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Comment · 4 months ago
I'm also in my 40's and I haven't seen a reason for a TV to overscan in AGES. I only dealt with overscan when it was with old Analog signals like from an old VCR where timecode and close captioning data is on top most lines of the NTSC signal or when using a really old VGA to RCA adapter where you'd want the over scan to "stretch" your computer's desktop to fit the screen. I think your assessment is right, it's a hold over from before the Analog->Digital conversion and there hasn't been a big enough complaint to remove it.
Comment · 9 months ago
Replace Amiga with BeOS and you're describing me.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Playstation 3, Playstation 4, and the Playstation Vita all make use of the FreeBSD kernel.

Playstation 5 seems to be a bit different. I'm a little confused if its running the FreeBSD kernel as the main OS/Kernel or if its being run as a shim for backwards compatibility with the PS4.

Its fun to see where BSD has ended up.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
I previously used CreditKarma for prior years taxes. This year I didn't strictly because the whole thing feels like a push to just get you to install CashApp on your phone. And that is on top of not wanting to use anything Intuit owned anymore. I'll gladly pay $10 to file my state taxes if I can avoid them giving it to Intuit.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Deep Packet Inspection
Comment · 7 years ago
When my family first got broadband via Comcast@home back in the early 2000s they had a proviso saying if you wanted more then one computer required a separate subscription. My dad and my bother quickly figured out we could get around this by using Windows Internet Connection Sharing. We eventually got a Linksys Router that did the same job and was faster. IIRC even most dial up ISPs did the same thing, if you wanted more then one computer online you had to use separate creds.
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm actually intrigued by the concept but sweet jebus that thing is ugly.
Comment · 11 years ago
I have no idea why but my cat went nuts when I played the sample.
Comment · 13 years ago
I'm no expert but doesn't chinese have single symbols/words that when translated turn into multiple words. And it maybe unrelated but don't chinese characters take up more space in the ASCII table or something. Again I'm no expert.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago

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