework Laptop 12
Comment · 5 days ago
>I'm surprised there aren't Android Cameras? At a reasonable-ish price?
Comment · 5 days ago
The FAGMAN companies got caught colluding to depress wages by avoiding hiring people already employed by the others, so they learned to accomplish the same thing without writing it down by having these periodic huge layoffs across the entire industry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Comment · 5 days ago
> The following year a fully automated factory was constructed to produce the NeXTcube computer.
They left out that it was in Fremont, California, providing jobs (lol) for Americans — something that Apple famously stopped doing on their path to becoming obscenely rich: https://www.cultofmac.com/news/a-brief-history-of-steve-jobs...
Comment · 7 days ago
> Pixel art is a style, not a format
― person who has never attempted to program for a specific retro system.
Peep the graphics hardware limitations of the Nintendo Famicom/NES, for example: https://noelberry.ca/posts/nes/index.html
You can see these limitations guiding the designs of actual retro games if you know what to look for.
Example: In CAPCOM's Mega Man (1987), the famous “Yellow Devil” boss fight plays the way it does because only the moving chunks of the Devil's body are composed of Sprite tiles. When one of those chunks reaches the opposite side of the screen, that part of the Devil's body becomes drawn with Background tiles instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RbPqqPrL_M
This is also why the Devil, Dragon, and Wily boss fights (anything larger than a regular Robot Master) take place entirely in a black void — the Background layer is exhausted drawing the bosses and there's nothing left over for actual play-area background.
Comment · 8 days ago
Honestly I'm amazed yours lasted this long. I had a fourth-gen 40GB iPod back in The Day and it was easily the least-reliable Apple product I ever owned due to that internal 1.8" HDD. Mine was replaced five times under AppleCare.
When that eventually ran out and it died again (in 2009 IIRC), I swapped in a CompactFlash card using a cheap adapter from DealExtreme. Once you do that or an SD card mod (more popular these days), have iTunes restore the partitioning scheme and OS and it'll be good to go.
Comment · 8 days ago
This is why the oldschool UUIDv1 spec specifies initializing the sequence value at a random number:
“12.4.4 — The Clock Sequence shall be originally (that is, once in the lifetime of a system producing UUIDs) initialized to a random number that is not derived from the Node value. NOTE – This is in order to minimize the correlation across systems, providing maximum protection”
Comment · 9 days ago
> _anonymous_ telemetry
There is no such thing. The mere act of making a network connection reveals things like your IP address (reveals your hosting provider or even your geolocation for residential/mobile IPs), days and times you use the software, your OS via TCP/IP stack fingerprinting, etc.
The network path between you and the telemetry endpoint is always listening, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Comment · 13 days ago
See also: Charles Smiley video about the Exposition ferries, with some great night shots where you can see the colors of the various neon/xenon signs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsF3v2oe1ig&t=212s
Comment · 13 days ago
Comment · 16 days ago
My Grandma used one of these. Happy memories of many summer trips to the Alleghenies :)
Comment · 18 days ago
And lest anybody say it's not possible, I personally use a jailbreak tweak for this on my iPhone 11 / iOS 18 / Dopamine 3.0 that works flawlessly:
Comment · 18 days ago
“Maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature.”