Steve

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[–] Steve@communick.news 21 points 4 days ago

If you're going to wait to fix climate change, until after you've replaced capitalism first. You might as well work on taraforming Mars and sending billions of people on rockets instead.

[–] Steve@communick.news 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

They do have ways to manually add to browsers, apps and search tools.

If you want to manually set Kagi as a default search engine, use these settings:
• Kagi Search URL https://kagi.com/search?q=%s
• Kagi auto suggestions URL https://kagi.com/api/autosuggest?q=%s

They don't have an app.

[–] Steve@communick.news 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Kagi is quite good at it. It includes citations even, so you can check if you'd like.

[–] Steve@communick.news 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Firefox regular does that. There's a setting to clear history on close. Then it adds a quit button to the menu. You can pick how much is deleted. History, cookies and anything else.

[–] Steve@communick.news 57 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

You're not alone.

On a good large screen, 1080p is a noticeable upgrade from 720p.
But the distance you'd have to sit at, to get much out of 2160p over 1080p, is just way too close.
However the High Dynamic Range that comes with 4K formats and releases IS a big difference.

On the other hand, storage is pretty cheep. A couple cents per GB really.
But you're talking more about bandwidth, which can be expensive.

But yeah. You're not alone.

[–] Steve@communick.news 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was the original idea behind Hulu.
But Netflix had a much better UX and ate their lunch.

[–] Steve@communick.news 0 points 1 week ago

It's more expensive; but look for Digital Signage.

[–] Steve@communick.news 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

4K seasons of shows.
You can compress Blu-ray quality video down to 10-15% of the space if you throw enough CPU cycles at it. Typically it takes me about 20 hours, per hour of video.

[–] Steve@communick.news 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Honestly, I'm more interested in the new motherboards.
Apparently they made some real improvements to the memory system, supporting up to DDR8000.
I don't need that speed, but I would like improved stability. My current system can't run Handbrake for more than 36hours without things getting weird.

[–] Steve@communick.news 9 points 3 weeks ago

The issue there is that metal unibody deigns, attenuate RF signal strength. While they can work, it is a tradeoff.

[–] Steve@communick.news 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

That's the thinking the article is arguing against.

But I do have an example.
High end polycarbonate prescription lenses for glasses.
The high index, thinnest, lightest lenses, are plastic. Not glass.

Edit: Thinking more, I wonder how much more expensive it would be to use the same polycarbonate material on phones.
It would certainly be stronger and less prone to breaking. With good coatings, it would be just as scratch resistant.
It would offer the same premium look and similar feel as glass. Just lighter.

[–] Steve@communick.news 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (14 children)

It feels better than doing nothing.
If you can convince yourself you're not doing nothing.
I've never been that good a liar.

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